I’m a massive Star Wars nerd. Big surprise right? Anyway, as such I was looking forward to Fanboys, which seems to have been in development for about ten years. I certainly remember reading about it on Ain’t It Cool News back when the internet was pretty much all fields. So the news that the film was to be recut and the heart cut out of it is pretty baffling. What could have been a story about friendship and the way we find solace and salvation in fictional worlds has just been changed into nothing but a gagfest, which I’m sure will be fairly entertaining, but most likely ultimately forgettable. Why not cut the fact that fact that Vader is Luke’s father out of Star Wars and make it just a series of movies about shit blowing up.
It was the Weinstein Company, you remember, that released Clerks 2, which i wrote about here, and, while being a bawdy comedy (much like another successful recent movie, Superbad), was not afraid to have a heart, and talk about things that really matter (again, the central theme in both cases was friendship).
Anyway, the whole sorry tale to date, along with reviews of the original cut, and the rather pathetic response from the Weinstein camp, can be found here. Just let me know when I can get the real version fellas?
