Start Planning Now!

There has never been a Star Wars party like Celebration II at the Indiana Convention Center May 3, 4, and 5. At all hours of the day and into the evening there will be an amazing array of great things to do.

To help you start planning your ultimate Star Wars weekend now, we'll be posting the tentative schedule here at starwars.com.

Today's schedule covers the Friday Events at Celebration II. Check out this schedule for special guest speakers, events, and panels that are tentatively scheduled to happen May 3. Check back tomorrow for the Saturday special event schedule, and then the next day for the Sunday special event schedule. All schedules are subject to change. Make sure you pick up the printed events schedule at Celebration II. Information about nearly all the guests will appear in the Celebration II official souvenir magazine.

DAILY EVENTS SCHEDULE -- FRIDAY, MAY 3

Coruscant (Sagamore Ballroom) -- Master of Ceremonies Anthony Daniels

12 Noon -- 12:30 PM
Celebration II Welcoming Ceremony -- Steve Sansweet, MC

12:30 -- 1:45 PM
Rick McCallum
Hayden Christensen

2:15 -- 3:30 PM
From Concept to Costume
Trisha Biggar, Iain McCaig, and Dermot Power

4:00 -- 5:15 PM
Joel Edgerton
Temuera Morrison
Daniel Logan

5:45 -- 7:00 PM
Nick Gillard
Hayden Christensen

8:30 PM
Star Wars Fan Film Awards
Scott Chernoff, MC

Tatooine (500 Ballroom) -- Master of Ceremonies Scott Chernoff

11:00 AM -- 12 Noon
Women Who Kick
Amy Allen, Shannon Baksa, Michonne Bourriague, Nalini Krishan, Mary Oyaya, Femi Taylor

12:30 -- 1:30 PM
The Empire Strikes Back
Kenneth Colley, Julian Glover, Richard LeParmentier, Michael Sheard

2:00 -- 3:00 PM
An Hour In the ILM Model Shop -- Tom Berg, MC
Don Bies, John Goodson, Nelson Hall, Lorne Peterson

3:30 -- 4:30 PM
Visual Magic
John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Attack of the Clones

5:00 -- 6:00 PM
Billy Dee Williams, Featuring the Lando/Lobot Reunion
Billy Dee Williams, with John Hollis

6:30 -- 7:30 PM
Attack of the Fetts!
Temuera Morrison, Jeremy Bulloch, Daniel Logan

8:00 PM -- 12:30 AM
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and A New Hope Watch the Star Wars films with your fellow fans, at the best Star Wars gathering ever.
Host- Luke Sienkowski

Naboo (Rooms 201-204), Master of Ceremonies Doug Steves

11:00 AM -- 12 Noon
Digital Storyboards: The Art of Animatics
Dan Gregoire, JAK Productions

12:30 -- 1:30 PM
Writing Attack of the Clones
Bob Salvatore, author of the film novelization

2:00 -- 3:00 PM
Life, Death, and Rebirth: The Expanding Saga of The New Jedi Order
Shelly Shapiro, Del Rey Books; Sue Rostoni, Lucas Publishing; and Del Rey authors Aaron Allston, Troy Denning, James Luceno, and Bob Salvatore

3:30 -- 4:30 PM
Design of the Clones -- Iain Morris, MC
Ryan Church and Erik Tiemens, JAK Productions

5:00 -- 6:00 PM
Creating the Magic: The Process Behind Dark Horse Comics -- Tom Berg, MC
Randy Stradley and Jan Duursema, Dark Horse Comics

Dagobah (Rooms 107-110)

1:30 -- 3:00 PM
What's New at Hasbro
Paul Palmer

6:00 -- 7:00 PM
Joel and Nash Edgerton Talk About Filmmaking -- Doug Steves, MC

Bespin (White River Ballroom), Lisa Stevens and Gus Lopez, Coordinators

12 Noon -- 12:50 PM
Displaying and Preserving Your Collection
Todd Chamberlain, Philip Wise, Josh Ling

1:00 -- 1:50 PM
How to Make an Action Figure
Ron Salvatore and Chris Georgoulias; plus representatives from Hasbro and Gentle Giant

2:00 -- 2:50 PM
Collecting Twenty-five Years Ago
Todd Chamberlain, Duncan Jenkins, Ed Albano

3:00 -- 3:50 PM
Star Wars Collectibles Road Show
Lisa Stevens, Gus Lopez, Chris Fawcett

4:00 -- 4:50 PM
The Art of Star Wars
Bill Plumb

5:00 -- 5:50 PM
Ask the Hasbro Star Wars Team
Paul Palmer, and Hasbro staff members