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Rumors About Episode II Denounced

Posted by emmett on from the and-jerry-mathers-as-the-beaver dept.

at0m writes "Here is an announcement on starwars.com denouncing the myths and rumors regarding casting speculations. It is in response to some bogus articles written about the casting process. A starwars.com newsletter also indicated that the first steps are being taken to begin creating Episode II."

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  1. VA Linux, was this worth almost 1 billion dollars? by Zico · · Score: 3

    Oh, man. Sorry, I was actually planning to post a link to a different Star Wars article I read.* Then I started looking at all the completely nonsensical posts in this thread, especially the multitude of ASCII art breasts of all things, and now I've been laughing maniacally for about the last 5 minutes at the thought that VA Linux paid nearly 1 billion dollars for Andover.net. Yeah, I know Andover.net has other sites, but we all know it was Slashdot that VA Linux wanted. And yes, I know all the junk being posted on this thread is juvenile -- I'm not laughing in appreciation of it, just at the thought of VA Linux board members or stockholders coming here and reading it. :)

    Anyway, I just had to mention that, but I better go because I'm about to get a hernia and short-circuit my laptop's keyboard from the tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks. (I think lack of sleep is playing into this, too.)

    * The Star Wars thing I was going to post was an article that was linked to from the Drudge Report that was pretty funny. It talked about how George Lucas was promising that the next episode of Star Wars would be stereotype-free because of all the criticism that he got for Jar-Jar and the trade barons with the Japanese accents. Part of his plans to make the next episode more "ethnically inclusive" is to add a Native American-like character, who will be very spiritual. His other addition will be an Asian character, who happens to be good in martial arts. Sheesh, I think George is a little unclear on the concept of what a stereotype is...

    Cheers,
    ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

  2. Oportunistic /.ers? Nahhh... by swordgeek · · Score: 4

    Is it just me, or did this message show up only a few days after the MPAA injunction, which of course was not long after the search and seizure in Norway, and various other things.

    Maybe LucasArts has nothing to do with the MPAA, in which case we can all get excited about the biggest bit of media hype to come along since, well since episode I probably. However, I doubt it.

    Seriously. How shallow can 'we' be to get all up in arms over the MPAA (or the RIAA, or RealTrojan, or Spamazon Books, or...) one day, and the next to start slathering over the latest MPAA-affiliated movie (or RIAA-backed recording, or an interview with Linus available in RealAudio, or some book "buy it at Amazon!", or...)? This is nothing but gut-level anti-establishment behaviour, glued onto full blown opportunism and/or selfishness.

    Go ahead and moderate me down, but at least when I take a moral stand against something, I don't have to look at a calendar to see if it's a 'friend' or 'enemy' day. If you're going to stand up for what you believe in, stand _all_ the goddamn way up!

    Either that, or be happy with whatever gets tossed your way, because you don't deserve a voice.

    C
    (feeling bitter and disgusted tonight)

    --

    "People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban