This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Pablo Hidalgo from the Lucasfilm Story Group,
We take a look at the new Death Star DLC from Battlefront
And much, much more!
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters its the Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Peter Townley And I’m the real, human, non-hologram Andi
Gutierrez back from vacation and this is The Star Wars Show.
Or are you…
No touching!
Let’s go to the news!
If you’re like me then you probably love the music from Star Wars Rebels and are dying
to get some of those sweet galactic jams all up in your ear holes.
Well the wait is finally over!
Star Wars Rebels is releasing not one but two brand-new albums featuring music from
Season 1 and Season 2.
Composed by Kevin Kiner, the Season 1 soundtrack features 28 tracks, while the season 2 packs
in 33.
You can download Season 1 on September 16 and Season 2 on September 30th.
Apple released iOS10 this week, and with the upgrade comes the ability to add stickers
to iMessage.
Which also means you can now add animated Star Wars stickers into all of your conversations
on iOS10, because the future is now!
Words are boring!
It’s all about animated stickers now!
Star Wars stickers!
The pack includes 21 different stickers ranging from a BB-8 thumbs up, Luke shouting no, and
even Vader choking someone with the force because that’s how you punctuate a message
in this glorious future we live in!
The Star Wars Stickers are available right now in the app store for $1.99.
Also announced this week were the winners in the ILM Art Department Challenge, where
over 3,800 artists from 101 countries competed to see if they had what it takes to be a concept
artist at ILM.
You can check out the winning art, and the incredible runners up at this link.
Finally Star Wars Battlefront is on the precipice of releasing the new Death Star DLC.
But what would a new Battlefront release be without an awesome trailer, right?
Well, this Friday, EA and Dice will be releasing brand new trailer for the Death Star expansion
pack, and wouldn’t you know it, The Star Wars Show managed to get this sneak peek just
for you.
Enjoy!
Alright guys, today on the Star Wars Show we are joined by my friend, Lucasfilm Story
Group’s Pablo Hidalgo.
Hey Andi, what do you want to talk about?
Star Wars…
Alright I can do that…
You’ve been with the company for a long time now,
17 years in February Thats wild
Yeah And you’ve been a Star Wars fan since Star
Wars became Star Wars Since I was a little, wee little child, yes.
Can you tell me a little bit about how your fandom grew?
In 1987 when I went to a game store I found this Star Wars role playing game that was
freshly published by West End Games and I just became obsessed with it.
Thats when I realized, alright I’m a fan for life here.
It became a place for me to tell my own stories, in my circle of friends, we’d all play different
games but only I could run the Star Wars game.
Like I just became a control freak about it and I took it upon myself to become as knowledgeable
of Star Wars as possible in order to make it as authentic an experience as possible
with my circle of friends who played the game.
Cause I didn’t want them asking a question about the universe and me saying uh I don’t
know…
Wow, now that has become your life Well yeah, and even if I didn’t know atleast
I could extrapolate in a way that builds off the knowledge that I did know.
So at no point did they see the seams of the universe and then it was like, i’m in this
fictional space and I feel like no matter where I go I can get a story.
So you kind of developed your Star Wars in Storytelling book through these games and
growing up.
Tell me about how you transitioned into making that your professional job.
Well it was a combination of things, it wasn’t my only interest you know, I was also cultivating
an interest in animation, filmmaking at the same time.
So I ended up transitioning more as a writer though.
I flipped a coin and decided well I have an illustration background, a writing background
so as I was writing I started freelancing for role playing game companies.
And thats basically when I realized wait I could do something professionally with Star
Wars.
And how did you come to land at Lucasfilm?
At the 96’ GenCon, convention Steve Sansweet was there and so I got a chance to meet Steve
and I had heard through the grapevine that he was writing the Star Wars encyclopedia,
and I said you know Steve, I’ve got my own encyclopedia right here
It just so happened…
Yeah, if you need help or if you need a hand…
He took me up on the offer, sent me the manuscript and I offered notes on it.
There was a job posting on a Lucasfilm.com for an internet content developer.
I asked Steve whether or not I could use him as a reference and he said no.
And i’m like, oh…why not?
Because I’m going to be the one interviewing you.
So that worked out for you That worked out pretty well, yeah
Tell me about how you kind of progressed through the company to where you are now in the story
group.
