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Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Backyard (aka TESBY)

Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Backyard (aka TESBY) poster
Release Date 6 May 2000
Budget £900
Production Time 7 months (9 days principal photography plus 2 days pickup filming)
Rating BSE - Better Special Effects, although there are some dodgy bits, but we'd like to see you do better
Obi Wan senses a disturbance in the Force and leaves, with his padawan, Anakin Skywalker, for a journey across the galaxy to find our what it is...

Background

Made in 1999 and released in 2000, The Empire Strikes Backyard is a spoof story based upon George Lucas’s phenomenally successful Star Wars. It is preceded by a short “mockumentary” giving a comical insight into how Episode II might have been made.

Filmed at RAF Innsworth, Gloucester, UK, BYP utilised the help of local volunteers as well as a small prosthetics company called Behind the Mask whose biggest contribution was the Darth Maul make up and horns.

The story is cliché but the special effects were impressive at the time of making – especially since the film cost less than £1000 to make.

The gags should appeal to both Star Wars fans and those who are not fortunate enough to have experienced these marvellous films.

TESBY Galleries

TESBY – Premiere TESBY – Premiere

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TESBY – Mockumentary TESBY – Mockumentary

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TESBY – Filming TESBY – Filming

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TESBY – Set TESBY – Set

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Backyard Movie (TESBY)

Obi Wan senses a disturbance in the Force and leaves, with his padawan, Anakin Skywalker, for a journey across the galaxy to find our what it is…

Made in 1999 and released in 2000, The Empire Strikes Backyard is a spoof story based upon George Lucas phenomenally successful Star Wars. It is preceded by a short mockumentary giving a comical insight into how Episode II might have been made.

Filmed at RAF Innsworth, Gloucester, UK, BYP utilised the help of local volunteers as well as a small prosthetics company called Behind the Mask whose biggest contribution was the Darth Maul make up and horns.

The story is cliche but the special effects were impressive at the time of making – especially since the film cost less than £1000 to make.

The gags should appeal to both Star Wars fans and those who are not fortunate enough to have experienced these marvellous films.

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Comments

9 Responses to “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Backyard Movie (TESBY)”

  1. JediMasterKadin on December 10th, 2008 2:04 pm

    [..YouTube..] lol, I couldn’t believe the laughs that caused me.

  2. mabbott4 on January 9th, 2009 4:05 pm

    [..YouTube..] omfg thats a great yoda impression

  3. vinnielegostudios on June 19th, 2009 6:30 am

    [..YouTube..] Why is this called The empire strikes backyard?

  4. luvstarwars on July 5th, 2009 7:41 pm

    R U kidding that was so totally amazingly hilarious

  5. jem8472 on September 24th, 2009 6:41 am

    [..YouTube..] I am glad this is on youtube its great!

  6. EvAninfinity on February 10th, 2010 8:31 am

    [..YouTube..] apparently, i believe that they had mor props in the new clones……still good:-)

  7. Sonny on April 12th, 2010 5:38 pm

    Hello… could you seed please?:)

  8. Ed on May 11th, 2010 9:22 pm

    There are now direct-download links at the bottom of the TESBY details (before the full width video) for a multipart zip containing an ISO image of the TESBY DVD. Let us know if you have any trouble downloading it.

  9. OzzyJ0 on June 20th, 2010 11:49 pm

    [..YouTube..] where was master windu he wasnt a master?

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