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http://whedonesque.com/?comments=4502

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Och lite pics:
http://www.livejourn...64.html?#cutid1

[HugoStrange]

Arrghhh vad mycket text.... Det där tänker jag inte ens försöka orka läsa igenom. Tittar på bilderna istället

Med tanke på en tråd som FX startade för inte allt så länge så tycker jag den här bildkommentaren var rätt kul
"A picture of Amber Benson and me! She's just like Tara, only smaller."

Inte mycket serier på bilderna... Mest tv-serier och framför allt Buffy. Med tanke på att det heter ComiCon så hade jag förväntat mig lite mer trikåer.

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Jo, det fanns ju sånt oxo..

Orsaken till att jag lade den i det här forumet var väl mest namnet, dock..

Och texten är kul.

Slöhög...

[Marie Morot]

Tack för länken. Texten var jättekul. Orkar inte titta på bilderna.

Men VEM är Tom Lenk?

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Tom Lenk:

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Dyker upp under säsong 5 av Buffy.

[wookiee]

Då kan jag väl fylla på med lite Star Wars-relaterade saker.

Först ut har vi Jim Ward, Lucasfilms "Vice President of Marketing" och exekutiv producent av Star Wars-trilogin på DVD, som hade följande att säga:

JW: Hey guys, how are you? Did that rock, or what? (audience cheers). You know, it's pretty cool. These things are finally coming out on DVD. People will finally quit asking us about it. We're really happy just to have that happen.

Well, as you know, the most important thing on any DVD itself are the films. That's really why you buy a DVD. We're going to talk about special features later, but we're really going to focus first about the films themselves.

It's very interesting, when we began working on this project, believe it or not, about a year-and-a-half ago. It's been a labor of love and a lot of people have been working on it. Let me first talk about the films themselves.

Under the supervision of Rick McCallum, we went back and laboriously and lovingly took the elements from the 1997 Special Editions and worked on those, re-color timed, transferred them to a Hi-Def master, and down-transferred to Standard-Definition, and we went down to our friends in Los Angeles, at Lowry Digital ...

Audience Member: WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

JW: Yeah, they're awesome. And ... Is that them in the audience? (Audience member cheers again) Oh. Okay. I thought you just liked them. (laughter). Okay, well, anyway, you guys rock, okay?

If you'll remember, last year we did another little DVD called the Indiana Jones trilogy, and we had Lowry work on that. When they did that, they basically found on every other frame about four or five pieces of dirt or scratches on that original neg.

In our business, success breeds dirt. The more you use a negative the dirtier it gets. So for Star Wars, what they found were 15 pieces of dirt on each individual frame. When you multiply that by 200,000 frames per each of the]three films, that's about 10 million pieces of dirt and scratches that Lowry Digital had to deal with. I'm telling you, you are going to see a Star Wars that you have never seen before. It looks awesome. They've done a fantastic job.

But we didn't stop there, for as you know, George Lucas often says sound is 50 percent of any kind of any experience, theatrically, and we wanted to go and take a look at the sound. For the very first time, on the Star Wars films, we have a true Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX mix. So what that means for you is that you will, for the very first time, hear Star Wars in an entirely different way. When you see the opening scene, in Star Wars, with the Destroyer coming overhead, believe me, you're gonna get pumped. It rocks. So the films themselves are fantastic.

Now, we didn't stop there. On the fourth disc, the bonus disc. And that disc is just chock-full of wonderful things for you guys. First and foremost are just the menus themselves. We went out and hired, again, Van Ling, for those of you that know Van ... (applause) ... yeah, a good guy. Very consistent with our other Star Wars discs, we have really fun and innovative menus. We also have another on that fourth disc. On other DVDs, they do stuff like tv spots and trailers. But you know what, we've gone back into our archives and found tv spots and trailers that no one have. And now you're going to be able to have them.

Also, we've loaded this DVD with a lot of fun things for all kinds of Star Wars fans. In fact, what we've done is given our fans an opportunity to play, on their Xbox, an entire level of our new video game, Battlefront, that's coming out game-day on September 21. So if you have this disc, stick it in your Xbox, and you're going to have unlocked an entire Endor level of the Battlefront game. I'm telling you guys, go and get the DVD and buy this video game at the same time. It is phenomenal. It is the very first time in the console platforms that you're going to be actually able to live the battles that you've seen for years and years.

