Watch the 5-25-77 trailer, arriving with news that the awaited coming of age indie driven by a love for Star Wars is finally getting released this month.
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Learn about 5-25-77 release plans. The Star Wars-centric coming-of-age film is finally complete after commencing production in 2004.
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Patrick Read Johnson is making a film called 5-25-77 that follows a group of kids on Star Wars' opening night. The picture is close to the finish line, but Johnson needs more money to finish it. To raise that money he's doing an unusual road show, presenting the cut as it currently stands at movie-…
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A long time ago, on an Internet that seems far far away, two Star Wars themed films were looking at major releases. There was Kyle Newman's Fanboys and Patrick Read Johnson's 5-25-77. The former was centered on the excitement looking ahead to the prequels and the latter was about how the release of the original movie shapes a…
Read MoreMike from Red Letter Media (AKA the guy who put together the epic, 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace and the 90-minute review of Attack of the Clones) has moved on past sci-fi and is now doing shorter video reviews. The newest is a twenty five minute dissection of the Patrick Read Johnson's 1994 film…
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Before Fanboys was ever announced, there was another Star Wars-themed project in the works, an indie coming of age drama titled 5-25-77 from Patrick Read Johnson (director of Angus, writer of Dragonheart). Many geeks will reccognize that date as the day that Star Wars was released in theaters. The movie went into production in 2004,…
Read MoreHere is a round up of stories that just didn't make the /Film front page, or what we like to call.... Page 2! Lobster Johnson created this custom Heath Ledger-version Joker Munny. Patrick Read Johnson has found financing to complete post production on his autobiographical indie "77," (formerly titled 5/25/77) which chronicles the director's journeys…
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