Star Wars Aficionado

Star Wars Aficionado is an unofficial, English language weblog operated by British fan Scott Weller. Although the weblog launched on Blogspot in July 2010, and is now the format for Star Wars Aficionado after two decades of existence, it originated in 2003 as a printed fanzine titled Star Wars Afficionado.

By 2008, the fanzine's spelling had changed and its publication had shifted from print to the PDF file format. A corresponding website at the domain name starwarsaficionado.com was launched by October 23, 2007; however, ownership of the domain name was lost sometime in or after 2013.

In a 2009 issue, Weller and Ian Trussler interviewed prequel trilogy stunt coordinator Nick Gillard. The interview included images from Lucasfilm, including cut shots of Anakin Skywalker dueling Bene and Cin Drallig.

On October 5, 2013, Star Wars Aficionado joined StarWars.com's Mark Newbold for the release celebration of Jonathan W. Rinzler's The Making of Return of the Jedi. During the 2014 British Film Institute (BFI) exhibit On Set: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Weller met with curator Nathalie Morris to discuss how she prepared the exhibition of BFI's Ann Skinner Collection.

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