Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home 90
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from the extreme-makeover-star-wars-edition dept.
An anonymous reader writes "How far would a Star Wars fan go to preserve a relic from the iconic film series? One devoted fan traveled to Tunisia to rescue Luke Skywalker's boyhood home, also known as The Lars Homestead, as seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. On a trip to Tunisia in 2010, Belgian traveler Mark Dermul came upon the modest dome-shaped hut that George Lucas built in the mid-1970s to serve as Luke Skywalker's home. The structure was falling apart when Dermul found it, so he hatched a scheme to restore it. After two years and a lot of cement and plaster, Luke's house is looking better than ever."
calling it now (Score:4, Interesting)
George Lucas will promptly sue him and everyone involved for copyright infringement
http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/12/george-lucas-owns-the-universe-a-timeline-of-star-wars-copyright-battles [vice.com]
$11,000?? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Better? (Score:5, Interesting)
This is an example of a movie that did have an impact for the general public. So there's no wonder that there are people that takes interest in the history of the sets.
The white makes sense since it reflects heat, and it will over time be worn down and get colored by the sand. The building itself doesn't look out of place in the desert but is actually of a design that you would expect there.
Add to this that this will be a bonus tourist trap for Tunisia.
And I don't think that George Lucas will make much fuzz about that restoration since it will end up creating a lot of badwill.
Re:calling it now (Score:1, Interesting)
Make sure you kill the attorneys, in addition to the executives. If MAFIAA attorneys started dropping dead from assassins' bullets, they wouldn't be able to find any attorneys to take their bogus cases.
Young Obi Wan's visit (Score:5, Interesting)
Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman visited the original Tunisian set on their motorcycle trek from Scotland to South Africa in 2007. It's included in their travelogue Long Way Down.