Savvy Lucasfilm Supports Star Wars Video Spoofs

Posted on August 25, 2006

Fans of Star Wars spoofs and parodies on YouTube were happy when several Star Wars spoofs returned to YouTube after they had been removed. Lucasfilm said they did not request the videos to be removed. Lucasfilm also posted the following message on its blog.

Lucasfilm has been informed that YouTube recently removed from its site several fan-made Star Wars spoofs and parodies. We would like the fan film community to know that this was not done at our request.
Apparently the action was taken by YouTube as a result of a misunderstanding of a request to remove an item containing material taken from starwars.com without our permission. We have asked YouTube to restore any works that they inadvertently removed.

You can find many Star Wars spoofs on YouTube with a quick search. Stephen Colbert has also joined in the Star Wars fun with some jedi action of his own. He created a short video of himself fighting with a light saber in front of a green screen and challenged video makers to turn it into cool Jedi videos. Some of the submissions have been very good so far. Here's Colbert battling a rancor.