Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser may have closed after a brief run, but the story around the ambitious attraction is still drawing attention. This September will mark three years since the immersive hotel experience hosted its final guests at Walt Disney World in Orlando, following a launch in March 2022 and a shutdown roughly a year and a half later.
Built as a two-night, luxury-style stay set aboard the Halcyon, the experience was designed to let guests live inside a Star Wars story. Visitors could interact with familiar characters, train with lightsabers, and take part in a conflict between the First Order and the Resistance. According to the report, the concept was widely praised for its ambition and execution by those who experienced it, but the steep cost put it out of reach for most fans, with pricing that reached nearly $5,000 for a couple and $6,000 for families.
Filmmaker and Star Wars fan Carrie Coaplen set out to document what the attraction meant to the people who worked on it and the community that embraced it. Her feature-length documentary, Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser, uses footage from inside the experience along with interviews with designers, performers, crew members, industry experts, and fans. The film is partly funded through Kickstarter and is described as both a look back at what the Starcruiser was and a reflection on what it hoped to become.
The documentary is now set to screen at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, July 23, which is the first day of the event. It will also play at Gen Con in Indianapolis the following weekend on Saturday, August 1. In a statement, Coaplen said the film has always centered on the people who helped create the experience and the community that found meaning in it, adding that she is excited to bring it to events built around fan connection.
Source: collider.com
