A new hope?

Here's an interesting little tidbit for my fellow movie geeks. Via Bookslut, it appears that George Lucas got some high-profile assistance on the dialogue for SW Episode 3 - from Tom Stoppard, possibly my favorite. Plawright. Ever.

Christensen also confirmed recently that Lucas got a helping hand with the script for Revenge of the Sith. In an interview with Playboy, he said the rumours about playwright Tom Stoppard working on the dialogue for the film are true.

Stoppard, known for stage works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, gave the Lucas-penned screenplay a more "human" dimension, Christensen said.

That information, combined with the rave review the Times just gave the film, is actually making me kind of excited to see it.