It’s a Battlefront extravaganza, as soon as Anthony puts down his controller and comes to work.
Anthony!
Don’t make me come out there!
This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar
Anthony heads to LA to check out EA Play and much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hey I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome the The
Star Wars Show the only Star Wars Show being made in this building that is not a part of
any official Star Wars canon.
Because we are a non-fiction show!
Which means we’re canon…in the news department.
Our friendship is canon!
Star Wars is pretty much the basis of our best friendship.
Let’s go to the news.
E3 is currently underway in Los Angeles, where the biggest video games of the year are being
shown to the public.
That means Battlefront II debuted its epic new multiplayer trailer during the EA Play
live stream, as well as an extended look at the multiplayer gameplay during the 20 v 20
Assault on Theed stream.
Hosted by Commander Iden Veriso herself, Janina Gavankar (in a fierce as hell custom inferno
squad dress) took the stage by storm…troopers to reveal that the single player story campaign
will HELP bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
Aside from fan favorite modes like couch co-op and skirmish, Battlefront II will have more
content than the last game.
John Boyega showed up in a pre-recorded message to confirm that Finn and Captain Phasma will
be in the game, as well as the new planet Crait from The Last Jedi.
But best of all, all seasons of content will be coming to everyone who owns Battlefront
II for FREE starting with The Last Jedi themed pack in the fall.
Battlefront II is available for pre-order now and everyone who pre-orders the game will
get early access to the beta as well as INSTANT UPGRADES TO Yoda’s lightsaber star card.
But it wasn’t just the multiplayer demo that was seen, I was at EA Play and got a
chance to check out the single player campaign behind closed doors...which was AWESOME, as
well as talk to the creators.
Check it out.
What’s up guys Anthony Carboni here at EA Play, this is where EA shows off everything
they have coming up for the next year and obviously one of the biggest games they have
coming out is Star Wars Battlefront II.
So we’re going to run inside for the reveal and interview the team.
Welcome to EA Play 2017.
Star Wars Battlefront II is much bigger than the previous title.
We got a lot of feedback, a lot of it positive and a bunch of it constructive
We finally get some single player campaign action in Battlefront, this has gotta be awesome
for you.
Yeah and hopefully for John Boyega as well.
That tweet from John Boyega was like the tweet heard round the world.
I actually took a screencap of that tweet and put it in one of my first presentations
about the campaign.
Battlefront has really 3 key fantasies, it’s about being a trooper on the ground to being
a pilot in a straighter in the skies and it’s about being an iconic hero.
So we wanted to captures the same thing in the campaign.
Our main characters Idem Versio.
Commander of Inferno Squad is my favorite person in Star Wars right now.
It’s surreal to be able to invent something for Star Wars.
Finding Janina Gavankar was the moment we were like that’s who it is.
Lets just re write the character around this person and that’s who she’s become.
As you play throughout these chapters in this journey you will meet iconic characters.
Sometimes you’ll get to play as those iconic characters.
We saw a little bit of the beginning of the campaign.
It’s so funny, the moment we shot a friendly looking Twilled everybody in the room went
Well, they’re the enemy now Anthony.
We fight for the Empire.
THEED.
Theed looks so good!
I know it’s amazing, I’m so proud of what we’ve managed to achieve.
Let’s talk about this rank system; let’s talk about it all!
Let’s start with our class system; the class system is all changed.
We found with our first game that people were all playing the same way and that’s not
what we want.
We want to create teams and synergies between players so now we have an assault class, we
have a heavy class, an officer class and a specialist class and they’re all playing
in unique ways.
You guys have such a pedigree with vehicles.
The vehicles are such a significant part of the game.
Those skills are transferrable when you see on the assault on Theed, you get to play in
the V-Wing or a Vulture Droid, and those skills are going to work for you in the larger space
experiences.
We’re going to go into a ton more detail with Starfighter Assault in the coming months.
Is there a location, a character, something where you’re like I’m wedging this into
the story, this is going into the story.
And I am mentioning Wedge, awh that was good Anthony I like that.
Our game dips its fingers into everything in Star Wars, we’ve read Lost Stars, we
read the comics, we watch Rebels.
Everything that is Star Wars matters to every Star Wars story because it is one story.
