Star Wars Day

May 4, 2014



Is this day the event will be celebrated - literally worldwide.  It was once coined as 'Luke Skywalker Day', but was quickly diminished by hard pressed fans,   In accordance to a insert in Wikipedia,  The Event was first organized in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2011. At the Toronto Underground Cinema Festivities.  This event included a Cosplay contest, an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show (with celebrity judges), and the web's best tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and re-mixes on the big screen.


Why the month of May,  fans will know the movie that started it all - Episode 4: The New Hope
Debuted on May 25th, 1977 and became an unprecedented phenomena, with audiences returning back in theatre to watch it again, and again.   It can also be used as a play on words.... May the force be with you.

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Though this event is in its infancy,  2014 is the year it makes its official impact on the global stage.
General reason for this belief; To begin, lets start with the most unrelated, Guy Fawkes Day, (Nov. 5); see my blog last year; Its a massive underground event comprised of about a million people in major cities around the world, who march united at a secret time and location; its an event organized by the people.  Star Wars is juggernaut culturally, spiritually, and almost academically in an event that is celebrated nearly year round at parties, conferences, on multi-media platforms, and annual conventions world wide.

The Star Wars universe just got a boost by a force bigger than George Lucas, when it was purchased by Walt Disney, whose recent umbrella of acquisitions like Marvel comics, and Pixar is Safely securing the franchise;  and the model that is  Star Wars for decades to come.  Lucas' Ranch is still  the hot bed for work on the animations and film projects.

In the years ahead we can expect a brand  new trilogy to be rolled out, and the first is to be directed by J.J Abrahams, who is a die hard Star Wars Fan.  Proof is in his movies of Star Trek,  Gene Roddenberry 's vision is space exploration and the relations and conflicts of new civilizations, as well as keeping the core cast members the focal point in that exploration.  Abrahams blew all that away and made the modern movies more reactive and action oriented with a battle or battles on a Star Wars scale, making Star Trek the testing ground on how to design and implement a movie on the level of Star Wars.

As for now, May 4th be with you.