NBC’s Saturday Night Live frequently posts cut-for-time sketches on its YouTube site, and sometimes the exclusions aren’t exactly easy to figure out. Here’s one: “Star Warriors”, an elaborate, Star Wars-themed digital short that didn’t make it to air last night.
Introduced by J.J. Abrams, the clip is designed as a trailer for a (not real) Star Wars standalone film, The Mos Eisley Five, arriving in summer of 2019. “It’s the story,” says Abrams, “of a group of smugglers hired by the rebellion who were instrumental in establishing a rebel base on Hoth.”
With just enough detail to tickle the hardcore – some of us had to Google both Mos Eisley and Hoth – the trailer begins in a cantina, with SNL‘s Mikey Day, Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson and guest host Charles Barkley dressed up like bizarro-world versions of characters everyone knows. Pete Davidson plays a captured pilot the team comes to rescue from Thompson’s Jabba-like Goba, and Alex Moffat leads a bunch of stormtroopers in a laser gun battle with the Five.
Watch the video here:
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