The Battlefront II Beta is upon us and we have all the details you’ll need.
Right Anthony?
Roger Roger!
This week on The Star Wars Show!
Anthony sits down with actor Dante Basco!
We go behind the scenes of Star Wars Forces of Destiny!
And much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hi I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez and this is The Star
Wars Show, the only show on the internet- -Nope no time for that.
It’s okay I messed it up anyways Good let’s go to the news!
if you pre-ordered Battlefront II before October, congratulations!
Thank you!
The early beta for you starts today.
Everyone else, you’ll have to wait until October 6th.
During the limited beta you’ll be able to experience all three cinematic eras from Star
Wars in 4 different modes.
The first is Galactic Assault, a 20v20 map on Naboo inside the city of Theed, where you
can play as a clone trooper or Separatist Droid, pilot vehicles, and become a hero like
Rey or villain like Darth Maul.
Spoilers, I’m going to be shouting “ROGER!
ROGER!” on my headset the entire time because the Prequel Defense force runs deep!
And our squad is all Battle Droids It’s gonna be awesome
20 people hit us up!
Next up is Starfighter Assault, an aerial battle above Fondor where players can defend
or destroy an Imperial Star Destroyer using ships from all three eras of Star Wars.
Then there’s Strike, a class-based mode set on Takodana.
Two teams of eight players join the Resistance or First Order and utilize the skills of Heavies,
Assault troopers, Specialists, and Officers to battle in front of Maz’s Castle.
Finally there’s Arcade mode, which also takes place on Naboo where one or two players
can take on a group of AI opponents.
And it’s even available as couch co-op for players on PS4 and Xbox One.
The beta runs from now until October 9th.
Ron Howard, the #1 Source for Untitled Han Solo news was back at it again on Twitter.
In a tweet, the director revealed that Thandie Newton briefly returned to the set to shoot
a few scenes before being whisked back to Westworld.
Oh Ron…you can come and hang out with us here.
If you want to share Star Wars news we got a couch, it’s really comfy, we got a little
desk you could set up Anywho, moving on!
Forces of Destiny revealed a trailer for a second round of shorts.
In it we get our first glimpses of Hera, Elderly Han, Ketsu, and more.
The new special will air on Sunday October 29th at 8pm on Disney Channel.
And wouldn’t you know it, in a seemingly coincidental bit of synergy, we both got to
go visit Ghostbot, the studio that produces Forces of Destiny in the following segment
paid for by Walmart.
Hey guys, we are here at Ghostbot.
The animation studio behind Forces of Destiny.
And we wanted to know how a series like Forces of Destiny goes from the page to the screen,
to an adventure figure.
Brad you’re the supervising director on Forces of Destiny.
Yes.
What does a supervising director do?
The cool thing for me, is getting to work with all of the story team at Lucasfilm to
help create everything and to work with our awesome crew at Ghostbot to bring it to life.
The big thing is that we want to tell the small stories, the everyday stories that make
a difference in these character’s lives and make them who they are.
The strong thing with this show is to present characters that are trying to focus on values,
mindset and behavior.
And trying to show characters and heroes that are sources of inspiration.
I really do love the visual design of this show.
How did you come up with its very unique look?
The whole concept about these characters and their every day moments and the way that they
react and act…we want to pour all of that into the design.
We put more detail into the faces and of course it’s Star Wars so there’s grime and dirtiness
but the look is a little cleaner intentionally.
Internally we have this idea of keeping things simple but dimensional.
So of course you were working with Dave, you were working with Carrie and also working
with the original actors for the voice cast.
For us, as artists getting to work with Daisy Ridley, Felicity Jones, it’s an amazing
chance.
Part of this whole story, was that there was going to be these amazing products coming out.
There was a lot of good teamwork on both sides pulling that together.
As a big Star Wars fan myself, which you could probably tell.
Couldn’t tell!
Are you into it?!
That’s amazing.
These adventure figures are something that kids are creating their own adventures with.
It’s going to be like a tool for them to develop their creativity, their ability to
build stories.
To think that this is going to be their entrance to the Star Wars world, there’s no word
for that.
Its just mind blowing.
So there are more on the way?
Yes.
Can you tell us what’s coming up?
I can say we’re going to have new stories with characters we’ve seen and we’re also
going to have stories we haven’t seen yet.
