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Post #1240121

Author
oojason
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Turkish Star Wars
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Date created
14-Sep-2018, 7:22 AM

‘Attack of the killer Jedi! The bizarre story of Turkish Star Wars’…

In 1982, a Turkish film-maker with a budget crisis came up with an ingenious solution for his science-fiction epic: steal some footage from George Lucas’s classic

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/14/attack-of-the-killer-jedi-the-bizarre-story-of-turkish-star-wars
 

^ with info on the 35mm version, and a 2K restoration from it being shown in cinemas (with trailer + funky BattleStar Galactica ‘inspired’ disco music), as part of ‘Scalarama 2018’, here:-

https://scalarama.com/shared-programme/turkish-star-wars/