Return of the Ewok

Return of the Ewok is a 24-minute mockumentary filmed in 1982, starring and partially created by Warwick Davis, the man (but then boy) who played the Ewok, Wicket W. Warwick in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. It was mainly created and directed by Return of the Jedi 1st assistant director, David Tomblin.

Return of the Ewok focuses on the fictional account of Davis's decision to become an actor and act as Wicket in Return of the Jedi. It also follows his transformation into Wicket. The show was shot on Tomblin's own 16mm camera and created during production of Return of the Jedi. As Warwick and as Wicket, he visits and interacts with many of the cast and crew of the movie and then characters of the movie. As Warwick, he goes to Elstree Studios where he interacts with the cast, both in and out of character. At one point, he even interacts with Luke Skywalker as he jumps out of a movie screen. As Wicket, he goes to Dagobah to see Yoda and The Death Star and sees Darth Vader and is chased by Boba Fett.

The movie was meant to be featured by Lucasfilm as a promotional film for the feature film, however, it was never completed, and thus never used for this purpose. It became more of a home movie for Warwick Davis, and the original 16mm print was said to be lost according to Davis, although Davis holds in his possesion a VHS tape copy of the movie. A copy of the print, or even the original print, may actually reside in the Lucasfilm archives. Evidence of this was shown on the 2004 DVD release of The Star Wars Original Trilogy. The segment of Wicket being chased by Boba Fett was located as a segment in an Easter Egg of bloopers from the trilogy. It appeared in a widescreen format in good quality, suggesting that it was filmed this way and has been preserved.

Availability
Warwick Davis had never actually shown this to many people and most fans had never even heard of it until 1999 when Davis screened the film at the first Star Wars Celebration. It was also screened later at Celebration II in 2002, and at Celebration III in 2005. During one of the screenings, a fan videotaped a copy of the show and it was cleaned up digitally by Star Wars fan, SKot Kirkwood and put on a DVD and sold to many other curious fans, for their viewing enjoyment. In 2005, a portion (approximately four minutes) of the film was made available on the official star wars website for Hyperspace members to download and view. The show has still never been officially released completely by Lucasfilm or Davis, neither as a complete feature DVD or as a bonus on another Star Wars DVD. Davis has reportedly stated, thoguh, that a future release is "possible."