Star Wars Fan Filmmaker Says Disney Stole His Work

A Star Wars instrumentality filmmaker has accused Disney of straight copying a combat series helium created, and re-using it shot-for-shot wrong an occurrence of Star Wars: Visions.

The sequence, including its combat choreography and camera angles, appears identical successful a 12-second video posted to Instagram by instrumentality Lorenz Hideyoshi, showing his unofficial enactment side-by-side with a clip from the Disney+ animated show.

"When Disney blatantly steals your enactment design," reads a caption connected the video, which contrasts Visions' 2023 occurrence The Bandits of Golak with Hideyoshi's ain Dark Jedi: A Star Wars Story, a abbreviated movie helium released successful December 1999 via YouTube.

"I mean they already had a antithetic weapons setup, but inactive managed to brute unit (push) my choreo onto that action," Hideyoshi wrote. "Didn’t adjacent alteration the camera angles."

"Why Disney?" helium continued. "Is it due to the fact that we made a non-profit tribute instrumentality movie of 1 of your IPs and present you consciousness justified successful stealing from this excavation of originative output? Maybe either a) wage your animators much oregon b) prosecute an enactment designer."

While Disney owns Star Wars shaper LucasFilm, Visions is the enactment of galore animation studios dispersed crossed the world, with this peculiar occurrence successful peculiar made by Indian outlet 88 Pictures. IGN has contacted Disney for comment.

Last month, a 3rd play of Star Wars: Visions was released connected Disney+, adding a further 9 stories to the anthology series. Each occurrence contains its ain self-contained communicative acceptable determination successful the Star Wars universe, though the bid is not treated arsenic authoritative canon.

"As a whole, Star Wars Visions Volume 3 is the animated series’ astir uneven outing to date," IGN wrote successful its reappraisal of the latest season, awarding it a 6/10.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social