Anyway, I recently got X-Wing Alliance hacked onto my modern PC, and realized just how awesome these games are. It made me passionate about Star Wars again.
Hacked onto your computer? You know they’re all for sale on GOG and have been configured to run on modern PCs without a hitch.
Set photos from Homecoming have surfaced!
I miss Honey I Shrunk the Audience. But that also ties into the Rick Moranis shaped hole in my heart.
The revival of Captain EO they replaced it with isn’t setup correctly and so the 3D effect is ruined.
Man is that ugly.
I’m still pissed at Paramount but now I’m curious. They just put out a third trailer. Is…that an NX-class vessel at the end?
SPOILERS:
That was never going to be the ending of the film. The original ending had her escaping and discovering the entire city had been destroyed. So tying it into the Cloververse was just a small extra step.
Well this was unexpected. New details have emerged about the cancelled series and from quite a surprising place.
The director for the new God of War game used to work for Lucasfilm and got to read the scripts for the now abandoned series. Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview with VentureBeat:
Probably the really small beginnings of this idea, the germination of this — when I was working at Lucas, I was allowed to go up to the ranch and read the scripts for the [canceled live-action Star Wars] TV show. It was the most mind-blowing thing I’d ever experienced. I cared about the Emperor. They made the Emperor a sympathetic figure who was wronged by this fucking heartless woman. She’s this hardcore gangster, and she just totally destroyed him as a person. I almost cried while reading this. This is the Emperor, the lightning out of the fingers Emperor. That’s something magical. The writers who worked on that, guys from The Shield and 24, these were excellent writers.
Yeah, how dare someone show some passion for something they like. Next there’ll be forums popping up dedicated to niche aspects of various franchises! The scandal!
Productions can only be 15 minutes long, with a max of two videos? What kind of bullcrap is this.
This will effectively kill Star Trek Continues and the Trek fanfilm community at large.
Continues has:
I was kind of hopeful for Beyond but now I hope it crashes and burns. Same for their upcoming idiotic subscription scheme series.
Actual movie still.
Still not as bad as that AOTC Dooku still someone posted a while back.
In addition to Whitaker’s reveal. We also now have a full character list. THANKFULLY, they’re not the incredibly stupid names that have seemingly become the norm the last few years:
This film is really shaping up.
Oh man, that’s cool. The Onderon arc was pretty great.
Welp:
If anyone in Hollywood would have the power to beam away a lawsuit involving sci-fi fans, J.J. Abrams, as a key custodian of both the “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” franchises, would be that guy.
At least that’s what you might think.
Late last year, Paramount Pictures and CBS filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the makers of a crowdfunded fan film called “Star Trek: Axanar,” news that hit diehard “Trek” fans like a photon torpedo. At a fan event in May for the upcoming movie “Star Trek Beyond,” Abrams – who directed the 2009 “Star Trek” big-screen reboot and its 2013 sequel and is producing the new Justin Lin-directed film – announced that with both his and Lin’s blessings, the lawsuit would soon be dropped.
“[Lin and I] started talking about it and realized this was not an appropriate way to deal with the fans,” Abrams told the crowd. “The fans should be celebrating this thing. Fans of ‘Star Trek’ are part of this world. So [Lin] went to the studio and pushed them to stop this lawsuit and now, within the next few weeks, it will be announced this is going away, and that fans would be able to continue working on their project.”
Abrams’ surprise announcement was welcome news to the makers of “Axanar.” Yet one month later, the lawsuit shows no signs of going away anytime soon. Last week, lawyers for Paramount and CBS informed a federal judge in California that their legal action was still pending, rejecting the defendants’ claims that the film was protected under fair use. For now, the fate of “Axanar” remains in limbo.
“Nothing has changed,” Robert Meyer Burnett, who is set to direct “Axanar” if it ever goes into production, told The Times last week. “It has been going through the court system exactly the same way it had been before [Abrams] made that announcement…. I think, unfortunately, the outcome ultimately is not going to be favorable to us and certainly not for our fans and our donors.” (A spokesperson for Paramount did not respond to a request for comment.)
