With mere days to go until Disney and Lucasfilm unleash the final film in the Skywalker Saga, anticipation is running high. However, if you've already watched the trailer and clips a million times, there's a very entertaining variation on YouTube that is much funnier.
A group of creators calling themselves Dumb Drum have recreated the trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with what looks like a budget of about a buck and a half.
The medium is popularly known as "sweding," based on the 2008 comedy Be Kind, Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def remake classic movies for their video store.
Highlights of the sweded version of Rise of Skywalker include a backyard battle with Kylo Ren, complete with Stormtroopers that simply have painted boxes on their head, as well as a BB-8 droid that appears to be made out of paper mâché. Lando Calrissian, so memorably portrayed by Billy Dee Williams, is just another actor with a taped-on mustache.
The fan-made trailer is entertaining in its own right, but for a deeper dive, you can check out the Dumb Drum's side-by-side comparison of the sweded version and the original trailer—at least until Disney's lawyers get word of it.
Directed and co-written by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker stars Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyong' o, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, with Ian McDiarmid and Billy Dee Williams. The film arrives in theaters on Dec. 20.