[DMCA-Activists] 'Star Wars Revelations' a Sophisticated Fan Film

[Seth Johnson]

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:48:11 -0400
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[Note:  Do yourself a favor and go to the 'Panic Struck
Productions' site and download the trailer for this film.  After
taking a look, you'll most likely be queued up to get the full
film on Monday.  This effort shows that Hollywood no longer has
the monopoly on doing first class special effects films.  The
available technology has no created a level playing field for
all.  Now its just a matter of talent and the desire to make it
happen.  May the Force be with you!  DLH]

Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005

'Star Wars Revelations' a sophisticated fan film
By Tish Wells
Knight Ridder Newspapers
<http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11384018.htm>

  WASHINGTON - In the original "Star Wars," the Imperial military
leader Grand Moff Tarkin tells head baddie Darth Vader, "The Jedi
are extinct; their fire has gone out of the universe."

  Not for the makers of "Star Wars Revelations," an amateur fan
film to be released Monday over the Internet. It's part of a
growing video genre produced by devoted viewers and made possible
by affordable cameras, computer graphics and editing
technologies. All are labors of love, and viewable free since
they're based on intellectual property that belongs to the
copyright owners, in this case "Star Wars" creator George Lucas
and Lucasfilm.

  "Star Wars Revelations," a 40-minute feature that's
sophisticated by fan-film standards, is based on the "Star Wars"
universe. Thanks to a solid plot, interesting characters, superb
special effects and an unexpected ending, it's accessible even to
viewers who can't tell a lightsaber from a flashlight.

  "Revelations" is a provocative prelude to the May 19 release of
the sixth Lucasfilm in the "Star Wars" series, "Episode III:
Revenge of the Sith." The fan film picks up on the expectation
that the Jdi, the good guys, will fall to their enemies, the
Sith, epitomized by black-helmeted Darth Vader.

  In "Revelations," Vader's Imperial Forces are hunting down
escaping Jedi. A former Jedi turned Imperial agent, Zhanna, is
pursing an artifact that will help her find and destroy her
former comrades.

  Opposing her is a fugitive Jedi heroine, Taryn Anwar, working
through an old friend and smuggler, Declan, and another ex-Jedi,
Cade, who has control of the artifact. Taryn and Zhanna vie for
the artifact in a series of starship chases and lightsaber
battles.

  "Revelations" lacks the mega-bucks polish of a Lucasfilm
production, but it catches the otherworldly excitement of a
summer science-fiction blockbuster.

  Director-actor Shane Felux as Cade, Frank Hernandez as Declan
and Gina Hernandez as Taryn deliver smooth performances. The
complicated plot moves along briskly despite uneven dialogue and
an occasional clunky line.

  The computer-graphics special effects are retina-blasters. They
include a chase through space-based starship construction yards
and a night on the town in Corellia city, whose Central Park,
minus the orange tint, looks much like New York's.

  Felux, who maxed out his credit cards and took a home equity
loan to make "Revelations," acknowledges that the film "got
bigger than even I thought it would. We just never really tried
to limit ourselves."

  It shows.

  "Star Wars Revelations" is due to be released Monday over the
Internet by Panic Struck Productions, at
<http://www.panicstruckpro.com>


Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>


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