Tobar

Speaking of Lucasfilm Animation, they have a new film coming out in January.

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Lucasfilm just posted an excerpt from a Q&A about the Clone Wars Lost Episodes, more specifically about Darth Bane.

Easter eggs abound in the latest ep of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

Lots of exciting hints at what's to come in the MCU!

Yeah he's been selling parts of his collection for a while now.

So I was browsing around various Star Wars news sources when I discovered that Harmy did a podcast that was just released!

Haven't listened to it yet. I'll probably update this post once I have.

While I agree his short story is completely stupid, IG-88 is not a creation of the EU.

Well this is awesome. I hope one of us gets it!

I wish I knew how much of a delay there was between the two of them. That seemed like a mighty long pause before he responded...

He looked alright last year for the film's anniversary.

As long as it's not written by. Remember, that's how we got Willow!

Though I will say, the "popular songs from the past six decades" bit doesn't have me hopeful. That's the only thing I really didn't care for in The Book of Life. But then, George did make it work for American Graffiti, so...

Five'll get you ten that this makes it in.

Well this certainly came out of left field!

LUCASFILM’S STRANGE MAGIC COMING TO THEATERS JANUARY 23, 2015

Strange Magic, a new animated film from Lucasfilm Ltd., will be released by Touchstone Pictures on January 23, 2015.  Strange Magic is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion. Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light & Magic, which created the CGI animation for 2011’s Academy Award-winning film Rango, bring to life the fanciful forest turned upside down with world-class animation and visual effects.

With a story by George Lucas, Strange Magic is directed by Gary Rydstrom (Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation, Lifted), produced by Mark S. Miller (associate producer Mars Attacks!) and executive produced by George Lucas, with a screenplay by David Berenbaum (Elf), Irene Mecchi (Brave, The Lion King) and Rydstrom. An extraordinary roster of film, television and Broadway stars lend their voices to Strange Magic, including Alan Cumming (CBS’ The Good Wife, Broadway’s Cabaret), Evan Rachel Wood (The Ides of March), Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway’s Wicked), Maya Rudolph (Big Hero 6, Bridesmaids), Sam Palladio (ABC’s Nashville), newcomer Meredith Anne Bull, Alfred Molina (Chocolat), Elijah Kelley (Hairspray, The Butler), Bob Einstein (HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Peter Stormare (Fargo). Well-known music producer Marius de Vries (Moulin Rouge) serves as both the musical director and composer.

Bog King (voice of Alan Cumming), Griselda (voice of Maya Rudolph) and Marianne (voice of Evan Rachel Wood) are part of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps in Strange Magic, a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Released by Touchstone Pictures, Strange Magic is in theaters Jan. 23, 2015.

Official Press Release

TV's Frink said:

I've never heard the term Amerindians.  Is that considered a term in poor taste, Tobar?

 It's a new term for me as well. I wouldn't think it's in poor taste as a lot of natives still refer to themselves as Indians.

He hasn't said anything specifically regarding why he left the show. It might be because he wanted to focus on the comics. As he's the writer for the upcoming Rebels comic, The Last Padawan.

As for all these Disney conspiracies, so far they just appear to be a bunch of hogwash. Weisman is still working with Lucasfilm, just not on the show specifically.

Here are some choice quotes from an interview he did with Newsarama:

Greg Weisman: When I came aboard Star Wars Rebels, Simon Kinberg and Dave Filoni had already created all the lead characters. I like to think I contributed, but the characters existed. One of the first things I did when I sat down with them was say, “let’s talk about who these guys were. How did we get them here?”

We did that for all of them, all six. We came up with really great stuff, all three of us and the Lucasfilm Story Group, came up with really great stuff for all their backstories. So for me, this is great! That was great material, and on an ongoing series like Rebels, you rarely have the chance to look back and tell those stories. As Dave is fond of saying, “Star Wars doesn’t do flashbacks.” Well, they do entire movies that are flashbacks (laughs), but they tend not to stylistically flashback in the middle of a piece.

