Star Wars Dark Resurrection

[Joe Carney]

Fun stuff....
This is an Italian made STar Wars fan film that has some of the best production values I've ever seen (fan film wise).
Leave it to the Italians to take the fan film to 11.

Click on the button with the english flag to get the version with English Subtitles.

Format Divx. 60 minutes.

http://darkresurrection.com

sorry about that

[Chris Gearhart]

Link?

[Jack Wester]

Fun stuff....
http://darkresurrection.com

I usually don't online end user license agreements, but have a look at the DivX one before accepting to install :sick:.

[Joe Carney]

If you are a member of Vuze.com you can do a search, download it and use VLC to play it. I haven't tried the VLC activeX plug-in yet.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I watched it....

Production values were very high for a fan film -- wow. I could nit-pick some of the FX work or the acting, etc.. But it was on par with or even better than a lot of pro stuff we see on TV these days.

My critique of the film is this... They should have taken more time to work on the script. They did a poor job of establishing characters, relationships, etc.. Very little character development. The editing wasn't all that great either. Too many little things kept popping up throughout the film that just came out of nowhere, some of these things answered questions, but some just created more questions.

But hey, it's a fan film... And a great effort by all those involved.

[Joe Carney]

I watched it....

Production values were very high for a fan film -- wow. I could nit-pick some of the FX work or the acting, etc.. But it was on par with or even better than a lot of pro stuff we see on TV these days.

My critique of the film is this... They should have taken more time to work on the script. They did a poor job of establishing characters, relationships, etc.. Very little character development. The editing wasn't all that great either. Too many little things kept popping up throughout the film that just came out of nowhere, some of these things answered questions, but some just created more questions.

But hey, it's a fan film... And a great effort by all those involved.

Yes, if you see some of the stuff SciFi channel is showing, these folks compare favorably.

[Priyesh P.]

What I always wonder is, they put so much effort to do such movies. Why can't they create something new instead of just another fan movie of Star Wars?

[Clint Johnson]

What I always wonder is, they put so much effort to do such movies. Why can't they create something new instead of just another fan movie of Star Wars?

It is relatively easy to find fans of Star Wars who are willing to put in a LOT of effort to feel like they are part of the whole thing. It is not so easy to get dozens of people to band together around an original idea. They aren't invested in the idea and they won't know the person who is trying to convince them to come play in this unproven world.

I think there is room for an original world developed specifically for fans to create works that can be freely distributed if they are non-commercial and that has an easy and clear avenue for the material to be licensed for commercial use.

I see this starting off as a series of novels and comic books along with a MMOG built using Multiverse (http://www.multiverse.net/) and 3D assets for the machinima style animation platform Moviestorm (http://www.moviestorm.co.uk).

The 3D assets should translate between Multiverse and Moviestorm relatively cleanly since the complexity demands line up nicely. There is an issue with one using Collada and the other using CAL3D for model importing but there are ways to work around that.

The world could be put out there using one of the Creative Commons licenses that allow any personal use without having to go through official channels but if any money is going to be made they will have to go to the company to set up some other form of deal - that could involve anything from paying a one time fee to some form of revenue sharing.

If such a world were being developed it would be very conducive to fan films that could grown to make the fans some money if they create something that turns out to be commercially viable... while the world creator(s) might be able to make a good dollar off of it as well.

I see that as the best of all possible models. The fans are encouraged to play with it to their hearts content without fear of lawyers while also having a clear path to move from fan fic to maybe doing something they enjoy for a living. On the world creator side of things, you would hopefully have a loyal group of fans that are eager for your next novel, comic book or television series. These fans would be a constant source of new talent as well as content that could be licensed and distributed.

Yeah... if someone were developing something like this... say set on a terraformed Mars in the far future... cut off from Earth for so long it is seen as a common origin myth shared by the many cultures that ring the ocean that has formed in the Hellas basin. With the remnants of a technology that was so advanced as to be indistinguishable from magic... just saying that would be pretty cool.:whistling:

[Priyesh P.]

It is relatively easy to find fans of Star Wars who are willing to put in a LOT of effort to feel like they are part of the whole thing. It is not so easy to get dozens of people to band together around an original idea. They aren't invested in the idea and they won't know the person who is trying to convince them to come play in this unproven world.


Hi Clint. Yes, that makes sense to me, I'm no fanboy of any of these franchises (Star Wars, LOTR etc.) so it was difficult to understand the idea behind these films, conventions etc.
Thanks.