In fact, rather than having me having explain this thing, why don't we take a look at Battlefront. ( Battlefront trailer plays to huge applause)

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for the very first time, you can shoot and kill Ewoks. (huge applause) ... and that is worth the price of the game right there.

As you can see, it rocks, guys. We're very excited about the game. So get the DVD, get the game as well.

But back to the DVDs. We have a lot more features as well. We went out and created three featurettes that focus on different aspects of the Star Wars universe. The first and foremost is the lightsaber ... one of the most iconic elements of any Star Wars story. We've never really gone back and explored the history of the lightsaber, nor have we really discussed how that came to be from a production and technical standpoint. So that's going to be a lot of fun.

We also went back and cut a piece on character development. We also went back and done a piece on character development. We've revealed a lot of secrets about these characters, and I don't care how hardcore you are, there's going to be stuff in here that's new to you.

And then finally we did a featurette on the impact that Star Wars has had on an entire generation of filmmakers. We went out and interviewed people like Jim Cameron, and John Singleton, and Ridley Scott. I mean, everybody's on this. We even went out and talked to a guy named Peter Jackson (crowd starts to holler) ... who talked to us about how important Star Wars was to him, and how that actually impacted the way he set about to make the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which is just an awesome group of films.

These are all great, but I think the piece de resistance of the entire DVD itself is a two-and-a-half hour feature documentary that we have created about Star Wars. When we set out to make this DVD, one of the largest, biggest challenges we had is to come at this with a fresh approach, because, you guys know a lot about Star Wars. In fact, I would argue that you guys think you know everything about Star Wars. And it's our job to keep surprising you.

So what we did was go into the Lucasfilm Archives, as we did for Indiana Jones. But, actually we found a treasure trove of even more material than that. We peppered this in-depth documentary - again, 2-1/2 hours, non-stop - with unbelievable, behind-the-scenes footage, screen tests, things you haven't seen before, and it's fantastic.

But we also went out and interviewed over 40 different folks that were involved in the creation of this. Not just on the creative side, but on the business side ... anybody that touched this, we went out and talked to them. We took a step back in the development of the feature documentary, because we felt that we needed to be able to tell a broader story in a broader context. As George has often told us, there's as much drama about what happened in between the films as what happened on the films, and you're absolutely going to see that.

Transkription av Pablo Hidalgo på star wars.com.

Härnärst, Carrie Fisher ...

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Prinsessan Leia själv, Carrie Fisher, i samtal med Steve Sansweet, Lucasfilms "Fan Relations"-chef (och ägare av världens största privata Star Wars-samling):

Audience Member: I love you Carrie!

CF: I love you. There, I said it.

SS: You gave some really wonderful interviews for the documentary on the DVD. And I wonder if that process triggered any memories in you? Did you wake up screaming?

CF: I always wake up screaming. Well, I would have paid a lot of money not to sit back there and look at myself on camera. They had me ... I actually did the voiceover commentary for the DVD also. After saying no, George called me at home, like he always does, and then I agree to do whatever he's asked me. (as George) Hello, Carrie. (laughter)

Lately, part of my career, my job description, is giving George Lucas awards, and doing as he bids me. So, I watched all three movies in a day. And that was like making a jump to lightspeed, I suppose.

SS: Like making a trip in a time machine?

CF: I don't know what I remember. I remember that Skylab fell during Empire, directly on the film. Mark went around wearing a hat that said "Skylab is Falling." I remember that. I do remember permanently the hologram speech, because we had to reshoot it. So whenever I get lost on the way to someone's house, or I just forget your name, it's because I remember the speech ...

... I'm a thousand years old and I still remember that thing. It's very disturbing. I have to take medication, and yet it still won't go away.

SS: How about the gaffer tape marks? Are they gone now?

CF: I still wear gaffer tape.

SS: There's some really great photos of you and the other actors behind-the-scenes in the photo gallery on the set. It really looks like you were having fun.

CF: That's a lie! We sobbed every day! No, sometimes we did have fun. They made fun of me. One time on Cloud City I had to make an entrance, and they were all supposed to be waiting, and they cleared the set. So that when I walked in, no one was anywhere. Oh, that was very fun.

SS: Are you looking forward to seeing the films on DVD?

