{"id":21999,"date":"2014-06-09T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2014-06-04T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T12:56:15","slug":"david-lynchs-return-of-the-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21999","title":{"rendered":"David Lynch&#8217;s <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s long been known in fannish circles that when George Lucas was looking for a director to helm <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i>, David Lynch was one of the choices he considered.*  There&#8217;s been occasional speculation about what a Lynchian take on the movie would have looked like&#8211;I&#8217;d have watched for the Ewok scenes alone&#8211;and finally someone has answered that question with a faux trailer.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"239\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PALjbTo1D5U?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PALjbTo1D5U?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*David Cronenberg was another one.  George Lucas apparently had a very odd vision of what Jedi should be like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s long been known in fannish circles that when George Lucas was looking for a director to helm Return of the Jedi, David Lynch was one of the choices he considered.* There&#8217;s been occasional speculation about what a Lynchian take on the movie would have looked like&#8211;I&#8217;d have watched for the Ewok scenes alone&#8211;and finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22016,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions\/22016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}