This week we’ve got an exclusive deleted scene from Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Plus I sit down with Ray Park, and Pablo takes us Be-han the scenes of Solo again.
There’s a lot of show to get to today.
I know, let’s get started.
This is The Star Wars Show.
From the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco, here’s your hosts, Andi and Anthony!
Hello and welcome to the Star Wars show the only Star Wars show on the internet brave
enough to interview both halves of Maul in two consecutive weeks.
Two Mauls are better than one.
And that’s only half the story.
Because he’s half a person.
See it’s funnier when you explain it.
Mhmm.
All of the world’s greatest goofs aren’t funny until you explain them.
You’re welcome.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is coming to digital and Movies anywhere this Friday.
The HD and 4K Ultra HD release will also have the option of coming with bonus features,
including: a cast and crew roundtable discussion, behind the scenes featurettes about Chewbacca
and the making of the Lando’s Falcon, plus eight extended or deleted scenes.
One of which we will show you in its entirety right here on the show in a few minutes, so
stick around for that.
But I want it now.
And if you’re not into the whole…
Says everyone scrubbing forward right now.
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And if you’re not into the whole digital download thing, you can wait for the physical
release of Solo, when it arrives on store shelves on September 25th.
There are only a few days left to create a submission for the Star Wars Fan Awards.
Five to be exact.
And once again, we’ve got another Lucasfilm expert to offer you tips on your submission.
This time in the form of cinematic dreamboat, John Swartz.
Cinematic dreamboat?
I’m lobbying for a new gig.
Hi, I’m John Swartz, I’m a Vice President and Co-Producer at Lucasfilm.
I worked on The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and Solo.
And I’m here to give you your last Star Wars Fan Awards Tip.
Here at Lucasfilm we always try to work with filmmakers that have a distinctive style and
strong personal point of view.
With each of their movies you could feel the filmmaker coming through in the work.
Each of us have our own way of telling stories because of who we are.
It’s important that, that finds its way into the story you are telling because that’s
what will make it stand out in the crowd.
As you finish your own project take a step back, take a look at what you’ve done, and
make sure it reflects who you are as a filmmaker.
This insures that the personality and artistry of the filmmakers comes out in the final product
and makes all of our movies feel unique and different.
Remember submissions end September 17.
Good luck and may the Force be with you.
Just a word of caution.
You don’t need a character that says “I’ve got a bad feeling about this”.
[Group] "I've got a bad feeling about this"
Just because we can’t help ourselves doesn't mean that you shouldn't.
[Porg sounds]
It’s Darth Maul!
We have Ray Park here.
It’s so good to see you.
I have been dying to talk to you since Solo came out.
Cause you’re finally back on the big screen of Star Wars and I have to know, what was
your reaction when they called you and said that he was coming back and they wanted you
to be apart of it?
Honestly, mind blown.
We were in Guatemala at the time doing a fan convention and we just landed and Lynne Hale
from Lucasfilm was trying to reach me.
But not in a million years did I think it had anything to do with Solo.
So I said, “look, Lynne, my phone doesnt work.
Here’s my private number.
But we’re gone for dinner, I’ll be back in an hour.”
And my wife’s like, “you should be calling, you should be calling.
That’s work, it’s Lucasfilm, you should be calling.”
That’s how your wife sounds?
No, she doesn't.
She’ll kill me, you know, but.
She’s got a great voice.
Yeah, that’s what’s in my head.
[Laughing]
And so, I call Lynne and she says, “ so they want you back if you want to do it”.
And I’m like, “what?
Yes!
Now?
Can I get on a plane now?
I’ll shave my hair”.
She goes, “no, no, no, we just wanna know if you wanna do it.”
And I said, “of course I’ll do it.
I’m there.”
So of course I start training like a madman.
Right.
During the day and at nighttime.
I didn’t train to get big.
I just wanted to be ready.
And plus every time I worked out I was thinking of Darth Maul.
He’s been a part of my life for 20 years.
The first time that I heard that they were going to have Maul do a cameo in Solo I wasn’t sold on it.
But when I saw it on the big screen, and when I saw you up there, and I heard Sam’s voice,
I was like, “yes!
This is how it should be done”.
What was that process like working with Sam and collaborating like that?
I love Sam.
I’ve seen him over the years.
I spoke to Sam a lot on the way to the airport because I was watching Clone Wars and Rebels.
I didn’t think Darth Maul would be back in Solo and would have anything to do with
Clone Wars and started researching everything and getting tips from Sam.
And being on set with Ron, he’s such a great director, paid me some great compliments,
boosted my confidence as an actor.
It was a different process this time.
Ron let me do it my way quite a few times so I was settled in my way.
And then, you know, with Sam’s voice.
And I thought Sam’s voice sounds phenomenal.
He’s a great actor.
