Star Wars Holiday Special Documentary To Premier At SXSW

My obsession with the Holiday Special is not so secret, and it's not due to ironic appreciation. I saw it when it aired. Therefore nostalgia explains a big portion of my inexplicable fascination, and it's not just nostalgia for the "special presentation" itself. It's also about having witnessed Lucasfilm's Butt Fumble. For this reason, I was thrilled when Collider reported that the Holiday Special documentary, named A Disturbance in the Force, will debut at SXSW. They write:

One of the most infamous relics from the galaxy far, far away, is the Star Wars Holiday Special given how highly it was criticized by many fans. Now a new documentary, A Disturbance in the Force examining “how and why did the Holiday Special got made,” will soon premiere at the upcoming SXSW, Comicbook reports.

One of the producers is Star Wars super fan Adam F. Goldberg. If you've seen the outstanding episode of The Goldbergs where Adam gets a bootleg copy of the Holiday Special, you know that the source material is in capable hands. George Segal's eulogy of the Special to a devastated Adam was so perfect that it actually helped me come to better terms with the PT.

I'm as excited about A Disturbance in the Force as the Ahsoka series, and that's saying something. You can visit the official site of the documentary HERE.

Of course no Holiday Special article would be complete without embedding it. Watch at your own risk:

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