What happened to 5-25-77?

Yeah, I've been wondering this. I was really excited about this movie.

There was a preview with a significant portion of footage in August sponsored by the Lake County Film Festival in Illinois, and according to Patrick Read Johnson, they haven't set a release date yet, though it will be next year some time.

I asked about this film in another thread a few months ago. A fellow chewer directed me to the film's site: 5-25-77. Though not updated since April, it contains a decent amount of material.

Release it already.

I guess it was shown at Celebration IV to mixed reviews. I'm still reservedly excited about it. There's a "review" up at AICN which makes it sound much better than I thought it was going to be.

As an unapologetic Star Wars fan (well, OT anyway), I would have seen it anyway, but I really like this newest information.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32955

My girlfriend was describing a John Francis Daley movie she had watched (turns out it was Waiting, which I've never seen), but a for a split second I thought she was gonna tell me she'd seen this ( I believe I actually exclaimed, "That Star Wars Movie"?!). I'd totally forgotten about this movie till now and after remembering it I went straight to Netflix, but alas it looks like it never came out. 

 

I just re-watched the trailer and it has a more lighthearted Super 8-ish kind of nostalgia, and I'm really bummed it hasn't been released.

 

Any news about what happened with this movie?  Was it ever actually finished?

Are you talking about Fanboys?  It came and went.  It was... nothing of note.

 

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Fanboys-Blu-ray/1236/#Review

Nah, this is a different movie.

 

Here's the trailer:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSlsxKjVVFU

 

Huh... I guess I'd always confused the two movies.  My mistake.  I've never even seen that trailer despite the fact that I'd heard the title 5-25-77 before. 

 

I guess it's just called '77 on IMDB. 

 

EDIT:  Doing some googling on the topic.  It's like a sci-fi fantasy version of Kenneth Lonergan's situation with Margaret.   ... but not really.  Hahahaha

"Fanboys" is interesting for what could have been.  It's a film that was mutilated through executive meddling.  According to this interview with the director, the version of the film on DVD is as close as we'll ever get to the original cut but it is ridiculously obvious which scenes survive from the original version and which scenes were ordered from the executives; there are whole swathes of subplot (hello Trekkies) that make zero sense unless you ignore them.

 

As far as 5-25-77 or '77, the trailer looked really sweet and nostalgic and interesting... and also implied that the movie was going to perpetuate something that drives me up the wall. 

 

Dear Hollywood, female fantastic fiction fans exist.  Women do not dislike "Star Wars" by default (and indeed, it is time for talk show hosts to stop acting like it is a Big Deal if a pretty actress likes "Star Wars"; at this point this means next to nothing and it'd be a bigger deal if an interviewee did not like "Star Wars").  Female geeks are not mythical beings; please stop making me and my fellows feel alienated.  Thank you.