Posts Tagged “Hardware Wars”

Fan Film Inspiration Part 1

Well, here’s the start of the series of post I mentioned last week regarding my take on Fan Films, and maybe some explanation of led me to write “Fan Film The Series” in the first place.

Let’s start with the one that started this whole mess. The mess meaning the ever growing monster called “fan films”.

Regardless of popular opinion, I don’t consider “Troops” to be that “one.” Don’t get me wrong – Troops is incredible, and probably single handedly ignited the explosion of fan films that exist today. But before Troops, there was another.

I present for your consideration as “the one that started it all”:

Hardware Wars

Where are currently in the 30th Anniversary of the release of Star Wars and fan films are still just beginning on paper, “Hardware Wars” was released 7 months after Star Wars!

It was written and directed by Ernie Fosselius, and produced by Ernie Fosselius and Michael Wiese.

The parody character names include:

• Chewchilla the Wookie Monster
• Ham Salad
• Darph Nader
• Fluke Starbucker
• Augie Ben Doggie
• Princess Anne-Droid
• 4Q2
• Arty Deco

George Lucas has been quoted as saying “Hardware Wars is my favorite Star Wars parody.”

Which pretty much explains what’s happened to Star Wars since 1999.

I don’t know what else to say about this one. Other than – it’s the first.

So instead of trying to explain it, let’s just take a look:

Part 1:

Part 2: