We explore the origins of our favorite fictional worlds as well as their ability to inspire, empower and educate. Watch our doc #GeekAndYouShallFind @itunes 🖖
Through interviews with Stan Lee, George R.R. Martin, Kevin Eastman and more, "Geek, And You Shall Find" explores how our favorite characters have come to be and how they help us in amazing ways!
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Gerry Conway has sadly passed away at the age of 73.
He is known for co-creating The Punisher, Ben Reilly, Firestorm, Jason Todd & more iconic characters.
He also wrote one of the most iconic comic stories in history — "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"
Forbes calls Manny Jacinto in THE ACOLYTE “one of the best original villains we’ve seen appear in Star Wars in the entire Disney era.”
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Thank you @MeinerdingArt for your visual development and care for my grandfather#JackKirby character creations #Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Fantastic Four': How Marvel Designed the Thing and Honored Jack Kirby https://t.co/Pk5iVCBPmM
Guillermo del Toro says comic book, popular art, is equally as important as fine art. "Imagine all we had was classical music. And rock and roll had never been enshrined...This is rock and roll and it needs to be enshrined."
#TheFantasticFour is a breathe of fresh air for the MCU
It delivers all the humor & action you want but it has its own cinematic language & vibe
It features some of the best world building of the MCU. You want to spend more time w/ these characters exploring this world
Big win
George Lucas talks about what he thinks art means:
“I think it’s more about a connection with the work, not how much it costs or what celebrity did it, it’s more a personal thing… if you have an emotional connection to something, that’s art”
#SDCC
Remember that part in #Andor when all those reporters on Ghorman made it sound like the Ghormans were violent and the Empire HAD to send in soldiers to stop things from getting out of hand but in reality the soldiers WANTED things to get out of hand?
Yea, that was crazy huh?
Before movies or novels, the epic poem was the preferred way of telling a riveting story.
The most extraordinary tales were passed on in the form of meter and rhyme.
15 of the greatest epic poems... (thread) 🧵
@YunekoVT@Patrick_Nealis@WhiteHouse Lucas has literally said this during interviews. This isn’t even needing to connect dots, he says this himself. Not sure what more proof you would need.
@cmmeeks18@Patrick_Nealis@WhiteHouse Absolutely! We’re currently developing a docuseries that touches on a lot of the real-life inspirations behind Star Wars so don’t hesitate if you have questions!
@cmmeeks18@Patrick_Nealis@WhiteHouse Nixon for the original trilogy and Bush for the prequels. Some dialogue for Palpatine in the prequels were pretty much pulled verbatim from Bush, and Nute Gunray is a play on Newt Gingrich.
Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire.
May the 4th be with you.