"Premakes" The Empire Strikes Back (1950)

[abex701]

Image quality is too crappy for 1950... still, nice editing!

[HCShannon]

Where's Yoda?

[TheDrYes]

darth vader looks awsome in this whats he really from?

[MPZRACEVIDEO]

Great...very cool!

[Gnomechewer]

DUDE! AAAAH! Is there a word stronger than love? I [that word] this.

[thewewguy8t88]

i dont know. i mean now days people expect so much more mabye this could have worked in the 1950s but idk if it would have been as timeless

[roaringrockets]

Great!

[animalchandler]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!

[fragwagon]

Korngold makes this work.

[GeneralWildDog]

I like this Princess Leia

[somejackball]

epic!!

[zachyeah13]

@ROMPEV4GINAS finally someone else who remembers that starkiller was lukes original name

[ROMPEV4GINAS]

"luke starkiller"

[jordanesmith111]

This is brilliant.

[MrBloodbunny]

very well done!! i love it!

[KY0UJlN]

gosh...never realized just how many re-edits george had made!

[GojiAce]

Nice use of Atragon.

[50sAllTheWay]

Really gold job. I admire tiur work. I love star Wars and i love 50's movies. This is just great.

[Novelboy2112]

Luke Starkiller! Props, man.

[jprt1990]

I know he gave a list of the pieces of music but I'm not sure what was referring to what...does anyone know where i can find the music that played during the beginning opening crawl?

[LtDanw]

how was this made? is it actual photage from old 50s movies?

[SettimaLegione]

Absolutely brilliant! :D

[Aiedail506]

well thank god it didn't turn out that way.....

[mrtamnus1]

A GATOR HEAD

[3ATSH1TBITCH]

Wow

[pH4nTomPL4n3T]

Leslie Nielsen as Luke Starkiller!

[MrDynamoJoe]

Spectacular!!!

[TVwriter23]

Love that you kept Luke's original last name!

[sthenolagniac]

better than the prequels

[imdacoolestguy]

Hey dudes I heard George he is gonna make da original trilogy but in da style of Avatar n with better actors, he is determnined to break avatars record n since he hates the stupid old looking trilogy anyway he is gonna redo it with cool 3D CGI, OMG its gonna be soooooooooo cool! RaSpex.

[phoenix30223]

@imdacoolestguy

Dances with Smurfs sucks... go fuck yourself jew.

[imdacoolestguy]

@phoenix30223 Never herd of a film called Dances with Smurts, it sounds gay so u must like it HAHAHAHAHA. Why u hate jews bro? They is always been picked on, your just jealouse cuz they is smart & own all the Banks & own our Governments, u evil bad person.

[JeremyKlown]

Can someone tell me which movies the Darth vader and c-3p0 premake characters are from, like, which old movies are they from?

[porlob]

@JeremyKlown C-3PO is Maria from Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis.

[rkt739]

@porlob And R2-D2 is Omega from Der Schwiegende Stern a.k.a. First Men On Venus, or I miss my guess.

[hagerty1952]

@rkt739 - Yes, your guess hit! It's pretty severely cropped to remove the tread drive base.

[AtomicBluRadioVision]

Well, that was quite a trip through a million B-movies.

[Alexthegreatbelgian]

White Lando?

[Citan1981]

@Alexthegreatbelgian It was 1950!

[Jokerprodution]

50's not 20's

[mandrake01]

Luke Starkiller LOL!

[Citan1981]

@mandrake01 That was the original last name, but they decided that it was too "villain-like" so they changed it to Skywalker. But they did make a Charachter called Bendak Starkiller to homage the original.

[TVwriter23]

@Citan1981 Also one of the many names of Luke was Anakin.

[fenomfangx]

very well done!

[Thodore18]

omg a r2d2 tank droid

[Adom]

I love the bounty hunters!

[TheAleX1995X]

Maria from Metropolis as C-3PO! I <3 it!!!

[HardyRStudios]

ERICH KORNGOLD AND GUSTAV HOLST= THE PERFECT COMPOSERS IF STAR WARS ACTUALLY HAD A PRE-MAKE!!!!!

Man, I almost peed myself when I heard some of their classic works on this trailer since it was such a GENIUS idea. Well done sir....WELL DONE!!!

[tyro244]

Did I hear Brock Peters doing the voice work for Lord Vader? If so, where did you find that?

[Myko82]

@tyro244 Brock Peters played Vader in the radio drama adaptions of the movies.

[tyro244]

@Myko82

OOOOOOooooooooooh! LOL I own that on cassette. LOL And I never noticed it. Well, to be fair, I listen to them once all of the way through back in the 90s, so...  D'oh! LOL That makes this extra COOL! Good job! :-D

[historyeducator]

Fantastic job!

