Comments on: A Different Steampunk Star Wars

By: Watchdog

Watchdog — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:54:17 +0000

I am a long time fan of both Star Trek and Star wars and I love steampunk. Ever since I saw the first steam wars art here I have been thinking about taking the ultimate geeky showdown (star trek vs star wars) and doing a steampunk version as a comic. I only know of the one site for star trek (www.steamtrek.com), but there is plenty to work with if I try hard enough.

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By: Emperor

Emperor — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:00:58 +0000

Yes indeed. We have put in quite a lot of thought on Steampunking Star Wars:

http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/bg-forum/index.php?topic=280.0

We threw out lots of ideas (and I even posted a quick script*) but ran into a lack of artists. If any are reading this and interested bump the thread or PM me via the forum. There is a lot of concept art knocking around but I think we can take things further than that.

* I have a couple of longer scripts but until we can get pencil monkeys… ;

By: Caine

Caine — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:57:36 +0000

I think Star Wars translates rather well to Steampunk…it wouldn’t require much change even. You’ve already got fantastical walking robots, all they need are some steam and brass plating. Jabba’s sailbarge would need very little work to fit in. Cloud City is conceptually perfect as is. Even the Death Star could be made steamy easily.

By: Emperor

Emperor — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:51:54 +0000

The art from the blog entry was part of a larger Star Trek Steampunk concept art thread that can be seen here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=477974

There is some nice work there – I loved the Boba Fett. That X-wing fighter is also great.

By: Emperor

Emperor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:16:41 +0000

I’d be very interested in doing a Steampunk adaptation of Kurosawa – the sticking point is always artist availability. I have a Samurai Steampunk comic story that was accepted a year and a half or more ago but artists are tricky to find – the current one seems to be MIA.

I am going to get the new Criterion DVD release of the Seven Samurai (the print looks lovely) and that should get me all fired up. Anyone interested can drop me a line on the forum.

Samurai 7 didn’t really do it for me I’m afraid

By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:00:25 +0000

Star Wars is derivative of a who bunch of stuff, not just Hidden Fortress, and that’s why it’s a great movie. Despite his almost complete inability to write dialogue, and his lack of personal creativity, George Lucas did a great job at synthesizing his aesthetic and narrative influences on the first movie. There is a sort of steampunk version of Seven Samurai in Japan, in the form of a cartoon with steampunk elements.

I think everything just looks better in steampunk, but the “nipples” on R2-D2 are a little weird.

By: Tinkergirl

Tinkergirl — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:49:36 +0000

Indeed Mr Fantomas, however people are inclined to do variations on that which they know, and in the west at least Star Wars is better known than the Kurosawa masterpieces that it was deeply inspired by.
It’s entirely possible, however, that there have already been Steampunk variations of both the Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress in Japan (as they are partial to their Steampunk also) but we have yet to find it over here.

By: fantomas

fantomas — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:37:39 +0000

ya…the problem with “steampunk starwars” is that starwars was basicaly a sci-fi ripoff of Kirisawa’s “Hidden fortress”.

wouldn;t it make more sense to have a steampunk “hidden fortress”?
or better yet a steampunk “seven samurai”?

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:32:45 +0000

I just saw this as well which some might be interested in…

A Map of the galaxy where Star Wars takes place:
http://www.thetrukstop.com/articles/2007/images/star_wars_galaxy_map/galaxylg.jpg