CF: But I did? well, actually, yes, in a bigger way, because I had to watch them small. I'd like to show them to my daughter because I'd like to tell her when the iron bikini thing comes on that she's getting that body! I want her to get enthusiastic. (Crowd hoots)

SS: I know you've talked about this before ... last question ... there's a lot of Princess Leia merchandise out there. Some of it a little bit unusual. Do you have a fav?

CF: You say that like it's a sex toy or something. (Laughter)

SS: Do you have any Princess Leia merchandise or favorites?

CF: Well, I always liked the shampoo where you twist my head off and pour liquid out of my neck. That's very Freudian. Even the Pez where you can take a little thing and tilt your head back and a wafer comes out of your neck ... If I dreamt that, what would you think it meant? My first husband would put pins into the doll ...

SS: The Leia doll?

CF: The Leia doll. What good would it have done if it was the Darth Vader doll? Do you see what I'm saying? That's why we got divorced.

SS: Ah. And did you stick pins into any of his dolls? We won't go ...

CF: He didn't have dolls. But I'm going to see what I can do about that.

SS: We appreciate you stopping by. Carrie is going to be available in the Lucasfilm Pavilion signing autographs ...

CF: You don't have to say that. Just "available."

(laughter)

Om någon undrar vad Steves gaffatejpsfråga handlade om så var det helt enkelt så att Carrie var tvungen att tejpa fast brösten under inspelningen av första filmen eftersom George Lucas inte tyckte att det såg särskilt kungligt ut med guppande bröst i actionscenerna.

Härnäst, Ryan Church om en speciell planet i episod III ...

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eftersom George Lucas inte tyckte att det såg särskilt kungligt ut med guppande bröst i actionscenerna. smile.gif

Den där Lucas skall då förstöra allting...

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Ryan Church, "Concept Design Supervisor" för episod III, pratar här om en för mig alldeles speciell planet som kommer att dyka upp i nästa film (han talar även en del om olika figurer, fordon, strider o.d. så extremt spoilerkänsliga personer varnas härmed):

Hello San Diego. As Steve just said, my name is Ryan Church, and I've spent the last couple of years with my Art Department over here working on this. Basically, we have the best job ever. We had a great time in the last two or three years, and you're going to see a little tiny bit of what we did for just one planet, but there is so much more out there. I really can't wait till you guys get a chance to see it ...

We spent many late, long nights doing literally thousands of drawings, and maquettes and storyboards and stuff like that. But I'll show you a small selection of clips.

That's basically the first image that was approved of Kashyyyk, and that's basically what it's gonna look like. It's tropical, but cool planet, and the only real directive we got from George is that they live in giant trees.

So we immediately went to the Star Wars Christmas Special for inspiration (laughter). And watched that on loop about ... four or five times, avoided suicide, and went back to work. And here are some images of what we really thought ... we pushed that concept of giant trees and the lagoon environment, high technology ... we had to come up with the look of the vehicles. Beautiful shots ... and stuff ... and what George would do is take these and work them into the movie. He'd say "This is the shot, this is the shot," and sort of move the animatics around.

Into the character design, as well. We also had Chewbacca. Chewbacca also has other variations here. Sang Jun Lee did a ton of designs. Like 40 or 50 designs. Here you're seeing the kids. What kind of clothing do they wear? Do they wear a lot of clothing or not? Here we see a military look but also some of their civilian looks as well.

Inspiration for the animators here, ripping droids apart with their bare hands. Carrying their wartime dead during the Clone Wars. This is the technology we had to come up with for the Wookiees. We wanted it to look distinct from what the rest of the cultures in the Star Wars universe use. Feng Zhu did a lot of these illustrations, and came up with a very unique aesthetic. And, you know, since they're fighting with the clones too, they've got a couple of those guys too.

These are interiors. We wanted to have a sort of high-tech Frank Lloyd Wright feel where they incorporated the natural environments into their living conditions. So it looked again, high-tech and Star Wars-y, but a different approach. George was very specific about not wanting to see the same thing over and over again. We're visiting a lot of planets, and we have to know that when we cut to it really quick, boom, we know where we are. The smallest details are figured out there.

Then, we broke these paintings down into the Joe Johnston-style illustrations. We have to break it down for ILM, what does that door handle really look like? What does the vehicle look like? I wanted to come up with a type of vehicle that implied that only a Wookiee can handle it. Like they took some kind of technology that's out there and they kind of commandeered it and modified it for their own use. So, super kind of bad-ass designs.

