This week on the Star Wars Show! New characters from Rogue One are revealed.
The crew behind LEGO Star Wars the Freemaker Adventures
And much, much more. Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters, it’s
THE STAR WARS SHOW!!!
Hello I’m Peter Townley And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome to the Star
Wars Show, the only show on the Internet that has a matte painting from the Battle of Endor
behind its set. Is that true?
It is. NEWS TIME!
Gigantic news just broke about Forrest Whitaker’s character in Rogue One.
First revealed moments ago by Entertainment Weekly, we can now officially confirm that
Forrest Whitaker is playing Saw Gererra in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
The character who first appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, led a rebellion against the
separatists on his home planet of Onderon. “Hey, do you want to know about the history
and significance of Saw Gerrera Because I know a little bit about the character, you know,
being part of the story group.” (musical fanfare)
Yes! Please! But can you just give us like 45 more seconds to finish up the news?
FIIIIIIIIIINE! Perfect!
Also revealed this morning were the names of Diego Luna’s character Cassian Andor,
Donnie Yen’s character Chirrut Imwe, Jiang Wen as Baze Malbus, Alan Tuduk as the droid
K-2SO, Ben Mendelhson as Orson Krennic, Madds Mickelson as Galen Erso, Riz Ahmed as Bodhi
Rook, and little up and comer by the name of Darth Vader.
You can read more about the character reveals as well as never before seen stills at EW.com.
In other news ILM xLAB announced a partnership this week with Magic Leap to create a mixed
reality experience. Specific details of the partnership are still
locked up, but they did reveal a teaser that looks like it will bring a mixture of virtual
reality and augmented reality into our own reality.
Finally, The Bespin DLC for Battlefront is now available. The add-on features 5 new maps,
new weapons, a new game mode, pilotable cloud cars, and best of all, playable versions of
Dengar and Lando Calrissian. Best of all is right, Andi. Season pass holders
can download it now or you can purchase it separately on July 5th.
You ready Pablo? That was longer than 45 seconds, but sure.
Hey how are you guys doing? Hey! Good how are you, Pablo?
Thanks for having me on. For a lot of fans Saw may be a new character
but he’s been around for several years now. Yeah, Saw’s been kicking around for a while.
A lot of people know him from Clone Wars but he actually started off before that. George
Lucas had him in mind for his live action TV series that he was in development which
ultimately never happened but he found a place to put Saw into his story in Clone Wars.
And he’s been mentioned in other titles. He’s been mentioned in Bloodline. Rebels.
Rebels “You worked for Saw Guerra”
Yeah, Saw, if you were to think about him, he is sort of an extreme rebel. He’s definitely
against the empire, but he does things that you know, morally push against the kind of
things that Bail Organa and Mon Mothma stand for. So, he’s definitely the more extreme
side of the rebel alliance. And so now after the seeds have been planted
here we are with a live action portrayal in a film.
Yeah, the way that came about is as the Rogue One story started to gel, the filmmakers realized
that they needed a rebel extremist type character and we already had one in Saw. They took that
character, ran with it, and as they started developing the script they realized there
was only one person that they wanted to play this character and that was Forest Whitaker
and we’re very fortunate to have him in this movie.
Thanks for coming by Pablo and giving us this little history lesson on Saw Guererra. We can’t
wait to see him in Rogue One this December. And I’m about to head out for another interview,
so sit tight and check out this exclusive Rey vignette from LEGO Star Wars The Force
Awakens Video Game
I can do this! This droid has to get to the resistance base as soon as possible
You’re afraid that you will never be as strong as Darth Vader.
Welcome back, as you guys might have noticed we are not actually in our set right now,
we are at Skywalker Sound with Bill Motts and Bob Roth, the creators of LEGO Star Wars
The Freemaker Adventures, that is available now, this week, on Disney XD. Hey guys!
Hello! Thank you for joining us!
Oh thank you for having us! THANK YOU! What stories and characters in the saga have
inspired you in creating this show? Well I mean you gotta go back to Luke. Right?
Like, That’s the obvious answer. And then uh, second to him, Dengar ‘cause Dengar
is awesome. Obviously!
I was going to say Han Solo Yeah?
but I think Dengar trumps it. So… You’re kind of covering all your bases here.
