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Star Wars Detours

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Here’s the first trailer for Star Wars Detours, Lucasfilm’s newest animated (and first comedic) Star Wars TV series. According to Wookieepedia, the show explores daily life in a galaxy far, far away and focuses on the universe’s regular folk and their everyday problems.

Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, of Robot Chicken fame, are involved and the show will feature the voices of Queen of the Internets Felicia Day, Seth Green, Seth MacFarlane (as the Emperor), Joel McHale, Donald Faison and even original Star Wars actors such as Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels and Ahmed Best.

It might not be to everyone’s tastes but the PR Team can’t wait. If this isn’t “your” vision of Star Wars, or detracts from your enjoyment of the original trilogy somehow in some way, that’s totally cool but the solution is simple: don’t watch. The rest of us will have fun watching Obi-Wan bomb as a stand-up comedian and enjoy the origins of Admiral Ackbar’s trap-related vocal stylings.

We just have two questions for you, Seth Green: When is the PR team’s episode? And when are we going to be asked to join the writing team? (Call us. Seriously.)

Via Topless Robot.

Shit Stormtroopers Say

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The PR Team’s “Shit Stormtroopers Say” is a parody of the “Shit Girls Say” video by Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard. Yes, it’s a little late to the meme party but you’ll have to forgive us; we come from a galaxy far, far away, so it takes a while to beam videos to your planet.

Credits
Concept and Words: Robbie Boland
Direction and Editing: Jamie Wynen
Stormtrooper: Connor Doyle
Cinematographer: Pablo Zubieta

Cute Girl 1: Valerie Wong
Cute Girl 2: Natalie Azoury
“Shit Stormtroopers Say” Title Card: Bec Boland
DeathStarbucks Logo: William Pidgeon

Thank You: The Dock Bar Redfern, William Pidgeon, Jake Owens, Metro Screen.

Fun Trivia:
The video was shot on a sub-$400 budget by Death Star PR subcontractors over the course of a weekend in early March in and around Sydney, Australia.

Jamie edited the video and did all of the special effects himself. He is very glad it is over.
Connor was horribly upset that most of his amazing performances as “Shrugtrooper” were cut from the final edit.
Pablo Zubieta will win “Best Dressed” at any costume party you invite him to.
The “Tatooine” part of the shoot caused Robbie to become very, very badly sunburnt. Moral of the story: next time you visit a desert planet, don’t forget to take sunscreen and a hat.

If you’d like to see some Behind the Scenes photos from the shoot, or simply don’t have enough evil in your Facebook timeline, follow us there:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Death-Star-PR/127968837252203