Star Wars fans (and pretty
much everyone else) may have roundly rejected the recent animated flick Star
Wars: The Clone Wars, but they've shown plenty of love for the
videogame Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, snapping up over
a million copies in its first five days of release. While TFU's
gameplay has received mixed reviews, its storyline, revolving around Darth
Vader's secret apprentice and the hunt for the last of the Jedi, has been
lauded as the saga's best in over a decade (which, given its recent track record, isn't the toughest
accomplishment).
The L.A. Times' "Hero
Complex" blog today posted an interesting article discussing the
possibility of The Force Unleashed being made into a major
motion picture. Given Lucasfilm's penchant for exploiting anything and
everything Star Wars-related to its fullest profit-making
potential, don't be surprised to see some iteration of the story make the leap
to the big screen in the near future. Let's just hope that this time George
Lucas resists the urge to add any flamboyantly effeminate Hutts or relentlessly
annoying Padawans to its cast of characters.