This week on The Star Wars Show.
The co-director of Finding Dory, Angus Maclane!
Peter and Andi take a trip to a virtual Tatooine
And much, much more. Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Peter Townley And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome to The Star
Wars Show The only Star Wars Show on the Internet that
contractually must say the phrase “Star Wars” at least 15 times per episode or we
don’t get paid. Is that true?
Nah I just made that up. ….OR DID I? Let’s check out some Star Wars News!
168 days after its initial release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally completed its record
breaking theatrical run in North America banking approximately $936,662,225.
That domestic total makes it the highest grossing film in North American history, so here’s
to everyone who went to go see the film in theaters!
Couldn’t afford anything bigger? Size matters not, Andi.
Moving on to more Celebration news, For the first time in its history, Virtual Reality
will be a part of Star Wars Celebration Europe. ILM xLab in partnership with HTC are bringing
the virtual reality experience, Trials on Tatooine, to the show floor this summer.
Previously only available at industry events, the virtual reality experience puts you in
the role of a Jedi Padawan sent to Tatooine, where you’ll rendezvous with the Millennium
Falcon and step inside a galaxy far, far away like never before.
But instead of us just telling you about it, Andi and I went across the hall to ILM xLAB
to experience the trials for ourselves. Are you ready Andi?
Oh yeah. Ready. Alright, let’s…let me get our of this-
Let’s do it. Oh boy.
Okay so hop on in there. Oooooh!
Move it through the play button and the experience will start.
Hello, Everybody, my name is John Gaeta, I am the executive creative director of ILM
xLab, which is Lucasfilm’s new immersive entertainment division. I am very happy to
announce that we will be bringing a state of the art virtual reality experience to Celebration
in London, Trials on Tatooine. Get yourself over there because you will get
to swing a lightsaber in virtual reality. Also, we will be doing a panel and you will
get to meet the key creatives to tell you a little bit about their secret and diabolical
plots to bring immersive entertainment to you.
That was incredible. Tatooine, Andi!
Yeah! We got to go to Tatooine!
We got to swing a lightsaber where I’ve always wanted to go and I’ll
get to go there again at Star Wars Celebration Europe!
And you can too just head to the ILM xLab booth and try out Trials on Tatooine. Do it.
You’ll love it. It’s incredible.
Hi! This is Steve Sansweet, former head of fan relations at Lucasfilm. I was here when
the Star Wars Fan Film Awards first started and I’m really thrilled that I’ve been
invited back to watch some of the hundreds of films that have been submitted and I invite
you to join the spirit of fandom. Watch the films and pick the audience choice.
Welcome back, I am here with animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor Angus MacLane
whose new project Finding Dory will be in theaters June 17th. Welcome. Thank you so
much for joining us. It’s great to be here.
So, you are the co-director on Finding Dory. That’s right.
What exactly does a co-director do? Basically the co-director is a creative partnership.
I’m working to get Andrew’s vision up on screen but I’m involved in pretty much
everything that’s uh, in making the movie and making sure that if there’s anything
that’s being forgotten I’m handling it. And also just sort of being a sounding board,
a creative partner as I said, uh, I came from animation, and I worked in story
on a number of the films at Pixar. And Andrew had always been a mentor to me
and had been an executive producer on uh Toy Story of Terror, the film I did before this.
So it was a natural creative partnership that we decided to continue on this film.
You’ve worked on a pretty impressive lineup of films, with the exception of Toy Story
every single Pixar movie since A Bug’s Life. Bug’s Life to Toy Story 3. And then after
Toy Story 3 I kind of segued into short film direction and now uh feature co-direction,
so- You’ve said that Empire is actually one
of your, one of your favorite movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s uh, number three
right now. Number three?
Right, Yeah, yeah. Two is Raiders and One is Aliens and it kinda oscillates between
them. Okay.
But yeah- So how did, how did Empire inspire you as
a filmmaker? Well, uh, I think it was the first movie that
really had a terrifically downbeat, depressing ending. It wallows a little bit in the uncertainty,
uh, because it is the end of the second act, or the mid-point of the movie of the original
trilogy. Side note, what’s your favorite bounty hunter?
Um, not Boba Fett. I’m really not a Boba Fett fan.. I like
What you don’t like Boba Fett? No he’s so overrated.
