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'Endor' Filming Location Plans Festival for 40th Anniversary of 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' (sfgate.com) 55

SFGate reports: A herculean effort is required to produce an event centered around the intellectual property of "Star Wars" (protected within the Disney galactic empire), but a film commissioner in Northern California was determined and got creative to solicit a response from the film franchise owners. "I offered to send my adult daughter, who's a chef, to Lucasfilm to make them meals if they let us do this," said Cassandra Hesseltine, commissioner for the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission. The plea caught the attention of the San Francisco-based company, and a "Star Wars" festival in the redwoods was born.

After a decade of planning, following an extensive back-and-forth to comply with IP rights, the film commission has announced the Forest Moon Festival. The two-day event commemorates the 40th anniversary of "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" June 2 and 3 in Northern California. It includes four film screenings [outdoors and indoors] between the two counties and holiday-like fanfare, with costumes and parties in downtown Eureka and on Cal Poly Humboldt's campus in Arcata.

The festival's vision is to gather community members and outsider fans of the series for a summer jubilee akin to the Fourth of July, where folks are encouraged to dress up to the theme and congregate under the redwood trees.

The article also notes that in June the monthly street fair in the town of Eureka "is expected to feature a 20-person squadron of Stormtroopers marching down main street."
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'Endor' Filming Location Plans Festival for 40th Anniversary of 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi'

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  • 40 years! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by GoJays ( 1793832 )
    This just reminds me it has been 40 years since Star Wars released something half decent. Can we please move on from this franchise already?
    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Virtucon ( 127420 )

      No, we spent Billions on the franchise in order to create a never-ending stream of garbage with every social justice nonsense subplot imaginable. Why would we ever stop shoving this crap in theaters and in subscription services if we didn't think it was good for you?

      - The Giant Rat [youtube.com]

      • Re: (Score:1, Redundant)

        People asked for more Star Wars and Disney is providing it. Are they doing capitalism wrong?

        • *looks at direction of merchandise sales and Star Wars Galaxy engagement*
          Yes, yes they are.

        • by NFN_NLN ( 633283 )

          > Are they doing capitalism wrong?

          Right now we're in the "Batman and Robin" (1997) phase of Star Wars. Someone needs to pull the franchise out of the dumpster and release a Star Wars Begins.

          • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

            Andor was pretty good after the first 5 episodes. It dragged at the start, but finished a lot stronger.

            It just shows that they can produce good SW stuff, especially when they move away from the stories told in the movies.

    • Re:40 years! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:18AM (#63438118)

      Can we please move on from this franchise already?

      Why do you care?

      If you don't like the later movies, just don't watch them.

      It is foolish to try to get everyone else to conform to your taste in entertainment. Just move on with your life.

      • It's wasting valuable bits on /.

      • by GoJays ( 1793832 )
        I don't care, I merely made a two sentence comment of my opinion on the subject, does this offend you? I thought the original trilogy was average at best and has been followed by 6 movies that are utterly forgettable. I don't understand why so many people continue to watch these movies after multiple decades of mediocrity. Who knows though, maybe they will get it right on the 10th installment right? haha.
      • by taustin ( 171655 )

        Can we please move on from this franchise already?

        Why do you care?

        Because when they spend $100 million+ making more Star Wars movies, they're not making anything new and original. I haven't been a theater since before the pandemic because there's just nothing of interest coming out of Hollywood. It's all derivative crap, and recycled scripts that have been filmed a dozen times already with little more than global search and replace on the names. Finding the face of Jesus in the shoeprints in the scum on the theater floor is more likely than a movie that's worth watching.

        T

    • The prequels were actually quite good fantasy wushu movies.

      Too bad the later works never reached that level of choreographed fights.

    • by gosso920 ( 6330142 ) on Monday April 10, 2023 @09:21AM (#63438244)
      I'm waiting for the Director's Cut of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
    • That's not fair. The prequels are looking pretty good at the moment.
    • This just reminds me it has been 40 years since Star Wars released something half decent.

      SPACE teddy bears, dude.
      Homicidal, cannibal [screenrant.com] space teddy bears.

  • by Eunomion ( 8640039 ) on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:02AM (#63438092)
    How to tell the world you're a spineless corporate kiss-ass and pretend it's a feature rather than a bug.

    Imagine bragging that you're so afraid of copyright trolling that you'll postpone a local festival for a decade, then publicly pimp out your daughter as a caterer.
    • Imagine bragging that you're so afraid of copyright trolling that you'll postpone a local festival for a decade, then publicly pimp out your daughter as a caterer.