[stuvu6896]

Haha don't want to see the premake...

[narcoman2]

Brilliant. Totally what the originals were based on. Nice job!

[kashchei2003]

This was great, very creative! liked and faved!

[Videosarehere]

what is the music at the beginning

[thelyniezian]

Is this made using original '50s film clips?

[ragnarhairybreek]

Its great being able to see all the movies and shows that Lucas borrowed from :)

[BadMoodBlues]

i love the cheesy 50s laser sound effect lol

[connerspencern]

hey, it's maria (or hel) the robot! I LOVE METROPOLIS!

[mdgarciasa]

amazing!!! great job.

[scepticthinktank]

You know I've seen some of these things that are complete rubbish, but this isn't bad at all.

[pabsbigboy]

Genius!

[speedformercy]

it's retro-tastic!!

[huiale14]

Next do return of the jedi in 60's format or maybe 1950's again

[Pauluk33]

This is the worst one for cutting, looks to fake, but some of the source footage is brilliant. Ghostsbuster is the best one, you pulled that off

[squamish4244]

Wow! Great job!

[MORKOS621]

In my wildest dreams, I never thought Leslie nielsen would be Luke Skywalker.

[speedcrank]

awesome job! i recognized many of the cuts, being an old low-budget sci-fi fan...this stuff was just too fun! cg definitely has it's place, but with few exceptions,recent sci-fi and action thrillers are nothing BUT cg with not even any emphasis on character development or plot. hollywood has gotten incredibly lazy and lost it's imagination.

[2246kid]

this is fake right?

[davincent98]

The Empire Strikes Back! Coming to you in amazing 3-D... in 2016!!!

[Credesign]

Loved the idea of giving Luke his original conceived last name. Great work!!!

[oddworldoddworld]

0:38 "I can't locate this erection!"

[dreamoftheiris]

lol you nailed it this is exactly what it would have been in the 50s

[MackenzieMichael]

Pretty awesome, man!

[luis6079]

LOL!! Clever! Good job!

[BrazzuccaBR]

From which movie/series listed in the description, is the scene 0:52 .. 0:54 with the two pilots?

[thehybridxero]

Very well done!



[SteveSabbai]

...so creative i almost Sith my shorts! 

[OmegaPirate]

Creative well done who ever made it!

[MrWilliamBurdine]

hmmm suddenly spielberg isn't as impressive LOL

[JONIMASAKIS]

what is the music?! its great

[Branimir9000]

I really, really enjoyed this. As much as The Avengers "pre-make." Super! thanks.

[MaskedMan66]

If you had used anyone but the Lightning as Vader, I'd have been very worried about you! And with the voice of radio's Vader, Brock Peters no less!

[TOHOFIEND54]

cool. clips from the mysterians and atragon and did I spot one of those bat people from latitude zero?

[LaughingPsycho]

Excellent. This is exactly what it would have looked like if made back then.

The 33 folk that didn't like this are overweight virgins, who get their kicks from inserting Star Wars figures up their backsides.

[TheXtro101]

1950's era line,Darth Vader would say to Luke..."I am your Daddy-O!"

[RocktorWho]

: O Leslie Nielsen as Luke Starkiller!

[davidls11]

A Gorn at 2:17 and a Ferengi at 2:36 ?

[Mach3Gillete]

Who's the actress that played Princess Leia?

[luisp1969]

Now that was one of the coolest shit i've seen on youtube.

[Nagneto]

Which of those movies is that Darth Vader looking guy from?

[mark2bit]

I'd go to see it.. I just hope you don't decide decades later to release a special edition of this video

[Jman7718]

Wait, Luke "Starkiller"?????? Has this something to do with the Starkiller guy from "Star wars the force unleashed"?

[someguy6481]

@Jman7718

not exactly, Luke Starkiller was the original name of Luke Skywalker.

[TOHOFIEND54]

@Jman7718 That was lucas's first idea for luke's last name before he decided on skywalker.

[Aguslos80]

What is that? O_O

[aishiteimasstrify]

Korngold makes everything better !!

[ASocratesGoneMad4]

What is the music starting at around 1:29? It sounds like Star Wars, but not quite.

[adriande1]

This is fucking awesome!

[Volcano99]

Which movie does the line "I belong wherever I happen to be. I am a drifter." come from? I can't place it...

[Hypsan]

@Volcano99 That is from the fine Outer Limits episode "Second Chance", air date March 2, 1964.

A frustrated wanderer has found a temporary job: operating a mock-up of a spaceship at a carnival. However, an alien modifies the attraction into a real spaceship, and invites aboard a group of misfits, each of whom is refusing to face realities in their lives. It proceeds to get quite interesting in the last half-hour before control of our television set is finally, mercifully returned to us!

