This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Peter sits down with the author of “Ahsoka” E.K Johnston!
Ashley Eckstein shows off her Ahsoka LEGO dress and much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Jedi Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi And I’m Andi Gutierrez welcome to a HAUNTED
episode of The Star Wars Show.
You mean haunted because the set has a couple of Star Wars jack-o-lanterns on it?
That, and!
Legend has it, the ghost of the copy machine that used to live here has returned!
LET’S GO TO THE NEWS!!!!
Ick!
He got papers and ectoplasam everywhere.
He’s a ghost and we took his home.
What else is he supposed to do?
That's a good point actually.
In case you missed, late last week Lucasfilm officially announced that Donald Glover would
be playing Lando Calrissian in the untitled Han Solo stand-alone film.
Glover joins Alden Ehreinrch who is playing Han Solo in the 2018 release, directed by
21 Jump Street and LEGO Movie alums, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
In a joint statement, Lord and Miller said, “We’re so lucky to have an artist as talented
as Donald join us.
These are big shoes to fill, and an even bigger cape, and this one fits him perfectly, which
will save us money on alterations.
Also we’d like to publicly apologize to Donald for ruining his Comic-Con forever.”
I think this is an inspired casting choice!
Us too, haunted copy machine.
In book news, we here at the Star Wars Show would like to send out a huge congratulations
to EK Johnston whose Star Wars novel, “Ahsoka” hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list
this past week in the Young Adult category.
Finally, a series of Rogue One standees have started appearing in 100 selected IMAX theaters
across the country.
The standees feature the cast bathed in schematics, featuring messages hidden in Aurabesh text.
And if you take a picture of yourself in front of the standee you can win a trip to LA for
a Rogue One screening at IMAX Headquarters.
Just be sure to upload a picture to Twitter using the hashtag #RogueIMAXSweeps for a chance
to win.
For me details and rules, check out this link.
And for more breaking Star Wars news from across the galaxy ahh this again.
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My name is Nathan Sawaya and we’re here in my art studio in Los Angeles where I have
over 5 million LEGO bricks.
All sorted by shape and color because I’m an artist that works with LEGO to create all
my sculptures.
There’s something special about Star Wars and LEGO.
I mean they are both universally loved and I think that’s why they work so well together.
I don’t think there is anything in the Star Wars universe that cannot be built out of
LEGO.
I think that’s the great thing because you can create anything you can imagine.
I was speaking with Ashley Eckstein about her upcoming fashion show and we just sparked
this idea of what if we could build a dress out of LEGO for you to wear?
We revealed the dress at Comic Con at the Her Universe Fashion Show and when she walked
on stage, the crowd went crazy.
Hey guys!
Ashley Eckstein here with designer Andrew MacLaine
Hey there!
And we’re here at Lucasfilm and we have the honor to present our one of a kind, never
been done before Ahsoka Tano LEGO Couture gown.
Andrew, how many LEGO bricks are on this gown?
I’d say there are about 10,000 LEGO bricks, probably more we kind of lost count
And how heavy is it?
Well you were wearing it all night so you know it was pretty heavy
It’s about 25 pounds Well this is the first time LEGO has ever
been able to walk down a runway.
Ahsoka Tano LEGO Couture here at Lucasfilm.
I’m here with E.K Johnston the author of the best-selling book, “Ahsoka”.
Kate thank you so much for being on the show!
Thank you What kind of influence was Star Wars on you
before you wrote Ahsoka?
Tremendously, probably one of my biggest pop culture references is Star Wars, I often joke
that Star Wars Ahsoka is my only book without Star Wars references in it
The number of times I type, “That’s not how the Force works” and then had to erase
it. Yeah
So I guess in terms of storytelling and heroes and all that kind of stuff, it’s very much
a huge influence on me.
As a storyteller, what do you think it is that makes the Star Wars universe so compelling?
I think part of it is that its fun.
Things are always exploding; there are always really great character moments, which is fantastic.
And its so big now, my brother is 10 years old now and my nephews are toddlers, all across
those generations we just love it.
It’s just accessible which is fun too.
One of the fun things about Star Wars is the way different authors will add their little
parts to it.
Are there any things that you really enjoyed adding to the Star Wars universe?
My favorite is that there is a board game book called Crokan which is based on a very
very local Canadian board game called Crokinole.
Because I had to get a Canadian reference in somehow so I gave them like an electronic
scoreboard but aside from that it’s basically Crokinole.
So its been really funny to get emails from Canadians being like, did you just put Crokinole
Into Star Wars?
And I’m like; yes they let me do that.
You have any other Canadian easter eggs?
There are 2, but they haven’t been found yet so
Oh okay!
So we just need to put people on alert There’s 3, people have found the Crokinole
but there’s 2 others.
And you’ve been doing the book tour with Ashley now
Yes, which has been fabulous.
She’s wonderful.
So how’s the turnout been at those?
There have been hundreds of people and children in adorable costumes and adults in amazing
costumes.
We’ve sold out Barnes and Nobles and they’ve closed, and we’re still signing an hour
and a half later Wow!
The turnout has been amazing.
When did you find out Ahsoka was a best seller?
I got a couple text messages at first and I ignored them, because I wanted my agent
to call me and tell me So he called and said, congratulations!
I said you’re gonna have to tell me because I haven't checked any of my messages yet.
And then he told me and I went and bought some ice cream.
So many firsts have come along since this book for you
Yes, yes it’s been fabulous.
This is my first like really big book tour, and the New York Times list is like that intangible
thing at the end of every writer’s dream really where you’re like, it would be nice,
but its also really difficult.
Getting the hardcover and the e-book list at the same time was incredible.
Everyone has just worked so hard to get the book that far so it was amazing.
Kate, thank you so much for being on the show.
And we have more Star Wars Show coming up right now!
Last week we asked you to share some of your favorite Star Wars Concept Art with us and
you sent a ton of inspiring examples Like Palpatine’s unused Lava Lair from Return
of the Jedi Ralph McQuarie’s original Vader and Luke
duel which had PK Sulivan stating: I’ve always loved this piece.
It’s so kinetic and Vader is incredibly menacing.
It’s art deco meets westerns.
And finally Lee Gordon Demarbre spoke for all of us here when he said said the funnest
stuff to notice is how old Ralph designs are showing up in Rebels.
Oh hey look who it is, and he wore a costume?
It’s uh, it’s cute…and we want to see your Star Wars Halloween stuff.
Send us your carved pumpkins, your costumes, anything you did this year that was spooky
and Star Wars we want to see it.
Send it using the hashtag Spooky Star Wars and we’ll feature our favorites here next
week.
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Okay. What is it?
Be sure to check out The Star Wars After Show presented by Verizon, where Andi, along with
a panel of Lucasfilm employees break down all the happenings in this weeks episode of
The Star Wars Show.
Watch it this Thursday and every Thursday on YouTube.com/Verizon.
Muahahaha!
To the never region I go!
Man, they really phoned it in with the special effects this week.
Everyone who usually does our effects was out working on a movie or something.
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