Shadows Of The Empire - A Star Wars Retrospective
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Shadows of the Empire was a 1996 Star Wars multimedia Lucasfilm project which offered all the fanfare of a movie release without the movie. Consisting of a N64 video game, a book, comic series, toy line, role playing game, soundtrack and more it paved the way for modern Star Wars projects and marketing. It's a pretty long video. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks for the patience on this one, it was a long time coming. Any suggestions for the next project?
Mr Sunday Movies loved your Deathly Hallows pt. 1 deep dive. Do something similar to that!
I liked this so well I want you to do it again lol
hey is there anywhere we can check out the animated/narrated clips on their own?
Read all the book titles you coward!
I'd love to see a deep dive on what went wrong with the Andrew Garfield spider-man movies.
okay, those cg recreations are honestly incredible. without a doubt the best bit of star wars content that ever came out of shadows of the empire
Damn, thanks mate! :)
@@lemathmath awesome job man !
Thanks so much guys :D
Nognaught I agree! They looked like something done by NetherRealm Studios!
@@lemathmath killed it man!
It's incredible that Steve Perry was able to write all those novels while being the lead singer of Journey
"I should've been gone..."
I know it's not journey, but Oh Sherry is an awesome song.
Don’t you know that ‘Don’t stop believing’ is about Anakin and Padmae?
@@lucienwmoon too soon 😂
He should of stuck to writing, his music and voice were terrible .
@@DashingPunkSamurai imagine just shit talking on a comment that was a joke, if you're as old as your username implies, grow up or start a forum, no one asked your opinions on the band/artist.
Coruscant appeared visually in Star Wars Tie Fighter in 1994. It was called Imperial Center, like in Dark Empire.
Amazing video.
Yeh, like how Luke just calls it "the Imperial planet" in Dark Empire. I think they had placeholder names but those were rarely used outside the literature. I don't remember if the X-Wing novels were released before or after this, but I think they refer to it as Coruscant. Man, TIE Fighter was such a cool game.
Coru-skant
@@youwayo Cut, let's try it again
Good to see you, Eck! Also yeah, I think the EU got around this by saying that Coruscant was renamed to "Imperial Center" after the Empire rose to power, then it was renamed back to Coruscant once the New Republic took over. TIE Fighter and X-Wing were excellent games, and I loved the cutscenes back then (I was a young kid at the time).
@@Turd_Rocket They were released about the same time, those books. Though Coruscant was used as a name from 1991.
This video was excellent! Love learning the behind the scenes of Lucasfilm when it comes to the creation of multi-media projects and their later influence in future Star Wars projects. Hope to see something similar done of the Clone Wars multi-Media project!
The N64's storage may have been a limitation at the time, though the artwork filling in for cutscenes has aged a hell of a lot better than the animated cutscenes in the PC version.
12 meg's of N64 power.
Who else is excited for MaClunky: A Star Wars Story?
In the end and the beginning there was only MaClunky
MaClunky sounds like an Irish, or Scottish name.
Perhaps "Maclunky" is Star Wars version of "Rosebud".
To be honest, I would watch the hell out of a Greedo movie.
I hope McDonalds gets a McClunkey sandwich at some point. That would be wonderful.
This is still my favorite Star Wars story outside of the original trilogy. The novel and the N64 game are amazing and Dash Rendar is one of the best Star Wars Legends characters. Great video.
Ah the fabled Sunday Magnum Opus.
*Turns on my chair whilst stroking a cat*: I've been waiting for you
The real Magnum Opus is
SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
THE LAST COMMAND
DARK FORCE RISING
TIE FIGHTER...
Is "cat" code for penis?
@@sanderflop Can you remember what episode that was in? I'd love to hear it again!
Sam Trotter I think it was an episode from late December last year. Do not know which though
@@sanderflop do you expect me to talk?
