# Star Wars 4 (1994)

- Date: 2025-02-17
- Type: film
- Credit: Ryan Lightbourn
- Artists: [Ryan Lightbourn](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/ryan-lightbourn)
- Made with: Hunyuan Video, Hailuo MiniMax, SDXL 1.0, Flux.1 Dev, SwarmUI, Grok 2
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizfPamAyew
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/star-wars-4-1994

A trailer for a Star Wars sequel that never existed, imagined as a 1994 release starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, with Will Smith and Samuel L. Jackson, and scored with John Williams, Michael Kamen and Brad Fiedel cues. Ryan Lightbourn built it largely on open-weight models running on his own machine: SDXL and Flux.1 Dev stills through SwarmUI, animated with Hunyuan Video and Hailuo MiniMax, with Grok 2 in the mix. It passed 375,000 views, an early hit for the what-if trailer as a genre of its own.

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/star-wars-4-1994
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-09-17