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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.

Episode VII

  • 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,…

  • Making the Media Rounds Talking Star Wars Casting In the UK

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    1 min read

    I’ve been on a few BBC stations talking about the news that Star Wars Episode VII will hold open auditions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If you want to listen to the interviews, I’ve embedded them below. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118830494″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118893035″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119042369″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″…

  • 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…

  • The End of The Clone Wars

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    6 min read

    Lucasfilm announced today that its animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not getting a sixth season. It’s not completely done and over with, because Lucasfilm Animation still plans to release “bonus content” based on the episodes they produced for Season 6. As a big fan of the series, I wanted to share…