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This is an early preview of our project, which we presented at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 and 2018. Star Wars Toy Stories was fortunate to be invited to have an autograph table at Comic-Con, where this preview played along with other content from our fan film series.
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Here is the opening crawl to Shadows of the Empire adapted from the jacket of Steve Perry's novel. We presented this video at San Diego Comic-Con 2017. Star Wars Toy Stories was fortunate to be invited to have an autograph table at Comic-Con, where this preview played along with other content from our fan film series.
One of the primary objectives of this project is to raise funds for children's charities – the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Starlight Children's Foundation among others.
Shadows of the Empire was a multimedia event kicked off by Lucasfilm in 1996, which featured everything except a movie. It centers around the novel written by Steve Perry, which fills the gap between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
In addition, a six-part comic book series written by John Wagner was published by Dark Horse Comics. The story also expanded into an extremely popular video game published by Lucasarts for the Nintendo 64 (and later for the PC).
While the main story is laid out in the novel, both the comics and the game flesh out parallel story lines from the points of view of different characters. For our film, we intend to write a screenplay based primarily on the novel with additional story elements from the comics and the game.
