“Fanboys” in February

Fan­boys, a new feature-length film dis­trib­uted by The Wein­stein Com­pany, is com­ing to movie theaters.

The story is set in 1998 and cen­ters on a road trip by a group of friends who lit­er­ally can’t wait until Star Wars: Episode I — The Phan­tom Men­ace hits the­aters. They head to George Lucas’ Sky­walker Ranch intent on sneak­ing a peek at a rough cut. They can’t wait because one of the friends is dying of can­cer and may not live to see the release of Episode I. (See our thor­ough news report from 4/2008 on Fan­boys.)
The Feb­ru­ary 9th release is a lim­ited release, but may open to a wider and inter­na­tional audi­ence. It will start in the fol­low­ing cities:

• Austin TX
• Boston, MA
• Chicago, IL
• Hous­ton, TX
• Los Ange­les, CA
• New York, NY
• Philadel­phia, PA
• San Fran­cisco, CA
• Seat­tle, WA

Accord­ing to the list­ing on IMDb.com, Lou Tay­lor Pucci plays “Boba Fett #1″ and Noah Segan plays “Boba Fett #2.”

Trivia: There’s a Man­dalo­rian skull painted on the driver’s side door of the fan­boys’ van.