SAN DIEGO, Calif. - If you want to feel as old as Yoda, consider: it’s been 32 years since
Star Wars reshaped Hollywood’s perception of what a blockbuster is and can be - ushering in an era of effects-driven comic-book (or comic-book-like) hyper rides that remains very much with us today. Would
Comic-Con be attracting 125,000 faithful from across the globe if not for
George Lucas’s galaxy from far, far away?
So it’s apropos Friday’s programming is decidedly Star Wars-centric, despite the haters and even though the space opera’s last episode,
Revenge of the Sith, came out four years ago and another movie looks unlikely to ever happen. But undeterred by the absence of a feature film - or speculation about Episodes 7, 8 and 9 - Comic-Con is nevertheless throwing a self-styled Star Wars Spectacular, which will include tidbits on the Star Wars Concert Tour, the Blu-Ray releases of the movies (cha-ching!), LucasArts games and even the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Lastly, there will be a Star Wars Movie Fan Awards, which honours the finest in fan-made viral videos.
Hey, as long as it doesn’t have Jar Jar Binks, it can’t be that bad, right?
Almost as stiff as some of the acting in the films, wouldn't you say?
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