Star Wars Is Reimagined as an Old Western in New Fan Posters
An artist on Instagram has reimagined Star Wars in the vein of classic Western films in a new series of fan-made posters, replacing their central characters with popular Star Wars ones, including Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Production is currently underway on an Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series for Disney+ which will see Ewan McGregor reprise his role as the Jedi Master alongside Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader and Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse as Owen and Beru Lars—Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle. McGregor first took on the role of Obi-Wan in 1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, playing a younger version of the character originally portrayed by the late Alec Guinness. Most recently, McGregor reprised the role as one of the many voices speaking to Rey in 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
The Star Wars franchise itself is no stranger to crossovers with Westerns, and in many ways its origins share a tenuous connection to the genre. Many aspects of the original film feature Western elements, particularly in the gunslinging smuggler Han Solo, though the blending of elements has materialized most frequently in the various Star Wars TV series. Both The Clone Wars’ season 2 episode "Bounty Hunters," which sees Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan form an alliance with a group of bounty hunters to defend a small settlement, and The Mandalorian’s season 1 episode "Sanctuary," which follows a similar plot, serve as clear homages to the classic 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven.
The Star Wars posters are part of a series that the artist, Scadarts, was inspired to create after reading comments on Reddit about The Clone Wars’ Cad Bane being featured in a Spaghetti Western style poster. The comments prompted them to re-work the poster for Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars to include Bane, with the movie now appropriately renamed A Fistful of Credits. While the most recent posters in the series feature Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Maul, and Jabba the Hutt as the principal characters in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sergio Corbucci’s Django unsurprisingly stars Jango Fett. Check out all three posters below:
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The artist is no stranger to blending popular culture with art, having previously reimagined classical paintings in a similar fashion. Past works have included replacing the subject of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring with Padmé Amidala. Scadarts even previously superimposed a younger version of Star Wars' Leia Organa onto a military portrait of a general, smartly foreshadowing her eventual status as a general of the Resistance in the sequel trilogy. The new posters, however, remain some of the artist's most impressive work so far as they excellently fit the characters they are portraying, especially Obi-Wan and Darth as the titular "Good" and "Bad" considering they are a pair of enemies most beloved by audiences.
Cad Bane is perhaps the character that fits best, however, as he represents one of the most notable Western crossovers in the entire franchise. His design itself is a clear homage to Lee Van Cleef's character Angel Eyes from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Bane is also considered one of Star Wars' most dangerous bounty hunters in the galaxy and even trained Boba Fett after Jango’s death. Most recently, an older version of the character has re-emerged in The Bad Batch series on Disney+ where he was bested by Fennec Shand.
Scadarts has suggested that the most recent poster – the Django reimagining – may be their last. Considering the large amount of iconic Western films and posters out there, as well as the rich lore of the Star Wars universe, here’s hoping that more amazing art in a similar vein is on the way.
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July 02, 2021 at 12:01AM
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posted by Puram arjun @ July 02, 2021
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