As viewers sat down to watch ‘Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back’
in 1980, they were shown a short film by Star Wars art director Roger Christian.
It was so mysterious and dark that many never forgot it. Its name was Black Angel.
Unfortunately, Black Angel's time in theaters was
cut short when the film inexplicably went missing. Until now!
The project began when Roger Christian, Art Director on ‘Episode IV: A New
Hope’, was given the green light by George Lucas to turn his fantasy script
into a short film. Having spent years designing droids and space stations, he
now set about creating a medieval fantasy world, the likes of which the world
had never seen before.
But then it was lost. For decades, it was thought the film had gone the way
of Han Solo, frozen in time. But then, in 2011, a negative was discovered by
complete chance, and painstakingly restored frame by frame.
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