George Lucas is a time traveler and I actually wrote Star Wars | Chris & Jack

Is George Lucas' Star Wars the product of time travel plagiarism? Wow. In honor of May the Fourth, we present to you a very true accounting of the history of the Star Wars movies. All the characters you know and love-- Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, Rey and Kylo Ren, Han Solo and Chewbacca, The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda, Porkins and Baby Admiral Akbar, Yoda, Darth Vader, Rey, Boba Fett, Baby Baby Yoda (an even younger one) -- were they all created by someone else? In the future? And then a bunch of sci-fi stuff happened and George Lucas pretended to write Star Wars? Wow.

Deleted scenes, outtakes, director commentary and so much more up on our Patreon:

We're Chris W. Smith and Jack De Sena (aka Chris & Jack). We've been friends for years and love making high-quality, high-concept sketch comedy. Chris was a Blue Man in Blue Man Group. Jack voiced Sokka in Avatar the Last Airbender. In 2016 we united to create this channel, confusingly titled “Chris & Jack”, which has served as a shared platform to write, produce, direct, edit, and star in our own stuff. We're releasing comedic sketches of all shapes and sizes the first and third Friday of every month. Sci-Fi, Heists, animation, movie tropes, absurdist bits, and plenty of fun new experiments. But above all else, friendship.

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CAST:

George Lucas - Jack De Sena
Kenneth - Chris W. Smith

CREW:

Written/ Directed/ Produced by - Chris & Jack
Edited by - Chris W. Smith
Director of Photography - Anthony Kuhnz
Gaffer - Chris Wehba
Sound - James Salini
Thumbnail design by - Matthew Ramirez
Additional artwork by - Brendan Rice

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[ChrisandJack]

Confession: we're time travelers ourselves, and came back in time after stealing this premise from a great youtube sketch duo who we can't name for legal reasons. 

So tell us, what would you time-travel-plagiarize if you had the chance?

Winner gets sent back in time.

[thedoctordallin]

Describing the varying quality of Star Wars media as being the result of a time traveler's imperfect recollections of a better franchise is honestly pretty accurate

[TheHappyKamper]

When time travel becomes a thing, I'm totally coming back to steal this skit idea.

[AbbreviatedReviews]

In the original Kenneth Bell movie, they fell into a trash incinerator rather than a compactor, but in the mid 70s, Towering Inferno was so popular that George felt he had to change it and created the iconic trash compactor scene in the process.

[MKzing]

Jack fits...strangely well as George Lucas.

[JB-ufnn]

I like the idea that george didnt steal star wars just invented a holograph projector and picked on poor chris just to mess with him

[julianemkow]

It literally just dawned on me today that George Lucas saw a time machine, decided to travel back in time to make Star Wars, and didn’t check his facts. Like, he didn’t buy a dvd of it or anything, he just said ‘why not?’ And did it. He didn’t even watch it first, he raw dogged it from memory

[hjohnson]

YOU'RE TELLING ME GEORGE LUCAS COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9/11 BUT HE CHOSE TO MAKE ATTACK OF THE CLONES INSTEAD?!?!

[tichu]

"premieres in 2 hours". Too bad I'm not a time traveller.

[bneymanov]

Weird, but the movie "Yesterday" was incepted very similarly. Jack Barth, a non-accomplished writer thought to himself once, that he would probably not be able to attain massive success even if he wrote Star Wars. Someone has been traveling in time.

[CorvetteAustin]

July Sixth Park, a classic Georgie original. All in due time, of course.

[CartoonyAndor]

I love how the semi-accurate George Lucas “accent” just kinda progressively disappears lol

[auraphine]

That Star Wars screen swipe caught me off guard and made me burst out laughing.

[NeatCoolOkay]

You’re not going to believe this, but I always had this weird feeling like Chris wrote Star Wars.

[Unalochy]

I appreciate the Mistborn trilogy on the bookshelf when George sits down 👏

[timopper]

I love that the Failure to Launch script ends up being basically like giving Kenneth a lottery ticket that doesn’t win.

[yoda]

2:28 i kinda like how much it fixes to put the prequels first, 3 decent movies building to a really strong second trilogy, and presumably chris never sold off to disney so his starwars wouldve stopped at 6, in which case the entire franchise would probably be remembered as really good

[C.L.Hinton]

Makes as much sense as anything. Memory problems could explain the differences in quality between the original trilogy and the prequels.

[caliber]

I knew it. I've always looked at Chris and thought "I bet the world would have been amazing if he wrote Star Wars...if only."

[Imperial_Squid]

Y'know, for the longest time I felt I had all these sketches just building up inside of me, all about like satirising heist films and spy films, maybe one about the idea of reliving a day over and over again (that one felt like it would be really popular)...