Topher Grace co-creates Star Wars trailer supercut with all 10 movies
Prepare to get chills.
It's easy to be jaded about Star Wars, like Luke Skywalker is about everything in The Last Jedi. But Topher Grace's amazing trailer will remind you why the movies are magic.
Star Wars superfan Topher Grace has co-created a five-minute tribute to the saga, using footage from all eight movies so far.
It cuts together moments from Episodes 1 to 8, along with bits from spinoffs Rogue One and Solo. It's pretty wonderful.
Grace, who starred in BlacKkKlansman, and friend Jeff Yorkes built the trailer over a weekend and posted it Tuesday.
The lion's share of the footage is from the original trilogy, but it cleverly inserts footage from the prequels into Luke Skywalker's chat with Obi-Wan Kenobi from A New Hope and continues in that vein.
It even uses some deleted scenes, like Luke looking up at a Star Destroyer and meeting doomed pal Biggs on Tatooine in the original movie, along with finishing off his lightsaber in Return of the Jedi.
One beautiful aspect is how it highlights some of the themes and repeated imagery, particularly the parallels between the Obi-Wan/Darth Vader and Luke/Kylo Ren lightsaber duels in A New Hope and The Last Jedi.
10 movies. 2 nerds. 1 weekend (when our wives were out of town). Enjoy… #everypartofthebuffalo @jeffyorkes @louscafe_edit https://t.co/aYE4ZI2iHb
— Topher Grace (@TopherGrace) February 26, 2019
"10 movies. 2 nerds. 1 weekend (when our wives were out of town). Enjoy… #everypartofthebuffalo," Grace tweeted Tuesday, following BlacKkKlansman's Oscar win on Sunday.
It's not the first time Grace has worked his editing skills on Star Wars. He edited the prequels into an 85-minute movie in 2012, and inspired other fans to undertake similar projects. He also worked his magic on the overlong Hobbit trilogy last year, whittling an eight-hour experience down to two.
