Latest issue of Star Wars Insider magazine spotlights two Dramedy Productions productions

The latest issue of Star Wars Insider magazine has two articles which each make one think of a different Dramedy Productions production!  One article brings to mind the beginnings of the main characters from our Star Wars: The Scar Destroyers series, while the other article features a character's name that was used in Vision Man: Eye Contact.

The article "Rolling Initiative: The impact of Star Wars RPGs and how they shaped the Expanded Universe" relates to our Star Wars: The Scar Destroyers series of movies.  The article explains how West End Games created Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game in 1987.  The game was responsible for introducing many things into the Star Wars universe, including the names of alien species and the struggle between the Mon Calamari and the Quarren.  So, what does this game have to do with The Scar Destroyers?  Well, you see, in the early 1990s, Tracy Walters and his good buddies played Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game and each created a character based on the Character Templates that were found in the back of the book.  A few years later, when Dramedy decided to make a Star Wars series of movies, Tracy Walters wanted to use the characters that he and his good pals had created from the game...and the rest is history!  (By the way, this article is actually Part 1 of a 3-part series on Star Wars RPGs.)

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game also had the first mention of the Jedi Code.  And who can forget Commander Ral Iney reciting THAT??

Another article, entitled "The Star Wars: Step into a galaxy both strange and familiar...," harkens to our movie Vision Man: Eye Contact.  The article talks about a new comic book mini-series called The Star Wars, published by Dark Horse Comics.  The Star Wars is based on George Lucas's original rough draft of Star Wars.  Obviously, there are many differences between Lucas's original rough draft and the final movie.  One difference is that in the original draft, Emperor Palpatine was called Cos Dashit.  This is because when it came to a lot of the bad stuff in the movie, he "caused da shit."  Well, in Vison Man: Eye Contact, we have an optometrist character named Dr. Dashit.  Jeff Thompson wants to get his eyes checked, but Dr. Dashit forgets and tells Jeff they'll do it the next day.  Jeff, determined to get his precious eyes checked right that very second, "checks himself out," gets struck by lightning while doing so, and thus becomes Vision Man.  Which means that, in terms of the Vision Man movie, Dr. Dashit "caused da shit."

Dr. Dashit's causing of da shit may or may not have been a good thing, but Cos Dashit's causing of da shit was definitely bad.

Star Wars Insider #144 is on sale now.  You can read more about it here, and then you need to go to your local newstand or local digital device and buy it!

The Star Wars #1 went on sale last month, and The Star Wars #2 went on sale today.  You can read more about #1 here and #2 here, and then you need to go to your local newstand, local comic book store, or local digital device and buy them!

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game went on sale 26 years ago, so you may have to find it on eBay or something.  But wherever you find it, buy it!

Katie reading Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Tracy reading Star Wars Insider #144 (with Subscriber's Cover), and Kari reading The Star Wars #1.  The family that reads Star Wars together stays together!

Public execution coming up on Under the Dome harkens back to a classic Quest For Vengeance moment

On tomorrow's season finale of Under the Dome, Barbie is faced with a public execution!  This reminded us of another famous public execution from our very own Star Wars: Quest For Vengeance!

Will Barbie survive his execution like Lex Nova did??

Vision Man sequel filming in South Dakota

Jon Boon McNutt, who played Vision Man in our 2006 blockbuster movie Vision Man: Eye Contact, has moved to South Dakota.  However, Dramedy Productions is currently filming the Vision Man sequel, Vision Man: Double Vision.  So since our base of operations is in Arkansas, one might think Jon could no longer play Vision Man, right?  Well, one would be WRONG!  Jon is filming his scenes for the new movie in South Dakota right now!  He's even enlisted the help of some of his fellow South Dakotans to help!  He will then be sending the footage to Dramedy Productions headquarters in Arkansas.  His footage will then be integrated with other footage that is being shot around Arkansas, and voila...new Vision Man movie!  To find out the release date and other info about this upcoming flick, click here.

Lightning Hawk to appear in Star Wars: Beware the Dark Side

We are currently in production on Star Wars: Beware the Dark Side, but Ted Millikan is ready for his super hero creation Lightning Hawk to be in a movie!  Ted created Lightning Hawk many years ago for use in the DC Heroes Role-Playing Game (just as Jon Boon did for Vision Man), and is ready for his character to hit the big screen!  But we're still making Star Wars, and Teddy was getting impatient!  So we decided to put Lighning Hawk in Beware the Dark Side, played by Ted himself.  He'll be a super hero teaming up with the Scar Destroyers of the Rebel Alliance, fighting the evil Galactic Empire.  Ted wasn't too fond of having to do all the extra work playing Ben Wolf AND Lightning Hawk in the same movie, until we told him he would get twice the pay!  Then he said, "Hell yeah!"  (But what we didn't tell Ted is that twice nothing is still nothing.)  So get ready, Empire...cause here comes LIGHTNING HAWK!!  For an advance clip of Lightning Hawk in the movie, click here!

Coruscant? to be added to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Blu-ray 3D

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace came out in 3D at theaters a couple of months ago.  But when it comes out later this year on Blu-ray 3D, George Lucas will be adding our very own audio parody Coruscant? into the film!  He listened to our original production and loved it, and then he loved it even more when he saw that we added video to it, as documented here!  He couldn't believe how much we all looked like the original actors!  So he agreed to convert the scene to 3D and add it to the home video release.  All of the cast & crew of Coruscant? love 3D movies, so we were thrilled!  Anyway, we've just gotten an advanced copy of the Blu-ray 3D cover, as shown above.  If you'd like to find out more about Coruscant? being added to The Phantom Menace, click here!

Dramedy characters get Darth Maul-isized

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D opens in theaters next week.  Dramedy Productions has a couple of Star Wars productions of its own (with a third on the way).  The official Star Wars website now has an application called "Darth Maul Me," which allows faces to be changed into lookalikes of Lord Maul himself.  So we decided to see what some of Dramedy's most famous characters would look like...DARTH MAUL-ISIZED!  This is what you call cross-promotion!

Ever think our logo needed some eyeballs?

Looking like a devil seems to fit Dr. Gorstorzzh...

We always knew Elan Rai wanted to be a Sith Lord!

Vision Man didn't need a mask, he could've just put on some makeup!

Captain Cobalt Ben in new Mission: Impossible movie?

In current box office smash Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the Impossible Mission Force is out for information on a person of interest code-named "Cobalt."  Could "Cobalt" be Captain Cobalt Ben of our Star Trek: Excalibur movies??


Is Cobalt Ben walking up to join the IMF team...or sneaking up on them to attack...