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PHANTOM MENACE Darth Maul's revenge FUTURAMA Tooned-in tomorrows VOYAGER Tales of Paris STARSHIPTROOPERS CGI-animated war Meet the new BEASTMASTER & the original HERCULESk I If you're a fantasy and sci-fi fanatic. If you're into toys, comics, coliectltiles, manga and anime. if you love Star Wars, Star Trek. Buffy arid X-Files. Why aren't you here - WWW.ign.COm T 1993 snowljall.com. IGN.com is a trademark of snowbail.com, © incorporatei). Ail Rights Reserveil, Ail referenced properties are trademaris of tlieir respective owners. ' NUMBER 269 DECEMBER 1999 THE SCIENCE FICTION UNIVERSE® INSIDE THIS ISSUE 20 DESTINATION: FUTURAMA 56 LOVE & KISSES, JAR JAR David X. Cohen adds mad Ahmed Best likes playing the alien science to tomorrow's toon some fans love to hate 24 A TOY'S LIFE 61 BEASTMASTER TALES John Lasseter launches Buzz & woody Daniel Coddard can talk to into Toy Story 2 adventure animals & interviewers, too 32 GALAXY BIMBO 66 RAIDERS OF LOST RELICS Amazingly blonde, Sigourney creator Gil Grant Weaver returns to SF action unleashes a female Indiana Jones 36 007: MILLENNIAL MISSION 72 PARIS IN WONDERLAND James Bond battles Robert Duncan IVIclNieill steps nuclear terrorists through the looking glass & deadly assassins 76 QUEEN OF CYBERPUNK 43 GEOF HARROW serving Tea from an Empty DRAWS Cup, Pat Cadigan reigns He envisions boy robots, metal giants & 78 BUG HUNTERS The Matrix Starship Troopers march off to computer- 47 YOU'VE COT MAUL! animated TV war STAI?LOC's cartoon Jediare out to vivi- 83 HERCULES sect the Sith lord UNEMPLOYED Kevin sorbo says 51 SPEAKING OF farewell to myth & DARTH... hello to Andromeda Lightsabre in hand, 90 THE Ray Park ORIGINAL consid- HERCULES ers the Unchained at dark last, Steve side Reeves recalls his film labors V WORDS WITH YOU. > J -s i YOU HAVENT EXPERIENCED STAR WARS UNTIL YOU VE EXPERIENCED COMMTECH Now you can capture all the explosive power of Episode I. Each new Scar Wars figure comes with a cool COMIVITECH chip that holds multiple quotes from the movie. Collect them Maul. CmmMMlTECH READER EPISODE I IT'S YOUR UNIVERSE 1. QUOTE OF THE RECOMMENDED READINGS MONTH OK, so you're sanvpling this issue of STARLOG because "I shrivel up a little every time you're an SF movie or TV fan. And that's great, but sou someone mentions Star Wars to really should read science-fiction literature. It'll take you places.? mc." that TV producers and movie directors can merely envy—via —Sir Alec Guinness your imagination—into the worlds created by the true visionar- (to interviewer Fintan O'Toole ies of science fiction and fantasy. The writers, '5 in Talk) Let's start with some basics, five books that you just can't go wrong with—and all are in print or available at the local| library. i 1) Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. Well, this is a no-brainer. Great adventure fighting Bugs and learning citizenship plus lotsa philosophy (not always to contemporary tastes). See for yourself what the movie and the new TV series (page 78) left out. 2) Dune by Frank Herbert. It's back again in a classy new $24.95 Ace hardcover edition. Journey to the planet Arrakis, spice source of the uni- verse. A stunning realization of a planetary environment. (And a TV mini- series is in the works). 3) Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. Is this his best book ? Could be, but there are so many to choose from! Aliens visit Earth—and mankind grows up. This is for all the folks who may have wondered what inspired V and Earth: Final Conflict. 4) Tlie Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. AUens visit Mars, but they're from Earth. His brilliant collection of interconnected short stories offers a poetic blueprint to Mars landings yet to be. Maybe next Millenni- um? 5) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkiem. The field's most impor- tant fantasy is an enormously lengthy trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, Sir Alec Guinness sure has shriveled a lot, hasn't he? Having The Two Towers, The Return of the King) heralded by a briUiant prequel secretly been on the dark side of the Force all along, it's no (The Hobbit). But it's a must read. (And the eagerly awaited live-action . wonder he won't do interviews about Star Wars. (And he film version is shooting now.) 4 doesn't like The Bridge On the River Kwai, the acclaimed David Lean epic In which he starred, either!) FILM FANTASY CALENDAR l^elease dates are extremely subject to change. November: Toy Story 2, End ofDays, Sleepy Hollow, The World Is Not Enough. December: Stuart Little, Galaxy Quest, The Bicentennial Man, Fanta- sia 2000, The Green Mile, The Ninth Gate. January 2000: Supernova, Lost Souls. February: Pitch Black, Flight 180, Scream 3. March: Mission to Mars, The Red Planet, The