Filming Nearly Done On Star Wars The Padawan III 'Darkness Of The Republic'

As of the 22nd December, MB & Homeland have held 19 filming get togethers on Star Wars The Padawan III, and have stacked up over an hour of footage for the movie. A total of 81 out of the 94 pages in the script have been completed with just 13 more to do.

Henri & Two Imperials
[From Left] Samuel Moore, Colin Bray
& Jordan Crowther-Russell

MB & Homeland will be holding 2 more filming days between the 29th December 2016 and the 7th January 2017 to complete the last 13 pages. With editing 25% done, it looks like the film will be out for the 4th May 2017 and won't be delayed as Mark feared.

Darth Vader
Played by Samuel Moore

MB & Homeland originally had plans to not release another trailer until February 2017, but it looks like they could be bringing one out as early as 1st January 2017. This trailer would reveal the other main characters that we have not seen yet, and will give us dialogue [unlike the first trailer] with a clearer understanding of the plot.

Filming Wraps With Darth Vader On Star Wars The Padawan III

All of Darth Vader's takes are officially done for the next Star Wars FanFilm to hit MB & Homeland's YouTube channel on the 4th May 2017. Filming with the character begun on 18th February and finished 24th November 2016. Darth Vader is not the main villain of the film but does have a good amount of screen time in the movie. However filming has not finished completely on the movie, the movie will hopefully be finished by the end of December, with post production beginning after Christmas through till Spring 2017.

[Far Left] Jordan Crowther -Russell acting as Henri
And Tom Ford acting as Darth Vader

It took a told of three actors to bring Darth Vader to life.

The three actors are:
Will Britton as the physicality
Samuel Moore as the stunt double
And Tom Ford as the body double.

Another actor will provide the voice [This actor has yet to be announced]

[Far Left] Samuel Moore acting as Darth Vader
 Jordan Crowther -Russell acting as Henri

Star Wars Darkness Of The Republic is a new adventure in 'The Padawan' Series, this new story takes place between The Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi. The film follows The Boy, a man with no past. As he searches for his true identity, he means a various of friends and foes. The film is scheduled to be released on the 4th May 2017 at youtube.com/MBHomeland

[Far Left] Jordan Crowther -Russell acting as Henri
Samuel Moore acting as Darth Vader

A Trailer was released in August 216

Next Star Wars FanFilm The Padawan III Trailer Release Date

In August we uploaded a trailer for our new Star Wars FanFilm, we got a lot of feedback on it and a lot of people seemed to enjoy it. A few people did say that it was a shame that there wasn't much action in the trailer, a lot of it was just people standing around or walking.

This is mainly because editing has only just begun and very few special effects have been added yet. Lightsaber effects can take up to 2 months to edit together. Plus a lot of the stuff you see in the trailer isn't even finalised, for example the scene where you see the star destroyers flying away from the camera, that scene has been edited a least 10 times since we uploaded that trailer in fact the exhaust colour has changed from red to blue to fit in with canon.

We've also not finished filming yet, so there is a lot still to come.

Recently edited Star Destroyer exhaust

Mark Bray recently said that another trailer won't come out until February, nearly 5 months since the first trailer was released. Mark hasn't decided a release day just yet but its most likely going to be the middle of February.

Loads of editing has going into the new Star Wars film. Mark responded to a comment under the August Trailer saying "We are putting more effort into this movie than any other film we've ever made before"

Some recently edited footage
[From The Left] Tom Ford, Graham Bray & Mark Bray

A small premier took place on 24th October just for members of MB & Homeland.
Colin Bray, Graham Bray, Jordan Crowther-Russell, Mark Bray, Samuel Moore & Tom Skinner sat down to watch the unfinished film to give feedback on sound and footage quality. They all agreed the plot is the best thing they've ever created at MB & Homeland, now the important thing is making sure its clear so that everyone can understand it.

No new characters have been announced but Mark assures us that in the next trailer you'll get to see several new characters and you'll see the other two main characters.

Mark Bray did announced that four characters from the original trilogy will be appearing in the Star Wars FanFilm. We've already seen Vader but who are the other three? I guess we'll have to wait and see

Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 5 & 10th Anniversary

Our brand new series is now finally on YouTube with Episode 5 and our 10th Anniversary Special has gone up.

Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 Episode 5 'The Prince Of Nightmares'

Doctor Who FanFilm 10th Anniversary 'Darkness' 

Star Wars FanFilm The Padawan III 'Darkness Of The Republic' Information

At last, we received a trailer for the new up and coming Star Wars FanFilm titled 'Darkness Of The Republic', It is the third film in The Padawan Trilogy and it is unknown whether any more Star Wars FanFilms will be made by MB & Homeland.

Here is the brand new trailer:

In the trailer, it features several clips of different planets and clips of the main characters.
Returning in this movie is The Boy, the main character from both The Padawan films. He is joined by his Jedi Master Theo Kay who too appeared in The Padawan I & II.