Right now, we're working with ILM doing basically final shots. All the pre-production side is over, and getting into the real nitty gritty. We've got the designs worked out, and working in the shot.

That's pretty much what it looks like. It got a little cloudier in the end. I'm sure you guys are gonna really ... if you have half the fun watching the movie as we had coming up with this stuff, then I think you are going to love the movie. It was a blast. Thanks for coming out. I hope you enjoyed the slideshow.

Bilderna som han visade finns att beskåda på starwars.com:s medlemssidor och jag kan bekräfta att de ser oerhört läckra ut.

Härnäst, producenten Rick McCallum och den utvalde, Hayden Christensen ...

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Star Wars-producenten Rick McCallum och Anakin/Vader-skådisen Hayden Christensen gör tidigare nämnde Steve Sansweet sällskap på scenen för en liten frågestund (episod III-spoilers kan förekomma om man är känslig för sådana):

(Applause)

RM: Thank you.

SS: So how was the flight?

RM: It was good.

SS: Was it worth it?

RM: Yes. It was definitely worth it. It's amazing what alcohol, tobacco and a little bit of freebasing can do.

(laughter)

SS: I don't understand those words. (laughter) Did you bring us the film?

RM: No, unfortunately, one of the reasons I'm in London is that we're actually planning to do two weeks of additional shooting in late August. We're shooting in Switzerland, we just finished Thailand and China, so it's been a very hectic little period.

SS: Do you have anything to show us?

RM: Yeah, I think we have something that you might like. (Audience starts to cheer)

SS: Well, let's take a look and see?

(The Return of Vader piece runs; huge applause)

SS: That is awesome. Can you do me a favor, and, the next time you see Hayden, tell him I think he looked really amazing in that suit.

RM: Absolutely. And there'll be more to see in Indianapolis, I promise. I think you tell Hayden himself. I'd like to bring him in. Mr. Hayden Christensen (huge applause) ...

SS: So now it's your chance to ask some questions to Rick McCallum, producer, and Hayden Christensen, Darth Vader-to-be.

Fan #1: This is for Hayden. So tell us your experience when you actually donned the helmet for the very first time. How did it feel? And did you take it home?

RM: No, he did not take it home.

HC: Unfortunately, I didn't get to keep the costume. We're still going to talk about that, hopefully. But ...

RM: We won't talk about it much.

HC: It was overwhelming. That's always been the sort of exclamation mark on the back of my head throughout the entire process of making these past two films is putting on the dark helm and getting all done up by Vader. It was ... it was ... orgasmic (female shrieks in the audience). It was too much.

Fan #2: How long did you train with Nick Gillard and Ewan for the duel? How long did it take you to get it all together.

HC: It was a very vigorous training process. I went out to Australia about three months beforehand. One, just to work on the lightsaber fights and put on a bit of size. I was working out with a trainer, twice a day. They were feeding me six times a day. It worked. I lost it all now, unfortunately, but, the fight sequences, especially the Obi-Wan fight was very involved. I think, I don't know how it's cut together, it will be the longest fight ever commited to film, the duration of it and the distance we cover. There is a lot of moves to memorize. That's the fun for me, is getting out there with Ewan and Nick and try to figure out what we're going to do and make the moves as smooth and cool as possible. You know, Nick has such a distinct vision of how the fights look and how each moves affect the next. It's a dance. It's an artform that Ewan and I are very respectful of, and we want to do it as much justice as possible.

I can't wait to see those. I want to be the first in the theater as well to check out those fights.

SS: Rick, what are you doing in the pick-up shooting? Can you tell us?

RM: No, I can't. We're doing some additional scenes, just over two weeks work with all the actors. Three or four very exciting scenes ...

SS: Hayden doesn't have to redo the fight?

RM: Negative. There's no fighting.

Fan #3: This question is actually for Rick. Do you know when the first official preview we're going to see? Is it November?

RM: The first trailer? Yeah, I think November looks good. November is the date we're hitting for.

Fan #4: Yes, this question is for Hayden. What's the biggest difference in terms of your preparation between Episodes II and III.

HC: The fighting and obviously putting weight on was a huge ordeal, because obviously my metabolism just doesn't really allow for it to stay, but you know, putting on the weight ...

RM: I put it on for him.

