7 posts tagged ‘lightsaber’
Meet the Disney Imagineer Behind the VR Breakthough That Is the 'HoloTile'
The legacy of invention and technology that comes out of Disney Imagineering is some of the closest we’ll get to a sci-fi future. And two of Disney Parks’ most recent incredible projects come from Lanny Smoot, a Disney legend who has already patented over 100 inventions, 74 of which are at Disney… Read more...
Hey Star Wars, Can We Get Movie and Show Titles That Aren't Just Character Names Again?
Did The Rise of Skywalker and rampant speculation over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they’re rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we’ve gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the… Read more...
Eman Esfandi Had No Idea What Sabine Was Filling Ezra In On While Filming Ahsoka
Star Wars can often feel culturally ubiquitous, but sometimes even the people operating in its space find themselves inside a world they have little experience with (as they should: Star Wars thrives on the perspectives of many, and that includes people unfamiliar with it!). But for Eman Esfandi, going back and… Read more...
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Writers on Giving Cal a Scene-Stealing Counterpart
Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up… Read more...
Kylo Ren Wasn't Originally Supposed to Become Ben Solo Again
As if the movies themselves didn’t make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors worked on The Force Awakens as well as The Rise of Skywalker, sometimes with radically different results, while The… Read more...
Dave Filoni Is Right Where Star Wars Needs Him to Be
There has been a great disturbance in the Force. As if, somehow, millions of voices suddenly cried out “what if Dave Filoni got a promotion?” and were suddenly answered. But while the ascension of the Clone Wars and Rebels producer to the upper echelons of Lucasfilm may give Star Wars fans tired of his particular… Read more...
Open Channel: How Do You Like Your Remakes?
Netflix’s big new release for the weekend is Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an anime revival of the popular graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. It’s a bit of a weird bag; pre-release, O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski repeatedly said the show would offer something similar to the comic while also being a different… Read more...