Star Wars Abridged

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Star Wars Abridged
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Basic Information
  Release date December 27, 2017
  Runtime 3m23s
  Series Sketches
Cast and Crew
  Directed by: Nick Geoghegan
  Written by: Wesley Davies
Ari Froehlich
Nick Geoghegan
Lucan Alto Stargiotti
  Edited by: Nick Geoghegan
  Starring: Wesley Davies
Ari Froehlich
Nick Geoghegan
Lucan Alto Stargiotti
Links
YouTube


Star Wars Abridged is a short, comedic sketch uploaded to PaulWesNick on December 27, 2017. It features a series of over-simplified and heavily parodied Star Wars title drops for every live action Star Wars film yet released. The sketch stars Wesley Davies, Ari Froehlich, Nick Geoghegan, and Lucan Stargiotti.

Description[edit | edit source]

The group systematically makes their way through each live action episode of Star Wars, condensing the plot into a few simple sentences, with the punch line for each being a title drop.

Wesley says the titular line each time.

Behind the Scenes[edit | edit source]

Background[edit | edit source]

Filmed on the same day as PWN 17. The idea came about as the group took a break from filming to recharge the camera. While waiting, they filmed two sketches. The idea for Star Wars Abridged was created almost on accident. In the PWN itself, a joke is made about the Salt Planet of Crait, where it is suggested that the soldier who ate the sand very well could have eaten cyanide instead.

Going off of that, Wes was confused on how to start the video, and jokingly suggested opening with a soldier saying “I sure am sick of the Star Wars”. Ari and Wes continued to build on this, and the group decided the idea was worth trying out on its own: a sort of title drop compilation.

The whole video was improvised and shot in less than an hour.

Cast[edit | edit source]

The following table details the role of each actor scene by scene.

Episode Nick Lucan Ari Wesley
Episode I Camera Jobi Flan Cannoli Sith Lord Slim Nissan
Episode II Bottle Druid Jedee Camera Mace Windshoe
Episode III Camera N/A Jobi Flan Cannoli Shamalam
Rogue One Camera Gin Ursula Pilot Man Guy
Episode IV R-Dos Camera Duke Landstormer Princess Leyley
Episode V Camera The Empire Duke Landstormer Yode
Episode VI Camera Genghis the Neon Duke Landstormer Princess Leyley
Episode VII Rave Black Camera Maze O’Canada
Episode VIII Rave Camera Duke Landstormer Frog Nun
SWHS Camera N/A Pumpy the Space Elf Ham Solo

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Ari mistakenly changes his character’s name to “Duke Skystormer” in Episode VI.
  • The group contemplated making a joke about te as of yet unreleased Star Wars Episode IX, where a character would say, “Look out, it’s Star Wars Episode Nine!”, though this was rejected from the final product.
  • Lucan accidentally created the dumb parody names when he said “Mace Windshoe” when speaking to Wes. The joke stuck.
  • A clip from the video, featuring the Attack of the Clones parody, is featured in Crazy Crab's video, "Star Wars Episode IX Crawl & Predictions (Parody)", posted June 30, 2018.

See Also[edit | edit source]

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The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17
PWN Videos
December 27, 2017
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Cast Members
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The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17
Ari Froehlich
Star Wars Abridged
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The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17
Wes Davies
Star Wars Abridged
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The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17
Nick Geoghegan
Star Wars Abridged
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The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17
Lucan Stargiotti
Star Wars Abridged
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