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

Production

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

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

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).

Notes

References
  1. Matthew Pike (2006-05-05). "May the farce be with you". Lincolnshire Echo.
  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".


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