Star Wars is EXTREMELY *fine*. No more, no less. On this hill, I will die.

Sounds like it would be “The Expanse meets the Soviet/US space race”. Which I am totally in for. Wonder if it would also consider China’s own growth?

[Ed’s note: Only Charles’s moderately-Star Wars-appreciating heart was cold enough to write this story without tears flooding his keyboard.—Rob]

Bert’s justzis guy you know?

But that is not all McQuarrie. I know the prequels trashed his reputation, but George Lucas hired Ralph McQuarrie to visualize his ideas. And a lot of those ship designs came from the props and FX crew. If you look at McQuarrie’s paintings things tend to actually be a little more sleek, a little more polished than…

Sure, but what really sells the movie is the mix of mundane and fantastic stuff — there are spaceships that can travel faster than light, but they’re leaking oil and have stains on the upholstery. That made the universe relatable and believable. The Millennium Falcon was like your dad’s old car. Streets on alien…

So many things and people had to come together, its why its special. I can’t imagine Star Wars being as big a phenomenon if they hadn’t lucked into casting soon-to-be-superstar Harrison Ford, or if the music had been mediocre and forgettable instead of John Williams spectacular and iconic score.

More than anybody else, Ralph McQuarrie made Star Wars what it is. If anybody else had designed the movie, it’d be this obscure cult thing that TCM would run at 2 AM on weekends.

Doctor Orpheus only exists because Hammer is self-described as “the biggest Doctor Strange fan” ever. I think he said he wanted to direct the movie at a SDCC years before that seemed like a possibility.

For dumb comedies, I’d actually rather stay home so I can get trashed while I watch it.

Oh yeah. I go to the movies maybe once a month or so, usually to see some big ticket item I’m interested in. But I remember a time when I’d see a movie or two pretty much every week, either by myself or with friends. And not just good ones — horrible ones, cheap ones, weird ones. I remember once I was visiting a…

...while ignoring the fact Marvel handed over the reigns to their best movies over to the guys from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Arrested Development, Community, and Flight of the Conchords, respectively.