A friend of mine once described the Fan Film universe of consisting of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Assorted Debris. We've done a couple Trek films in a row, so it seems only fair to do a Star Wars one...
Why so much Star Wars? Well, it's considerably easier to do than Trek. There's a lot more lattitude. If you've got a couple toy lightsabres and a camera, you can make a film. If you're more serious than that, well, you've got a whole universe to play with, and so long as you don't muck up the continuity of a dozen people, you're pretty much golden. Arguably, episodes 1-3 are really really big budget fan films made by the thing shambling around out there, pretending to be George Lucas. (The real George Lucas, obviously, died in a car accident some time around 1982, and he was replaced by the talentless hack Billy Shears*) Trek, by contrast, has much more distinct rules as to what you can or can't do.
Early in 2009, we did our first real Fan Film interview with Dr. Charlie Starr, who made a fan film called "Sacrifices," and who's since gone on to be a major contributor to our site. You can check that out here: http://www.republibot.com/content/interview-charlie-starr-discusses-his-...
And of course here's the film itself. Sound off in comments to let us know what you think of it!
*-Yes, I'm joking. It WOULD explain a lot, though, wouldn't it?
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Comments
27 December 2008
4 min 41 sec
No question about that: Lucas is a hack. "Star Wars" is basically a remake of the Akira Kurisawa film "The Hidden Fortress," which is so obvious that Lucas decided to snap up the remake rights for that film before he started on Star Wars. I do think "Empire" is a far better film, and the best of the bunch. The real failing is that "Jedi" utterly pisses away all the neat things "Empire" did.
My friend Lance always says that in his little world George Lucas was tragically stolen from us in a car accident in early 1982, and thus he only made American Grafitti, THX-1138, Star Wars, Raiders, and Empire, and we were spared all his other pointless dorking around. He knows this isn't the case, of course, he just says it's easier on him if he pretends that's the way it happened.
27 June 2009
2 hours 1 min
The one and only Star Wars film I like was the original one. The next two films in the original trilogy I thought were derivative of old 60’s sci fi stories badly written and acted. Lucas ripped off the dead author H Beam Piper heavily in those films. The prequels continued to mine Piper and other sources while telling stories that did not need to be told.
The idea that Lucas is some sort of genius and modern myth maker I find laughable. The only genius he has ever shown is in marketing and hype. Since the Star Wars universe is a confabulation of the best and sometimes the worst of golden age sci fi makes Fan films set in said universe are wholly uninteresting.
I do not mean to dis the makers of Star Wars fan films I just wish they had an interest in something more worth while to put their creative energies into. The Star Wars universe is poorly constructed and stories that take place there are doomed to suffer from its inherent flaws. It’s worse in some ways than the Star Trek universe that also suffers form the flawed vision of its creator.