[CitanKainUzuki]

@Volcano99 I just looked it up. It's from an episode of the Outer Limits.

[narfpoit77]

You know, I think this is actually more in the spirit of the original films than the prequels were.

Also, is that Santa Clause vs. the Martians?

[someguy6481]

@narfpoit77

I was thinking the same as well, makes me want to go and watch the original trilogy.

[MrAcdcfan32]

@narfpoit77 fuck you

[spidey8vader]

brilliant, faster more intense.

[ahz123]

Very well done

[skeletonmeister]

It's funny to think that when Lucas made Star Wars, he was trying to pay homage to movies like this :)

[nicorigo]

Well done

Luke has his original too: Starkiller.

R2-D2 is actually called Arthur in Spain or Italy.

Great work.

[nicorigo]

original name, starkiller.

[BadIdeaBearCub]

@nicorigo That right, because the pronunciation of R2-D2 sounds exactly like the word Arturito in Spanish (little Arthur). An in retrospect a small robot called little Arthur sounded like a great idea. The first official dubs and subtitles of the movie had this onomatopoeic transliteration, but the purists among the fans abhorred this. This idea robot's code names sounding like human's names was used in Disney's black hole with robots V.I.N.Cent. and B.O.B.

[DevilMaster]

@nicorigo That must be in Spain, because in Italy he's called "Erre Due Di Due" (R2D2) in the prequels, and "Ci Uno Pi Otto" (C1P8) in episodes 4, 5 and 6.

[Herbarius]

hey, there was footage from Things To Come! (One of the "Wings over the World" bombers, also the "Space Gun" of the moon mission, and Oswald Cabal using his wristband communicator and rioting people in the underground city of 2036 Everytown)

Awesome, awesome movie that is, by the way, if you haven't seen it yet, you should. It's from 1936, but with nonetheless still a relevant message. Great music, thought provoking story, nice effects (for its time), ...

[immutabledude]

And C-3PO is replaced by the Machine Man of Metropolis...

[bwanasan]

This is an outstanding piece of work as well as a great homage to all the serials films AND to the genius of George Lucas!

[frozencloud17]

LOL !!! I'm gonna buy a 3D TV right now so I experience all the spectacular special effects !!!

[mmddddwwhhss]

I liked sky captain and the world of tomorrow ,This is good stuff just like the theaters I grew up with that does not make me old some of the old  movie houses are still around.They need people like you to bring the magic back to movies ,You will need some excellent Actors and thats some thing I think has already Vanished ! The studios are not here in the capacity they used to be .It's sad to say the least But lot's of good things have gone by the way side .It's all about money to the foolish.

[RavenHouseMystery]

Excellent job, recreating the old 1950s look of a space epic. I recognize footage from several different films of the era (Forbidden Planet, Outer Limits, the Starman series), but did you film any footage yourself?

[thanqualhighseer]

ah! they just didn`t make em` like this anymore.

[saiyanprince989]

Very impressive!

[vbx566]

we had color tv in 1951

[PortablePRO]

wow.... i would totally watch this, and on a side note great clips form some steller movies.

[Evangelionews2]

i would watch this

[yeeyoh]

Wow, absolutely amazing, some great work !!

[yournube]

Thank god I wasn't born in the 50's

[niteshmurti]

HAHAHA WTH!!!

[Wafgkji]

Good damn thats awesome I would pay to watch this for sure

[elderban]

Watching this makes me miss the old movies from the 40's and 50's, before Star Wars changed everything.

[Hamburgerphil]

Nice use of Korngold's "Sea Hawk".  AND the opening march from Mahler 6! Your music editor has class.

[TromboneInsano]

@Hamburgerphil Also, Holst's Mars from The Planets.

[Teleoceras]

Brilliant! Simply brilliant! KUDOS!

[Apokalypez]

Metropolis,Return of the Fly,Terror in the Midnight Sun, great clip arrangement!

[MikeBurke1974]

For me, it would have been perfect if at 2:18 he had Vader say one of my favorite lines from ESB, "No disintegrations."

[IonTorch52]

Leslie Nielsen as Luke Starkiller!!!

[SteppingWolf]

May the Power be with you!

[NevilleRhysBarnes]

Very clever.

[markstevens36]

Amazing, stunning premake of Empire Strikes Back. It looks like it would have been an amazing sci-fi movie...by 50s standards that is.

[KalElelVigilant]

A gorgeous edition and selection of trailers. Only a con: the original material an the overall flavour is more 30's than 50's :) (the Flash Gordon sequences, for example, are 39-41)

[KalElelVigilant]

A gorgeous edition and selection of trailers. Only a con: the original material an the overall flavour is more 30's than 50's :)

[unlessitsafarm]

C3PO as the robot from Metropolis xD

[cpufightclub]

Subscribed. If only these premakes were full length movies.

