A 20,000 Dollar Star Wars Fan Film???

**3RA1N1AC** · 04-21-2005, 01:36 PM

the mainstream press has picked up on the 40-minute long amateur production "Star Wars: Revelations" due to the relatively huge budget and quality special effects. don't expect it to be up-to-snuff with a real LucasFilm movie, but for the fan film niche (sci-fi geeks paying tribute to their favorite movies) it sounds pretty unique.

i'm grabbing it off of a newsgroup at the moment, as the main host's bandwidth is all tapped out.

here are some links.

news story with general info about "Revelations":
http://news.com.com/Homegrown+Star+W...3-5678819.html

news story about its theater showing in baltimore:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Q...fe-today&hl=en

and here's the homepage:
http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/

**Busyman** · 04-21-2005, 02:41 PM

SW Fans Films are nothing new but hopefully this one will be very good.

I've seen some good fan films with much lower budgets.

**3RA1N1AC** · 04-21-2005, 02:58 PM

just watched it.

the script and acting were a bit rough, but then the same could be said of Lucas's SW prequels. it gets a little bit confusing at some points 'cause they're introducing a cast of new characters and telling a pretty comprehensive story in only 40 minutes, but it doesn't take long to figure out what's going on. the production values however were great. they sure squeezed a whole lot of bang out of their budget. some of the sequences are such clear tributes to scenes from the SW series that it's sort of like seeing a cover band play SW's greatest hits. if it had been shot on film (or with a better video camera) it could easily pass for a cable TV show.

**david622** · 04-22-2005, 01:38 AM

**downloading**

**tarzan** · 04-22-2005, 04:48 AM

grabbing this,thanks

**Guyver** · 04-22-2005, 06:10 AM

downing now, will watch tommrowow

**Damnatory** · 04-22-2005, 07:25 AM

Rather rough acting, but the story line was pretty good! Was a pleasure to watch. The special effects were stellar for such a low budget film.

**david622** · 04-22-2005, 11:07 AM

Just watched it last night before I went to sleep. The acting wasn't that great but the computer scenery and saber effects were quite impressive.... especially becaus it's a low budget film.

It was interesting enough to sit through all 40 minutes, but I'm glad it wasn't any longer.