Having increased the number of locations, we haven’t just done this across multiple
eras, we have more heroes, more weapons, more vehicles, we have more of everything and all
of these have a greater depth to them.
Now I wanted to ask about one weapon in particular, will the SWS 1013 be in the game?
I want to see this in Battlefront!
I can’t go into detail…THAT’S A YES.
Battlefront II looking absolutely amazing, thanks to the team here at EA for having us
out.
Remember the beta starts this Fall for everybody who pre-orders, but that’s not all the Battlefront
II we have this week, we’ve got Janina Gavankar back in the studio on the couch with Andi.
I think he’s heading for that small moon.
That’s no moon.
Everybody!
Say what’s up to Janina Gavankar!
She is all the way up here visiting us I am so excited.
So, Commander Iden Versio.
Oh god.
That has to be so exciting to see you up there.
It’s the coolest thing that has ever happened to me and I get super emotional all the time
and I’m really sorry if that happens here.
No it’s good!
It’s good TV.
What was it like playing a character like that?
We know that every villain is the hero of his or her own story, it’s exciting and
it means a lot to be able to explain this perspective.
The other thing I really urge people to do is get and read the book!
It’s written by Christie Golden and it’s the backstory of Inferno Squad so get the
book!
Because you’re going to get our entire backstory and it’s going to explain so much of who
we are from the second you pick up your controller.
That would be very good for people to know and to understand and to feel at the level
that we do when we made the game before you play it.
That’s like a personal request.
You guys got it!
If you have an opportunity to learn about us, please learn about us.
Christie was working on the book at the same time.
How did speaking with her influence how you portrayed her?
There is so much drama that I didn’t know existed in Iden’s backstory that made her
who she is from the moment that you start that game.
Some very deep and very dark things have happened to that woman.
Then it opened up a line of communication between Christie and I that I value so dearly.
What was your path like to bring you to Star Wars?
How did you find out that you got the role?
So, I really don’t want to get emotional about this, I’m trying to keep it together.
Okay, so BEEP.
It’s okay we can skip it if you want?
I’m just so happy!
So everyday that went by I was calling my reps, is this the day we are going to get
a yes or no.
I need to know because I can’t, if I can’t get this I’m gonna lose my BEEP.
Everything was on the line more than any other thing I’ve ever been up for.
It means so much to me.
I’ve also never felt more safe to be my emotional, nerdy self.
In any gig I’ve ever done, when you’re in Hollywood a lot of it is, you gotta be
cool!
I’m cool man, I’m cool!
I totally deserve to be here and I am very cool and you can trust me to be cool about
it.
I have no chill.
Zero chill.
And every person that I have met through this experience is just increasingly more wonderful.
So finally, you have another cool project in the works right now.
Yeah, so we’ve talked about Christie’s book.
I get to voice the audio book.
How cool is that?
I am endlessly excited to be able to tell the Inferno Squad 1 in my own voice so again,
if you’re not gonna take the time to read it, atleast listen to it so you are ready
for the video game when it comes out on November 17th.
You heard it.
Thank you so much for coming by, this was so much fun and it was so nice to meet you.
Thank you!
And we can’t wait to learn more about Iden it looks really good.
She’s pretty rad.
Anthony, you know what this Sunday is?
Fathers Day.
Yes, and do you know what Star Wars has a lot of?
Horrible dads.
That’s why we want to know who your favorite Star Wars Dad is and why.
I’m gonna go unconventional and say Jabba the Hutt.
If you look at it another way, The Clone Wars movie was like Taken but about a slug man
whose s set of skills was getting other people to do the work for him.
I’m gonna go with Kes Dameron, because without him I wouldn’t have my beautiful perfect
boy Poe.
Send us your favorites using the hashtag #StarWarsDads and we’ll feature our favorites here next
week.
You did such a good job Kes, he’s such a fine boy.
He did.
Thanks for watching and as always may the Force be with you
He did good.
Name one thing wrong with Poe Dameron, that’s good parenting.
I don’t have a problem yelling at boys.
Did they have chicken pox in that part of the galaxy?
They do now!
It’s canon.
This is how it went down.
Side note, you’re going to have to ask me that again.
I have ADD, did you line the inside of your eyes with white?
They’re beautiful!
Thank you It’s gorgeous.
I have ADD too.