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A preview cut of this film was shown at "Star Wars Celebration IV" in Los Angeles. Appropriately enough, it was shown on 5-25-2007, the 30th anniversary of the premiere of Guerre stellari (1977). After ten more years of additional work on the film, the nearly final cut, of the work-in-progress, was test-screened, in 32 theaters, on 5-25-17, the 40th anniversary of the original release of Star Wars. The finished film is scheduled for worldwide release, beginning in late summer, 2021.

Some shots show the characters driving on Gurnee, IL roads where Six Flags Great America's "American Eagle" wooden roller coaster can be prominently seen in the background.

The movie is set in 1977, but the American Eagle did not open until the 1981 season.

Still photos of the real people involved, past and present, at work, behind the scenes, and at play, as well as those portraying them, accompany the end credits. All set to Ringo Starr singing "Photograph." At the end, there is a brief memorial to those of significance to Pat Johnson who have passed away.

The movie has gone through a number of iterations since 2007, when it made its first public appearance in the United States on May 25, 2007 at the Star Wars Celebration Convention as a work-in-progress. Since that showing, it has appeared in various forms at the Hamptons International Film Festival (October 2008), the TIFF Next Wave (February 2013), the Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival (July 2013), the Lake County Film Festival (September 2019), and the Skyline Indie Film Festival (September 2022), before having a limited release in the United States in September 2022. In these various variations, there are two known main versions, one with a runtime of "2h 12m (132 min) (total run time) (United States)" and another with a time of "1h 53m(113 min) (Workprint Version)".

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