Posted on the Web, Troops draws a phenomenal number of hits each day 3.
Star Wars producer George Lucas has announced his own enthusiasm for the short. As a result, he is fielding offers, from companies like Dreamworks, to finance his first feature film. Rubio’s film made imaginative and resourceful use of computer graphics work as well as those found in most big budget productions. In a sly wink towards Fargo, one of the stormtroopers speaks with a noticeable Minnesota accent. Troops spoofs Star Wars by offering a Cops-like profile of the stormtroopers who do the day-in, day-out work of policing Tatoone, settling domestic disputes, rounding up space hustlers, and trying to crush the Jedi Knights.
8-9.ĢIn Spring 1998, a two page color-spread in Entertainment Weekly profiled aspiring digital filmmaker Kevin Rubio, whose 10 minute, $ 1,200 film, Troops, has attracted the interests of Hollywood insiders 2.
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