Mark Hamill will do more than just stare at you from on top of a cliff at Celebration.
We can’t say much more contractually because that’s entirely up to Mr. Hamill.
Mr. Hamill, its very serious.
This week on the Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with the authors of the Ralph McQuarrie art book
We find out what it takes to be an actual keeper of the Holocron.
And much, much more.
Now, from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s the Star Wars Show!
Hello and welcome to the Star Wars Show, I’m Andi Gutierrez
And I’m Anthony Carboni And this week’s episode is going to be a
ten minute tribute to the greatest character of all time, Wald.
No it’s not.
Kitster is plenty.
But Wald is his best friend!
And look at his hottie little pose!
Let’s go to the Wald Watch! Wald Watch!
Day 763!
Get that out of here!
Hey!
Look, it’s your line, read!
Once again starting the news off with Celebration, since, you know, its on the horizon and any
real juicy Star Wars related news for the next few weeks is probably being saved for
the event itself, GIGANTIC WINK - the full schedule of programming has been released
on Star Wars.com Thursday highlights include The Star Wars
40th Anniversary panel at 11am, Smooth Talkin’ with Billy Dee Williams at 2, and Ian McDiramid
and Ray Park together at last in a sith spectacular from 4-5.
Friday morning at 11am brings us the highly anticipated Last Jedi panel with Kathleen
Kennedy and Rian Johnson, and some small talk with Warrick Davis at 1:30.
Their title, not mine.
That is not my Warwick Davis joke.
Saturday morning starts with the Rebels Season 4 panel at 11, followed by Anthony Daniels
at 1:30, and the Cosplay Championships at 3:30.
The final day begins with a Droid centric panel hosted by Warwick Davis at 11, and the
closing Ceremony from 4-5.
Best part is, we will be streaming all weekend long on StarWars.com and our YouTube channel.
For more details and additional panel information check out StarWars.com.
You know who is missing from that lineup?
Who?
Mark Hamill.
Funny you mention that because Mark Hamill will also be appearing at Star Wars Celebration.
What?!
Mark will be headlining his own panel on Sunday, which is always incredible, but most importantly,
he will he hosting a tribute to Carrie Fisher where he remembers the talent, humor, and
enduring legacy of the galaxies most luminous being on Friday night.
For more details, check out this link.
Star Wars Puzzle Droids, a game I can legit not stop playing because we work here and
get early access to these things, is now available for pre-registration on Google Play worldwide.
The game, is a classic match 3 style puzzle game with a Star Wars twist, and recreates
moments from the Star Wars saga told by the droids, across classic locations like Jake,
Takodana.
Puzzle droids, the free-to-play mobile game, will be available on iOS, android, and amazon
soon and can be experienced for yourself on the show floor at Star Wars Celebration.
Just, if you do play it, don’t be like Andi and play it during important Star Wars Show
meetings.
Ha, like anyone pays attention in those meetings anyways.
It’s just Scott talking about stuff That’s true, you called my bluff.
I’ve never been to a Star Wars Show meeting.
How does any of this work?
LIES DECEPTIONS.
How long is this supposed to be?
Because I can go for 4 hours, let me start from the beginning again.
Hi my name is Leland Chee and I am the Keeper of the Holocron for the Lucasfilm Story Group.
When I describe my job to friends, the easiest wait o do it is just to say I am a Star Wars
expert.
My job is to know more about Star Wars than pretty much everyone else.
This is a Holocron.
In Star Wars lore, it is an artifact used by the Jedi that contains knowledge of Star
Wars lore.
I am essentially the keeper of Star Wars lore and instead of a Holocron, I use a database
that I built.
We have over 80,000 different entries for characters and planets and ships.
I wish I could tell you there was a career path to becoming the Keeper of the Holocron.
Unfortunately there isn’t.
I started at Lucas Arts as a game tester coming in with all this history and with all this
Star Wars knowledge.
And actually the first game I ever tested was a non Star Wars game called Herc’s Adventures.
And I was like, I’m in with all this Star Wars knowledge and they’re putting me on
a non Star Wars fame.
Then one of the titles I tested was called Behind the Magic.
I was in test for 3 years which is a long time and that’s when I saw the posting.
There’s no such thing as a typical day for the Keeper of the Holocron.
