Star Wars Uncut
Star Wars Uncut poster by Malcolm Sutherland, 2010.
Star Wars Uncut (2010) - a crowdsourced fan remake of the original Star Wars movie.
We chopped the original film into 473 fifteen-second scenes and invited the Internet to recreate them however they wanted - animation, live action, toys, cardboard, whatever. Then we stitched all the submissions back together into a complete film.
The project was created by Casey Pugh, my co-founder at VHX. I helped build the platform and worked on the technical side.
An earlier collage poster made from contributors' scenes, 2010.
Emmy Award
In August 2010, Star Wars Uncut won a Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media – Fiction.” Casey, Annelise Pruitt, Chad Pugh and I were credited as producers. It was the first user-generated content project to win an Emmy. The New York Times covered the win.
Peabody Award
Twelve years later, in March 2022, Star Wars Uncut won a Peabody in the Co-Creation category of the digital and interactive awards.
Empire Strikes Back Uncut
We followed it up with Empire Strikes Back Uncut, which Lucasfilm debuted on the official Star Wars YouTube channel in October 2014. It drew more than 1,500 submissions and was nominated for a Streamy Award:
Links
See also: VHX, VHX Classic