According to the official TFN entry for the film, the backstory involves Ryan and Michael, or "Ryan_W" and "DorkmanScott" as they are known on TheForce.net's forums, meeting after their friendly online rivalry over who is the better saber artist escalates too far.
To accomplish this goal, film composers Gordy Haab and Kyle Newmaster donated their time and talents to the project.
The film premiered February 24, 2007 at the Wilshire Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles,[8] with a screening at the New York Comic Con the following day.
[9] The film was entered into the 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge, where it won Best Visual Effects.
No official timetable was set, but Wieber and Scott stated that they would produce it when they conceived more ideas on how to structure and film that installment, as they did not wish to simply create a rehash of RvD2 that exhibited no substantial advancements in special effects or filmmaking.