Arguably the best thing about the original Star Wars trilogy are the puppets. As George Lucas was not yet visually unleashed by CGI, these films had to work with technical limitations to create the bold and ambitious scenes that the scrips demanded. And no puppet (except, maybe Yoda) was as memorable or complex as Jabba the Hutt. Read more…
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What Life Is Like Inside Jabba the Hutt
When I saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens , it felt instantly familiar. That’s very probably because anything Star Wars feels nostalgic but also because, well, we’ve seen all those scenes from the trailer before! Here is the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens remade shot-by-shot with original footage. Read more…
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New Star Wars trailer perfectly remade with original Star Wars footage
A specific number of variables need to be in place so I can shrug off procrastination and get some real work done. Chief among them is setting the right aural mood. Read more…
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Slip Into the Sweet, Ambient Sounds of Science Fiction
Star Tours! You’re gonna have company! After hints last year of a potential Star Wars Land in the works, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced today that the theme park(s) would be getting new attraction(s) tied to everyone’s favorite space saga, and the elusive plans will be revealed next year . Read more…
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Disney Is Reportedly Building a Major Star Wars-Themed Attraction
Even while you can only see a few glimpses of the in-game engine of Star Wars Battlefront, the new game by Swedish studio DICE seems impossibly good. They say they are making the game that, as Star Wars fans, they always wanted to play. I think they may succeed. Read more…
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Holy crap, the new Star Wars game looks incredibly realistic
An anonymous reader writes “In an unprecedented total disruption of a fully operational GNSS constellation, all satellites in the Russian GLONASS broadcast corrupt information for 11 hours, from just past midnight until noon Russian time (UTC+4), on April 2 (or 5 p.m. on April 1 to 4 a.m. April 2, U.S. Eastern time). This rendered the system completely unusable to all worldwide GLONASS receivers.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours
We still know almost nothing about the first live-action Star Wars movie in a decade, but now we may have gotten a glimpse at one of the movie’s big special-effects sequences. A redesigned Lucasfilm website includes a photo of a production meeting, where you can glimpse some concept art. Read more…
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First Concept Art of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: Episode VII?
Noel Rubin designed the user interfaces for Star Wars Episodes 1 and 3, and now he’s put together a sizzle reel , showing just how awesome the computer screens on those ships really looked. Read more…
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Amazing Footage: The Spaceship User Interfaces of Star Wars
A few weeks ago, drips of lost footage filled with cut takes from Return of the Jedi began appearing online. Now you can see all 30 minutes of the recovered footage, compiled into a single video. Read more…
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Watch all 30 minutes of recovered Return of the Jedi footage
“Through the Force, things you will see. The future, the past, old friends long gone.” Someone has apparently just found a laser-disc full of behind the scenes, never before seen footage from Return of the Jedi . Two clips were uploaded to a Facebook page yesterday: a silent 59 seconds of R2D2 repairing Luke’s X-Wing on Dagobah, and a minute of Frank Oz getting fed lines and doing Yoda like only he can (which, in the end, sounds like quite a strain on the ol’ vocal cords). Read more…
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Long Lost LaserDisc Found, Features Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Footage