HC: We traded. It was getting into the mindset of Darth Vader. Because even though I'm Anakin for the majority of this film, without trying to give away anything at all, he's still is consumed with all of the ambitions and negative energies that ultimately lead him to the dark side, so it was really trying to embrace that and go to the dark side as much as possible.

RM: I had him work in the Production Office so he could understand a little about the dark side.

Fan #5: I was wondering if you were going to be revealing any more information about Anakin's conception, because personally I didn't buy the whole he just "came to be" thing.

RM: Let Steve answer that. I don't think it will be a problem for you.

Fan #6: Do you plan on doing more Star Wars movies after Episode III? He once planned on doing Episodes VI, VII, and VIII. Are there still plans for that in the future?

RM: VII, VIII and IX? No, there's no plan to do VII, VIII and IX.

(Audience member cheers)

Fan #7: So it looks like the focus may be going away from the romance between Amidala and Anakin? Is that right? I would hope?

RM: Yes. You can definitely assume that.

HC: It focuses on Anakin and Obi-Wan relationship a lot more.

Fan #7: Mercy! Thank you.

RM: Who's Amidala?

(laughter)

Fan #8: I was wondering to Hayden, what was it like picking out your lightsaber when they brought the box over?

HC: I actually didn't get to pick out my own lightsaber. It was all predetermined by the previous trilogy, because it was Darth Vader's lightsaber. They made small adjustments to make it a little bit different, but for the most part it's Darth Vader's lightsaber.

Fan #8: Did you get to keep the lightsaber?

HC: We're hoping.

RM: No.

(laughter)

Fan #9: What is it like being Darth Vader? You're the hero of all these little bad kids that want to grow up and be Darth Vader. Not so many Luke Skywalker outfits, no offense Mark Hamill. How does that affect you personally? You're a part of history. Does it increase your ego?

RM: You should definitely go on a Saturday night with him to a bar, because it is fantastic!

HC: It's difficult to really grasp what it is, because it is Darth Vader. I get many compliments all the time just for being Darth Vader. Not even taking work that I've done, but just for being Darth Vader. That is something that I hold in my back pocket at all times.

RM: Lucky boy.

Fan #10 (a young boy): Did you have more fun in the fighting scenes or the actual acting?

(laughter)

RM: What acting?

HC: It's the fighting. You get to be a little kid again and do the lightsaber fight. And that's the fun of it. Saying the dialogue and everything can be a little, you know, trying at time. But you sort of bite your bottom lip and look forward to the fights.

RM: That's such a polite way to say that.

Fan #11: Yeah, hi, is it true that you're gonna finish off Jar Jar?

RM: Who's Jar Jar?

Fan #11: That Jamaican jerk that ruined the series?

RM: I'm going to meet you outside after that ... you don't have to worry about Jar Jar.

Fan #12: I was wondering if we're going to see lots more fights with Mace Windu, Sam Jackson's character.

RM: Yes, definitely. Mace is actually the pivotal point that starts to turn this young lad into Darth.

Fan in Audience: Tell us more!

RM: We haven't shot it yet, I wish I could.

Fan #13: Yes, my question is will Count Dooku be back and will his voluptuously curved lightsaber return with him?

RM: Yes. I can definitely say yes.

Fan #14: How do you live up the pressure from all the fans out there, in completing the storyline and satisfying all the characters.

HC: You just focus on the work. And you have to commit to every line that you say, otherwise you guys won't believe it. There is a lot of weight and pressure because it is public domain for the most part. You guys have such an informed perspective on what the films are that everyone wants to keep you guys happy.

SS: We have time for one more question. (Audience groans) ... we've got time for a few more questions. (audience cheers)

Fan #15: Hi, a representative from Britain here. Hayden, congratulations on Shattered Glass. Absolutely awesome performance. Second of all, in a real sword fight, could you kick Ewan McGregor's ass, or is he going to kick yours?

HC: In a real sword fight, or in what you're going to see on film? In a real sword fight, with one hand tied behind my back! (Audience cheers) I'm just joking. We're pretty equal.

SS: When the fan magazine editors where in Australia, a bunch of them interviewed everyone on the crew and asked the same question, and I think it was something like 9 out of 10 gave the same answer, so Ewan better watch himself.

HC: We're good friends though, so it's okay.

RM: "Were."

Fan #16: So Hayden, is the dark side stronger?

RM: I can tell you yes, definitely.

HC: You've seen the films, haven't you?

