In case you aren’t aware, the Star Wars Uncut project tasked Star Wars fans around the world with recreating A New Hope from scratch, in fifteen-second increments.

It’s really good.

And we’re also in it.

But that’s not why it’s really good. Once you get to the bit where Obi-Wan gives Anakin’s lightsaber to Luke, you’ll be like, “yeah — yeah. This good.”

Recently, I was in a short film by Gerry Maravilla that involves bunnies, blood, and potential molestation – not in that order. It’s a pretty good time and I really enjoyed working on it so I hope you’ll enjoy watching it.

Check out the movie here

If you really dug it and want to maybe throw a couple of bucks Gerry’s way so he can try to enter it into a film festival (film festivals are hella expensive, unfortunately), buy a DVD or donate to the cause here. There are extras on the dvd, like production stills and commentary (and easter eggs oooo)

[Art by Ashley Davis.]

So, I was watching Up the other day – and by “the other day,” I mean roughly three months ago – and I was thinking about how the majority of the plot progresses entirely independent of  Carl’s actions.

I mean, yeah, he injures the construction worker which leads him to flee to South America, but if you think about it, what was his ultimate end game? If Russell hadn’t gotten stuck on his porch, and if he hadn’t gotten Kevin to follow them, and if Dug hadn’t led the rest of the dogs to them – if Carl, without distraction or interruption, had just made it to Paradise Falls – what would have happened?

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