For most of you reading this, your introduction to the Star Wars saga was likely one of the films. You could have been there in ’77, when the saga first arrived. Or maybe it was the Special Editions or the prequels that brought you in. But for many younger folks, they fell in love with Star Wars thanks to the Clone Wars animated series, which ran from 2008 to 2013. The style of that series always opened in the middle of the action, with bombastic World War II newsreel-inspired narration explaining each episode’s plot.
What if instead of a crawl, A New Hope opened like The Clone Wars? Hahaha... Just Kidding… Unless? pic.twitter.com/etRLsAjgcW
— Ben (@BenCatnobi) January 27, 2022
Now, a fan using the Twitter handle Ben Catnobi has recreated the opening of A New Hope, done in Clone Wars style. Instead of the traditional text crawl, they’ve gone and done a spoken word version, just as in the cartoon. And it’s in the “1930s announcer guy” voice of actor Tom Kane, who also voiced Yoda on the show. The visuals are all from the events of Rogue One, bleeding into the opening of Episode IV. You can watch the full video above.
This A New Hope opening video is a perfect approximation of how Clone Wars always presented story information in each episode. And George Lucas’ influences are all over it. All things pertaining to World War II battles absolutely enamored Lucas from the time he was a kid. Old WWII films deeply inspired the dogfights between the X-Wings and the TIE fighters from the original trilogy.
Lucas and his Clone Wars co-creator Dave Filoni also had a deep affection for World War I history, as the Naboo fighter pilots often looked very similar to pilots of that era. And if we started on the Empire/fascist comparisons, we’ll be here all day. George Lucas and Dave Filoni exemplified all these influences most on Clone Wars. And we have a feeling they’d get a real kick out of this fan-made video.
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