Fan #16: I'm a really big fan of Shattered Glass. I was wondering, what are you future films? What are you going to be doing next?

HC: Actually, the next movie I'm going to be doing is going to be with Robert Duvall. Dennis Hopper is directing. It's a small independent feature, but a great story, so hopefully we'll make a good film out of it.

Fan #17: This one is for Hayden also. First of all, thank you for being here. I dragged my wife over, this is her first convention, and you instantly made it worth it for her. My question was, as an actor, how do you get into the Darth Vader role? Is there music you listen to? Do you rock out to a particular band? How do you channel that?

HC: Honestly, most of it is in the costume. Putting on the outfit every morning is getting into character. And it's so full-on that you can't really believe yourself as anything but Anakin or Darth Vader, so be it. Wearing the cloak and the hood, you feel like a bad-ass.

Fan #18: This is for Rick McCallum. I wanted to know if you're going to go into the backstory of the Fett family anymore?

RM: What? Fat farm?

Fan #18: The Fett family.

RM: Oh. I thought you said the fat farm! Jesus, Jar Jar Binks and the fat farm? Okay. (laughter)

(long pause)

SS: Well?

RM: Oh, yes. Well, I have been working out. You can't tell? (laughter)

Fan #18: Have I given you a complex?

RM: Yes. Yes we do, not to a large degree, but you will see a connection. That was obtuse wasn't it?

Fan #19: I keep reading rumors that Hayden is going to be reinserted into the end of Return of the Jedi, on DVD or a possible re-release. Can you please confirm or deny, for my own edification?

RM: I have no idea where that one's come from.

SS: I think you're just going to have to wait and see the DVD and see what surprises there are or aren't there. (Audience groans) Hey, I'm willing to be the bad guy, I'm wearing the Sith shirt. (Laughter)

Fan #20: Hi, George from the 501st. I have a question for Hayden. Are you going to have a pigtail underneath the helmet?

HC: No, we've gone for a much different hairstyle this go-around.

Fan #20: One more question, how long did it take you to put the armor on? Was it hot? Do you wear it for a long time during the movie, or just for the end?

HC: I can't tell you how long I was in the costume for, but it was very hot. They had a little built-in fan which did nothing.

RM: It took about four hours to get you in.

HC: Yes, getting it on was an ordeal. And staying in it was difficult at time. I mean, it's really cool that you're in the costume at the time, but you're sweating up a storm. And, I'm not nearly as tall as the original Darth Vader, so I was walking around in heels! They had to put lifts on the shoes, and I can't do that. So it was troubling at times. I had a few falls, but I was all right.

Fan #21: How are you guys approaching the fact that, for Rick, 10 years plus is coming to an end, and for Hayden, was it is, 4-6 years is coming to an end. How do you feel that this is the last Star Wars?

RM: Well, this is the end of my career and the beginning of his. That's probably the best way I can say it. No, I'm looking forward to some time off, like a weekend. Something.

HC: It's very bittersweet for me. More bitter than sweet. As amazing at is to be part of the Star Wars films, it's getting to work with Rick and George and everyone who is involved because they're really really such nice people. It was nice finishing Episode II, because we all get to reconvene in a couple of years, but we don't get to do that anymore. So it's a little sad.

RM: All right, I'll give you the cape but that's it.

SS: Let's hear it for Rick McCallum and Hayden Christensen!

Hmmm... jag blir lite orolig när jag läser deras vaga kommentarer om slutscenen på RotJ-DVD:n.
Jag kanske får äta upp mina ord i den där andra tråden ...
Rick McCallum var dock lika underhållande som alltid, även om han lyckades undvika könsorden den här gången.

Nåväl, det här var den sista Star Wars-rapporten från San Diego (åtminstone för tillfället).

Transkriptionerna gjordes som sagt av Pablo Hidalgo, en trevlig kille som för några år sedan var ett helt vanligt Star Wars-fan (med ovanligt mycket kunskap) som drev en helt vanlig fansajt ...
Han anställdes sedermera av Lucasfilm och jobbar nu som "Internet Content Provider" för både starwars.com och indianajones.com (där han skriver artiklar, svarar på frågor och ser till att episod III-webbkameran pekar åt rätt håll).

Edited by wookiee, 26 July 2004 - 17:58.

[wookiee]

Lite mer serierelaterade nyheter, kanske?

