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I’m Eric Geller, a cybersecurity journalist living in the Washington, D.C., area. This is my personal blog. All opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.

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  • Loose canon: Why Lucasfilm's Star Wars reboot was the right thing to do

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    12 min read

    “We don’t reboot. We don’t start from scratch,” Leland Chee, Lucasfilm’s continuity database administrator, told Wired’s Chris Baker in a 2008 profile. “When Chewbacca died, he died.” What a difference six years –– and $4.05 billion –– makes. On Friday, April 25, Lucasfilm announced that it was restarting its tie-in literature program. The Expanded Universe of books, comics, short stories,…

  • Some Thoughts on Star Wars Episode VII "Release-Gate"

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    4 min read

    Last Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article describing an internal dispute between Disney CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy regarding the appropriate time to release the most eagerly anticipated movie of this decade, Star Wars Episode VII. In lieu of repeating myself, here’s how I summarized it for Suvudu: Kennedy and “most…

  • Thoughts On J. J. Abrams Directing Star Wars Episode VII

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    4 min read

    The biggest news in Star Wars since Disney bought Lucasfilm broke early Saturday morning: J. J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 Star Trek film and this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, based on a screenplay by Michael Arndt. Predictably, several people have asked me what I think of…