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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
8:38AM - Star Wars and the holidays. It's almost like a tradition, isn't it?
George Lucas has signed off on Star Wars: A Musical Journey, a two-hour live musical event featuring a Stormtrooper kick line and singing Wookiees John Williams' Oscar-winning score. Premiering next year in London's O2 arena, the production will be performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in synch with movie clips from the six live-action films. The show will play in chronological order, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi.
...yeah.
But as we all know, that won't be the first Star Wars spin-off to involve musical numbers. Frank DiGiacamo writes about the Star Wars Holiday Special for Vanity Fair and talks to the people who helped make it happen.
...when Vilanch heard Lucas’s storyline at a development meeting at Smith and Hemion’s L.A. offices, he quickly realized that a “big challenge” lay ahead. Lucas was intent on building The Star Wars Holiday Special, as it would be called, around Wookiees—specifically, the family of Chewbacca, Han Solo’s shaggy sidekick, as they outwitted Imperial forces to come together on Life Day, the Wookiee equivalent of Christmas. Suddenly, Vilanch says, the special was in danger of looking like “one long episode of Lassie.”
“I said: ‘You’ve chosen to build a story around these characters who don’t speak. The only sound they make is like fat people having an orgasm,’” the 250-plus-pound Vilanch recalls. “In fact, I told Lucas he could just leave a tape recorder in my bedroom and I’d be happy to do all the looping and Foley work for him.”
10:14AM
Hey, come celebrate your fannish holidays over here, at my LJ.
Everyone can join in, but no personal attacks, please.
2:43PM - It's a Holiday Miracle!
RPatzz cuts his hair! Edit: I'm sorry I screwed up the link when I posted and didn't catch it until now. Fixed (I hope)
5:21PM - Joker Spoofs Galore!
From the creator of the Joker Interrogation Scene Spoof:
Joker Interrogation Spoof Outtakes
The Dark Knight - Party Scene Spoof
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