DC Comics dominerade bland årets Eisnerpristagare.
Pressrelase följer:

It’s DC’s Night at the Eisner Awards


DC Comics dominated at the 16th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, with projects and creators from DC imprints involved in half of the award winners. The gala ceremony was held on Friday night July 23 in the Ballroom at the San Diego Convention Center.

A wide variety of DC publications came away with trophies, with no single title getting more than three. Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman: Endless Nights was mentioned most often, winning Best Anthology, Best Short Story (for “Death,” with art by P. Craig Russell), and part of Best Lettering (Todd Klein, who won for numerous projects for various companies). Other DC winners included Best Continuing Series (100 Bullets, Vertigo imprint), Best New Series (Plastic Man), Best Serialized Story (Gotham Central: “Half a Life”), Best Graphic Album–Reprint (Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s Batman Adventures: Dangerous Dames and Demons), and Best Humor Publication (Formerly Known as the Justice League). DC creators who won their categories included Best Writer (Alan Moore, ABC titles), Best Cover Artist (James Jean, Fables, Vertigo imprint), and Best Coloring (Trish Mulvihill, 100 Bullets, Batman, Wonder Woman). Winners who did work for both DC and other companies are John Cassaday, Best Penciller/Inker (for WildStorm’s Planetary and stories in Dark Horse’s Hellboy Weird Tales) and Kyle Baker (Best Writer/Artist–Humor, for Plastic Man and his own The New Baker). Another DC-related winner was Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross (published by Pantheon), for which Chip Kidd won the Best Publication Design award.

Dark Horse can claim bragging rights to four Eisners (besides Cassaday’s), including a tile between two Dark Horse projects for Best Single Issue: Conan the Legend #0 and Eric Powell’s The Goon #1, plus Jill Thompson as Best Painter (for “Stray” in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings) and The Art of Hellboy as Best Comics-Related Book.

The only other publisher with multiple Eisners was Top Shelf: Craig Thompson received the Best Graphic Album–New award for Blankets and was named Best Writer/Artist, while Comic Book Artist was named Best Comics-Related Periodical. Marvel’s Unstable Molecules (by indy creators James Sturm and Guy Davis) took Best Limited Series, and Derek Kirk Kim was named Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition. Fantagraphics’ one award was for Krazy & Ignatz for Best Archival Collection/Project, and Gemstone’s Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge took Best Title for a Younger Audience. The Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material award went to Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha (published by Vertical).

Sergio Aragonés presented the Hall of Fame Awards. The judges’ choice awards went to Otto Binder, John Stanley, Kazuo Koike, and Goseki Kojima. The four elected inductees were Al Capp, Jules Feiffer, Don Martin, and Jerry Robinson. Robinson was on hand to accept his award in person.

Besides Aragonés, Eisner presenters included Bill Plympton, Dave Gibbons, Walter and Louise Simonson, Bill Willingham, Eric Shanower, Eric Powell, Stan Sakai, and Bruce Jones and April Campbell. The MC for the evening was Eisner Adminsitrator Jackie Estrada, and Will Eisner was on hand to congratulate all the winners.

Pullitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) kicked off the evening with a well-received keynote speech in which he issued a call to comics creators and publishers to do comics for kids that actually appeal to children and contain all the elements that excited today’s creators about comics when they were kids.

Among the other awards given out over the evening were the Comic-Con’s Clampett and Manning awards. The Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, presented by Bob’s daughter Ruth, went to Mimi Cruz Carroll, co-owner of Night Flight Comics in Salt Lake City, for her efforts in using comics for literacy and her involvement in children’s advocacy. The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award went to Eric Wight, artist on “The Passing of the Key,” which appeared in Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1.

The Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing Award was presented by Joe Ferrara. This year’s winner was Acme Comics (Iowa). The Retailer award was sponsored by DC Comics and Diamond Comic Distributors. Neil Gaiman
presented the Fund’s Defender of Freedom Award to Jim Lee, who spoke about the importance of protecting First Amendment rights and supporting the Fund.

The major sponsor for the 2004 Eisner Awards was mycomicshop.com. The principal sponsors were Diamond Comic Distributors, Isoptope (the Comic Book Lounge), and Quebecor Printing. Supporting sponsors include Alternate Reality Comics (Las Vegas), Atlantis Fantasyworld (Santa Cruz, CA), Cold Cut Distributors, Comic Relief—The Comic Bookstore (Berkeley, CA), Comicopia (Boston) comicsunlimted.com, Flying Colors Comics & Other Cool Stuff (Concord, CA), and Star*Reach. Ballots were tabulated by Mel Thompson and Associates. The trophies were designed by Gentle Giant Studios.
A complete list of this year’s Eisner recipients follows.

