Synopsis

Have you ever wondered what the original Star Wars would have been like if Quentin Tarantino had animated it on a Macintosh computer?

Background

I had just completed a few experimental Star Wars films, and was thinking of something more ambitious. After a few camera tests using the same techniques as before, I abandoned something called Martin Scorsese's Stuart Little.

Jackie Brown was in theaters and I wanted to redo a few shots from Kung Fu Kenobi - notably the Mos Eisley entry sequence. I jotted down a few ideas - including some kung fu fighting, disco dancing, and Yoda with a prison guard - and began animating. The entire process took about a week - at night and weekends.

Several months later - after posting the finished product on my web site - I received a cryptic email from some in Grand Cayman congratulating me on the article. Article? Apparently there was a full page spread in the UK edition of Esquire dedicated to Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars. I rushed over to Borders to buy a copy. Soon the film would be featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, Details, et cetera.

It was around this time some nut in Belgium wrote me and said he showed my film to David Lynch was found it "unsettling". Right.

A few years later in preparation for a conference at MIT, I reedited and recomposed Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars (my own special edition) utilizing the techniques and tricks I had learned two years earlier.

I do want to pose one question: did Tarantino himself rip off Buena Vista Fight Club with Kill Bill?