We are involved in so many forms of entertainment whether its movies, TV, books.
So at one point I could be reading scripts for a film or I could be reading a manuscript
for one of our novels, or I might be asked to try out the latest VR experience.
There really isn’t a standard day and each day is grit.
I did an article for Wired and in that magazine they commissioned me to do artwork of me as
a Jedi.
Licensing saw that and got inspired and decided to create an action figure.
I gave him a name, Selig Kenjenn.
So there is an action figure with my likeness.
There are so many, so many memorable, amazing, life altering experiences that I’ve had
in the 20 years that I’ve been here.
This week we are talking all about Ralph McQuarrie with the authors of Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie.
With Wage Lageose, Brandon Alinger and David Mandel.
Thank you guys for joining us!
Thank you for having us!
We’ve got the book right here behind me, the two-volume set and it’s massive
So tell me a little bit about how this project got started.
I think it was book that Lucasfilm wanted to do for some time and they talked about
doing it for a number of years I think.
And I knew David and Wade, I knew that they were both McQuarrie collectors and enthusiasts
so it sort of seemed like a logical assembly.
Yeah you all sort of brought a different element to the book, because I know Wade you brought
a lot of first hand accounts.
Yeah he actually knew Ralph.
I had the opportunity to meet Ralph in 1997 and we just became fast friends so he would
just share stories of working on the films with Lucas.
That’s amazing and a lot of those stories are included in the book
That was what we really wanted to bring to the table rather than just a catalogue of
the artwork which would have been fine in itself.
Yeah people would have loved that anyways.
But then we thought wouldn’t it be great to go and really talk to everyone else who
was a collaborator with Ralph and try to get their stories, get some of the stories behind
the art.
We really did try to treat it like an art book so this is how you would do a Leonardo
DaVinci book.
A chronological approach of what he was working on.
Yeah there were some interesting things we were working on to plot things out chronologically
where you look at stuff where you assume it was for the Star Wars Holiday Special, like
all this Wookie house artwork and then we sort of determined based on the sequencing
of the little numbers that were in the corner of the pages that those were actually concepts
that he did for Empire.
So then you go back and the story treatments and the scripts, well actually the Empire
script had the Wookie planet in it so this was all stuff he was doing for Empire and
then they refurnished it for the Holiday Special.
That brings up an interesting point.
The work of Ralph McQuarrie has been repurposed and reused and adapted through the entire
history of Star Wars.
You have any particular favorite designs or paintings that have kind of popped up later
on?
I love that they use his original Chewbacca design on Rebels.
That one always kills me.
I remember the archivists saying there’s people in there all the time going through
drawers looking at art for inspiration for whatever new project they’re working on.
Which is interesting because this book, kind of encapsulates everything he did on these
productions.
The archives can now be in your hands.
We’ve been told sort of off the record that over in the UK they all have copies of the
book now and can use for the Studio.
See guys, that’s great!
A point of pride for us Thank you guys for coming by.
This was really enlightening The book is absolutely gorgeous and you did
an amazing job so thanks again.
The captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you.
(heavy breathing) KENOBIIIII!
Hey honey, check out my outfit for Star Wars Celebration!
Those are you pajamas No it’s cool, Star Wars Show said I could
wear them.
I think they meant as a joke.
Carboniiiii!
For the record, you can totally attend in your pajamas.
You have my permission to attend in your pajamas.
Plus this year it’s in Florida and like, that state essentially has no rules.
So…you be you!
It is a lawless frontier at World.
Pajamas for everybody!
Everyone in pajamas all the time.
This weekend every website is going to be littered with fake trailers and wacky products
designed to fool you because…Aprils fools day.
But not us!
We’re different!
That’s right, And by different we mean lazy and didn’t want to produce anything.
HOWEVER!
Since April Fools is this weekend, and Star Wars actually has some really good jokes in
it, we want to know your favorite funny moments from Star Wars.
Send them to us using the hashtag Star Wars Goofs and we’ll feature our favorites here
next week.
My favorite part is how the Ewoks look like they’re cute adorable teddy bears designed
for children but it turns out they’re murdering people and putting heads on spikes.
And using them for drums!
It’s so funny!
Hilarious!
Thanks for watching and may the Force be with you.
Also, you’re welcome Frank.
Now you don’t have to make an April Fools package.