Jedi Master Theo Kay
Portrayed by Mark Bray

The trailer features two new main characters, Cardell who is friends with The Boy. and Henri who is an Imperial working for The Empire and the movies main villain.

Imperial Officer Henri
Portrayed by Jordan Crowther-Russell

 According to MB & Homeland there are 6 main characters, 4 of which appear in this trailer. But who are the other two? I guess we'll have to wait to find out in the next trailer.

Several Stormtroopers & Imperials appear in the trailer, as well as Darth Vader himself. MB & Homeland have said that even though Vader appears, he does not play a major part in the story and is not the main villain. Two Sith also appear in the trailer from the previous Padawan films. Darth Motalao & Kilt Potmonkay.

Darth Vader
Portrayed by Will Britton

In this trailer, it features several different locations. MB & Homeland have revealed the names of these locations and what the planets are called.

The trailer features a forest planet which is called Jogana. Its neighbouring world is a rocky mountain planet called Riano. The snowy planet featured in the trailer is called Iris.

The Boy on the planet Iris
Filmed on the Cairngorm mountain, Scotland

According to MB & Homeland there will be 5 planets featured in the movie. 3 of which we know of, the other two are unknown yet but MB & Homeland did reveal that one is from the Prequels, the other from the Original Trilogy.

The snow planet was filmed in Aviemore, Scotland on the Cairngorm mountain back in February 2016. Mark Bray said "The best part of filming was the local hikers walking past us and saying 'May The Force Be With You' It was very cold but the end result is incredible"

The trailer does feature two unnamed characters, One portrayed by Graham Bray & the other by Colin Bray.
Apart from those two, everyone featured in the trailer we have a name and information about.

Cardell alongside one of the unnamed character
Portrayed by Tom Ford & Graham Bray

The unnamed character
Portrayed by Colin Bray

Here is the cast list that we know so far:
The Boy: Mark Bray
Cardell: Tom Ford
Henri: Jordan Crowther-Russell
Theo Kay: Mark Bray
Darth Vader: Will Britton
Darth Motalao: Samuel Moore
Kilt Potmonkay: Tom Skinner
Unnamed Character: Graham Bray
Unnamed Character: Colin Bray

Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 3 & 4

Our brand new series is now finally on YouTube with Episode 3 and 4 online.
Then the 10th Anniversary Special will go up on the 27th August at 7pm.

Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 Episode 3 'Fallen From The Stars' Part 1 



Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 Episode 4 'Soulless' Part 2

Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 1 & 2

Our brand new series is now finally on YouTube with Episode 1 and 2 already online with episode 3-5 to follow as the next few weeks go by. Then the 10th Anniversary Special will go up on the 27th August at 7pm.

Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 Episode 1 'Tear Of Mercy' Written By Mark Bray




Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 Episode 2 'The Men Of UNIT' Written By Tom Ford

The Timeline Of MB & Homeland Studios

MB & Homeland has been around for nearly 10 years now, so we thought we'd dedicate a blog post to the history of MB & Homeland and its members.

Birthdays of Members:
10th March 1961 - Colin Bray was born
30th December 1963 - Graham Bray was born
15th October 1965 - Sarah Bray was born
17th August 1993 - Co-Founder Tom Skinner was born
26th October 1994 - Will Britton was born
1st November 1994 - Jessica Bray was born
13th October 1995 - Aaron Hooper was born
2nd March 1998 - Jordan Crowther-Russell was born
20th March 1998 - Samuel Moore was born
10th April 1998 - Tom Ford was born
3rd May 1998 - Co-Founder Mark Bray was born
4th November 1998 - Isaac Cuozzo was born
19th June 1999 - Franki Lang was born
3rd May 2000 - Brandon Messer was born
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It begins:
August 2006 - MB & Homeland was founded and filming began on Series 1
April 2007 - We finished filming Episode 1 -5
November 2007 - We finished filming Episode 6
March 2009 - We finished filming Episode 7
July 2009 - We finished filming Episode 8-9

We took a break between July 2009 to January 2012

The return:
15th January 2012 - Writing finished on Star Wars The Padawan I
19th January 2012 - Writing finished on Star Wars The Padawan II
February 2012 - Filming began on Star Wars The Padawan I
July 2012 - Filming finished on Star Wars The Padawan I, Work on The Padawan II began
24th June 2013 - Filming began on Star Wars The Padawan II
2nd September 2013 - Doctor Who 'Onwards & Upwards' Script was written
13th January 2014 - Filming finished on Star Wars The Padawan II
8th April 2014 - Filming began on Doctor Who 'Onwards & Upwards'
13th April 2014 - The YouTube channel was created
21st September 2014 - Filming began on Doctor Who Series 2
20th October 2014 - Filming finished on Doctor Who 'Onwards & Upwards'
5th August 2015 - Filming began on Political Rage Season 1
22nd July July 2015 - Filming finished on Doctor Who Series 2 Episode 1-5
19th September 2015 - Filming began on Doctor Who Series 3
15th October 2015 - Filming finished on Doctor Who Series 2 Episode 6-7
21st December 2015 - Filming finished on Doctor Who Series 2 Episode 8-9
14th May 2016 - Filming finished on Political Rage Episode 2

That's all of MB & Homeland so far, hopefully in July 2016 Doctor Who FanFilm Series 3 will go online along with our 10th Anniversary special, who knows where we'll be in 10 years time.

