Alan Dean Foster was the ghostwriter of the original Star Wars novelization.
Bye, now. Have good sex.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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Tom Scola - May 17, 2005 11:01:38 am PDT #2900 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - May 17, 2005 11:03:43 am PDT #2901 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, he also did the books of the Star Trek animated series. I knew I had read something by him besides the Star Wars novel....
Frankenbuddha - May 17, 2005 11:06:10 am PDT #2902 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And the ALIEN novelization. It was definitely a gig for him.
beekaytee - May 17, 2005 11:06:13 am PDT #2903 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Slave Leia costume
For your dog.
omg. I would SO get that if it weren't for the fact that Bartleby acts like I'm killing him (much civil disobedience ensues) when I try to put his polar fleece on when the temp is below 20. Also? He's had enough gender issues since...ya know...snip.
JohnSweden - May 17, 2005 11:07:25 am PDT #2904 of 10002
I can't even.
Oh, he also did the books of the Star Trek animated series. I knew I had read something by him besides the Star Wars novel....
I remember fondly the Pip and Flynx books. I stumbled across the Tar-Aiym Krang (the book that is, not the Krang itself) in the checkout of a DIY in Edinburgh. I haven't looked at the books in over twenty years, but I enjoyed them at the time.
tommyrot - May 17, 2005 11:10:45 am PDT #2905 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And the ALIEN novelization. It was definitely a gig for him.
Oh yeah. Read that one too. Also before I ever saw the movie (my dad wouldn't let me see it when it came out).
Steph L. - May 17, 2005 11:14:16 am PDT #2906 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There's also a Darth Vader dog costume.
Kathy A - May 17, 2005 11:15:30 am PDT #2907 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Even though he gives RotS 3 1/2 stars, Roger Ebert still manages to bring on the snark:
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion...
In many cases the actors are being filmed in front of blue screens, with effects to be added later, and sometimes their readings are so flat, they don't seem to believe they're really in the middle of amazing events. How can you stand in front of exploding star fleets and sound as if you're talking on a cell phone at Starbucks?
erikaj - May 17, 2005 11:18:11 am PDT #2908 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
This conversation cracks me up because it was a similar one over at another site that led to my current tag about Jimmy McNulty-Solo. I saw both SW and Empire on re-release and I never could finish watching PM or AotC. (In my particular instance, I'm not sure if it's Lucas or me. My ideas about what makes a movie good have shifted a lot since a saberfight was where it was at.)
Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2005 11:45:58 am PDT #2909 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Did anybody else read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye?" It was ok'd by Lucasfilm, but definitely existed outside of the original trilogy's storyline. IIRC, it was published between Star Wars and Empire, and took the "Luke and Leia hook up" path. I thought it was pretty well done, and a lot better than some of the later Star Wars-verse books.
Yep, read it way back when. Finding out about Luke and Leia in RotJ was an eye-opener.