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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith, StarWars.com looks back at a golden age of online Star Wars film promotion, when Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo reported in from the set of the final prequel film.
By Pablo Hidalgo
Ah, the memories!!
It was every fan’s dream to spend the summer on the set of Episode III. Beginning in May of 2003 — a full two years before the release of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith — StarWars.com Hyperspace members lived the next-best thing through the daily journal of the life of the production of a Star Wars film.
In celebration of the film’s 20th anniversary, StarWars.com takes a fond look back…
Looking Back at Episode III Online
It was an audacious idea; I can’t take credit for it, but I was tasked to execute it. It completely altered my trajectory at Lucasfilm as well as my relationship with Star Wars and made Revenge of the Sith a unique and major experience in my life. Looking back, 20 years after the release of that chapter, I am still amazed at what we pulled off.
Back at the beginning of 2003, my title was “Internet Content Developer.” If asked, I’d simply say I was a writer at StarWars.com — one of two at the time. It was a very small operation, and the internet of 2003 was a very different place compared to being online today. Text was king. Video was a chore. Information was one-way, and interactions were rare and hardly social…
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