[Serraxor]

I would pay money to watch the whole thing this way. Seriously. Screw cutting edge 3D animation and compositing, Star Wars begs to be de-made this way!!

[fungun101]

@Serraxor not me you havent seen the originals only the special editions

[Serraxor]

@fungun101 Actually, I've seen them all. Not a fan of the series to be honest, at least, outside of the original three anyways. The Special editions were novel, but they messed a lot up with them too. Han shot first.

[GoblinXXX]

@Serraxor This is a hell of a lot closer to the spirit of the first 3 films then the damn prequels!

[Serraxor]

@GoblinXXX Word. I.m sticking to what I said before; I demand all six movies be de-made like this!

[MaskedMan66]

@Serraxor George Lucas says otherwise.

[Neville6000]

@Serraxor: This is great as a funny 'what if, and NOTHING MORE-as a real movie, it'd be a flop. SFX are supposed to go forwards, not backwards.

[Serraxor]

@Neville6000 I'd agree, but Episode I, II and III happened. From my point of view, they were all atrocious. Just my opinion though. I have a fondness for the old way of doing things. CGI just seems so... lazy.

[Thebassjunk]

@Serraxor No, hating CGI is just 'cool', right? It makes you seem better than everyone else. I agree that the prequels were atrocious and too full of CGI, but hating CGI is getting old... seriously...

[Serraxor]

@Thebassjunk Want to show me where I said that? Cause I'm pretty sure I never said I hate CGI. I review video games for a living. It would kind of be a bit contradictory, n'est pas? What I'm getting at here is that using traditional methods for the special effects for movies in today's day and age is a refreshing change of pace. "Lazy" does not = "Hate".

[Thebassjunk]

@Serraxor It's negative, either way. I do computer animation and let me tell you: it's far from "lazy", snap je? These days everyone seems to hate on CGI and most people seem to jump on that bandwagon. CGI in the prequels was just bad, too much and fake... but keep it subtle and you can do amazing things with it. Either way, it's certainly not lazy. A lot of work goes into it.

[Serraxor]

@Thebassjunk It still takes a lot more effort to do things with tangible physical objects and materials though, and the results can be a lot better than CG could ever be, giving the effects a sense of realism that computers still can't convey.

[zzyzx0788]

@Thebassjunk CGI IS lazy when overdone, its a crutch for lack of creativity. When done sparingly it can be amazing (like Where the Wild Things Are or any of the Christopher Nolan movies). Or take Jurassic Park for an instance, still incredible and organic. Lucas obviously just being lazy with CGI.

[pavo6503]

That was really good! Looks more like it was made in the 1940's rather than the 50's. I can't nitpick too much, I actually want to see this made into a full length feature.

[ealaspada]

Is that Leslie Nielsen as Luke Starkiller? Have we already covered this?

[ealaspada]

@ealaspada OH. We did. Sorry everybody.

[clampfan101]

oh, if only these where real!!! :D

[hammertoejack]

Wow. Just... wow!

[weldonwin]

Additional nerdfacts: Luke Starkiller is played by a very young Lesly Neilson

[LiquidSolidusSnake]

Wish this was real

[EllisFilm]

Brilliant usage of Gustav Holsts Planets, which obviously inspired Williams' score, on top of it all.

[dmh091]

@EllisFilm I heard Mahler, but not Holst. Were they both in there?

[EllisFilm]

@dmh091 Yeah, Mars in particular, around 58 seconds. Which of Mahler's did you hear and where?

[dmh091]

@EllisFilm Cool! 2:09 : Mahler 6!

[AnimePRFury]

... I was cool with everything. But George Lucas needs to be whacked on the head for EVER considering the name 'Starkiller'. I'd still watch this though :P

[cokewentflat]

1:20 PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW XD

[TipTopTimes]

Reckless escapades. :D

[lgndk11r]

love the bounty hunters montage!

[tami0027]

this is fantastic : )

[bordercomedens2]

Star Wars came a long way.

[mikethe4th]

lol the bounty hunters

[FamilyOfMan1975]

I just happened to stumble across your "Premakes" and I'm glad I did. They are fantastic. Keep up the good work.

[Willy105]

Great use of the King's Row theme!

[ming746]

this is great. I bet lucas would love this

[carlsetzer]

I predict an opening weekend of $85 million.

[FrictionControl]

Another job well done!

[barontang]

Most of these clips are from a movie called "Things To Come"; which is, hands down, a much better film then any of the Star Wars movies combined.

[Herbarius]

@barontang well, not most of the clips, only like 4 or 5 of them.

[charliebrown0028]

HAHAHAHAH AMA<ING AND FUNNY!