When I was 9 years old, my mum took me to see The Phantom Menace. Being one of three kids in a family where both parents worked full time, I didn’t really get to spend a lot of one-on-one time with my mum. She wasn’t interested in Star Wars at all – barely even watched movies – but she knew how much it meant to me to go see it. I loved every second of it – the new Jedi, CGI Yoda, even Jar Jar Binks. It’s a memory that I cherish. Later on, obviously, I realised that that movie is complete dogshit and a blight on both the franchise and the history of cinema.
You know what I did in response to the revelation that I didn’t enjoy it? I moved on with my life. I haven’t watched it in probably 10 or so years (last time I marathoned the original six I just decided to skip it, as the ‘Machete‘ order recommends). This approach distinguishes me from a very vocal portion of the people who, for whatever reason, decided they didn’t like The Last Jedi. Some of them petitioned for it to be struck from the existing canon. One weirdo re-edited the movie down to the 46-minutes of footage they believed to be worth keeping. Some people (who we deeply hope are taking the piss in their own inscrutable way) started a campaign to get the movie completely remade.
A bunch of non-Hollywood people accruing the $200 million necessary to wack together a Star Wars film – all the while dodging the unbelievably litigious copyright lawyers at Disney – seems like a daunting-verging-on-impossible task, but artist Fernando Reza is doing his part by helping them out with a nifty poster.
Featuring an unbelievably ripped Luke with a gun, an unbelievably ripped Kylo Ren who is also vaping, Snoke doing a slideshow of his origin story, some sort of ‘ultra Deathstar‘, and what appears to be John Boyega in a fedora looking at anime, it is truly a beautiful work of art.
My teaser poster for the Last Jedi Remake is now up in the shop. Poster done, now all we need is a script, a cast, the rights, a director, money, and talent. https://t.co/PhEdA1CHYY #RemakeTheLastJedi #JulyTheSecondBeWithYou pic.twitter.com/j8VczWNHX4
— Fernando Reza (@frodesignco) July 2, 2018
Obviously, the fans took this in a perfectly ordinary way and the feedback Reza received was calm, gracious, and normal.
Shoutout to @Kotaku for feat my Last Jedi remake poster and by doing so unleashing civil war in the comments. Reading these angry comments makes me wish there was a movie franchise that could teach us about overcoming hatred to resolve conflict. Preferably something set in space.
— Fernando Reza (@frodesignco) July 3, 2018
If this is the sort of thing you would like to put on your wall, you can buy a print here.
I would also, as an aside, like to highlight this alternative poster he did for John Carpenter‘s The Thing, which is next-level dope.
Image: Fernando Reza.
Straight to the pool room, that one.