Studios have long tolerated, and sometimes even supported, fan-made films as long as they don’t attempt to capitalize financially on copyrighted material. While such fan movies are usually decidedly modest, homemade affairs, the team behind “Axanar” raised more than $1.2 million through a crowdfunding campaign for what they billed as “the first fully professional, independent ‘Star Trek’ film.”
Still, despite those lofty ambitions, Burnett, who was not personally named in the suit, insists that the makers of “Axanar” have never sought to earn any money from the project. Those who donated $25 or more to the crowdfunding campaign were promised a digital download of the film, and all funds received were to go to production costs. “Ultimately, it was a movie that was paid for by donors that would be given away for free on the Internet,” said Burnett, a lifelong “Trek” fan who directed the 1999 film “Free Enterprise” and has written and produced behind-the-scenes extras for home video releases of the series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Enterprise.”
Nor did they see the project competing in any way with a film like “Beyond.” “No matter how good ‘Axanar’ could be, I don’t think anyone would ever mistake it for an officially released ‘Star Trek’ movie that cost $150 million,” Burnett said. “If anything, we were going to make the ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’ of fan films, all the while honoring the ‘Star Trek’ franchise. No one is ever going to compete at the level that a Hollywood production can muster, although I’m very flattered to see that they’re threatened by us, because it makes me think we were doing something right.”
The “Axanar” lawsuit has divided the “Star Trek” fan community, with some cheering on what they see as a scrappy David taking on a corporate Goliath and others seeing the project as an overreach that threatens the entire world of fan films.
“Everyone thinks that because of this we might bring the era of fan films down to a crashing end – we’ve nuked fan films forever,” Burnett said. “To me, that’s the worst thing in the world if people think that of us.”
Still, he holds out hope that in the end, the “Axanar” team will be vindicated both in the legal system and in the court of public opinion.
“If they can point to us and say, ‘These guys pursued their dream relentlessly in the face of overwhelming odds and stayed together as friends and colleagues and were able to succeed’ – what is more ‘Star Trek’ than that?”
John Carpenter came to town last night for a Live Retrospective concert. Twas awesome. I ended up purchasing the LP of his first album:
Just saw the news about Yelchin, how tragic. =(
Actor Anton Yelchin, 27, who played Chekov in recent “Star Trek” movies, was killed in a freak accident early Sunday morning, police told CNN.
Yelchin, who also acted in “Like Crazy” and “Alpha Dog,” died outside his home in Los Angeles, according to law enforcement.
Yelchin stepped out of his car in the driveway of his Studio City home at around 1:10 a.m. PT when the car slid backwards and pinned him against a brick pillar and a security fence, causing trauma that led to his death, said Jennifer Houser with the Los Angeles Police Department.
“The victim was on his way to meet his friends for a rehearsal and when he didn’t show up, his friends went to his house where they found him deceased by his car,” Houser told CNN. “It appears that he momentarily left his car, leaving it in the driveway. He was behind the vehicle when it rolled backward and pinned him to the brick pillar causing the trauma that led to his death.”
Houser says Yelchin’s family was notified by the friends that found him. She did not know whether the car was running when he was found.
Hey you wanna take that to the politics thread or something?
You told me they were Flounders.
YOU LIED TO ME
I told you Flounders was one of the impolite names for that generation. *gesticulates with his fist as if he were still talking*
Do not take that link as an endorsement of any kind toward that show. I’m like a digital magpie that collects little clips and images that may or may not become relevant in the future.
I could just as easily go into a small rant about Seth MacFarlane as I did for Snyder. =P
They haven’t announced it but there’s a possibility that Simon Pegg provided the VO for Dengar.
In Hollywood you’re only as good as your last film. 300 was Snyder’s only success up to that point. After that it was disappointment after disappointment. From that perspective, with Sucker Punch being the complete sucker punch that it was at the box office, he should never have landed MoS in the first place. But he obviously has friends in the right places.
Actually the totals I gave included the worldwide box office.
The domestic totals minus the foreign box office break down to:
Which paints an even uglier picture, which I didn’t need to do when the combined gross of foreign and domestic for both was ugly enough.
Just as a head’s up, from a sociological perspective, anyone currently at the age of 18 or younger is considered a “Plural” or Gen-Z and not a Millenial.
Millenials were the last generation before this current internet age.