2004 Eisner Award Recipients (for material published in 2003)

Best Short Story
"Death," by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell, in The Sandman: Endless Nights (Vertigo/DC)

Best Single Issue (tie!)
Conan The Legend #0, by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord (Dark Horse)
The Goon #1, by Eric Powell (Dark Horse)

Best Serialized Story
Gotham Central #6–10: "Half a Life," by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark (DC)

Best Continuing Series
100 Bullets, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso (Vertigo/DC)

Best Limited Series
Unstable Molecules, by James Sturm and Guy Davis (Marvel)

Best New Series
Plastic Man, by Kyle Baker (DC)

Best Title for a Younger Audience
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge, by various (Gemstone)

Best Humor Publication
Formerly Known as the Justice League, by Keith Giffen, J. M. DeMatteis, Kevin Maguire, and Joe Rubinstein (DC)

Best Anthology
The Sandman: Endless Nights, by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, P. Craig Russell, Miguelanxo Prado, Barron Storey, Frank Quitely, Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, and Bill Sienkiewicz; co-edited by Karen Berger and Shelly Bond (Vertigo/DC)

Best Graphic Album—New
Blankets, by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint
Batman Adventures: Dangerous Dames and Demons, by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, and others (DC)

Best Archival Collection/Project
Krazy and Ignatz, 1929–1930, by George Herriman, edited by Bill Blackbeard (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material
Buddha, vols. 1 and 2, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)

Best Writer
Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, Smax, Tom Strong, Tom Strong's Terrific Tales (ABC)

Best Writer/Artist
Craig Thompson, Blankets (Top Shelf)

Best Writer/Artist—Humor
Kyle Baker, Plastic Man (DC); The New Baker (Kyle Baker Publishing)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
John Cassaday, Planetary, Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth (WildStorm/DC); Hellboy Weird Tales (Dark Horse)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)
Jill Thompson, "Stray," in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings (Dark Horse)

Best Coloring
Patricia Mulvihill, Batman, Wonder Woman (DC), 100 Bullets (Vertigo/DC)

Best Lettering
Todd Klein, Detective Comics( DC); Fables, The Sandman: Endless Nights (Vertigo/DC); Tom Strong, Promethea (ABC); 1602 (Marvel)

Best Cover Artist
James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC); Batgirl (DC)

Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition
Derek Kirk Kim (writer/artist, Same Difference and Other Stories)

Best Comics-Related Periodical
Comic Book Artist, edited by Jon B. Cooke (Top Shelf)

Best Comics-Related Book
The Art of Hellboy, by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)

Best Publication Design
Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, designed by Chip Kidd (Pantheon)

Hall of Fame
Judges’ Choices: Otto Binder, John Stanley. Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Al Capp
Jules Feiffer
Don Martin
Jerry Robinson

[Kermit]

På tiden att Don Martin kom med i hall of shame.

Aragones är grym också.

[super85]

Hall of Shame? . Det att Wally Wood fortfarande inte är med i Hall of Fame för serietecknare är skamligt.

[StarBld]

Längtar ännu mer efter Star Wars trilogi boxen och Star Wars Battlegrounds

[Kermit]

Oj, herregud, vad skrev jag. Shame? Jisses.
Fame såklart.
Och i den förtjänar Don Martin verkligen att vara. En stor idol som
jag t. om har fått träffa en gång. Ojojoj vilken hög puls man hade
då.

[Robert Jonsson]

Tom Lenk:

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Dyker upp under säsong 5 av Buffy.

Kollar du dina fakta alls numera?

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Tom Lenk spelar Andrew och han dök inte upp förrän i säsong sex. Du tänker på skådisen som spelar Adam

[Peak]

Tom Lenk:

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Dyker upp under säsong 5 av Buffy.

Kollar du dina fakta alls numera?

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Tom Lenk spelar Andrew och han dök inte upp förrän i säsong sex. Du tänker på skådisen som spelar Adam

Nä, det gjorde jag faktiskt inte, jag skrev bara fel.. ...

[Spidde]

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