Star Wars special effects to be added to the film with creator’s approval.
Post-production has been extended for Fanboys in order to add sound and special effects from the Star Wars films, according to a SCI FI Wire interview with the movie’s co-star Chris Marquette.
Star Wars creator George Lucas gave his consent for the additions after seeing an early cut of the comedy about a group of friends who drive across country to an advanced screening of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace at Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch.
While the film’s principal photography was completed last year, Fanboy post-production process was extended to incorporate the effects and also to allow filmmaker Kevin Smith to shoot a cameo as well as to write and direct a scene in the movie. Smith, who directed Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, is an admitted Star Wars fan who often puts references to the scifi franchise in his own movies.
Fanboys stars Sam Huntington (Superman Returns), Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, and Veronica Mars heroine Kristen Bell as the friends who, along with Marquette, are making the pilgrimage to fulfill a dying friend’s last wish of seeing the first Star Wars prequel before its worldwide release.
The homage to Star Wars fans features special appearances by saga alums Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, and Ray Park (who played Darth Maul in Menace), as well as other notable cult icons William Shatner and Danny Trejo.
Fanboys theater release date is now August 17, 2007.
[...] estabamos esperando, leo con admiración como Lucas en otro momento de extrema generosidad les ha permitido a los productores de la peli FanBoys introducir sonidos y efectos especiales de la Saga en su [...]
This will be a great film to rub in the wounds of all of those cry-babies who bashed TPM.
[...] How unfortunate. When Fanboys was first announced, everything about this it seemed amazing. It was one of my most anticipated films, because I felt that finally someone was going to get the fanboy (and fangirl) life right. I mean, c’mon, just look at that movie poster (see here at top right) and then there were the pics of Kristen Bell in a Slave Leia outfit. That’s so cool! Plus, all the test screenings come in positive and the director — Kyle Newman — seemed like the ultimate fanboy and was so enthusiastic about the project. And while I was sad when the film’s release date was moved to August 17, 2007, at least there was a great reason — to incorporate sound and special effects from the Star Wars films! SW creator George Lucas gave his approval after viewing an early cut of the film (see George Lucas Gives ‘Fanboys’ Thumbs Up). [...]