I just happened to stumble upon the Fanboys website a few minutes ago. Literally. One of my favorite Internet Boredom pastimes is clicking Stumble using the StumbleUpon toolbar, and this time, it just so happened to take me to the site of the Shot-Two-Years-Ago-But-Never-Released movie Fanboys, about a group of friends who try to sneak into Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of Phantom Menace so their friend can see it before he dies. Anyway, the most noticeable thing I saw (besides the 40-Year-Old Virgin poster homage) was that there was an actual release date for this movie!

Now, if you know nothing about theFanboys drama, consider yourself lucky. It’s long, drawn-out, and involves many different re-shoots, re-edits, and release dates. There’s an abbreviated version on Wikipedia. Anyway, after 3 years, the movie will finally see the light of day on February 9th, 2009 and it’s essentially fan service to all the big time Star Wars nerds out there (i.e. Me). Hell, even the tagline is a SW reference. Anyway, this movie is also of interest because it involves the following people: Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Carrie Fisher, Will Forte, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ray Park (Darth Maul), Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, William Shatner, and Lando himself, Billy Dee Williams! I think it’s going to be strange to see all these people in a movie they shot 3 years ago. Surely their appearances have changed in that time. Of course, more interesting is the fact that this movie takes place before the prequels were released, in a time when Fanboys were less hate-filled, so I fully expect this movie to capture what it means to be a movie fan and not a movie site message board troll.

Oh, did I also mention it’s got Kristen Bell in a Leia Slave Outfit? ‘Cause it totally does!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm and is filed under Film, Star Wars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I just happened to stumble upon the Fanboys website a few minutes ago. Literally. One of my favorite Internet Boredom pastimes is clicking Stumble using the StumbleUpon toolbar, and this time, it just so happened to take me to the site of the Shot-Two-Years-Ago-But-Never-Released movie Fanboys, about a group of friends who try to sneak into Skywalker Ranch to steal a copy of Phantom Menace so their friend can see it before he dies. Anyway, the most noticeable thing I saw (besides the 40-Year-Old Virgin poster homage) was that there was an actual release date for this movie!

Now, if you know nothing about theFanboys drama, consider yourself lucky. It’s long, drawn-out, and involves many different re-shoots, re-edits, and release dates. There’s an abbreviated version on Wikipedia. Anyway, after 3 years, the movie will finally see the light of day on February 9th, 2009 and it’s essentially fan service to all the big time Star Wars nerds out there (i.e. Me). Hell, even the tagline is a SW reference. Anyway, this movie is also of interest because it involves the following people: Kristen Bell, Jay Baruchel, Carrie Fisher, Will Forte, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ray Park (Darth Maul), Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, William Shatner, and Lando himself, Billy Dee Williams! I think it’s going to be strange to see all these people in a movie they shot 3 years ago. Surely their appearances have changed in that time. Of course, more interesting is the fact that this movie takes place before the prequels were released, in a time when Fanboys were less hate-filled, so I fully expect this movie to capture what it means to be a movie fan and not a movie site message board troll.

Oh, did I also mention it’s got Kristen Bell in a Leia Slave Outfit? ‘Cause it totally does!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm and is filed under Film, Star Wars. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.