C-3PO Was Almost from the Bronx

In the press for the latest installment of Star Wars, we came to find out that George Lucas originally intended for C-3PO to have a “Bronx accent.” So I imagined C-3PO as a hardscrabble droid coming up in the South Bronx from the late 1970s onward. These verses are the result.

Read the poem over at gothamparks.nyc. Watch the video presentation below or click here (youtube). Let me know what you think!

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