About midiclorians
The quality of this artwork is insane. I’m setting a new goal to his this kind of level. :o
Thanks mate :)
I was convinced as a 10 year old that the Star Wars movies were called:
A New Hope
Shadows of the Empire
Return of the Jedi
Same here, shadows was my first exposure to the Star Wars universe, so when I saw the original trilogy I was like "OH NEAT THESE MUST BE SUPPLEMENTAL"
I thought I remembered a trailer and a title card for SOTE as well. Mandela Effect at its best.
I thought there was 9 chapters in Tottal the last 3 being Shadows of the empire
Dude, as a nine-year old I was such a huge fan of origonal recipe Star Wars, I held out hope that they'd make this into show or movie until the release of Phantom Menace. Shadows of the Empire like validated my outdated nerd obsession back then, since of course I saw Star Wars by checking it out from the city library. 😆 So, before Shadows of the Empire almost nobody knew what the hell I was talking about because everybody loved Ninja Turtles.
@@YoungWizO7 there was a trailer for shadows that was made to look like a movie trailer. They took it down because they were afraid it would confuse people .he discussed it in the video
What an amazing video! I am so grateful to be included in this, thank you so much! Seriously, this is such a great distillation of info and entertainment. Great work all around!
Gonna leave a comment just to show that I appreciate the work Mr.Sunday put into the video
Good on you. But who is James Put?
Im gonna interact with your comment just to show that I appreciate the work James put into the video
@@vanidemo James Put?
@@FilmScoreandMore sorry bro better now?
@@FilmScoreandMore repeating your joke twice doesnt make it funny
Ahh back when the Martian Manhunter was part of the empire.
After seeing this fantastic vid I realized why Rise of Skywalker Just didn't work for me. I realized that you cannot have the emperor without Darth Vader. That dynamic is absolutely necessary because both of them are half a characters. Only together are they really this individual that comes to life. It doesn't matter that they're hardly ever together in the original movies only that they both are there.
In fact I think the real reason vader died in the end was because he figuratively AND literally killed half of himself in the act of saving luke.
Been waiting for this for a while and it didn’t disappoint, great work
What is this, a crossover episode?
I will says this about Shadows of the Empire:
It's definitely a piece of fiction that's part of the Star Wars franchise
Oh my goodness, you're right.
And that's.....
The tooth...
Can’t argue w that
We can’t argue with that
That's so deep, man
Loved this video. I always love seeing people go over the concept art for these kinds of projects, it’s really inspiring.
Thanks mate, really glad you enjoyed it!
This was fascinating - having not lived through this, I had no idea there was this level of fanfare around SotE. This video was awesome, and a huge achievement, really great stuff.
Shadows of the Empire is my favorite Star Wars EU story of all-time!
Shadows Of The Empire would be a great standalone movie!
Could easily be pushed into a trilogy of its own.
@@mrillis9259stop it.
@@SineN0mine3 lol
Not in disneys hands, nope
This video is too amazingly dedicated I can’t fathom, I didn’t expect a video this long to be this amazing, well played
This is it. The big one. The one we’ve all been waiting for.
I spent my whole life thinking I was playing as Han Solo on the N64.
Apparently you never watched/read one the game's cutscenes, since one of the first cutscenes shows your character talking to Han Solo. So yeah...you're an idiot.
@@DiamondDead "you're an idiot because your (probably) child self didn't notice or remember something from years ago"
Yeah okay
@@DiamondDead You were a kid once too. It's possible for someone to only play a game as a child and then never again and have a memory such as this, misidentifying the character. No reason to call someone an idiot. Also, let's be fair, he's basically Han Solo anyway.
It was probably on purpose. They don't really give him non Han Solo characteristics and what legit gamer watches cutscenes?
I didn't speak English as a child and yet played tons of games not translated. I see this happening to me as well.
This may have taken you a while, but I got to say I just love long form content from you. This was interesting and entertaining so thank you for all the hard work on it!
