Fans Boys sounds like a film designed specifically for my friends and I. It appears that The Weinstein Company is getting themselves ready to do a film that they will indeed call “Fan Boys”.
The good folks over at Cinema Confidential give us these details about the project:
The film will follow a group of hardcore Star Wars fan boys who set out to take their dying friend to Skywalker Ranch to see the movie in a perfect setting before he passes away.
Just give the Oscar to this film right now. Clearly this is visionary filmmaking at it’s very best!!! (Ok I’m a little biased).
I’m a pretty lucky guy. As a “Fan Boy” myself, I’ve already made my pilgrimage to Skywalker Ranch, stood inside the theater that they mention above and bask in the glory that is LucasFilm. These experiences have made me the envy of just about all my friends (and yes… we are all geeks. Why do you ask?). So a film about this instantly gets my attention.
The only question I have is… could a project like this one actually have a wide enough market appeal to be successful? Not all Star Wars fan are “Fan Boys”. I guess a lot will deepened on the story itself and how well they pull it off. Oh well… I’ll be there to see it for sure. Maybe I’ll even see it at the ranch. :P
