Welcome to another report! I have been going over various ideas with my CA:RO, RA Shay'la on various ideas to improve the Recon Office in looks an in funcionality. Hopefully we can come to some sort of an agreement on exactly what we need to do, and move from there.
RA Shay'la will be updating the Convention Database this week and hopefully, start cleaning the database out a great deal. Once that is done, and a few changes (that I have yet to ask AD Zsinj to make) are made, the Convention Database should be up and running full speed.
The Recon Office Banner Comp is still ongoing. We have had a few entries but want/need much more until we actually pick a winner ( need a bit more diversity). So CO's, SGCOMs, If you can fwd that on to your people, there is an IS-GW up for the winner!
That's it this week. Next week should see raised activity across the board. Thanks for your time and on to the SW News.
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EP3: Lucas Locked Out of Set
Mojodeli points out the Arizona Republic for news on George Lucas having a hard time getting on his own set:
Despite being the man in charge of the eagerly awaited final installment of the sci-fi franchise, Lucas was stopped by the oh-so-tight security he had put in place. Principal photography began early in the summer in Australia.
An insider says, "George forgot his pass. He didn't think it would be a problem, but the guard was having none of it.
"After about 10 minutes of arguing, one of the producers came out and sorted it out. George saw the funny side, and everyone had a good laugh about it." Then he fired the guard. Kidding.
Darth Vader's face revealed
http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,7299770%255E7485%255E%255Enbv,00.html
Here is the man who will become Darth Vader in the final instalment of the Star Wars film series.
George Lucas's sci-fi epic promises all manner of surprises as horrific circumstances ensure that Anakin Skywalker turns into the tortured Darth Vader.
And, as this first picture shows, director Lucas has his designers on track to neatly jigsaw 2003's Jedi Knight with 1977's evil leader of the Death Star.
The new, as yet untitled film, due for release in 2005, is actually Episode III in Lucas's series, which began in 1977 with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.
Hence, Anakin Skywalker's mane is showing a decidedly '70s style. There's no sign of a repeat of Princess Leia's coffee scroll hair-do yet.
The last film in the series finished its principal photography at Sydney's Fox Studios at 5.30pm yesterday.
With only some minor filming due overseas in March, Lucas and his team now have 18 months of post-production ahead of them.
Anakin was introduced in 1999's The Phantom Menace and was played by Jake Lloyd. Hayden Christensen took on the role in last year's Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
In the final episode, Christensen's character not only promises to turn nasty but will sire twin siblings Luke and Leia with Padme Amidala, played by Natalie Portman.
A comparison of the new Anakin with Luke, played in 1977 by Mark Hamill, shows the prescient casting of Christensen ensured a very believable father and son would work across three decades.
Australians added to the cast for the final Star Wars episode are Graeme Blundell and Claudia Karvan, who were cut from the last film, Bruce Spence and Rebecca Jackson Mendoza.
The Daily Telegraph
Hayden Headed to Chicago
The NW Herald talks about a local appearance for Episode III's Hayden Christensen:
"During the first two weeks in October, the Chicago International Film Festival will bring 94 features, 45 short films and a bevy of celebrity visitors. The festival begins Oct. 2 at the Chicago Theatre with its opening night premiere of "The Human Stain" and a lifetime achievement award ceremony for its director, Robert Benton. Sally Field, who won the 1985 best actress Oscar for Benton's "Places in the Heart," will appear, and so will "The Human Stain" star Anthony Hopkins. Tickets for the film are $20 and $85 for the film and the opening night party.
Two weeks later, Oct. 16, the festival closes with "Shattered Glass," an account of how journalist Stephen Glass slipped fictitious stories past his New Republic editors in the mid-1990s. Hayden Christensen, who plays Glass, will appear at the screening, as will co-star Peter Sarsgaard and director Billy Ray. Christensen, by the way, also is Anakin Skywalker in a couple of movies by George Lucas. Tickets are $15. "
Animated Series Bridges Gaps
Fans have been asking just how the Clone War cartoons will fit into continuity of Episode II and III and we've managed to find a few details. Basically, Durge and Asajj Ventress have been considered standard EU characters who aren't in Episode III. As we know, the animated series The Clone Wars take place between Episodes II and III and on no way have influenced the master himself as he's worked on the production of SW3. In fact, Lucas rarely has input into the EU stuff in the animation, books, comics, etc except laying out the broad area where the authors and animators and artists can work.
So basically The Clone Wars will help you 'enrich the story' like say Animatrix, but they definitely aren't required viewing to get the most out of Episode III. But me? I'm not going to miss a one.
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