Insane Fan Made STAR WARS EPISODE 7 Trailer


With the recent deluge of news and gossip regarding STAR WARS EPISODE 7 flooding the interwebs (like J. J. Abrams selection as Director and Yoda’s standalone movie) I can’t help but feel a bit cheated that we’re forced to wait 2 whole years for this next batch of flicks.

Well, one particularly tech-savvy fan decided to amend this situation by creating his own trailer for the next episode in the saga. He used various snippets of footage from current gen games (mostly utilizing the cut scenes from The Old Republic MMORPG) and edited it into a boner erecting, 2 minute masterpiece.

Check it out for yourself below:

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The trailer is certainly awesome, but I think I should voice my one, semi-insignificant gripe… it relies on the over-used trope of the ‘name-less, returning evil’. If these flicks are set 20 years after the Galactic Civil War, which is the main conflict in the original trilogy, then it really hasn’t been that long since the greatest Sith threat in recent history has been defeated. Palpatine and Darth Vader would be fresh in everyone’s minds, and the return of any number of Sith antagonists wouldn’t be as revelatory as it was during the Clone Wars, when Yoda & crew had first learned of Darth Sidious.

I’m such a badass, I can use Lightning and shit

I also wanted to see a badass shot of modern Luke Skywalker chopping heads and tossing his green lightsaber at pants-pooping baddies. I imagine ol’ Luke will serve as the Yoda of these newer flicks (the strongest, wisest, most mysterious Jedi around), and I really hope J.J. Abrams creates some great scenes with him.

George Lucas failed, for his part, when he incorporated the strongest Jedi of his trilogies, Yoda, into the newer prequels. That green skinned tot was always treated with a strange amount of reverence by audience members  and when he was revealed as just another lightsaber toting Jedi in the prequels, he became… mundane.

 


SOURCE: reddit