By far one of my favorite videos on this channel, right next to Corn of Coblin. Keep up the great work
I'm in my 30s so I devoured anything and everything SotE. The game, comic, figures, novel, all of it.
It was truly the Clone Wars of it's time.
I think ol' Dash Rendar (bargain bin Solo that he was), Xizor, the Bounty Hunter Wars, ect...deserves a comeback. At the very least should be made Canon.
Xizor might be
Your in your 30's now? I'm about to be 30 and I dont remember this but those extra yrs you got on me must be why I'm 3 yrs older than my girlfriend and sometimes when I talk about shit from the 90's she acts like I'm from another planet Haha
@@Drawnartist thanks for the life story, we really needed to know you're three years older than your girlfriend. It made my day
@@cercazas a cisgendered pastafarian with level 99 lumberjack, please accept my gracious thanks for endeavouring to post this comment. It truly was the highlight of my admittedly short morning to learn how you felt about somebody else's RUclips comment. For you see, I have not seen the sky not touched grass in many months and these fleeting communicaes from distant and strange web dwellers are the sole way in which I can escape the endless ennui that exudes from every edge of this basement. How I long to be like the surface dwellers, having "relationships" and "lives".
For now I must vicariously consume these things from afar.
I honestly can’t believe this video doesn’t have more views. It might be my favorite from this channel, which is already my favorite channel. And it’s one of the best Star Wars videos I’ve ever watched. Excellent work all around.
I think it would be interesting to see Dash make a return in the Mandalorian season 2.
Add my boy Durge to Mandalorian as well
Ive always thought Bill Pullman would make an excellent Dash Rendar. Give him some fading brown salt and pepper hair and i think he could pull it off and timeline would probably still work
Oh hell yes 🙏
He's in the first episode or at least someone that looks just like him hes the first carbon frozen prisoner you see in the spaceship
@@NICKRITZER absolute genius casting mate. 👍 Everyone goes on about Krasinaki and Blunt as Mr Fantastic and Sue Storm but THIS is tops.
I am clapping. Great video!! I love it when you do these type of longer, more informative videos.
Dug this video so much that it inspired me to write my first RUclips comment ever. I would love to see more long-form videos and projects like this moving forward!
Can’t get over how well produced this video is. All of the visuals, wow
A 34 minute Mr. Sunday Movies video? So happy right now.
YOU & SAL WORKED TOGETHER! That made my heart soar & I was filled with that wonder of Star Wars when you talked about how much fun this was & who all worked on it. I loved this.
Awesome video - absolutely loved the Vader meditation stuff! Really brought back how I used to think of Vader being dark and scary when I was a kid
I was really looking forward to this and you didn't disappoint. Shadows was a huge part of my childhood and will always hold a place in my heart. Thanks for the great video!
Joel McNeely is such an underrated composer. Sad he's never had more of a career.
I often wonder when people say this, as he was very successful relative to most in his field if he just didn't want more success.
Like he could probably live quite comfortably off of residuals, if he's made sensible financial choices he may have no need to work.
I mean so many people fall in the category of "under appreciated artist" yet so many of the massively successful people in Hollywood are pretty mediocre.
It makes you forget that if you live a normal lifestyle that even moderate success in Hollywood is probably more than most people ever expect to reach as well as being plenty. Probably most people make as much money as they need to to get out of Hollywood and then don't really try to come back.
Guri: "Considered priceless in value and deadly in punching" - just like Maso, then? :)
James, this is just fantastic work! Of course, Mr Sunday Movies is terrific when you and Mason are just screwin' around, but seeing a longer form vid with a bunch of collaborators and research... well you knocked that out of the park too! Shadows deserved a big video and it's awesome to see you give it that treatment. I think everyone just expected a Caravan of Garbage for the PC/N64 game, and this blew away all of our expectations. Just wanted to say it was *excellent* work, mate! You deserve some major kudos.
