the people vs george lucas

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But I got to see it last month at a/perture cinema in Winston-Salem, along with Forcery co-producer Ed Woody and star Chad Austin, who appears a LOT throughout The People vs. George Lucas as, well… George Lucas!

The screening was on September 12th. Why didn’t I write about it sooner? Because it still hasn’t sunk in yet: that was my film Forcery, the idea for which hit just over ten years ago (I began writing the script on the night before 9/11), and my most life-long best friend playing George Lucas on the big screen as part of this multi-award winning documentary that has played at film festivals all around the world!

But as surreal as the experience was, that was mild compared to watching Melody Hallman Daniel‘s performance as Frannie Filks from Forcery, which The People vs. George Lucas is exceptionally peppered with! In fact, ...

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…well, parts of it anyway 🙂

The People vs. George Lucas, Alexandre Philippe’s documentary that has won beaucoups of awards at film festivals all over the world, has just announced a whole bunch of new showings. And one of them is right next door in Winston-Salem! Beginning May 9th it’ll be playing at Cine Club on 311 West Fourth Street.

So why am I especially stoked about getting to see this rave-reviewed film? Here’s the second trailer for it…

And here’s the first teaser for The People vs. George Lucas…

That’s none other than Melody Hallman Daniel and Chad Austin from Forcery, the first film that I ever made. I’ve heard that quite a lot of clips from it wound up in The People vs. George Lucas. So I’m not only looking forward to seeing Philippe’s work, but also my own blown-up extra-huge on a ...

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A friendly reminder for those of you lucky enough to be attending South By Southwest (SXSW) 2010 in Austin, Texas (which begins today) that Alexandre O. Philippe’s much-anticipated documentary The People vs. George Lucas will have its world premiere tomorrow night!

Man oh man, wish I could be going to this thing (I will be attending a production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street this weekend though :-). The People vs. George Lucas has already started garnering some high-profile attention and it’s prolly gonna skyrocket after tomorrow night.

Here’s the latest trailer for it. And yes: that is Melody Hallman Daniel from our own film Forcery that you see at 44 seconds into it!

Alexandre has told me that he wound up using Forcery quite a bit in The People vs. George Lucas. So, I am delighted that I got to make a bit of ...

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Word broke in the wee hours of the morning that The People vs. George Lucas, Alexandre Phillipe’s documentary about the love/hate relationship Star Wars fanatics have with the creator of their most treasured mythology, will have its world premiere at South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas next month!

Look! Official movie poster!

And look again! New trailer!

And who is that appearing at 44 seconds into this trailer? That’s Melody Hallman Daniel from my very first film Forcery! I’d been hoping and praying that Melody’s amazing performance doing that rant would make it into The People vs. George Lucas… and it did! And Phillipe has hinted to me that there will be a few other clips from Forcery in his film, too.

Can’t wait to see this 🙂...

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Awright, I’ve been sitting on this for the past week or so, eagerly looking forward to when that e-mail would arrive with the official announcement and now… it’s here!

Alexandre Philippe is a filmmaker who is currently working on an ambitious project called The People vs. George Lucas (here’s the official website: PeopleVsGeorge.com). Tonight, Alexandre and his crew released the first trailer for their film.

Behold!

Want to see it drastically embiggened and high-deffed? Mash down here!

And at 1:29 into the trailer, there’s a black and white clip showing “George Lucas” furiously typing. No, your eyes ain’t deceiving you: that is Chad Austin from my first film Forcery (click here to watch THAT movie)! Alexandre contacted me about using Forcery awhile back, and all of us at KWerky Productions are thrilled to have been invited to take part in this project.

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