Star Wars: The 212th
2025 · 3m · Canada
Directed by Hoplite Studio
Genres: action, animation, sci-fi
A wordless Star Wars fan film following the 212th Clone Battalion in combat, created by Montreal VFX studio Hoplite as a tribute to the franchise's revolutionary visual effects legacy and to develop their own production pipeline.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
What Hoplite pulls off in three silent minutes with no license and a fraction of Disney's budget is a quiet rebuke to every expensive Star Wars product that forgot the franchise runs on feeling, not IP.
Three minutes of Montreal VFX studio Hoplite doing a wordless Clone Wars fan film. The lack of dialogue is the whole formal pitch. It's a tech-demo dressed as devotion. Fan films are not film.
A wordless Hoplite VFX fan film built to develop a pipeline — the no-dialogue gesture is the only reason to evaluate it as cinema rather than tech demo, and that gesture only gets you so far in a franchise piece.