Yeah. You hear a lot about the Jedi and Sith, and
you know, these big time players, but the Freemakers are kind of running this little
rag-tag operation on their own. What sort of inspirations did you have in building those
characters? When we first heard LEGO Star Wars new characters,
we went, “it’s gotta be about a family,” because that’s what Star Wars is all about.
We want to start with this core family who aren’t in the main thrust of the classic
trilogy adventure. They’re kind of off in this space station kind of on the edge of
the galaxy. Yeah we’re seeing some everyman point of
view. Yeah, but they get sucked into the larger
conflict and they realize that, “oh we can’t just sort of stay neutral ducking down from
the empire, we actually have to get involved.” And that was kind of a cool starting place
for us. Now Roger is a character that I, I really
loved right away, who’s idea was it to bring the last of the battle droids into this cast?
He was one of the very first ideas we had. We knew we wanted to set it between episode
5 and episode 6, but we also wanted to embrace the entire Star Wars saga. So we wanted to
find something that harkened back to the prequels. Roger is actually voiced by Matt Wood.
Yes. Mmm-Hmm.
Oscar nominated sound editor from The Force Awakens.
I guess we’ll take him. And I’ve talked to Matt Wood. His voice
doesn’t sound like that. No it does not.
Wouldn’t’ it be interesting to hear how he turns his voice into Roger's?
I would be very curious to find out.
Hey guys. Matthew Wood here from Skywalker Sound.
It’s quite simple actually. I take the pitch of my voice and I pitch it up, up into like
an almost humorous set of octaves. And the formance of my voice, which is the dynamics
of how I speak from my vocal chords, and I also preserve those but make them sound a
little bit more humorous with pitch so… Oh no!
Look out! Roger. Roger.
Hey look I baked you some cookies. Hey, Rowan!
So the other really great thing about having Matt on the show is he is actually doing sound
design for our show. He’s created the sound of the Kyber Saber, and the Rancor’s fist,
and the eclipse fighter and the star scavenger, they’re all signature sounds that he has
made and, and and, it’s amazing. The LEGO Star Wars series are an entry point
for a lot of young fans, Mmm-hmm
Uh-huh How does it feel knowing that this could be
someone’s first step into a larger world? That’s an awesome and daunting responsibility.
And I think that we feel like we want to do it right, because we love both LEGO and Star
Wars so, so much. Mmm-Hmm
LEGO also gives you an excuse to be able to play with the characters, and really kind
of tangibly, you know, act out your storylines and that kind of thing, and uh, so it’s
a way for kids to not only uh discover the stories as told but be able to play and invent
their own. Thank you guys so much for taking time to
talk with us. And for all of you at home the first four episodes of LEGO Star Wars The
Freemaker Adventures are airing this week on Disney XD, but you can watch them all right
now on the Watch Disney XD App. And right now we have a clip for you from the first
episode. Enjoy.
The new Superior Death Star! Soon it will be complete! With its destructive power at
our command we shall crush the rebels once and for all!
Meh. MEH?!
Meh! Don’t get me wrong Lord Vader. I’m all for ruling the galaxy. That’s my thing!
But! You remember what happened to the first death star.
(clears throat) Yes. I was…there… Oh right! You were! Let’s go to the replay!
Is this really necessary? “I have you now!”
“What?!” “Yaaahooo! You’re all clear kid. Now let’s blow this thing and go home!"
HAHAHAH! “I have you now!” HAHAHAHA! Oh, gets me every time, HAHA!
Did you see how many responses we got for the question last week?
Yeah. I think it was the most we’ve ever had.
Quite possibly! And what was abundantly clear was the amount of love that you the fans had
for Battlefront II, like Leo LoDuca who said he still dusts off his old PS2 to play it.
Another big submission was Knights of the Old Republic, where YouTuber Armetron said,
“OMG it was so GOOOOD, the story, the abilities, your choice of going light side/dark side.
Just about everything about it screams Star Wars to me.”
And lets not forget about the old school submissions like X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and a lot of people
suggesting the Jedi Knight series. I think that’s mostly for Jerrik though
and the cool shades. Yeah.
Oh hey, CH-33Z! Your favorite game is Pit Droids?!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Even CH-33Z.
Thanks to everyone that submitted, even you CH-33Z. As for this week we’re getting CRAZY
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