SXSW doc 'A Disturbance in the Force' revisits the making of the infamous ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’: A variety show so bad George Lucas tried to Jedi-mind-trick it out of existence.
is tending bar at the Mos Eisley cantina, singing and dancing with all that scum and villainy. Wait, is that Harvey Korman as a Julia Child-like droid with four arms, giving a cooking lesson? What is Jefferson Starship doing here, playing “Light the Sky on Fire?” And why is Diahann Carroll dancing in some sort of Wookiee VR porn that Chewie’s father, Itchy, is watching in the living room? These weren’t even close to the droids we were looking for.
Driven by the need to fill the gap between his unexpected hit and a sequel he was still figuring out, Lucas fleshed out an idea for a story that would take place on Chewbacca’s home planet and involve a holiday called Life Day, described in the doc as a sort of “WookieeLucas would be involved, at least at first; he’d asked his old USC classmate, a music documentarian named David Acomba, to direct it. The entire cast would be on board as well.
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