Exactly! In the films-
He’s the metaphor for our times. It’s fantastic.
Here’s the thing, the Bounty Hunters weren’t really my thing. I was more about all of the
aliens in the Cantina. Like,- What’s your favorite-
Ponda Boba is my favorite, my favorite like background character. I love him.
Uh-huh. I like-
But he like loses an arm. Oh yeah, you know he’s, he’s you know-
I don’t even think he was- He’s just kind of like a random jerk at
the bar. But he didn’t do anything!
So! He was cool!
I didn’t even think, I think he was just asking for a drink!
He had a cool jacket...
And then- He does have a dope jacket.
He has a dope jacket. Uh.
ANYWAY. You’ve said that Wall-E is more R2-D2 than
C-3PO- Yes.
Can you elaborate on, on what that means? What his characterization came from?
Well the limited nature of Wall-E is what makes him both a trash compactor robot, when
you’re designing the motion for him you want it to have functionality first and you
would get character out of the functionality of the individual mechanics of the way the
character looked. Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt also worked
on Wall-E Did you get a chance to work with him directly at all?
I did. Working with Ben is uh, a true joy. In fact he has this little lab that he has
up at uh Skywalker where he’ll invite you in and go, “oh yeah, actually what you’re
holding there, that’s actually the toilet cover that’s uh, that when you move it uh,
along, along the top of the toilet its like the uh,” its literally the cover of a toilet,
“that’s the sound of the Ark of the Covenant being unearthed.” Actually, and he’s like,
“I, I, I better bring that home and put it back on the toilet.” Like it was literally
the same toilet I think. But no, he would share with everybody the
knowledge of what he had gone through. Where he would have these lectures on, he did one
on Star Wars, one on Empire Strikes Back, I think one on Raiders, and he would talk
about each of the sound effects and where he came up with those sound effects. And so
it was such a great sense of learning and really, and really it just a baton passing
of generations. But it was also a collaboration. We worked together really closely, the animation
team and him to come up with the character of Wall-E and Eve and it was a fantastic experience.
What is it like working on Finding Dory, what difference, challenges are involved?
I think the anticipation for a sequel to Finding Nemo is so huge, that it would be really easy
to be intimidated by that, so the way I kind of looked at this situation was I was like,
“okay I’m just going to try and make the movie, there’s a movie I want to see, the
best movie I would like, and try to make it every step of the way, true and real, and
hilarious, and thankfully, having seen the final film let me tell you I think we did
it and I’m very excited about it. Awesome, well thank you so much for your time
Thank you so much. This was a lot of fun.
Yeah. And all of you at home go see Finding Dory
on June 17th. We’ll be back with more Star Wars show in a minute.
I can’t believe you don’t like Boba Fett. I, I, I don’t know,
You know it’s- I think uh-
The Star Wars Show presents: Everything is Important. This week, Admiral Ozzel!
Admiral Ozzel was the probe droid doubting, Darth Vader disobeying, Imperial officer whose
order to come out of hyperspace directly over Hoth didn’t go as well as he planned.
Without Admiral Ozzel, the Empire probably wouldn’t have alerted the Rebellion to their
presence, allowed Luke to escape to Dagobah to become a Jedi, Leia to completely fall
in love with Han, and Darth Vader to reveal one of the biggest spoilers of all time. Because
without Ozzel there is no Rebel victory, and without Ozzel, Star Wars would have never
had this phrase, “You have failed me for the last time.” Epic Fail indeed, Lord Vader.
So important, Admiral Ozzel. So important! Saves the day with clumsiness,
stupidity and isn’t even a gungan! Yeah, Rebels. They owe him a big thank you.
Big shout out to You Tuber Alddeus and @DrMadStudio on Twitter for the suggestion. Also, huge
thanks to everyone who suggested characters like Wilrow Hood, IG-88, Lobot, and even Boba
Fett- Isn’t Boba Fett kind of the opposite of
underrated he’s been in Empire, Jedi, comics, bathrobes-
The Clone Wars The Clone Wars. But Especially the Holiday
Special because Nothing says, Happy Life Day like a bounty hunter pistol whipping a Dinosaur!
Which is why we want to see your Boba Fett collections. Tweet your photos to @StarWars
using the hashtag #AlwaysBetOnFett and we’ll feature our favorites here next week.
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