Great work mate! As a person who had little to no knowledge of Shadows of the Empire, I thought this was fascinating and fantastic!
I love all of your other content but this project was actually one of the best things I’ve seen on RUclips in a long long time. Please do something like this again! Good stuff
The novel is amazing! It feels like Star Wars. Steve Perry did such a good job that Lucas considers it to be an actual Star Wars story.
You are making me cry here, I have the books and the toys since i was a lad and I loved the game on the N64 and the badasseray of Dash surving a Death star expolsion by jumping to hyperspace at the last second..all while (and after) watching the rerelases..I was about 8 at the time..great times..obs holy crap Sal did the VO on those 3D scenes (which captured How I imagined the books perfectly) I wouldnt have guessed that..Glad you gave Shadows and Legends its time in the Black Sun
That level with the speeder bike is one of my favourites, could never get that secret ending though!
I think to get the "escaped from Xizor's Fortress/Battle Station explosion" ending you need to play on the hardest difficulty.
I did, but only with cheats. Don't know if that counts
I absolutely loved this! I was young enough that I never really experienced Shadows of the Empire, so this video really helped me understand what it was, how big a deal it was, and how it’s influenced Star Wars to this day! Thank you so much James and everyone that worked on this for bringing it to the world for us to enjoy, I really hope you make more long-form deep dives in the future :)
HERE'S ALL THE BOOKS, HERE WE GO...
HEIR TO THE EMPIRE!
@@Evan-Fisherton DARK FORCE RISING!
CHEWBACCA, SPACE PRESIDENT!
CHEWBACCA, SPACE PRESIDENT PART TWO: FOUR MORE SPACE YEARS!
@@aka_outlandish THE LAST COMMAND
An immense, and in-depth video that is interesting, does not drag on, and professionally produced. The quality is amazing. I am a fan of Mr. Sunday and plan to look up his recommendations.
What I really liked is how he gave them credit at the end. Great Work guys!!!!!
Very much appreciated Ron! I've got similar videos on the rerelease of the Star Wars in 1977 and the Phantom Menace marketing blitz if you're keen. Regardless, thanks agin for the kind words!
Thoroughly enjoyed this content!
Thank you everyone involved for your hard work and dedication.
Great bit of research done for this, really appreciate all the hard work done for it
"Bothans" are not a species. It's a man. A single man, and his name is Manfred Bothans.
You're welcome.
Well then the line "Many Bothans died" is wrong and they should change it to "Manfred Bothans died."
@@mrsundaymovies His friends call him _Manny_ , of course... 🤪
Now _explaining_ the joke does not make it more funny...
@@Noone-of-your-Business but can you explain it though cuz i don't get it, have no idea who manfred bothans is, and have no motivation to google it even though I wrote this run-on sentence to tell you all this.
@@John-X It's a *_joke:_* Manfred = Manny. Like, you know, the wooly mammoth from Ice Age?
" _Manny Bothans_ died to bring us this information." May he rest in pieces. That's another joke. Get it?
@@Noone-of-your-Business I still don't get it, but I found this Wiki about a Star Wars character called Manuel Both-Hanz starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Manuel_Both-Hanz
Is *_this_* what you all meant?
Love this video. Everyone talks about the N64 game but there's much less coverage on the overall Shadows of the Empire multimedia program and all the different aspects of it. Great job.
Best video you guys have ever done. Hope to see more nostalgic videos over the next 3 weeks ✌
Amazing work James, loving the deep dive and the analysis of how this paved the way for so many things. A true gem.
Awesome work from all!
Such a great video, thanks for doing justice to my favorite Expanded Universe property!
Daaayyum! I remember this! I was a kid when it came out and this introduced me to Star Wars, with the 1997 re-edition of the trilogy.
Of course the toys and the video game made a huge impact on me hah!
