The official trailer for Jon Spira’s Star Wars-related documentary has been released. The movie, Elstree 1976, revolves around the lives of 10 actors and actresses from the original Star Wars trilogy who played, for the most part, bit-roles and the effect the film’s success had on their lives.
A Kickstarter campaign for the film was started in May of 2014 by Spira and today on the 29th, Spira updated the campaign page for the first time since September to announce the release of the trailer. There is over a year’s worth of campaign updates by Spira and reading through them shows a guy that really wants to bring a story he cares about to the screen. Even more sincere than the effort is the story Spira wants to tell.
Elstree 1976 revolves around those who played smaller roles such as Boba Fett, Massassi Temple Guard, and Leesub Sirlin, yet whose lives changed forever, in both good and bad ways, after the wild success of the film and subsequent franchise. The trailer is the first visual look at Spira’s story and it’s very intriguing. Any Star Wars-related documentary, especially now with the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens release, is going to get attention from the core fan base but this one has more of a human element to it that could appeal to those outside that core.
Through the use of interviews and both old and new footage, audiences will get an inside look at the lives of oft-forgotten people behind oft-remembered characters. The juxtaposition between this intimate and grass-roots documentary and the upcoming release of the new franchise entry is thought-provoking and Elstree 1976 never seemed more relevant. While Star Wars: The Force Awakens is elevating us to new levels of excitement and anticipation, Elstree 1976 reminds us to come back to down to Earth and remember the smaller elements from the first Star Wars that helped it become so much more.
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