SciFi Saturday News – New Star Wars Droid, Hamburgers In Space and Robot Love
I’m deep in the writing cave for the next 10 days, cut off from the SciFi world and completely offline. I wrote this on Thursday. If aliens visited on Friday or that blasted JJ Abrams leaked another teaser for Star Wars over night, that won’t be covered. (grins)
Next week, SciFi Saturday News will be posted two days late, on the Monday, for the same reason.
BB-8 – A New Star Wars Droid
I LOVE R2-D2 so I’m super stoked that Star Wars will introduce a new droid character.
Lucasfilm concept designer Christian Alzmann shares
“J.J. wanted something rolling on a sphere, so I tried a lot of different designs developing that idea. He would give direction on the kinds of shapes to use, and that led to a personality for the droid. Of course, the original sketch had very pleasing, round shapes, so you kind of figured it wasn’t going to be a very serious or angry character. Ultimately, BB-8 developed out of a back-and-forth process with J.J. where he gave feedback on each iteration of the design.”
Robot Love
Top academic Dr Helen Driscoll shares “Robophilia may be alien now, but could be normal in the near future as attitudes evolve with technology.”
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Rates Space Movies
My favorite astronaut Chris Hadfield talked about the accuracy of popular space movies. “Gravity made me wince. They changed the laws of physics. The characters were completely wrong.”
Great Views From Space
The Guardian compiled some of the most gorgeous views from the International Space Station. These will inspire any SciFi writer!
Colonies On Mars
Space Hamburger
Astronaut Scott Kelly took a pic of his space hamburger. I hoped it tasted better than it looked!
Star Trek Into Darkness And Underwear Scenes
Alice Eve talked about that infamous underwear scene in Star Trek Into Darkness.
“I’m an educated, independent woman and I decided that would be a fine thing to do and me and J.J. [Abrams] did it and there was nothing underhand or awkward. Then it kind of took on a life of its own. But I don’t think that’s what will remain of that image.”
“I think what will remain is the movie, the power, the fact that its like a Princess Leia moment. The fact that it’s something that’s allowed to be iconic, aside from the male moments being iconic. Yes she’s an intelligent, strong, educated woman who…also has a six-pack.”
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