UPDATE

Feel free to PM if you’d like a copy; I’ll do my best to accommodate requests for physical DVDs (easiest for US users). Per forum rules, no trade, no sale, for SWAoC owners only.

END UPDATE

Hey, all. First-time poster, sometime lurker.

I’m pleased to announce the completion of “Star Wars: Rendezvous at Kazook.” For this project, I merged two films that richly deserve each other: “Attack of the Clones” and “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” Relive the experience of watching one of the worst big-budget science fiction films ever made in a way you thought nobody would bother to provide.

The main challenge in editing was to ameliorate the jarring difference in audio and visual quality between the two original films. A process of ‘dehancement,’ or ‘crapulation,’ was used on SWAoC footage. This involved carefully converting the film to the SWHS aspect ratio and making it non-anamorphic. From here, additional blurring and color correction (typically to red) produced the visually unsatisfying style necessary to make the sources fit together. The SWAoC audio was reduced to a mono channel with a poor sampling rate.

PLOT:

A Wookiee cult on the mysterious world of Kazook needs “fresh blood, and especially midi-chlorians.” Its members believe a certain senator from Naboo stands in the way of their plans. After a pair of assassination attempts, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates. Kenobi’s apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, must protect the senator at all costs. Special appearance by Jefferson Starship. Akin to comedy.

FEATURES:

Every musical number from SWHS appears in full, with the opening title crawl set to Carrie Fisher’s finale.
References to Count Dooku and the “Clone Army” have been removed; the Camino scenes still appear.
References to Chewbacca, the Empire and the Rebellion do not appear in the main body of the film.
SWAoC plot truncated pretty severely. I’d say the same about the SWHS plot, but there wasn’t one.
Other dialogue was modified for flow and continuity.
Includes all-new Wookiee subtitles.
Special cameo by cartoon Boba Fett.
Special cameo by Dexter Jettster’s non-keyed-in version.
Wipes.
There might be a “Special Edition” eventually. It would be exactly the same, except with commercials.

RUNTIME: 94 minutes.

SOURCES:

“Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.” 2002 full-screen DVD release. Includes footage from the special features documentary concerning the CGI effects.
SWHS. This particular version isn’t difficult to find. I think part of it is a recording of the Baltimore broadcast. There’s at least one shot of the Millennium Falcon from “Star Wars” that was re-used in SWHS.

EDITING SOFTWARE:

Lightworks. This was my first try at video editing, so getting the hang of everything took a little time. I’m satisfied with the program overall.

OTHER:

I haven’t decided exactly how (or if) this will be distributed. I’ll certainly be looking into posting a sample of some kind. That being said, feel free to PM if you’re interested in seeing this edit.