Millions of Star Wars fans were lukewarm about 1999’s prequel, The Phantom Menace, butone disappointed fan actually did something about it. Mike J. Nichols calls himself the Phantom Editor, and armed with a personal computer, he entirely re-cut the movie on video and started giving it away.
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