Trailer For A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE: HOW THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL HAPPENED
There’s a documentary in development that will take a deep dive into George Lucas’ Star Wars brain fart, The Star Wars Holiday Special. The doc is titled A Disturbance in The Force, and it will give us the behind-the-scenes story of how this 1978 explosion of cheesiness ended up getting made.
There was one good thing to come out of the holiday special, which was the Boba Fett animated segment. I thought that was really cool. The rest of it just offers fans a hilarious laugh because of how stupendously bad it is. Here’s the description:
In 1977, "Star Wars" became a cultural phenomenon that single-handedly revitalized a stagnant film industry, and forever changed how films were sold, made, and marketed. Movies would never be the same again.
A year later, neither would television.
In 1978, CBS aired the two-hour "Star Wars Holiday Special" during the week of Thanksgiving and was watched by 13 million people. It never re-aired.
While some fans of the franchise are aware of this dark secret, this bizarre two hours of television still remains relatively unknown among the general public. Simply put, we will answer how and why did the "Holiday Special" get made.
The doc is directed by Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak, and you can expect to see Seth Green, Weird Al Yankovic, Taran Killam, Gilbert Gottfried, Bonnie Burton, Paul Scheer, Bruce Vilanch, Lenny Ripps, Donny Osmond, and Miki Herman help tell the story.
The doc will make its premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) later this year.
