Star Wars: 10 Fanfilms That Did It Way Better Than Lucas

8. The Pink Five Series I mentioned earlier the George Lucas Selects award and this was one of the early winners. When a fanfilm gets attention on CNN, it's a big thing, and equally, when it has sequels that just get better as they go along, that's even better. According to Trey Stokes, the director, he wanted to experiment with a new camera, so he whipped up a script about a Valley Girl X-wing pilot named Stacey, taught his friend Amy Earhart how to say things like Tatooine and had her film this four-page script with a pilot's helmet that says CHICKS RULE across the front in holographic sticker. VFX were added later, obviously. Pink Five is hilarious for the fact that Stacey really doesn't do anything: she doesn't shoot down Vader, she doesn't feed telemetry to Luke when his targeting computer's down. The one time she actually fires a shot, she sniggers and says, "I hope nobody saw that." She does convince a smuggler that they could get to the after-party a LOT faster if he went to Luke Skywalker's rescue. So she's like a bimbo ex machina, except it's everyone else who's doing the actual work. Pink Five Strikes Back happens because she decides to follow "the new kid" to the base after the Hoth evacuation, not realizing that he was "apparently also text-messaging during the briefing." We are a couple of years later and Stacey has a haircut that doesn't give her helmet hair. She has a "banging new sound system ... boyfriend's monkey installed for her." When she runs into the "frog guy" and he trains her as a Jedi (until Obi-Wan shows up to say, "No, really, this is not the Jedi you are looking for!"), she pranks Luke in a Vader suit and knows long before Luke that "heavy-breathing Goth dude is the new kid's father." That brings us to Return of Pink Five, in which we find that Stacey has infiltrated Jabba's Palace in a metal bikini that her "babe" likes. When he turns out to be in love with "Princess Hairstyle," though, she runs off and rightly joins the Empire. Ghost Obi-Wan then shows up to convince her to save the galaxy and is immediately scarred for after-life, but we next see her mind-tricking a Death Star controller into letting her onboard and taking her shopping afterwards. She duels Darth Vader, gives Palpatine moisturizer advice and makes it back to Endor just in time to help her droid friends get the battle started right. This is a complicated universe. As Stokes put it in an interview with Star Wars Outsider, " recently pointed me to a Pink Five fanfic someone else had written. They had taken one of HER stories and attempted their own knockoff version that wasn't nearly as good. That's already weird enough for me - an imitation of a fanfic of a fanfilm of a movie? How long can this go on before our universe simply implodes?" So, with all of this hype, and my fervent fan-love, why do I only make it #8? Simple: We're still waiting for it. If you go looking for Pink Five right now, you will find a trailer and a lot of behind-the-scenes videos. You will not find the first five movies that have been posted because the cast and crew are taking it on the road for a few months in anticipation of finally getting Volume 3 posted to the internet.