The Secret History of Star Wars, at present available as an e-book, presents a researched and unauthorized look at the development of the series.
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chad writes, Star Wars fans worldwide are in celebration mode. LucasFilm has announced that an animated Star Wars feature film, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, will be released in North American theaters on Friday, August 15, 2008. The theatrical release will be followed by a related television series on the Cartoon Network and TNT. Long live Star Wars! More Star Wars!

Looks like the took a page from the Cartoon Network’s version of Star Wars on the design. Sweet. Sneak Preview from StarWars.com

GrimSean
writes, I stumbled across
this earlier today, and thought it might be of
interest to my fellow bureaucrats. It’s an
interesting take on the creation of the Rebellion
that gives R2’s role far more significance without
having to rewrite history.

chad writes, On September 12th, Fox will be releasing the original theatrical versions of the first Star Wars trilogy on DVD. While this is just a way for George Lucas to extort even more money from his fan base, it will be nice to finally see Greedo shoot second.

Wow. I’ve never seen so many submissions in the queue before. Here’s the official press release.

On the eve of a civil trial which would have (finally) started Monday, the family of the Star Wars Kid has settled for an undisclosed amount with the families of the students who loosed the footage on an unsuspecting world.
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A Star Wars television series is in the works, which will fill in the gap between episodes III and IV.

I sense a great disturbance in the Force….

Lucas always identified Star Wars as science fantasy, but a current exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science uses the series to teach real science.

Yeah, it’s Lucas’ world, and we just watch it. Still….

Dave has already written a review of Revenge of the Sith, which spurred lively discussion, and even one suggestion that Lucas perhaps shouldn’t write and direct these things. Let’s face it: the visuals are stupendous, and the emotional scenes, generally, stupid.

So…. Just for fun, let’s play Monday Night Quarterback, or How to Unfairly Belabor a Moot Point. Come on! Bureauites’ ideas for Enterprise awhile back were cool. If you were setting up the three prequels (with knowledge of the actual three films, of course), what would you have done?

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So the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived, after some 27 years. Was it worth the wait?

Note: while the review tries to be spoiler-free, it’s almost a given that spoilers will abound in the discussion. Like it matters, because you’re all gonna see this movie no matter what I write.
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