People quickly came to realize that wow this guy really knows his Star Wars and that just
became part of making Star Wars stuff.
Make sure Pablo has seen it before it goes out the door so as more and more parts of
the company realized that could be an asset in that regard, I decided to kind of formalize
the role and say, isn’t there a capacity where I could look at everything that goes
out.
That was right around the time that Lucasfilm got reinvigorated with Kathleen Kennedy coming
onboard and having this whole plan for more feature films and she instituted the story group.
With Kiri Hart in charge of it there was a core group and Kiri decided that they needed
someone like me, and someone like Leland and someone like Matt you know, folks that know
a lot of the details about Star Wars who not only offer that expertise but also offer the
expertise of having been here, having that institutional knowledge of knowing what we’ve
done in the past, what was important to George.
Theres a lack of inofmratiom about what it is the story group does, people have misconceptions
about the amount of power you have, the decisions you make, can you kind of give the clifnotes
version of your role?
Yeah I think the easiest thing that people will latch their heads around is oh you must
be a continuity cop, thats not really it.
Its more about, if you try to boil it down is we work with any creative who is wanting
to tell a story in Star Wars.
And we help them find the story that they want to tell but also make sure that story
fits within the framework of Star Wars.
So its not just about making sure the number of moons over a planet is correct, its more
about thematically, what are you going for and whats the best way to achieve that with
Star Wars and also, is the story you’re telling something we’ve done before or is
it something thats actually in development somewhere else in the company.
So we’ve become this sort of, this point that coordinates all stories from across the
board so that we don’t inadverttently tell something thats contradictory not only from
a continuity point of view but from a thematic point of view.
Thanks for coming by Pablo, it’d always super fun to talk to you.
Yeah!
Nice catching up And stick around guys, there will be more
Star Wars Show in just a minute.
The following segment of The Star Wars Show is an ad from our friends at Target, yippee!!!!
I love meeting fellow Star Wars fans, and last week on the Star Wars Show, we showed
you a group of rebellious fans who were handpicked by Target to be featured in a national ad.
Well, today we’re at the home of two of them to find out more.
Hey guys!
Hi!
Nice to meet you!
Lets go inside?
Lets do it!
Jennifer and Josh thanks so much for inviting me into your cool Star Wars home, this has
been an incredible tour.
Target did a search for Star Wars fans all across the country and they chose you.
How did that come about?
We had a Star Wars themed wedding that was a little bit rebellious because my family
is a little more traditional but we were determined to do that because it’s an important part
of our lives.
How did you get to this place in your fandom thats been important to you your entire lives?
As a child, the message that really resonated was friendship, loyalty and also seeing the
diversity on screen was so powerful.
Red, green, blue it didn’t matter.
You could be the good guy, you could be the hero no matter what you looked like.
And it also gave me hope that this was a galaxy far, far away but maybe someday our world
would be like Star Wars.
And you can take that hope and gift it to your daughter by introducing Star Wars to
her, which you’ve done.
Absolutely Which is beautiful
(baby coos) I wanted to give you this gift from Lucasfilm
and Target, its a little bit of a late wedding gift.
Its a Target gift card How appropriate, we love it!
Its been great having you but its time for you to go
Oh, its time to go?
Yeah, sorry
Well that’s our show this week, thanks so
much to all of the fans- Oh, well if it isn’t our old friend, CH-33Z.
Good to see I wasn’t the only one on an extended break around here.
(CH-33Z speaks) What’s that?
Oh, I don’t think anyone has done that yet.
(CH-33Z squeaks) I mean, sure I’ll ask the audience, I don’t
know why they would, but it’s worth a shot.
If you didn’t catch any of that, CH-33Z thought it would be a great idea to see your
CH-33Z fan art.
And since there isn’t any out there that we could find, we’re asking you to make
some.
Tag your art with #CH33ZYART, that’s two 3’s for E’s, and we’ll feature our favorites
next week.
Happy, CH-33Z?
(CH-33Z squeaks) Finally, make sure to check out our brand
new series The Star Wars After Show presented by Verizon where I wrangle a panel of other
Lucasfilm employees to talk more in depth about all the Star Wars from todays show.
Check it out this Thursday and every Thursday only on YouTube.com/Verizon.
Thanks for watching and may the force be with you!
You’re so much better in person But the hologram was so much fun, come on.
It was great.
It was great for you!