The Future of MB & Homeland

In our most recent podcast we announced that we were thinking of closing the channel with in the next two years. This is because people like CEO Mark Bray will be going to University September 2017 and won't have time to manage the channel unless someone else became the CEO. It is possible that Mark will take a gap year from September 2017 to 2018 but this is uncertain at the moment. Either way the channel will close by September 2018.


We are going to keep the channel LIVE with all our videos on, we aren't deleting any of the films we've made but we just won't be creating content any more.

Things to look forward to:

• We are currently filming our brand new Doctor Who FanFilm Series. This will come out 16th July 2016 and will air up until Christmas day 2016. There will be a total of 9 episodes plus a 10th Anniversary movie. We are planning on making a Doctor Who movie next year because we don't have any plans to make another series but we are discussing it at the moment.
• We are currently finishing filming on a brand new season we are making called 'Political Rage' this series will have a total of 3 episodes and filming on a second season has already begun. Season one is scheduled to come out on the 22nd October 2016. Season two will probably come out Autumn 2017.
• We are currently in production of a new Star Wars FanFilm which will air 4th May 2017. This film is called 'Darkness Of The Republic' and it will star Mark Bray, Tom Ford, Jordan Crowther-Russell & Franki Lang. There are no plans to make any more Star Wars films after this but we are discussing it at the moment.
• We are still going to make comedy sketches every so often, the last one we made was in September 2015, hopefully a new one will be coming soon. We are also hoping to bring out a short film every year up until our closure.
• We are still making gameplays on the 25th of every month and we are still hosting 'Race To The White House' on the 10th of every month. Race To The White House probably won't be continuing next year because the election will have finished but we will still be making gameplays.
• Hopefully in 2017 we will be bring out a new monthly series to replace Race To The White House, this is currently being discussed and we will have information soon.
• News Update is still being produced and airing on the 15th of every month, this will continue every month until we close.
• Behind The Lens is still being made and coming out on the 20th of every month but it might not continue next year, that is being discussed at the moment.
• If Mark Bray did take a gap year from 2017 to 2018, we would probably produce a stand alone movie. This isn't definite yet but we'll know by May 2017.

A few members of MB & Homeland are planning on leave in September to go to university. Hopefully a few new people will be joining in a few months, at the moment no one really knows what they'll be doing next year, but we will try our hardest to keep the channel alive until September 2018. After that we will no longer be making content but all the videos will remain LIVE. 

(From Left) Mark Bray, Aaron Hooper, Tom Skinner
Samuel Moore, Graham Bray & Jordan Crowther-Russell
Saturday 2nd April 2016

Filming 12/03/16 Star Wars The Padawan III

On the 12th March we filmed our new Star Wars film. This will be the third instalment of The Padawan Series. The first Padawan movie came out in 2012 and was uploaded to YouTube in 2015. The second Padawan movie was made in 2013 and is going to be uploaded in May 2016.

Franki Lang, Tom Ford & Mark Bray
12th March 2016 

Filming began 18th February in Aviemore, Scotland. Travelling to the Cairngorm Mountain to film

Mark Bray & Will Britton
18th February 2016

The Cast:
Mark Bray
Tom Ford
Jordan Crowther-Russell
Harri Thompson
Tom Skinner
Tom Ford
Will Britton
Graham Bray
Samuel Moore
Brandon Messer
Franki Lang
Colin Bray

The movie is scheduled to be released sometime in May 2017.

Thanks to all our supporters and we hope you enjoyed.

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MB & Homeland Goals for 2017

By the end of 2017 we hope to have:

45,000 views

350 subscribers

1500 Likes

500 comments

100,000 minutes watched

75 shares

200 videos in playlist

25 under dislikes

We currently have:

14,582 views

124 subscribers

1090 likes

205 comments

35,286 minutes watched

25 shares

189 videos in playlist

14 dislikes

Mark Bray & Jordan Crowther-Russell
Acting in Political Rage
23rd January 2016

We are not to far off our goals. And so far this month we've already gained 20 subscribers. If we get 20 subs every month from now until December then we should hopefully reach our goal of 350 subscriber.

Thanks to all our supporters and we hope you enjoyed.

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