Star Wars Abridged

Star Wars Abridged
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

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

Background

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

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

• 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

• Star Wars Abridged on YouTube
• Star Wars Abridged on IMDb

Preceded by The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17

PWN Videos December 27, 2017

Succeeded by

Cast Members
Preceded by The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17	Ari Froehlich Star Wars Abridged	Succeeded by
Preceded by The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17	Wes Davies Star Wars Abridged	Succeeded by
Preceded by The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17	Nick Geoghegan Star Wars Abridged	Succeeded by
Preceded by The Last Jedi Review - PWN 17	Lucan Stargiotti Star Wars Abridged	Succeeded by