Amazing, first rate motion illustration sequence - I was over eager when watching, didn't wait to finish, and began hunting on-line for this motion sequence interpretation of "Shadows", thinking you guys were re-posting it from somewhere else. What a shock to discover that it was brand new and custom made! Great conceptual design and digital render/painting execution! Completely supersedes the various original art for the property from the mid 90's. Way to go Mr. Sunday crew!
Damn! Thank you so much mate :D
Fair play James! Cool to see you and Sal work together, I discovered you two at the same time. Both amazing creators!
Also, keep these retrospectives up man! Love from Ireland 🇮🇪
Absolutely love that you put in all the time, effort and thought. Even though the video may seem compressed or half-baked in terms of detail, one can easily see all the research and effort you've put in. Kudos!
You know this was actually amazing
Max Littlewood,
It was very well done and it has his classic Mr. Sunday Movies/James humor. Love it.
Shadows is my favorite SW story. Dash Rendar and Klye Katarn where my top 1 and 2 favorite characters.
The Vader, "meditation chamber," animation sequence towards the end is AWESOME!
Great job, man. 👍
Thanks man!
@@lemathmath you made this yourself ? or is this something i can find on youtube? because i would def watch a series with just this kind of animation
@@Bawlin040 Yeah I made it actually, Mr Sunday commissioned it last year and we've been working on it since then :) You can find more here: artstation.com/lemathmath
@@lemathmath Really amazing work !
@@Bawlin040 Thanks :D
What a shame that this isn't canon, you could tell this was an absolute passion project for those involved. A very nuanced and complex story that definitely took things further in the SW universe.
Prince Xizor is one of the most interesting additions in Star Wars, really wished they could've kept him and his story that ties into the Skywalker saga. I would even say that he definitely seems more interesting than Jabba, since you know, they actually flesh out his motivations and personality beyond being a feared crime lord.
Come back to this retrospective every year. Great work!
Just when it feels like Shadows of the Empire has faded into fandom obscurity and people begin to question if it ever even happened or was just some collective 90s-era fever dream, out comes this video!
Great overview and recap of the whole multimedia project, well done, sir.
This should be a movie. Like Rogue One, just wedge it between Empire & Jedi, cast Tom Hardy and BOOM! $1Billion easy.
RIght...Rogue 2 "Many Bothans Died".
@Matt M No it wouldn't. Completely different part of the timeline.
Bill Pullman as Dash Rendar
Kevin Costner or tom hardy as dash?
Sebastian Stan as Luke, with yellow vest over black Jedi thingy worn in ROTJ
Agreed. It is a home run story and would make an insane amount of money if they would make a film
I've been a follower of yours for a few years now. Big fan of you and Mason. But this was probably my second job favorite video you've ever done (first being the one where you just start ranting about life) it was well put together, well expressed, and made me decide to look into the Shadows of the Empire story. Well done and informative deep dive, James.
I loved the Shadows of the Empire....thoroughly pissed that it's no longer considered cannon.....huge fan of Dash Rendar....he was a legit badass! I have ALL of the POTF purple card action figures!
Why was he badass?
That was absolutely awesome! Thank you for taking me back to 1996 in the most emotional way....Shadows.
I've been wanting someone to make a feature video that was all about this theme and its impact...thank you soo much for exceeding my expectations!
I love this! Just finished the video and I've never explored this area of the EU but you've got me hooked. Great job to everyone involved!
Rewatching but what a brilliant piece of work
Thank you it's one of my favourites also!
I’d love to see a knights of the old republic video in this format
The internet needed this video and you, Mr. Sunday Movies, were the perfect person to do it (along with your friends).
I watch ComicPOP endlessly and didn't know that was Sal. Holy hell. Get him in a booth and pay him!!!
I loved this! Didn’t think I would make it 34 minutes, but this was so interesting. Really enjoyed the long form story telling and animations. Great work!
This was great. Thank you James
This is a really great video. I’ve been getting into watching longer-form retrospectives on RUclips, and as a Star Wars fan, and a fan of the channel and the podcast, I love seeing your particular brand of humor combined with an informative topic and structure. Best video ever?
