President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale on Thursday compared the president’s re-election effort to the Death Star “firing on all cylinders” at its rivals — which drew immediate confusion and mockery from “Star Wars” fans and political critics.
“No Star Wars expert, but doesn’t the Death Star…get blown up?” conservative political commentator Bill Kristol wondered.
And sci-fi author Myke Cole noted, “You do know the Death Star is the superweapon of the Bad Guys, right?”
In the “Star Wars” movie franchise, when the villainous Empire’s Death Star fires on all cylinders, it destroys the planets inhabited by innocents. And the films’ good guys, led by Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, destroy not one, but two iterations of the murderous planet-killer.
That cinematic backstory seems to have been lost on Parscale, who tweeted: “For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star...
“No Star Wars expert, but doesn’t the Death Star…get blown up?” conservative political commentator Bill Kristol wondered.
And sci-fi author Myke Cole noted, “You do know the Death Star is the superweapon of the Bad Guys, right?”
In the “Star Wars” movie franchise, when the villainous Empire’s Death Star fires on all cylinders, it destroys the planets inhabited by innocents. And the films’ good guys, led by Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, destroy not one, but two iterations of the murderous planet-killer.
That cinematic backstory seems to have been lost on Parscale, who tweeted: “For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star...
- 5/7/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Considered demons by those lucky enough to survive them, the Xenomorphs wipe out 90 percent of the population on the once thriving planet of Ataegina in Aliens: Phalanx, the latest book by author Scott Sigler (Earthcore). Described as "300 meets Aliens," Aliens: Phalanx is out now from Titan Books, and we caught up with Sigler in our latest Q&a feature to discuss taking a different approach to the Alien franchise by placing this story in an ancient setting without modern technology, drawing from real-life pre-industrial civilizations to help shape the world of Ataegina, and raising the stakes to a near-extinction level by populating Aliens: Phalanx with tens of thousands of Xenomorphs.
Can you talk about your first introduction / experience with the Alien franchise?
Scott Sigler: I saw Aliens in the theatre when it first came out. I was blown away. The storytelling style immediately impacted my own, and has continued to...
Can you talk about your first introduction / experience with the Alien franchise?
Scott Sigler: I saw Aliens in the theatre when it first came out. I was blown away. The storytelling style immediately impacted my own, and has continued to...
- 3/13/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Discovery Channel has greenlighted a series that investigates whether aliens have made contact on Earth.
The series, titled Contact, features six highly trained investigators looking to solve that mystery using "groundbreaking CIA-developed software, military special operations investigative techniques and boots-on-the-ground journalism to track down leads around the world." Discovery says this is the "first ever global investigation to determine whether or not aliens have made contact here on Earth."
Contact follows investigators as they look for evidence needed to prove that aliens have made contact with the human world, led by former CIA targeting officer Myke Cole and ...
The series, titled Contact, features six highly trained investigators looking to solve that mystery using "groundbreaking CIA-developed software, military special operations investigative techniques and boots-on-the-ground journalism to track down leads around the world." Discovery says this is the "first ever global investigation to determine whether or not aliens have made contact here on Earth."
Contact follows investigators as they look for evidence needed to prove that aliens have made contact with the human world, led by former CIA targeting officer Myke Cole and ...
- 7/22/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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