Back in 2013, the comedian Patton Oswalt appeared on an episode of Parks and Recreation, guest-starring as a concerned constituent who hijacks a city council meeting with a “citizen filibuster”. The remarks – entirely improvised by Oswalt, and released by NBC as an uncut, nearly nine-minute outtake of breathless elaboration – amounted to an unsolicited pitch for the then-just-announced project that would become Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Inspired by news of Disney acquiring Lucasfilm, the perfectly named Garth Blundin imagines an uber-blockbuster that would team the heroes of the galaxy far, far away with the marquee superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The joke was on Oswalt’s unlikely fantasy scenario – his geeky desire to see the characters from one fictional universe interact with those of another, like action figures from different toy lines mixed and matched on a bedroom floor.
