Re Star Wars Music

 SC> From: smithnik@cal.calcom.com (Nick Smith)
 SC> Date: 12 Feb 1997 08:20:38 GMT

 SC> I don't think it really counts as filk, until someone writes
 SC> lyrics to the music describing fans watching a non-existent
 SC> movie...

So filk must have words?


 SC> Seriously, hasn't anyone else out there noticed that
 SC> Lucas has created one of the great cultural hoaxes of all
 SC> time? He has done all the marketing, including toys, video
 SC> games, comic book and novelizations, soundtrack,
 SC> posters...for a movie that does not exist! I heard a
 SC> Lucasfilms exec say that he fully expected people, years
 SC> from now, to reminisce about "Shadows of Empire"  and wonder
 SC> why they couldn't find a video of it...
 SC> Hmmm...do you stand in a non-line to buy non-tickets for a
 SC> non-movie? 

What makes you think this movie doesn't or won't exist?  The first three movies
have been reissued with redone footage created on computers.  What makes you
think a Shadoes of the Empire movie couldn't be done and in the theatres by May
25, 1997?  The first 3 movies is a perfect leading for this.  It wouldn't even
have to be live action.  In an interview in Wired magazine, Lucas hints that he
is working on an all digital studio.  With as much money as he has, he could
crank out digital movies every year.