Star Wars: The Emperor's New Clones

Star Wars: The Emperor's New Clones (often abbreviated to TENCLO) is a 2006 feature-length Star Wars fan film that spoofs the story of Revenge of the Sith.[1] It was created by Backyard Productions UK, a British amateur film production company founded by Darren Scales, Mark Scales and Edwin Hollingsbee.[2] The film was premiered at Whittle Hall, RAF Cranwell on 9 September 2006.[3]

Star Wars: The Emperor's New Clones
Directed byDarren Scales
Written byDarren Scales
Based onCharacters by George Lucas
Produced byDarren Scales
Starring
  • Ed Hollingsbee
  • Mark Scales
  • Kirsty Milchreest
  • Shaun Walker
  • Kevin Harper
  • Luke Shahin-Scales
  • Sarah Russell
  • Darren Scales
CinematographyDominic Gilvary
Music byJohn Williams
Production
company
Backyard Productions
Distributed byTheForce.net
Release date
9 September 2006
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£3500 ($4,603.44 US dollars)

Production edit

According to BBC News, filming was carried out in a garage studio.[4] However, Camera Diaries claimed filming took place at RAF Waddington, and only the post-production was done in the garage studio.[5]

Availability edit

The full film is available to download on TheForce.net.[6] The complete DVD is available as a BitTorrent download.[7]

Other Backyard Productions projects edit

The group have previously released several films: Geriatric Park (a parody of Jurassic Park, completed in 1994), Batman Returns Forever (a parody of Batman Returns and Batman Forever, completed in 1995), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Backyard[8] (a parody alternative to Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones inspired by the release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and completed in 2000), and Doom Raiders (a parody of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider, filmed in Cyprus and completed in 2002).

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References edit

  1. ^ Matthew Pike (2006-05-05). "May the farce be with you". Lincolnshire Echo.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Darren Scales. "Backyard Productions - The story so far". Backyard Productions. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
  3. ^ "May the Farce be with you". Sleaford Standard. 2006-08-30.
  4. ^ "Star Wars remade in garage studio". BBC News. 2008-01-02.
  5. ^ "Prince William and the Emperor's New Clones". 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  6. ^ "Star Wars: The Emperor's New Clones".
  7. ^ "TENCLO Bittorrent download". Backyard Productions. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
  8. ^ "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Backyard".