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Now , according toVariety , a behind - the - scenes documentary film about theinfamousStar war Holiday Special , entitledA Disturbance in the Force , will be free on digital and Blu - ray of light on December 5after it ab initio premiered before in the twelvemonth at the SXSW Film Festival . The documentary , which was develop by September Club , will also play in a number of prime dramatic art across the U.S. , U.K. and Australia .
Why Did George Lucas Want To Forget The Holiday Special?
TheinfamousStar Wars Holiday Specialspinoff was give rise by CBS a year after the innovative achiever of the original motion-picture show , A New Hope . The holiday special was set up between the events of the first movie and its 1980 subsequence , The Empire Strikes Back . Seeing as the spinoff was coming off the back of the mostly successful first instalment , many expect Lucas to easily build on the success of the first movie and cleverly expand the population . However , that was n’t to be the vitrine .
The special aired only once on CBS , after which Lucas was pronounce to have try out to destroy every known copy of the special . On the critique collector Rotten Tomatoes , the special hold a franchise - low 25 % favourable reception paygrade . Many viewers and critic consider the moving-picture show unwatchable for numerous reasons . For one , the opening sequence which featured Chewbacca in his syndicate home had absolutely no real words or subtitles , just the Wookeie ’s grunt for arcminute on end .
Despite its hapless reception , theStar Wars Holiday Specialhas been reference in a kind of other data format , including anofficial LEGO - style homageset in the sequel trilogy era .
Also , a great deal of the costume option and particularly the dissemble performances in the special were pretty terrible , with suggestions of some of the actors being intoxicated while shooting . The catastrophicStar Warsspecial ended up on infamous listing like David Hofstede’sWhat Were They Thinking ? : The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History , coming in first place . Understandably , Lucas , who today is regarded as one of the most notable filmmakers of his multiplication , need to disassociate himself from the particular as quickly as possible and with the behind - the - scene documentary film of the special about to liberate , it ’ll be interesting to see the plight that took home while creating this special .
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