Matt Mercury - Hunt The Space Ace

Matt Mercury In The SpaceWays is a Saturday Morning style, animated web series based on the Matt Mercury movie by Star Wars artist, Bill Hughes. In the series, Captain Mercury and the the crew of the spaceship Electra travel the SpaceWays in search of fun, adventure and maybe a lesson or two along the way. In this episode Matt Mercury, the crew find Matt's old Commander Royce Rogers caged in a galactic zoo. Once freed, Royce leads them on a merry chase to capture and evil poacher called The Hunter. Unfortunately the crew is captured and then hunted themselves by the giant gangster Mr. Taboo! Art by Star Wars artist Bill Hughes and starring Matt Lavine, Danni and Joe Grisaffi. This episodes special guest stars are the lovely and talented Christina Porter and the talented and lovely Stephanie Hyden! With appearances by William "Bill" Blake as the talking ape and Joe Grisaffi reprising his film role of Royce Rogers!

  • Matt Lavine
    Producer
    Matt Mercury - Plot of the Galactic Mastermind, Fox 26 News, UPN Star Trek Enterprise
  • Matt Lavine
    Key Cast
    "Matt Mercury"
    Matt Mercury - Plot of the Galactic Mastermind, Fox 26 News, UPN Star Trek Enterprise
  • Bill Hughes
    Key Cast
    "Professor Brainwave"
  • Joe Grisaffi
    Key Cast
    "Nemo, Royce Rogers"
    Stranger Things, Scream Legacy, Matt Mercury - Plot of the Galactic Mastermind, The Bat Last Laugh
  • Dannie
    Key Cast
    "Sparx McCoy"
  • Christina Porter
    Key Cast
    "The Princess"
  • Bill Hughes
    Director
  • Bill Hughes
    Writer
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes was a designer and artist for Lucas Film's Star Wars projects. He is an indie filmmaker, writer, art director and one man animation studio in the Texas Hill Country.

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Director Statement

With the help of our talented cast of voice actors, Producer Matt Lavine and I are hammering these episodes out by hand. It's not the easiest way to make a movie... but it's the right way!