Clone Wars Review With Dave Filoni

While surfing the Star Wars site I ran across this interview with director, Dave Filoni. I've read a number of interviews regarding the show, and seen a few featurettes on the DVD and online, but this was one of the more informative pieces on season 1 I've seen in a while.

Now, if only someone could get an answer as to why Ahmed Best is no longer voicing Jar Jar, I would be a happy Clone Wars fan.

Cheers!

mike

Interview Spree

I've been listening to a lot of interviews lately, mostly through iTunes and the various podcasts I've browsed and downloaded through there. I'm not entirely sure what that might say about me or my state of mind lately but, by and large, the interviews I seem to be focused on are primarily with screenwriters talking about current projects, doing a career overview or just talking about the industry as a whole. The Creative Screenwriting podcast, hosted by Jeff Goldsmith, has brought me some chuckles. Personalities under the spotlight there include recent Watchmen writers David Hayter and Alex Tse, Richard Kelly and the hilariously fun Luc Besson. The Zicree-Simkins podcast features the likes of Barbara Nance (script supervisor on The X-Files and a writer in her own right), Battlestar Galactica's Michael Nankin, Robert Hewitt Wolfe (of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Andromeda fame, and Rockne Farscape O'Bannon.

I listen to them mostly while I'm working at the computer. Usually I have music playing but, from time to time, it gets really distracting so I switch to the much quieter interview material. It's a nice change from the music when I grow tired of it.

Anyway, I don't really have anything other than that to say, sad as that may be. I'll try and pep it up for next time.

Cheers!

mike

Freelance Interviewer Meet Freelance Police

I just sent off a handful of questions to Emily, the PR person over at Telltale Games. She's been liasing with me over the Steve Purcell interview I requested last October but had yet to send in questions for. I'm fantastically late in getting them sent out, I know, but I took advantage of my current situation at work and fired off an e-mail with the eight (maximum) questions requested. If Steve is still interested she'll pass them on to him and, hopefully by the end of January, I'll have my answers back from Steve and I'll be set to put them together and post them on the interview blog I keep talking about but never launching.

I'm trying to stop doing that.

I have a couple more people to track down and we'll see how that goes. I'm hoping for a bi-weekly schedule so 4 names should do me for a bit.

Hmmm...I'm getting funny looks from the Business Manager for my computer activities so I guess I'm off.

Until next time.

Onwards and upwards!

mike