Conan’O Brien will be hosting a series of shows next week on San Fransisco and among his guests is George Lucas! Make sure you check the May 1st show!
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From Sci Fi Wire:
Robot Spoofs Star Wars
Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, creators of Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken, will develop Robot Chicken: Star Wars, a 30-minute stop-motion animation special directed by Green for the network’s Adult Swim programming block, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The special spoofs key scenes and characters from the Star Wars
universe, including creator George Lucas, who will voice the animated
version of himself. The special was made in collaboration with
Lucasfilm.
Robot Chicken: Star Wars will also feature Mark Hamill
as the voice of Luke Skywalker in one sketch, as well as a voice cast
that includes Conan O’Brien, Seth MacFarlane, Robert Smigel, Malcolm
McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Donald Faison, Abraham
Benrubi, Breckin Meyer and Joey Fatone. The special will premiere at 10
p.m. June 17 on Adult Swim.
Computer and Video Games (CVG) recently posted a story in relating to Bioware’s secret project, a new MMO set to be based on the Knights of the Old Republic (Kotor) era. Even though the rumor has not been confirmed by any official source it definitely puts a new spin to recent stories about a new game based on the Kotor series.
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1. CVG article
If you head over to BBC’s website you will find an interesting gallery with photos taken from Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic in addition to articles focusing on the people and the techology behind the visual effects. Check them out!
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2. BBC article - The people behind the scenes
This one is for all you Knights of the Old Republic (KotoR) fans out there… If you thought that Kreia was just another Dark Jedi/Sith/ Villain/Crimson lightsaber carrying mistress then think again…. because KotoR’s antagonist has been awarded yet another “title”, this time by Tech Digest.
According to the website Kreia has made its “Top Ten List of video game female Characters you should idolize” primarily because she gave new meaning to the never-ending battle between the dark and the light side of the Force. She is featured as number seven of the list which includes other female gaming celebrities.
Even though Kreia was not available for comment at this time you can still read the article by clicking on the link below.
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1. Tech Digest