ngl this is far and away my favorite monologue I've ever written, and not just because I got to take a monumental shit on Max Landis

Is there an actual term for the late-period-Tony-Scott-style color grading that ROOSTER uses? It's so unusual for a comedy that I'm starting to think it has the subliminal effect of muting the humor

Star Wars Movie Ranking: 1. The one you saw the most as a child 2. The one you saw first as a child 3. The one you caught in the right mood as an adult 4 - 10: The other ones 11: The one you caught in the wrong mood as an adult

Would've been a perfect fit for Some Guy who lets the gang go even though he knows they don't have clearance, or the like.

Or invent some new character- maybe a naive kid who gets pulled along for the ride and ends up in the wrong place, wrong time

Getting THAT close to getting away would really make it sting, too.

I always find myself wishing ROGUE ONE had picked one member of the team - preferably the most empathetic - and put them in the hallway Vader slaughters. It instantly would negate the possibility of that scene being read as “Look at what an awesome badass Vader was!”

I do not say this lightly... this is one of the best, most thoughtful appreciations of THE LAST JEDI I have read. Well worth your time.

One of my favorite parts of the script is the moment where we let Daisy Ridley rip Max Landis a new one to his face about his completely wrong "Mary Sue" criticism of Rey. This part was all @brianscully.bsky.social and it brought the house down when performed live by Elaine Loh! #MayThe4th

You can download THE MAKING OF STAR WARS EPISODE VIII (see, it was so long ago, we didn't even know it would be called THE LAST JEDI) via the blog post above, or directly from here: www.mediafire.com/file/6lhklzn...

This script got us some attention, some meetings and a few years later we even put together a live read with some great actors. Hearing our tale of Rian Johnson desperately trying not to fuck it all up brought to life was one of the peak moments in my life.

10 years ago on #MayThe4th, @brianscully.bsky.social & I anonymously released our spec script, THE MAKING OF STAR WARS EPISODE VIII (the behind the scenes of the next sequel before it had even filmed!). We had some fun before unmaking 2 wks later thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-...

This is no doubt true but it's also hilarious to defend a technology that's primarily sold as a job-destroying machine by saying "yes, we will take your jobs but we didn't have a chance to take THOSE jobs yet."

The 4th will be with you. Always.

Alan Dershowitz is such a gigantic piece of shit.

Thus, Jabba dies knowing that his vast empire is in the hands of a savvy mind that can maintain it, and Leia now has all of its resources to use against the Imperials. Almost everything in Act One of ROTJ is Kabuki Theater that Jabba is participating in for the benefit of his underlings.

Leia's plan in ROTJ was always intended to get her captured and "enslaved." In Hutt tradition, that's not a slave outfit, but rather a wedding dress. She and Jabba are chained together in a bonding ritual that makes her his wife. This is because he's terminally ill and PLANNED for her to kill him.

I forget the exact post, but one of the truest sentiments I've seen about comics is that your first issue shouldn't be Year One or Watchmen or The Dark Phoenix Saga, it should be the eighth installment in a long-forgotten crossover event called like The Mindwar Canticle

Call it MEMORY WIPE you cowards

This is about to be an eight-episode limited series starring Elizabeth Moss and/or Sarah Snook

Luke Skywalker carrying Master Yoda on his back, by Drew Struzan, from 1983.

May the fourth be with you! Here is Yoda explaining The Force in an early handwritten draft and the fifth draft of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan; Story by George Lucas. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

I know people involved in california water stuff and if you bring this particular incident up they have to go take a walk however stupid you think this whole thing was it was stupider than that

In a script full of great scenes, this one... you can hear Ridley saying this dialogue, followed by a full house at the El Cap on opening night applauding it. What was done as a lark, turned out to be one of the best Star Wars scripts ever written.

I’ve never written this story out in full before, so, for Star Wars Day, here’s how I wound up doing the final interview with Irvin Kershner, the director of my favorite movie, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

I don't normally do contests or campaign in any way, but, I guess... www.theartofjkwoodward.com/notepad/the-...

10 years ago on #MayThe4th, @brianscully.bsky.social & I anonymously released our spec script, THE MAKING OF STAR WARS EPISODE VIII (the behind the scenes of the next sequel before it had even filmed!). We had some fun before unmaking 2 wks later thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-...

Where do you think "The Resistance" came from if it was explictly NOT the resources of The New Republic?

Leia's plan in ROTJ was always intended to get her captured and "enslaved." In Hutt tradition, that's not a slave outfit, but rather a wedding dress. She and Jabba are chained together in a bonding ritual that makes her his wife. This is because he's terminally ill and PLANNED for her to kill him.

Bail Organa’s wife at the time of adopting Leia was Sabe, Keira Knightley’s decoy character from THE PHANTOM MENACE. This is why Leia thinks she remembers her “real mother” who died when she was young, making Leia’s mother in OBI-WAN KENOBI Bail’s SECOND wife

The reason droids aren’t allowed in the cantina in Mos Eisley isn’t residual clone-wars anti-clankerism, but rather that the bar has live music, and R2 is a holographic recording device, and Threepio is basically a walking LLM. Tatooine musicians’ union has strong thoughts on plagiarism machines.

Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd watches her mother in the original STAR WARS with her children on May the 4th 💞

May 4th, 1970; marks 56 years, when the National Guard opened fire on Kent State students protesting the Vietnam War. 67 rounds in just over 13 seconds. 4 dead wounding 9 others. Say their names. Allison Krause, 19. Jeffrey Miller. 20. Lee Scheuer, 20. William Schroeder, 19.

Gonk droids are into some weird shit

The Droid torture seen in Jabba’s Palace actually isn’t punitive. The Palace is basically an S&M den and so the droid getting a hot foot isn’t just into it, they were DESIGNED for it.

Modern stories set between A New Hope and Return of the Jedi should play more with Luke and Leia’s sexual tension. THEY didn’t know

Another Star Wars highlight: Keeping the big Empire Strikes Back twist a secret for years until my kids were ready to watch the movie and discover it for themselves.

May the Fourth be with you, evil ones.

Pleaaaaaase tell your podcast guests if you’re going to be recording and publishing video from their interview when you invite them. You may assume that everyone obviously knows that you also upload to YouTube or whatever but I don’t even know that about podcasts I actually listen to!

Talking to my wife reminded me of another one: SISTER ACT 2. The breakout hit of the first film was the signing nuns. And so I couldn't believe that they were barely part of a sequel that used the tired "Let's put on a show to save the school" plot that didn't even need Whoopi as a nun

Rudy Giuliani will probably forever be THE example of not knowing when to get off the stage. The dude was hated, then 9/11 implausibly made him the face of NYC persistance. It's like he was Santana and 9/11 was Rob Thomas giving him a whole new fanbase. And he didn't have the good sense to go.

My wife watched BROOKLYN NINE-NINE before she ever saw HOMICIDE and it definitely has messed with her any time she sees Pembleton. Still hard to believe he's gone.

*SOB* American Vandal

Folks, I've been seeing some negative comments about Giuliani. C'mon, people. Is that really how low we've fallen? "Some negative comments" isn't enough, it should be more. Pick up the pace, team.

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