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First Star Wars, and now Disney has finalized a deal to buy marketing and distribution rights to George Lucas' other lucrative Harrison Ford franchise from Paramount as well. Disney already owned the production rights since they came with their purchase of Lucasfilm last year, but now with marketing and distribution in house as well, the process[...]

Well, looks like Dark Horse Comics have finally burned through the last of their stocks and the recreation of George Lucas' original Star Wars screenplay drafts in comics form has finally sold out So they've gone for a second print. I understand that the original print run was a sizable 50,000 A second print will be[...]

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Welcome to Dark Horse Comics' solicitations for December 2013. Comics, more comics, even more comics, and a Game Of Thrones snowglobe. Dig in. BEcause we

Rich Johnston asked me the other day if I'd be willing to do a review of the new Dark Horse book The Star Wars based on George Lucas's first draft since I had done the interviews about the series for the site I thought about saying no as I am friends with Mike Mayhew the[...]

Here we go folks, The Star Wars #1 from Dark Horse Comics, an adaptation of the original screenplay that would, one day, become Star Wars. Everything is

We've been chatting with artist Mike Mayhew about his new Dark Horse project The Star Wars based on George Lucas' first draft for Star Wars back in 1974 The first two articles focused on the overall story and the characters. In this final installment we'll be talking about the tech, the weapons, the ships… all the things that make[...]

As we continue to look at the new Dark Horse project The Star Wars with series artist Mike Mayhew, we decided to look at the main characters. Some of them

What makes it unique from any of the previous series is that its taken directly from George Lucas' first draft for the movie Back when it was called The Star Wars, when the heroes were Kane Starkiller and his twin sons Annakin and Deak and they are going to General Skywalker for help This series[...]

The question inevitably arose of how long the plan had been in the works, and how involved George Lucas will be in the continuation of the Star Wars franchise. Apparently Lucas has been planning his retirement for about five years and started the process in small ways back then He began discussing it with Disney a[...]

From San Diego Comic Con. The glass display promotion the Indiana Jones Blue Ray is full of snakes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeqP9HhGH0I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71h3Mo3Lbro Skip to 02:40 if you need to get straight to the hairless ape in question. Although that's not a very accurate

Whenever the (exclusively white) bomber pilots speak though it devolves into clunking great chunks of awkward exposition that make George Lucas's notoriously wooden scripting for the Star Wars prequels sound like Bringing Up Baby. Maybe white characters deserve to be the lowly plot mechanics for a change God knows we've seen enough movies over the years[...]

From George Lucas: "Ralph McQuarrie was the first person I hired to help me envision Star Wars His genial contribution, in the form of unequaled production paintings, propelled and inspired all of the cast and crew of the original Star Wars trilogy When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one[...]

You have to give Lucasfilm credit, there's no shying away from the controversial, fanbaiting elements of The Phantom Menace in this new trailer for the 3D version.

On the left, an illustration by Dune's John Shoenherr from And Seven Times Never Kill Man by George R R Martin that appeared in Analog. And on the right,