Interesting project: http://www.starwarsuncut.com
The first Star Wars film (yes, as in the one released in 1977 – it’s bloody well called “Star Wars”, not “A New Hope”) has been divided up into segments of 15 seconds, and put out for re-shooting by volunteers. Once all 470ish segments have been filmed, presumably we’ll be able to watch the thing in its reassembled entirity and marvel at the variety & inginuety of the human race, set against the backdrop of a film we’ve all seen so many times that the fact we can’t make sense of any of the visuals or sound in this version fairly well irrelevant.
Hooray for democratic-yet-creative wastes of time. But what’s the bet that nearly 500 distributed nerds don’t make as big a cockup of it as George Lucas can.