-Woo-hoo!
FELICIA DAY: Hey, everybody.
Felicia Day here.
And I've been travelling a lot the last couple of weeks.
And I came back to the office and the Geek and Sundry staff
have made a fan film about "Star Wars" to share with you
guys to celebrate May the 4th.
It's awesome.
Well, I haven't seen it yet.
I'm sure it's awesome.
Here it is.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-Vroll, vroll.
-Orange you not glad that I brought my lightsaber?
FELICIA DAY: What the [BLEEP]
was that?
Hey, guys?
Guys, can you please explain what just
happened, to our viewers?
What that was?
And why?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
RYAN COPPLE: Even though Disney has announced that
they're doing their own version of "Star Wars", we
really were looking at the IP and the love that the
community has for this property.
And we just realized, you know what, I think for our audience
we could really come up with something compelling, dynamic,
and just overall amazing.
It's a really original take.
And so I think when people see this come to life, they're
going to be like, this is the "Star Wars" they never thought
they'd see.
And definitely not the "Star Wars" that Lucas could have
ever given them.
BRENTON MURRELL: This "Star Wars" is a modern update to
the beloved franchise.
Obviously, the budget was not as big as we would have hoped.
It's a web series.
So we can't flex our muscles as much as we can.
However, we opted with--
lens flares are big right now.
We really want to do a lot of underwater stuff.
One of the best parts of the "Phantom Menace", which is
Episode One, at least in my opinion, is all
the underwater stuff.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
BRENTON MURRELL: We've got some really stellar
performances coming.
And I think people are going to be really happy with what
we're seeing.
We have some really emotional scenes.
I'm not going to say too much, but one of our favorite
characters gets in a pretty heavy situation.
And it's something worth watching.
I think it's going to get some streams.
CAROL ORSINI: I was in a space helmet.
And I kept running out of air.
But I tried to channel the feeling of claustrophobia and
lack of oxygen into the death to make it as
authentic as possible.
There were definitely a few times where I started seeing
spots and blacking out, and it was a little scary.
NICK APPELBAUM: Well, you see, when you're an actor of my
caliber, you don't really have any challenges.
You just experience the whole thing.
I'm ready.
-Can you put a shirt on, please?
NICK APPELBAUM: Mmm.
Not feeling it.
To be honest, I didn't even know it was a classic role.
NEIL MCNEIL: I really wanted to give this villain, give him
a sense of emotion.
I wanted the audience to connect with him.
And I really wanted them to drive up these deep-seated--
maybe something that they've been hiding or suppressing.
I wanted all those emotions to just bubble to the surface.
And I wanted them to get the full experience of
who this man is.
JENNI POWELL: So I had originally auditioned for one
of the roles.
Unfortunately, I didn't get it.
But they did notice on my special skills on my resume I
had listed cooking.
So they asked me to do craft services.
I found this awesome--
it's a Millennium Falcon ice cube tray.
See what it comes out like.
[LAUGHS]
My Falcon.
FELICIA DAY: I don't even know what to say.
Oh, yeah, I know what to say.
I'm not going to be traveling anymore again.
Unsupervised people filming things is not good.
May the 4th be with you.