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Star Wars on Twitter: 10 Insider Accounts to Follow

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Do you Tweet?

If you’re anything like me, you don’t have a lot of original information to Tweet about that is relevant to anyone else.  That doesn’t stop me from following others who Tweet an awful lot… about a great many things.

Star Wars is a cultural icon that gets a lot of Twitter action, whether it is from actors, people who worked on the films, or just fans like you and me.  News will be coming fast as release dates for new movies approach, video game announcements appear, info gets leaked, and people get hired.  We’ve already seen J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt get tossed into the Star Wars fire, but neither of them have a direct twitter account (that I could find anyway).  George Lucas, Simon Kinberg, Lawrence Kasdan, Kathleen Kennedy… none of them are Twitterers.

Since many of these big names that you would want to follow if you are a Star Wars fan and want Star Wars insider information aren’t on Twitter, I’ve included a short list of those that you might want to follow.

  1. Starwars.com (@starwars) – who better to follow than the site itself?
  2. Kennedy/Marshall (@Kenedy/Marshall) – Kathleen Kennedy is now with Lucasfilm, but don’t be surprised if this company is involved somewhere (TV?)
  3. Bad Robot (@bad_robot) – JJ Abrams’ company will be involved.
  4. Disney Pictures (@DisneyPictures) – Disney… they own it, if it’s news they’ll know.
  5. ILM (@ILMVFX) – ILM is the best in the biz.  Can you imagine them not working on Star Wars?
  6. Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) – If he’s not involved on some level be afraid Expanded Universe fans… and all fans really. Continuity is important.
  7. Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata) – an insider with big connections.
  8. Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) – Have to believe that Hamill is going to be involved in this next chapter.
  9. Electronic Arts (@EA) – Get the Star Wars games rolling out!
  10. Star Wars Watch (@StarWarswatch) – I believe this is a fan page.  I Don’t know who runs this, but they seem to have a lot of info so I follow.

There are other Twitter accounts from all areas, including tons of fan sites, that post news and would be great ones to follow.  Many of them will have interviews, pictures, and other tidbits of information that leak out, but for the sake of being brief, I’ll leave my list  to these 10 for now.  There will be some who are more active than others, and there will be some new ones to follow when more Star Wars movie, game, or TV details come out.

Are these the best to follow?  I don’t know.  If you have better ones, put them in the comments.  I’d love to have access to Michael Arndt while he’s writing “the script”.

Are there others that I follow?  Yes!  Lots!  A couple of coming attractions I’m currently very interested in are San Diego Comic Con (@Comic_Con) and Star Wars Celebration Europe (@SW_Celebration).  News will definitely be coming out of these Twitter accounts this summer.

I listed 100 Star Wars Twitter pages to follow  in my personal just-for-fun list blog www.starwarslists.blogspot.com.  My Twitter handle is (@kcknight44).  I don’t have any insider news, but I’ll likely post what I see… and I look around a lot.

 

~kknight – is a lifelong Star Wars fanatic that is incredibly excited to be working with T-bone.  If you follow me on Twitter, don’t be shocked when I get the news out after you’ve already heard it.  I’m just getting started with this myself.

** Featured Image is from Adam Koford (@apelad) by way of the Starwars.com blog
** You can follow Starwarz.com and T-bone on Twitter as well!

Dave Filoni of “The Clone Wars” Post-cancellation Interview

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By now you have heard that the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” is not returning for a 6th season.  RebelForce Radio posted the first post-cancellation interview with the driving force behind “The Clone Wars”, Dave Filoni, in which he reveals that he is still very much involved in Lucasfilm Animation and will be involved in future Star Wars projects.

Filoni couldn’t say much about that future, but did give some interesting insight into the show that he just finished working on and the mysterious bonus footage that exists from the show.

“When you look at Ahsoka and you see the evolution of her character from season one to season five, and you see the change in her, and in the attitude, and the performance by Ashley (Eckstein), it really symbolizes the kind of change and evolution of the entire series”, says Filoni.

“I’ve seen some fans say, ‘is there going to be a proper ending?’, and I don’t quite understand what they mean by a proper ending…  the ending for her is that she has survived … and that there are more stories to tell.”

Whether you were a fan of the show or not, you have to respect the fact that 100+ episodes later, we have much greater insight into that time period and what was happening with many familiar characters including everyone’s favorite good guy/bad guy Anakin Skywalker.  And more Star Wars is on the way!

One more interesting little tidbit from the interview:  The cast and crew had a little wrap party meal at the local In & Out Burger.  Their order number… 66!

Dave Filoni has the receipt to prove it.

Make sure to check out the entire interview with Dave Filoni over in the RebelForceRadio.com podcast.

 
Here’s the Bonus Footage from IGN’s youtube channel.

 

~kknight – is a lifelong Star Wars fanatic that is incredibly excited to be working with T-bone.  Ahsoka, surprisingly really to me, will be missed.

Episode VII: The Original Dream Team Is (Probably) Returning

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In an article on Businessweek.com, George Lucas dropped the closest thing to confirmation that Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher will reprise their roles as Luke, Han, and Leia in Star Wars: Episode VII.

Here’s an excerpt:

Asked whether members of the original Star Wars cast will appear in Episode VII and if he called them before the deal closed to keep them informed, Lucas says, “We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison—or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going on.’ ” He pauses. “Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them.” Then he adds: “I won’t say whether the negotiations were successful or not.”

The rest of the article details the selling of Lucasfilm to Disney. It contains a lot of history you may already know, but it’s worth a read if anything to see how things operate behind closed doors at big companies.

It also talks about how Lucas was on the fence about whether or not to hand over his outlines for a sequel trilogy – outlines he has claimed many times never existed.

At first Lucas wouldn’t even turn over his rough sketches of the next three Star Wars films. When Disney executives asked to see them, he assured them they would be great and said they should just trust him. “Ultimately you have to say, ‘Look, I know what I’m doing. Buying my stories is part of what the deal is.’ I’ve worked at this for 40 years, and I’ve been pretty successful,” Lucas says. “I mean, I could have said, ‘Fine, well, I’ll just sell the company to somebody else.’ ”

Once Lucas got assurances from Disney in writing about the broad outlines of the deal, he agreed to turn over the treatments—but insisted they could only be read by Iger, Horn, and Kevin Mayer, Disney’s executive vice president for corporate strategy. “We promised,” says Iger. “We had to sign an agreement.”

When Iger finally got a look at the treatments, he was elated. “We thought from a storytelling perspective they had a lot of potential,” he says.

So, I’ll be the first to say it: Here’s where the fun begins!

 

Star Wars and Indy Make Mania’s List of Films That Didn’t Live Up To The Hype

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Mania.com recently posted a list of six films that, in their opinion, did not live up to their hype. Of course, The Phantom Menace made the list and even the most die hard fans would agree that the film was accompanied by a certain hype, the like we still have not seen again.

There was no way that film could have ever lived up to the hype but it fared well at the box office regardless and set the tone for what most feel is a lackluster trilogy, compared to the original three. I personally enjoyed the prequels but admit that they haven’t aged well with me, Episode III being the best of the bunch. In retrospect, I do feel Lucas went a little too far back and there probably was no need to show Anakin at 9 doing all those things he did. I don’t make the movies, however, and I digress.

The list also contains the last Indiana Jones flick which I enjoyed but thought had a less “organic” feel to it, for lack of a better term. I’m pretty much in agreement with the rest of their choices as well.

I did notice that they implied that “Episode IV” was part of the opening scroll in 1977.  Of course, this is not true and a common journalistic error.

Check out the full article at Mania.com.