(courtesy First Showing (c) Disney+)
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LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a “four-piece” animated special. The entire Star Wars galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling (voiced by Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact called the Cornerstone found within a hidden Jedi temple. He finds himself thrust into adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good, and the fate of all depends on Sig becoming the hero who can help put all the pieces back together. LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a 4-episode one-off Star Wars Special executive produced by and showrun by animation filmmakers Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit both writers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, The Addams Family 2, Koala Man and Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion. Featuring episodes directed by Chris Buckley. Produced by Daniel Cavey & Dan Langlois. Executive produced by Hernandez & Samit, James Waugh, Jacqui Lopez, Josh Rimes, Jill Wilfert, Jason Cosler, and Keith Malone. (courtesy First Showing)
One of the happiest creative marriages of recent times has been LEGO with just about any major pop culture franchise.
But the one nearest and dearest to my heart would have to be LEGO and Star Wars, a coming together of zeitgeisty creative energy that is funny, clever and enormously entertaining to watch.
The joy of their latest collaboration, LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, is that they have literally Mirror Universe’d the galaxy far, far away – yes, yes, I know that’s a reference from other major sci-fi franchise but unlike some I love them both equally for different reasons – and the result looks absolutely wonderful.
As First Showing observes, this four-part special offers some real off-the-wall treats …
This is like Marvel’s What If, but for Star Wars – including Ewok bounty hunters, Geonosian Jedi, and, amazingly, Darth Jar Jar voiced by Ahmed Best, along with the Dark Falcon, and much more.
Doesn’t that sound fun?! Yes it galactically does and just how much fun will become clear on 13 September when Disney+ begins this trip into the Star Wars unknown!