While stuck in quarantine over the past few months, some of the most famous performers in the world worked in secret to shoot a homemade fan-film version of the classic on their phones—which will be shown on Quibi chapter by chapter, day by day, for two weeks starting this Monday.
Filmmaker
Jason Reitman devised the idea back in March, seeing it as a way to stay busy during the lockdown while raising funds for the
World Central Kitchen charity, which has been helping thousands of restaurants stay afloat during the quarantine by paying them to
provide millions of meals to the needy.
"The week that the stay-at-home order came through in California, I just woke up one of the first mornings, I think like most people did, feeling as though, All right, I need to be able to do something of value," Reitman told
Vanity Fair. "I just thought, Can we remake an entire movie at home? And I had seen that a fan-made
Star Wars had been done. I just started reaching out to actors I knew, saying, 'Is this something you'd want to do?' And the response was kind of immediate and fast. It was like, 'Oh—that sounds like
fun.'"
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