Thanks so much to Ghostbot for having us out.
You can watch Forces of Destiny right now on Disney’s YouTube channel.
And you can pick up your very own Jyn, Sabine or Rey adventure figure right now at Walmart.
Really?
And then you can have so much fun!
I think he’s heading for that small moon!
That’s no moon.
Ladies and gentlemen, all hail Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, the Pan, Jai Kell of Star
Wars Rebels, Dante Basco!
Thanks for being here.
Thanks so much, I’m so excited to be here It’s gotta be fascinating because you obviously
started off very young.
Hook was a long shot, Avatar was a long shot for Nickelodeon, when did you find out that
these things were such cultural touchstones and how did that affect you?
I don’t know.
It’s just dumb luck to a certain degree.
It’s not lucky getting good, like that’s your job.
To get good, the better you are the luckier you get.
The luck is that you get to do some character that somehow the public at large cares about
in any way, shape or form.
That’s like the good luck.
And now, as Jai Kell.
How did that come about?
Yeah Jai Kell man, it’s amazing.
There’s a lot of people that are fans of Avatar, of Hook and things I’m a part of.
But the first big fandom in my life is Star Wars.
You may have a smaller character, but they explain how this character works in this whole
world, story even when you’re not on screen.
What he’s doing, so I was just like a little kid, totally buzzin.
You have such a history of playing these characters that maybe pride could be their downfall.
Yes!
But there are redemptive arcs.
I have a knack for playing characters with redemptive values, particular in Avatar you
were pulling off a father/son redemption arc with Mark Hamill.
I know, that’s like the craziest thing.
I didn’t know it was Mark Hamill when we first did it.
It was like we’re doing the show, and Andrea Romano, the great Andrea Romano voice director
is like, your father is going to be coming in to play the scene with you.
And it’s Mark Hamill and he comes in and is like, hello.
Then we go in and we grew up with Luke Skywalker, there’s a new generation that grew up with
him as the Joker and know his prowess as a voice actor which is, he’s one of the greats
right?
And he’s amazing.
We’re in the room and we’re going at it and we’re yelling.
I’m going “Father, no! no!”
We’re doing these lines.
We’re worked up and then he leaves.
He just vanishes.
Gone.
And I’m like, I just did the Vader/Luke scene with Mark Hamill.
What!
One of the most surreal moments of my life like you’re literally sitting there like,
we just did the…I was Luke he was Vader…
And he just left!
He just went to get a sandwich!
He was gone And then I didn’t see him again for a while
and we did a few other series together and now it’s like I was at a party, and I walk
in and Mark Hamill is like, “Dante!”
And he’s like calling me over.
And I’m like, “Oh my god Luke Skywalker knows me”
Luke Skywalker called you son once.
Luke Skywalker called me son and it scarred me.
It’s a mixed bag.
I’ll take one to get the other.
Hi, I’m Ian Doescher, author of William Shakespeare’s “The Force Doth Awaken”
You’re about to see a scene from the book performed by actors from the San Francisco
Shakespeare Company.
Where am I?
You are welcome as my guest.
Where are the others?
All my comrades true?
The comrade?
Thou means the thieves, murderers and traitors thoust call friends?
Thou shall be wholly comforted to know I have no knowledge of their whereabouts.
Thou happily see me dead?
Yes but the consequence of being hunted by one who hides behind a coward’s mask
No craven, I
I'll show my letters all
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Last week we asked you who your favorite droids were.
And aside rom the obvious votes for R2D2, a LOT of people said HK-47 from Knights of
the Old Republic was their favorite.
Yeah a lot of people called us Meat Bags, more people than I am comfortable in a week
I think It was a little excessive.
But there were also votes Roger from Freemaker, CZ-3, even Mr. Bones from the Aftermath trilogy
was getting a ton of love.
And good for you people because Mr. Bones deserves all of that love!
Thanks to everyone for submitting, have a wonderful rest of your day and as always may
the Force be with you.
He’s just a little boy’s best friend Trying to do his best
Yeah.
That’s all Mr. Bones is.
Yeah he’s got a cool name too.
What a sweet boy that Mr. Bones.
It was made of oatmeal because Wilford Brimley loves oatmeal.
I don’t understand why it’s hard o understand.
And who doesn’t like raccoons.
Make Wilford Brimley canon again!