Star Wars - The Force Awakens

Teaser Trailer 2 has been released.

You can hear Luke and you can see Han!

Roll on December (and fingers crossed this won't be a disappointment)

Domhnall Gleeson in Star Wars

I was delighted to hear that Domhnall Gleeson has landed a role in the new Star Wars movie.

He's a great actor, and seems like a nice guy. And he grew up here in Malahide, a 15 minute walk from where I live.

I saw him on "The Late Late Show" a few days before his casting was announced. He was on with Michael Fassbender and Lenny Abrahamson talking about "Frank". I don't know how he was able to keep from bursting out with the news!

I just hope J.J. is able to do a better job than he has with the Star Trek reboot.

Here is a shot from a reading apparently with lots of the key players (Domhnall included) present:

Star Wars: Clone Wars

Between 2003 and 2005, George Lucas was executive producer and writer on an animated TV series called "Star Wars: Clone Wars". The series was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.

Since 2008, the same George Lucas has been executive producer and writer on a CGI TV series called "Star Wars: The Clone Wars".

It occurs to be to wonder if he had forgotten about the first series when he was involved in naming the second one! Or maybe he was just tired...

Here is a still from the first series showing my favourite character from all of the Star Wars universe:

These aren't the droids you're looking for

A client of mine has a series of photos in his office on the theme of "These aren't the droids you're looking for".

Very clever.

This is perhaps my favourite: