‘Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Features J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy as Playable CharactersPosted on Thursday, June 30th, 2016 by Angie HanKathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams may not actually appear onscreen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but they’re every bit as essential to the story as Rey or Finn or Kylo Ren — arguably even more so, since they’re the architects who designed it in the first place. So why should they have to sit out Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens while Lego Rey and Lego Finn and Lego Kylo Ren have all the fun?Well, now they don’t. Turns out Abrams and Kennedy are playable characters in the video game, which just hit shelves this week. Click through to see a video of Lego J.J. Abrams and Lego Kathleen Kennedy in action in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Kotaku has the very adorable video of Lego J.J. Abrams and Lego Kathleen Kennedy. Both characters can accept Resistance mission and command troops. And both of them are pretty handy with a blaster.
Leave it to Lego J.J. Abrams to carry his camera with him everywhere you goes. You never know when inspiration could strike, and you might have to bring your mission to a screeching halt so you can direct the shit out of an intergalactic battle. The lens flare is a nice touch, too. Lego Kathleen Kennedy, meanwhile, seems to be stealing style tips from her real-life counterpart. The white blazer and colorful Star Wars logo tee are a perfect plastic replica of Kennedy’s outfit from the Force Awakens panel at last year’s Star Wars Celebration.Kennedy and Abrams aren’t the first filmmakers to get Lego-fied for games inspired by the movies they’ve made. Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow are unlockable characters in Lego Jurassic World, and Kevin Smith is an unlockable character in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, along with Geoff Johns. Along the same lines, Stan Lee has appeared in multiple Lego Marvel games.There’s no sign of Star Wars‘ original creator George Lucas, but you don’t need to be too sad for him.
Lego George Lucas has appeared in the TV special Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace and the short film Lego Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Brick. Cool Posts From Around the Web: ZergNetWe have another brief glimpse at the big crossover between Arrow, Flash, Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow, and unsurprisingly it is filled with the delights these shows have become known for. But it also gives us our first look at the big bad guys the heroes will be teaming up against: DC's Dominators. While they're very much not as neon-yellow as they were in the comics — and are now naked instead of wearing clothing — it's a pretty good translation of the original comic design to live-action. It's not just the Dominators we get a good look at, though. The trailer also offers another look at Legends of Tomorrow's Nate Heywood in his full Citizen Steel costume, complete with helmet. And yes, it is still amazingly goofy, and yet it kind of works? The trailer also seemingly gives us a hint that the Dominators will be using some of their comic book mastery of genetics to build copies of people in the crossover, too.
Not only do we see Flash and Supergirl tag-teaming on someone who looks human rather than alien, we get a glimpse of a villain who by all means probably shouldn't be running around in this crossover:The "Heroes vs Aliens" event kicks off with Supergirl on November 29.Lego Batman 3Lego Batman 3 : La cinématique de lancement dévoilée Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham nous dévoile une nouvelle cinématique diffusée spécialement pour le lancement du jeu, disponible dès aujourd'hui. Après le trailer de Lego Batman 3 dévoilé pendant la ComicCon 2014 de San Diego, TT Games nous offre un second trailer pour célébrer le lancement du jeu, qui débarque dès aujourd'hui sur nos consoles. Pour ce nouvel opus, les mécaniques de gameplay ont été revues par rapport à Lego Batman 2. Possibilités de changer de costumes à volonté, nouveaux véhicules, mais surtout un nombre extrêmement impressionnant de personnages de l'univers DC Comics, de la Justice League en passant par les plus illustres méchants, mais également des personnages totalement obscurs et inconnus du grand public.
De quoi satisfaire les fans de comics tout en initiant les novices à cet univers riche. Côté scénario, l'ennemi principal de cet opus sera Brainiac, qui a pris le contrôle de Green Lantern pour s'attaquer à nos héros et à la terre. Et comme nous le montre ce trailer de lancement, ça va vite devenir un beau désordre et les ennemis d'autrefois vont devoir s'allier face à une plus grande menace. Rien de bien fou dans ce scénario mais rappelons que nous sommes dans un jeu Lego, et que si l'humour inhérent à la franchise est là, même le plus basique des scénarios peut avoir de l'intérêt. Et si vous n'avez pas eu votre dose, le replay de Gamix épisode 6 avec Lego Batman 3 devrait vous plaire ! Lego Batman 3Lego Batman 3George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy has been re-released countless times over the past years, but his trilogy of Star Wars prequels have only experienced a single theatrical run, that is until earlier this year. In February, the first of the prequels, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace was re-released in theaters with the added boost of 3D technology.
While not as successful as many of the 3D re-releases we’d seen before, The Phantom Menace was meant to pave the way for future 3D entries in the sci-fi saga, and today we can confirm that it has. Lucasfilm announced at this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration that both Episode 2: Attack of the Clones and Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith will be released in theaters next year in 3D. The second entry in the prequel trilogy – which introduced the world to Hayden Christensen – will be released on September 20, 2013, while the epic conclusion to the Darth Vader-centric story, will debut on October 11, 2013. As we said before, Episode 1 3D didn’t necessarily “knock it out of the park” but a respectable $43 Million at the box office was enough to convince FOX to greenlight 3D post-conversion on the next two films. It’s a little unsettling to think that they aren’t taking their time – essentially pulling double duty on the films – but post-conversion processes are usually handled by several different production houses anyway.
Our review of The Phantom Menace in 3D stressed that the eye-popping experience wasn’t all that memorable, but Episode 2 and 3 carry the unique trait of having been shot digitally and not on film. Digital filmmaking – long considered a bane of film enthusiasts the world over – has one inherent positive: it makes 3D post-conversion much easier. Several films have opted for the digital format simply because it is more agreeable to 3D post-conversion, a quality that gives us hope these next two Star Wars films will be better – at least as far as the 3D goes. We can’t necessarily speak to the quality of the films’ storylines – hey, there’s less Jar Jar – but if they roll out special edition glasses like with Phantom Menace, kids will surely flock to theaters. And for the adults who pine for Lucas’ original trilogy this announcement is also good, because it leaves no more riff-raff between the fans and an inevitable original trilogy 3D re-release. If these two films flop at the box office it might give FOX pause about moving forward – but we’d guess Lucas knows exactly what fans want.