And I’m so glad Maul is back.
Yeah.
What was it like sitting in the theater for the first time at that world premiere when
people saw the boots and they started piecing it together?
That it was Maul and that it was you?
What did that moment feel like?
I was scared and nervous because Ewan was sitting right beside me and then, you know,
when you hear Maul speak for the first time and Ewan knew it was me he was like, “yeah!”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Well done!”
And I’m like, “I want to see myself”
[Laughing]
You know, but it was so nice for him to be like that with me and to hear that reaction
in the movie theater.
I heard stories about it in ‘99 when people were going crazy.
So to sit there and experience that with my kids, my son turned over to me and went,
“oh this is the movie you’re doing?”
[Laughing]
It was a thrill.
I’m so greatful.
How has your relationship with Maul kind of evolved over the past 20 years since, you
know, in the grand scheme of things you are his face but it was only for that one movie
and he’s grown so much.
I was 22 when I played Darth Maul in Phantom Menace.
Really?
I didn’t realize you were that young at the time.
So I was skinny.
I was doing Wushu.
I wasn’t into lifting weights.
It was all about the fights for me.
And I was told no dialogue, gonna be dubbed, but the fights have to be good.
So I was trying to put in as much of the jumping, Hong Kong, spins, flips as possible.
It did surprise me when kids came up dressed up and thought Darth Maul was so cool.
That blew my mind because when I was younger I always went for the good guys.
And so people always ask me, “what do you think it is?”
All I wanted to do was make sure whatever action I did was subtle or I didn't have to
show anger.
I wanted it to be good.
So I feel lucky.
And now there’s a new generation of fans.
It’s just, it’s unbelievable.
It’s great to see a little kid and girls coming up dressed as Darth Maul.
Oh yeah!
And they can spin those lightsabers.
You know, it’s nice to see that the character has legs.
Ahhh!
Back again.
That was terrible.
I’m here with Patrick Tuback of Industrial Light and Magic.
And behind me is one of the oldest effects ideas in film but this looks like a whole
new version of that effect.
It’s sort of what we call process shots.
When you’re out on location you can actually drive the stunt vehicles really, really fast.
And then you have something like this which is the more broken down version where you’re
just looking to get very specific angles.
And so we’ve created this little, mini stage for ourselves where instead of just putting
them in front of a blue screen we said what could we do to make it a little more like reality.
And what we have here playing as content on our LED screens is all the stuff we shot out
on location so that we’re able to then when we back in here project that stuff on the
car and so you really feel like you’re actually in the environment.
Every time you pop to these process shots you don't want to feel like you’re being
taken out of the movie you want to feel like you're still in the environment that you were in.
I’m here with Rob Bredow, Industrial Light and Magic Visual Effects Supervisor.
Rob, where are we and what are we looking at outside this window.
Here’s the Millennium Falcon.
But for this movie we’re actually seeing all of the content out the screen in real time.
We got 180 degrees of screen, a very, very high resolution, multiple 4k projectors to
fill the screen.
We worked with the content creatives on the film to figure out exactly what we’re gonna
want to see in the cockpit scenes.
And we premade all those scenes and got it ready so that when we sat in the cockpit and
were ready to photograph it we could do it all live.
You could see out the window of the real thing.
So what are the benefits from doing something like this as opposed to doing a blue screen effect?
One of the biggest things is the way the actors react.
The first time we put them in here for the first rehearsal they’re looking at stars
and somebody grabs a hyperspace lever and we actually put them into hyperspace and everyone
just freaked out.
The actors just went crazy.
We had some big scenes in here and it’s great for the actors to be able to react to
the real thing.
So does that mean, could we play any video on this thing?
Yeah, anything you want.
Really?
Cause I brought a little something, uh, let’s watch.
[The Star Wars Show theme]
I love this show.
[Laughing]
You’re watching The Star Wars Show!
Hey!
[Chewbacca roar]
I like that Han and Chewie are having a snowball fight.
I want to see more of their buddy buddy goof offs.
Yeah, I enjoy the fact that they just met and they’re already fighting like two brothers
in the back of a sedan on a road trip.
They’re soulmates.
It’s what happens.
It’s true.
And with that said, we want to know what your favorite Star Wars Buddy Buddy goof off moments are.
Send them to us using the hashtag #SWGoofOff and we’ll feature our favorites here next week.
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say something nice to a stranger.
Yeah, you can really brighten someone’s day.
Thanks for watching, and may the Force be with you.
Buddy buddy goof offs?
I wonder who came up with that.
I’d like to talk about what Darth Maul was up to.
He’s too spooky.
You remember that?
No!
Yeah you do!
I hate…
That’s best!
Spiders are the worst.
Why would you go with a spider?
Then you have to manufacture so many more legs.
I think they already had them from the rolly polly droids.