{"id":2797,"date":"2013-04-22T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:28:27","slug":"shadows-of-the-empire-fan-film-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/shadows-of-the-empire-fan-film-on-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Shadows of the Empire<\/em> Fan Film on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shadows of the Empire<\/em> is hands down my favorite Expanded Universe story. I feel it&#8217;s one of the only ones that really captured the essence of the other Star Wars films. Neatly sandwiched between <em>Empire<\/em> and <em>Jedi<\/em>, it filled a gap which definitely needed filling.<\/p>\n<p>It read just like one of the films. It had a great story, a really cool villain, all the usual characters (except Han who was still frozen at the time), plus enough new bits and pieces to keep it fresh and interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Those who were around and following it at the time will remember that it was a huge media blitz consisting of a book, comic adaptation, video game, soundtrack score, action figures, toys, trading cards and more. I loved the book and even interviewed the author for this site.<\/p>\n<p>So when I saw that some fan-filmmakers started a <a title=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/392447955\/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/392447955\/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> drive to make the film, my interest was naturally piqued. They&#8217;re looking to raise $10,000.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/392447955\/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/392447955\/star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire\" target=\"_blank\">Head over and check out the Kickstarter page. If you&#8217;re interested, back the project. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadows of the Empire is hands down my favorite Expanded Universe story. I feel it&#8217;s one of the only ones that really captured the essence of the other Star Wars films. Neatly sandwiched between Empire and Jedi, it filled a gap which definitely needed filling. It read just like one of the films. It had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":2798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[634,635,633,465],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-expanded-universe","tag-fan-film","tag-kickstarter","tag-shadows-of-the-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}