      It could have been worse. The guy could have gone all biblical [biblehub.com].
      • I was just thinking the same thing, a sentence beginning "I offer to send my adult daughter..." could go in all sorts of directions, particularly if you add a qualifier like "barely-legal" in front of "adult".
  • by GeekWithAKnife ( 2717871 ) on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:07AM (#63438096)
    Will Jar Jar finally take on the mantle of Jedi or will he be seduced by the dark side and become Darth Binks - Master of disaster? Having seen the last few Star Wars films I can only pray they do something new and interesting like my example above. Maybe this time Jar Jar can initially reject the hero's calling but then become a supreme force master in like 3 minutes of yoga training and just destroy all opposition WMDs across the universe? I'm so hyped for this!
    • Or JarJar could fall into a vat of midichlorians and find himself imbued with more power over the force than any could have imagined. He creates a cloned army of hammerheadXwalrusmen and they all shoot before any one else can, ever. They're that evil. Plus they wear black and smell like nazis and dwell in the dark. I'm getting all the figures. Two actually, so I don't have to destroy the card of the only one I have--I'm that rich. I'll send in the "proof-of-purchases" for the early Emperor and ironically, h
    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      This is one of the reasons I think Last Jedi was a great movie. It did something new. Finally laid the Jedi Order to rest, and made The Force something that wasn't their exclusive property. Same with the Dark Side, no more Sith dynasties or whatever, just Kylo Ren and his ambition.

      Then they squandered it with Rise of Skywalker. They are talking about a new movie with Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order... A failed religion that is largely responsible for what happened in the other movies. It might be a Disney cor

  • by byronivs ( 1626319 ) on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:27AM (#63438128) Journal
    The wait, the publicity, the adult daughter whoring out, outrageous and adorable both, wink. All for attention. If they really like all this, they would have already have been doing it for years. Wanton Assholes. Oh and it's cute. Neat. Now fuck off with the teddy bears while I go translate some songs into Klingon for karaoke. Kiss my Gen-x ass, pretenders.
    • Sounds like a good thing for the area and local businesses. Why are you so negative about it?

      • PALPATINE: Good is a point of view, Anakin. The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way, including their quest for greater power.
        ANAKIN: The Sith rely on their passion for their strength. They think inward, only about themselves.
        PALPATINE: And the Jedi don't?
        ANAKIN: The Jedi are selfless . . . they only care about others.
        PALPATINE smiles.
  • What does it take to have a Star Wars event? Bribes, lawyers, you spend all of the money, Disney benefits.

  • "...millions of voices suddenly cried out ... and were suddenly silenced."
  • I saw the first Star Wars movie. It was entertaining, but very childish sci fi. I never saw any need to see the same movie again and again over and over, with a different title each time.

  • I had lots of fun at Death Valley going to some of the places where they filmed Tatooine scenes and seeing how they had created an other-worldly landscape using real locations. Other areas that were used to film Star Wars should use it in their tourism marketing.

    • Death Valley? It was filmed in Tunisia!
      • Yes, Tatooine is mostly Tunisia, but several shots were actually taken in Death Valley. You can read about in various places, including on the NPS' Death Valley website.

  • At the risk of being a redwood nerd, not a tech nerd...

    If you have a chance to visit the redwoods in Humboldt and Del Norte, definitely take it. It's gorgeous country, every bit as spectacular as it appears in the films.

    Last summer I visited Humbuldt Redwoods State Park [humboldtredwoods.org] for the first time, specifically the Rockefeller forest. The Rockefellers (yes, those Rockefellers) donated a ton of land to the park and it's one of the best redwood trails I've hiked. The entire north coast, from about Leggett north, is my

    • dress in layers, Eureka is cool and overcast about 400 days a year.

      You forgot windy. Eureka is a great place to host some Endor shit because they have a model Ewok village [redwoodskywalk.com]. P.S. Been to Nisene Marks? If you park at the pub you can walk up the creek.

      • We go to Nisene Marks every month or so. Wonderful place. Haven't been during the deluge but my kid says the river is spectacular now.

        Been to the Trees of Mystery [treesofmystery.net]? My wife used to stop there as a kid. We shelled out for the tour for giggles one year. So not worth it. Except that we later ran into a couple at the Samoa Cookhouse [samoacookhouse.net] who couldn't stop talking about how educational it was. It's tough eating apple pie while desperately trying not to laugh.

        • No, but I used to live in scruz so I have been to the Mystery Spot. Which was neato, but not very educational :D

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