Feature Lengh Black Angel Movie in the Works

By Joelgleo
The tale of how Black Angel got to this point is an amazing one. Back in the late 70s Star Wars art director, Roger Christian directed a 25-minute short about a medieval knight who must free a mysterious, beautiful maiden from her capture, The Black Angel. The movie was played before a few screenings of The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 but then, nothing. The movie was never released on any home format or screened in a theater again. The original negatives of the short were lost, making Black Angel a lost film. All that remainded was the memories of a handful of people who swore they saw a fantasy short before The Empire Strikes Back in 1980.

Then in 2011 a 35mm copy of the negative was found by an archivist in LA. The previously lost film was painstakingly restored and on May 12th, it was uploaded in it's entirity to YouTube. You can watch it here.



But that's not all. On June 2nd, it was announced that a full feature lengh version of Black Angel is in the works. Roger Christain will finally get to direct a feature lenght version of the story he told all those years ago. In an interview with THR, Christian was quoted as saying It's my passion project, has been for 35-36 years. I guess 'patience is a virtue' is a true saying."

 It will be a while before we get to see a full Black Angel movie show up in the theaters but for something that was only 25 mintues long and supposedly lost forever, this is a pretty big turn of fate for the movie.

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