Crow: Salvation. Spring: The Road to El Dorado, Frequency. May: Battlefield Earth. June: Dinosaurs, X-Men. July: The Hollow Man. Summer: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Chicken Run, Titan A.E. Fall 2000: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Kingdom of the Sun. December 2000: Minority Report, Lord of the Rings, 200L- A Space Odyssey (re-release). STUPID ...ANQ NOW. NETWORK ^WILL THE HERCULES BRING ME THE HEAD NOW ON SALE DECISION OF Kffi^L iCHABOD CRANE PLEASE BEAT UP OF to a newsstand THE MONTH OTHER TWO The Headless Horseman rides Look near you for SCI-FI We got nothing. once again—^thls time as an TV, the magazine of sci- articulated action figure. He's You?? ence-fiction television part of a new McFarlane Toys In issue line based on the Tim Burton today from the STARLOG editorial team. fantasy adventure Sleepy Hollow #8 (now on sale), executive producer/Tre^ guy (which hits theaters this month). Jonathan Frakes and young stars Shiri Appleby & The Horseman is available both Jason Behr chat about Roswell. The issue also standing while holding lotsa includes interviews with Amanda (SG-1) Tapping, heads and on horseback. Other Tia [Relic Hunter) Carrere, Eric (Now & Again) figures include Ichabod Crane Close and Robert (Salmoneus) Trebor. Plus: Seven^ (styled to look like the film's Days, BeastMaster, the Avalon TV movie, Spider- Johnny Depp) and the Crone (a and Black Scorpion. witch complete with horned skull Man Unlimited, The Avengers and mortar and pestle). Issue #8's episode checklist posters provide guides (Year 1-5) and (Yl-3). to Voyager Buffy Art: Kev Brockschmidt exclusive ^figures l inside.' We've bagi crea4ure^ 5lrQigh4 frotn he swoMps of JMaboO- You never know what you'll find when you venture deep inside this Otoh Sunga ooze. You could release one of- the dungan kaadus or unleash a Naboo sea creature lik^ the opee sea killer or colo claw fish. A collection of 16 Star Wars Sea and Swamp creatures in all — four in every bag, Some rarely seen in Episode 1. Others with major roles. All of them oozing with collectibility. Call 1-800-327-8264 for the retailer nearest you. ©Lucasfilm Ltd. & TH. All rights reserved. Used under authorization, *TM & ©1999 Hasbro, Inc. httpi/^starwars.eom http:/^hafibK>.com President/Publisher GENRE PEOPLE COMICS SCENE NORMAN JACOBS Crichton returns to who should play Iichael So Executive Vice President M:the genre with his next Peter Parker (and a RITA EISENSTEIN novel Timeline. It is, naturally, a certain web-slinger) in the long-brewing Spi- Associate Publisher time travel tale. MILBURN SMITH Marina Sirtis and Dwight der-Man movie? At least Schultz are also back in the sci- three actors have thrown V.R/Circulation Director ART SCHULKIN ence fiction universe. They their secret identities guest star, once again playing By DAVID MCDONNELL into the ring: Wing Com- Executive Art Director W.R. MOHALLEY Deanna Troi and Reg Barclay, ^^^^ mander Freddie Prinze Jr., Starship Troopers' ; in a Star Trek: Voyager episode Editor Scheduled to airDecenaber 1. In "Pathfinder," Barclay works Casper Van Dien and Nicholas DAVID MCDONNELL ? on Earth (with holographic versions of the Voyager crew) to Brendon, Xander of Buffy the Vam- Managing Editor pire Slayer. : possibly determine a way home for the real Voyager. Troi KEITH OLEXA i aiTives to counsel him when he gets a tad obsessed with this James (Disturbing Behavior) Special FX Editor Marsden is playing Cyclops in the f. impossible mission. DAVID HUTCHISON Fantasy novelist Jane Yolen's Young Merlin trilogy is to be X-Men movie currently shooting. filmed by Independent Family Entertainment. Tyler Mane is Sabretooth. ILM vet Contributing Editors ANTHONY TIMPONE Mike Fink is serving as the film's MICHAEL CINGOLD visual FX supervisor. TOM WEAVER CHARACTER CASTINGS IAN SPELLING the Rings continues to assemble the most intriguing Lord of Consultant cast in years. Sean Bean—seen as rogue Agent 006 in GoldenEye. one of the bad guys in Patriot KERRY O'QUINN Games and as Sharpe in the British TV movie adaptations of the Bernard Cornwell military adven- Senior Art Director It like John Rhys-Davies will be Gimli. Also in the film; Dominic tures—will play Boromir. looks JIM MCLERNON Monaghan (as Merry) and Orlando Bloom (Legolas). Benjamin {Law & Order) Bratt is co-staixing in The Red Planet Art Director RICK TENG {formerly known as Mars). Colm Meaney leads the Leprechauns in the NBC mini-series air- West Coast Correspondents SHAPIRO ing November 7 and 8. Randy Quaid, Kieran Culkin and Whoopi MARC BILL WARREN Goldberg co-star. Billy Zane—who discussed his latest movie last issue—will Financial Director: Joan Baetz Marketing Director: Daniel Sierra next star in Sole Survivor, a four-hour mini-series for Fox based on Circulation Manager: Maria Damlani the Dean R.