Well done James I appreciate your hard work on this video and everyone who helped you with this. great video I love me some star wars I doubt you'll ever see this but yeah thanks man cool beans
Thank you tremendously for all of the work you put in providing us with quality content.
Magnum Opus?
More like *Magnum Oh-Pleeeeeeease Make More Long-Form Videos Mr Sunday Movies Because I found This Super Interesting And Want To See More Deep Dives From You In Future!*
My god I loved this game so much when I was a kid. Dash Rendar was the COOLEST to me. Well, aside from Han Solo lol. Seeing this game play really really takes me back. Thanks again guys for putting out such great content constantly. One of the few channels who's every video is an A+ 👍
Cheers Keith thanks for the kind words!
That Solo train scene was inspired by shadows of the empire tho 👀👀👀👀
The work you put into this was fantastic, and well worth it. I was both disappointed and impressed that those visuals were made for this video. I need the whole story told that way.
I thought I recognised Sal's voice, awesome work.
As far as who could play an older Dash Rendar? Kurt Russell could work as he originally auditioned to play Han Solo & nearly got the role.
Josh brolin, some on here said bill pullman lol
This is an awesome installment. I LOVE this Star Wars story. Thank you for doing this era justice.
I loved everything about SotE when I was a kid. Had the N64 game, all the action figures, read all the comics and novels. I was basically obsessed. Dash Rendar, the Outrider, Mara Jade etc were so badass.
I don’t think Mara was in it bro
@@starwarsstuff8098 Yea I think I got two comics mixed up lol.
This was SO good!!! As much as I love you hate watching things you dont love, your videos about things you're passionate about are even better! Keep up the good work
Mr Sunday Movies more like Mr Big idiot.
Got em.
Nah good video mate this is cool
I really can not express how much i love your videos, your editing is fucking great, I laugh so goddamn hard, good luck mate!
Thank you for this. It may not be canon anymore but I loved the SOTE video game and always wanted to know more about it beyond Dash's adventures.
Really well done here. This is, without a doubt, the most informative video on SOTE, and it's amazing that it was covered in 30 minutes.
Much appreciaed mate! I was honestly surprised that it only came to 34 minutes when it was done
"Which makes him irresistible to all human women..." oh, oh i dont like that at all
Neither did Leia. She kneed Xizor in the groin for trying it on her. 😆
I like it a lot
If it was "females of most alien species" instead of just humans. Like... the heck.
@@zachanikwano He said "Humanoid" not human
There's a difference
I've been listening to the Weekly Planet every Monday since winter solider came out,and this is the best video MrSunday has made yet
Deamn, that Vader part from the book was REALLY good.
Loved this video so much I just had to rewatch it
I recently gifted all of my Star Wars EU books to a kid, but I kept Shadows of the Empire and it takes prime spot on my bookshelf
my favorite moment out of the whole SWEU 'legends' was when IG-88 downloaded his 'mind' into the Death Star, and essentially became the most powerful being lol
the droids revolution!
This was incredible! Absolutely love the Vader bit at the end. Looks amazing.
Thank Kell very much appreciated!
This video is longer than an episode of The Mandalorian
Not episode 4 bro
But did it have a baby Yoda?
This is the way, fam.
Because that's what people love, mate! Value for money. 😁
Lee so is this video.
I've liked your channel for a while, but was not expecting a riveting, thirty minute documentary on a non-canon story to be this great! Apologies for the backhanded compliment, but I can't wait for the next video like this!
Still have ptsd whenever I see a AtAt because of this game.
Biofan813 ig88 for me, the whole boss fight I was just running around in a mad panic
Same mate.
Ryan Scholz I G -88 , that train in the metal world disturbed me as a child, lol
Fantastic work on this retrospective, my favorite video on the channel. You can really feel the work that went into this.