The long-long Star Wars movie, Black Angel, is to get a full-length remake with the help from crowd-funders around the world. The film first screened as a short before Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980.

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Black Angel follows the story of a Knight who embarks on a quest to fight Demon Kings commander the Black Angel and drop darkness taking over the land.

John Rhys Davies (The Lord of the Rings) and Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) have signed up to be part of the new movie's star-studded cast, while Roger Christian will write and direct after doing so for the original short.

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Black Angel will be shot in an "earthy and authentic style combining high adventure with high drama" and production is slated to begin in September in Morocco, Belgium, Hungary and Scotland. Christian is asking fans to donate to the project via the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo with a target set for $100,000. 

Oscar-winner Christian hopes that modern cinema-goers will "experience the intensity of the battles where life or death is the only prize."

"Like the first Star Wars and Alien we are going for absolute reality, engaging the audience in the drama so they feel like they are really there in this ancient world, shot in staggeringly beautiful landscapes, ancient cities and castles," he said.

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"With flying demons and sorcerers, princesses and Knights, armies of the undead and an evil god of the underworld, we are filming down and dirty; ultimate realism that audiences hunger for and the world I am passionate to create on film again."

A new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, hits theaters this fall after Disney's acquisition of Lucas Film. The film is directed by J.J Abrams and stars John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac as well as original stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.