With some question as to how Disney owned LucasFilm (I call them DisneyFilm) is treating Star Wars as of late I recall the words of YouTube channel Retroblasting when host Michael says “fans are doing the best work”. As long as they don’t fall into “pet character syndrome” and are at least decent at their craft, and noting the limited budget for no financial rewards due to, you know, laws, he does have a point. Check tonight’s feature out.
Set in the old Expanded Universe, aka the “Legends” period that DisneyFilm tossed out so they could create their own continuity without fighting stuff that was probably not canon to the films to begin with, Star Wars Legends: Legacy Of The Force is a 2015 fan film adapting a scene from the novel Invincible by Troy Denning. Instead of evil Solo son Ben/Kylo Ren we have evil Solo son Jaycen/Darth Cadeus. Instead of everchanging parentage Rey we have good Solo sister Jaina Solo, who is here to put an end to her brother’s reign of terror. This may be bad timing, however, as Jaycen is trying to stop the Moffs from doing a genocide but at this point nobody trusts him. The whole Sith Lord reigning terror thing makes you hard to trust.
This is one, as of this writing, two Star Wars fan films produced by YouTube channel…Fan Film, which again makes no money and was just produced out of a love for the source material that current DisneyFilm offerings seem to lack. Is this the Star Wars story we should have gotten, adaptations of existing material? It’s still a good woman and evil man, but does it work better than the sequel trilogy of Abrams vs Johnson we ended up with. Decide for yourself and hopefully enjoy.
What the heck, let’s see the other one, too. The Distant Echo is a sort of meeting of continuities, between the old expanded universe and the current.
Their YouTube channel linked to earlier features making of videos. Whether or not there will be future films from them we’ll have to wait and see.
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