{"id":545,"date":"2006-05-04T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2006-05-04T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:18:00","slug":"maxing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Maxing out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/episode-iv\/release\/video\/news20060503.html\">Oh sweet glimmering jesu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just don\u2019t know how much more I can take. I mean, first an awesome Supe trailer, next an awesome Jimbo trailer, and now this? What\u2019s next? What could possibly be coming tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Friday: <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Gates of Fire<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Goes Hollywood!<\/span> Pressfield writing screenplay, filmed on location. No love interest. Actors will speak ancient Greek, and the movie will be subtitled. Keegan, Kagan, and Banchich slated as advisors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Saturday: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Iliad<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, the HBO maxi-series begins filming<\/span>. Every dust-biting, every foot race, every broken sword, every Nestor ramble to be acted out exactly as in the poem. Lattimore translation.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: In an unprecedented move, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lucas hires the author of <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">B A Start<\/span> for a nine-year, highly lucrative contract to write <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Star Wars<\/span>: Episodes I, II, and III. \u201cI had some fun with the movies, but I really just wanted to try out my new toys and make a lot of money. So, I\u2019m considering them an alternate-universe plot-line, and have brought Alex in to write the real canon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh sweet glimmering jesu. I just don\u2019t know how much more I can take. I mean, first an awesome Supe trailer, next an awesome Jimbo trailer, and now this? What\u2019s next? What could possibly be coming tomorrow? Friday: Gates of Fire Goes Hollywood! Pressfield writing screenplay, filmed on location. No love interest. Actors will speak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}