The trailer for 'A Disturbance In the Force' explores how 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' came to be.
It's a story known by many fans the world over. In November 1978, The Star Wars Holiday Special hit the airwaves for 98 glorious minutes of '70s variety show goofiness with just enough Star Wars thrown into the mix that it would satisfy the audience transported to the Galaxy Far, Far Away for the first time one year prior. Audience response was...mixed, to put it lightly, and the special never re-aired.
The upcoming documentary, A Disturbance in The Force, aims to answer that question and explore how the special as a whole came to be. The first trailer, released ahead of the film's March 11 premiere at SXSW, shows a host of celebrity panelists, including Seth Green, Weird Al Yankovic, and Taran Killam, reflecting back on the quirky chapter in the grand history of Star Wars.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY While the trailer doesn't include any footage of the Special itself — which the Darth Vader-esque narrator tells us was on request from the Emperor himself — it does contain clips featuring Donnie and Marie Osmond dressed as Luke and Leia during an episode of their variety show, which much like the Holiday Special, seems to be an exercise in '70s camp.While the Holiday Special is often the butt of very easy jokes, its ongoing legacy cannot be overlooked.
A Disturbance in the Force premieres March 11 at SXSW. Check out the trailer and official synopsis below: In 1977, "Star Wars" became a cultural phenomenon that single-handedly revitalized a stagnant film industry, and forever changed how films were sold, made, and marketed. Movies would never be the same again.A year later, neither would television.In 1978, CBS aired the two-hour "Star Wars Holiday Special" during the week of Thanksgiving and was watched by 13 million people. It never re-aired.
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