Seven Minutes Of Super 8mm Behind The Scenes Footage From ‘Return Of The Jedi’
By Germain Lussier/June 6, 2012 2:00 pm EST
One Return of the Jedi set, though, was somewhat accessible to fans. The internet has now allowed those people to showcase the lengths they went to see it. Jabba’s Sail Barge on Tattooine was filmed in the California/Arizona desert known as Buttercup Valley and several fans crashed the set to see what was going down.
A filmmaker named Jeff Broz has now released seven minutes of behind the scenes footage from the Return of the Jedi set. Luke fighting Gamorrean Guards; R2-D2 shooting out the lightsaber; Boba Fett and Slave Leia: they’re all here. Check it out below.
Thanks to /Film reader Nick T for the heads up. This super 8mm footage has no sound but will still make you geek out with its content.
Tell me you didn’t squeal just a little bit when you saw Luke fighting with his lightsaber or Boba Fett floating on a string.
The odd thing about this footage is not how close it gets, is that A) It’s just coming out now and B) acknowledges its own grainy character, saying it was filmed on Sand-O-Vision. I guess the two things go hand in hand but it still gives the footage a distinct cloud of mystery.
What do you think of the footage?
