Nash Edgerton debuts "The Square"

Nash Edgerton, stunt double to Ewan McGregor for Episode II and III, is much more than a fall guy. Even though his list of film stunt work is probably the longest, he's also an accomplished actor (his brother Joel, also an actor, played the young Owen Lars in the prequels) and now, a director to boot. His new film "The Square" made it's first screening recently at the Sydney Film Festival. Hopefully we'll get a glimpse in the USA sometime soon. Sydney Morning Herald

The Force Unleashed graphic novel!

We now have the cover art (which, um, looks like the game cover ads thus far) and a date for The Force Unleashed TPB. Looks like we'll be seeing it just about a month before the game release date of September 16.

Thanks TFU for the point to Dark Horse's page:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed TPB Writer: Haden Blackman Artist: Brian Ching, David Ross Genre: Star Wars, Science-Fiction, Action/Adventure Features: 58 Desktops, 1 Interview, 9 Qtvrs, See all 68 Downloads LucasArts' game The Force Unleashed, is poised to be the Star Wars event of the year. The game-play promises to be stunning, but we think it's the story that will blow you away. Revealed here are the origins of Darth Vader's secret apprentice, the deadly missions on which he was sent to track down and destroy Jedi, and the awesome decision he is forced to make that will, literally, change the way you look at the Star Wars saga! Scripted by the game's author, Haden Blackman, this graphic novel can be enjoyed alone, or as a companion to the amazing new game. * An original graphic novel based on the upcoming game! The Star Wars graphic novel of the year! Publication Date: Aug 18, 2008 Format: Full color, 104 pages, TPB, 7" x 10" Price: $15.95 Age range: 14+ ISBN-10: 1-59307-891-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59307-891-1

R2 teh rular of UR intranetz

Gizmodo explains it best:

"These gigantic Japanese nerds just rigged up an R2-D2 DVD Projector into a server monitoring system that alerts them whenever a system is down. R2's got Nagios, a monitoring app, an IR controller, and the ability to project what's wrong for the people to see. The video illustrates how it works in a dramatically geeky manner. These should be standard issue in every server farm around the world. [Syun - Thanks Motohiro!]"


- I was a tad disappointed. If they went through that much trouble, they ought to have made R2 beep an alarm and wheel up to the closest intern dressed as Obi Wan Kenobi to display the failure report.

Ahsoka Tano spotted at Disney Star Wars Weekends

I've got to get myself to Star Wars Weekends one of these years. I hear people go there when they are enjoying something called a "vacation" whatever that is.


Anyhew - Check out the official Star Wars dot com blog for some recent pictures from Star Wars Weekends.


I think the Ashoka costume may be one of the very few that doesn't make me want to pass out from heat exhaustion just by looking at it.

Captain EO creepier than SWHS?

I say yes! One must wonder if George Lucas, and perhaps Francis Ford Coppola, are embarrassed about Captain EO as George is about the Holiday Special. Over at i09 they go so far as to contemplate Michael Jackson starring in Star Wars. The horror!

Interestingly, the reverse doesn't have the same effect on me. There is something quite gratifying about seeing Vader and his troopers reenacting Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Love Story 2050

My interest is officially piqued. Bollywood makes it's first real leap into the world of sci fi with Love Story 2050 due to release in July (in the USA?). Of course being Bollywood, I don't think they were able to break from the love story theme just yet. The effects have some potential though:

Where Science Meets the Imagination as told by Anthony Daniels

The Star Wars: Where Science Meets the Imagination exhibit just opened at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, and the Star Tribune has video clips of Anthony Daniels walking through the exhibit pieces, and a cute little opening day video!

Mr. Daniels was also featured on Minnesota Public Radio while in the area for the exhibit. Hear his interviews here.

Happy Birthday Shia

Shia "Mutt" LaBeouf turns a ripe old 22 today. He are some clips from his night hosting SNL via Hulu (PG!):

Gametrailers.com Star Wars Retrospective

It's all about the games, and if there's any franchise that trumps the gaming industry, it's Star Wars. This retrospective even goes beyond the Star Wars Universe of games and forays into a little Lucas Arts history to boot. Thanks to Joe2D2 for bringing the continuation of this series to my attention. Click here for all the episodes at Gametrailers.com or watch them all below.

Episode I



Episode II



Episode III



Episode IV

The Indy Code

Steve Rose has cracked the Indy code over at his Cinematical blog, giving fans the ultimate comeback to Crystal Skull naysayers. It's hard to choose a favorite aspect out of this analysis, but I love the overall theme of the Indiana Jones movies as anti-neo-Hollywood, yet pro-early 20th century serial B-movie.

9ff4 joins Galactic Binder!

The newish Galactic Binder lists all things online related to Star Wars, now including your very own 9ff4. Aw. Check them out and browse away, and suggest your own Star Wars sites!

Galactic Binder is much more than the yellow and white pages for the Star Wars community. It also features articles and interviews, such as this chat with the very awesome Randy Martinez.

Thanks for the listing Galactic Binder.

Soul Calibur IV also unleashing the Force?

The Soul Calibur - Star Wars parallel universe just got a little bigger. We've all already heard that we'll be seeing Darth Vader and Yoda in Soul Calibur IV (the former on PS3 and the latter on Xbox 360), but it has now been revealed that we will also be getting a taste of Vader's "secret apprentice" from the highly anticipated upcoming Force Unleashed game.

Now waitaminnut! Soul Calibur IV will be released July 29th, but Force Unleashed isn't due out until September 16. That means the secret apprentice will make his debut in Soul Calibur IV?!

Just a reminder for BSG-RDM fans to be excited to see "Crashdown" Sam Witwer as the secret apprentice.

Screen shot via Wired