Sci-Fi Storm

At last! The complete Star Wars movie saga will be available on Blu-ray in September of this year – the exact date isn’t set yet, but pre-orders are already available. It will be offered in three versions – [sfs=1099]The Original Trilogy[/sfs], [sfs=1100]The Prequel Trilogy[/sfs], and [sfs=1098]The Complete Saga[/sfs]. The latter of which will also include 3 additional discs, with 30 hours of additional materials including never before seen footage and delete scenes!
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The National Film Preservation Board, part of the Library Of Congress Archives, has released its list of 25 films to be added to the National Film Registry, where the films are to be specially preserved against degradation and damage (now if only that could include bans against horrible remakes). This year’s list includes The Empire Strikes Back and Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (George Lucas’ original short that led to the full THX 1138). With Star Wars: A New Hope already in the registry (added in 1989), I expect we’ll eventually see Return Of The Jedi as well – but perhaps not the pre-trilogy.

As a followup to a story we tweeted about a couple weeks ago, about Katie Goldman and how she was teased at school because she was a girl with a Star Wars backpack and bottle and loved Star Wars, and afterwards the whole geek community stepped up. Katie got support – and gifts – from all over. Ashley Eckstein (the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: Clone Wars, founder of geek girl site Her Universe and all around super-cool geek gal – nice CNN article here) sent her a care package and she and her mom wore the t-shirts to the Chicago screening of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And Think Geek sent a light saber. And the 501st Squadron and others took pictures with her dressed a Princess Leia.

The geeks win again…we do rule the world!

If you took your LEGOs, and made the original Star Wars trilogy from the point of view of a different character (what do you mean, Jar Jar wasn’t in it?!?), you might just get…”LEGO Star Wars: Bombad Bounty”…(thanks to Fellowship of Fools for pointing it out)

Syfy Ventures, a relatively new division created during the rebranding of Syfy as part of breaking out of the cable channel constraints and become a true transmedia, tech savvy destination, announced jointly with actress Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars) during the Digital Press Tour on Monday that Syfy Ventures would join forces with Eckstein’s Her Universe brand of female genre merchandise, to produce Syfy branded merchandise under the Syfy Gear label.
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Star Wars is getting the 3D treatment. George Lucas is going to oversee the process, with Lucasfilm using some higher-end conversion houses to accomplish the task. The movies will also be released in chronological order, starting with The Phantom Menace, in 2012 and then in roughly annual installments. After that, the install base for in-home 3D may be ripe for a 3D Blu-ray release, just to make us buy them all again…

Update 9/30: Fan response has been, well, less than stellar…

Here is a neat article from Moviefone that shows some screen tests for some famous roles – some of which got the part (Henry Thomas had the role of E.T. before it was over), a couple who didn’t (I’ve mentioned before that Han Solo could have been played by Kurt Russell instead of Harrison Ford).

TIME Magazine but together their list of the top 10 Star Wars fan films ever…including the possibly first ever such film, Hardware Wars.

Wendy writes in: We are happy to announce that part one of the Star Wars fan film, A Light in the Darkness, has been released. This is a high quality film made with a very small budget. Please check it out at http://www.alightinthedarknessfilm.com/the-film/ and let us know what you think.

The winner of the 2010 Star Wars Fan Film Movie Challenge’s “George Lucas Selects” award has been announced by Lucas himself – this year, it is “The Unconscious Sith”. In addition all the other winners have been announced, all of them quite good. The Audience Choice award went to “Renaissance (Redux)”. Follow the link to see all the winners.