So [the novel, comic and show are] all part of the same continuum that the Lucasfilm Story Group has been building for Kanan, and for all these characters, and part of the original work that Simon, Dave and I did when we first sat down and started breaking the show.

Weisman: (laughs) Yeah, I know! And if that wasn’t enough pressure, at the same time, you also know that there are legions of great fans who take this tremendously seriously, are religious about it. Fans that dress up as Stormtroopers, and more power to them, we want them to enjoy this as well! So that’s the tremendous challenge that we faced in making this show, is that this has to work on both ends of the spectrum.

The good news is, I think it does. The response to Spark of Rebellion has indicated that. That it has largely succeeded. And that’s thrilling. The fact that the ratings were good doesn’t hurt either! (laughs) It’s great to be creatively praised, but the fact that it did well commercially is nice too!

I’d go back to Young Justice in a heartbeat, and I’m thrilled to still be involved with Star Wars Rebels, doing this Kanan series.

Sounds like Lucasfilm and its Story Group are the ones calling the shots to me.

As for how the show has been going so far. It seems plain to me that these first episodes are all about introducing you to the characters, who they are and what drives them:

• Spark of Rebellion introduced Ezra and we got to meet the rest of the crew through his eyes.
• Droids in Distress setup a connection between our motley crew and one of the more famous founders of the Rebel Alliance. Expect this to pay off way later.
• Fighter Flight was about the dynamic between Ezra, Zeb and Chopper.
• Rise of the Old Masters touched on Kanan and his insecurities about his ability to train others. As well as introducing the Inquisitor.
• Breaking Ranks introduced another future series regular and revealed some of what the Inquisitor has been up to.
• Out of Darkness reveals some of Sabine's past and her reservations about what they're doing.

This first season is all about setup. Setting up who the characters are and where they're going. By season two with introductions out of the way they can plow straight forward and focus on paying off everything that they setup before.

You know what I find hurtful. That once my ancestors were millions strong across the land. That children are taught they were a primitive people when in fact they were an advanced culture with large cities. That tamed the land and created corn. That over 90% were wiped out by european diseases. That they were slowly subjugated and segregated to reservations. That whenever the question of who discovered America is brought up, the answer is either a sadistic psychopath or a viking and never the people WHO WERE ALREADY HERE.

That your prophet wrote that to have white skin was a blessing and that those with dark skin were cursed. That your church didn't bother to renounce this until last December! That's what I find hurtful.

My avatar was my attempt to try and humor myself when contemplating on these things.

Dark Horse had one for just about all of their Star Wars titles.

Interstellar (2014)

Wow.

So they sinned and were cursed with dark skin so that they would be unattractive to the Nephites...

The Book of Life (2014)

A breath of fresh air. The music was mostly novelty covers of contemporary songs but the rest of the film was quite charming.

Darth Id said:

You know who doesn't give a shit about "canon"?

Everybody involved in the production, marketing and distribution of anything in the Star Wars franchise.  It's all just made up as they go along.

There is no canon--only more nonsense.

 I'm amazed at just how wrong you can be in one post. Lucasfilm has always had a thing for "canon." George Lucas never did of course but everyone else there loves the concept for whatever reason.

Which is why after he left they setup an entire department, The Lucasfilm Story Group, that is solely dedicated to overseeing all future Star Wars projects. First to shape where the franchise is going and second to make sure none of the various projects disagree with one another.

Being a quarter Native American myself, I'm curious to hear what the views of Mormonism are today in relation to us.

I belive I saw Pablo Hidalgo or someone of that nature outline what was canon and the SEs were what was counted. Which will suck once we see Boba again somewhere down the line with that lame deadpan voice.

I hate it. Sounds like something you'd see on a fan film.

I can hear the reaction already.

This is actually the first time it's been in Anaheim, Celebration IV was in LA.

But speaking from past experiences, the closer to the event you can get the better. It'd be easier if they'd list which hotels are getting shuttle service.

Loving this preview of Agent Carter.