Star Wars: Visions Filmmaker Focus is a series of featurettes on theDisney+ streaming platform that detail the making of the2021 animated web television seriesStar Wars: Visions. EachStar Wars: Visions episode has a corresponding Filmmaker Focus featurette that goes behind the scenes on every one of the short films.[1]
TheFilmmaker Focus featurette on "Tatooine Rhapsody" included interviews with several people involved in the episode's production. DirectorTaku Kimura ofStudio Colorido, the studio which produced the short film, was interviewed inJapanese. Kimura told the interviewers that his studio recognized the centrality of music inStar Wars and wanted to remain true to the franchise's themes while also doing something original by changing the genre to rock and roll. The studio further wanted to send the message to viewers to do what you want and not be caught up in the past, which Kimura explained meshed well with the stories of bothJay andGeezer Odajion in the short film. Odajion leftJabba the Hutt'sDesilijickajidic to form a band,Star Waver, because he had a passion for music rather than crime. Jay fled theClone Wars and left theJedi Order behind to join Odajion's band, even going so far as to convert hislightsaber into amicrophone. Kimura said that conversion from weapon to instrument symbolized Jay's evolution from violence to vocals.
Also interviewed in the feature wereJoseph Gordon-Levitt, who voiced Jay in the English dub,Lucasfilm's vice president of franchise content and strategyJames Waugh, Lucasfilm executive producerJosh Rimes, and Lucasfilm producerJacqui Lopez. Gordon-Levitt said he is a huge fan of bothStar Wars and anime and that to him, creativity means finding a centered place in oneself where you feel powerful by creating something. The character Jay has moments like that in the short film, and Gordon-Levitt loved voicing Jay as a character with the combination of music, creativity, andthe Force. Waugh told interviewers that "Tatooine Rhapsody" is a great story about a band that needs their friend back. Lopez said Lucasfilm was at first surprised to hear Studio Colorido's pitch for aStar Warsrock opera, but they loved what it evolved into. Rimes says the short film is a story of heartfelt friendship, and believes Star Waver exemplifiesStar Wars' core theme of a "found family."[2]
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