The Napoleon Dynamite producer made a film about The Star Wars Holiday Special. We hear Oscar buzz.
cast member Mark Hamill, right, plays himself in a parody sketch on The Bob Hope Christmas Special in 1977, with Bob Hope as"Barf Vader" and singer Olivia Newton John as Princess Hialeah.The first film that Jeremy Coon ever saw in a theater wasin 1983. Until then, he had to wait for the movies to air on television — just like all theStar Wars
properties to air exclusively on television landed on CBS during the holidays in 1978 between the surprise blockbuster release of the firstin 1980. Unlike its source material, it aired once and only once on television, and if you've seen it, you know why.Star Warsuniverse with the sensibilities of a 1970s holiday variety show. To say that the two did not mesh well in the annals of time would not begin to describe the mess that CBS hurled into the ether of pop culture on the evening of Nov.
"I think it was bad at the time, but it wasn't as jarring back in the day," Coon says."This is how they marketed stuff. Anything that had a brand would get a TV show. They had football players singing and dancing, which is unthinkable today. No one foresaw home video or things living on the internet forever."in 2004, tackles the story of the infamousA Disturbance in the Force: How The Star Wars Holiday Special Happened.
The film offers interviews with people who worked on the special, including writer Bruce Vilanch and director Steve Binder, as well as fans who watched the special on television such as director Kevin Smith, musician"Weird Al" Yankovic and actor and comedian Seth Green. The doc premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival last year and is touring the film festival circuit, with plans to do a wider distribution release to theaters in time for Life Day aka Nov. 17.
"His dad [Elliott Kozak] was Bob Hope's producer, so he knew all the people who worked on the special," Coon says of Steve Kozak."It made the film better with the two of us working on it together."
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