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Star Wars Fan Films, now Star Wars Audio Drama

Posted by michael on from the behold-the-power-of-the-dark-side dept.

darth fluffy writes "Star Wars Fanfilms have become as popular as anime music videos in the geek world over the past year (if not more), but here's a new spin: a full length Star Wars Fan Audio Drama. Recorded with over 40 actors from 5 different countries. Hurray for the power of home PC's!"

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  1. This would be sooo cool... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I was 22 and living in my parents basement.

  2. Uh Oh... by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I think George Lucas' gonna sue somebody!"

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  3. Good thing they ignore physics... by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...because explosions in space would sound exactly like non-explosions, and therefore, make for very dull audio.

    begin the great space battle
    "Roger, Red leader, I'm going in"
    twelve minutes of silence
    "This is Red niner. We got 'em. Let's go home"
    end the great space battle

    1. Re:Good thing they ignore physics... by TerryAtWork · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Movie Physics sounds are LOUDER in space because they haven't got all that air in the way.

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  4. I just hope Lucas by TerryAtWork · · Score: 4, Insightful

    has the brains to not kill this.

    IF HE'S SMART he'll encourage it. But you never know when he'll stop being smart.

    Like Henry Ford said about Model T jokes 'Every joke is another Model T sold' so every SW fan effort is another pile of tickets sold.

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  5. I think its good by mugnyte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fan fiction is no more than collective imagination. When you envision the "just past the ending" scenes of your favorite move, you don't discuss it? Sounds like boring date, you.

    Fan fiction can be as bad as anything built through a collective, but this departure from a bunch of Harvard screenwriters' 6-month chop-n-splice is a refreshing. How many movies are you skipping because it seems formulaic, formulaic with a single twist or anti-formulaic in an almost reactionary sense?

    With fan fiction, its a bit of a random roll of the dice. Now, I will admit that having fans create their own story is a bit like asking for more of the same. But a movie sticks to a genre/premise at some level anyway, so either accept that or eat your popcorn and go home.

    The negative on fan fiction seem a bit ironic given the pro open-source stance seen on the /. It's not much different, IMO.

    mug

  6. Howabout Starship Exeter by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Described by one writer as:

    "an interesting site that will be a delight for anyone with broadband and an interest in obsessive sci-fi fandom. Ask yourself: if you and your friends decided to shoot an entire episode of TOS Star Trek, and you wrote a script set on the recommissioned Exeter, and you rented a warehouse, built a replica of a Constitution-class starship, designed all the sets and lighting to look like 1967 TV, and spent SEVEN YEARS on the project, meticulously recreating the look and sound of a TOS episode, what would the result look like?"

    I haven't checked it out yet but looks rather interesting.

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