hey everybody adam savage let me change this view just a little bit because i'm
yeah that's a little bit better adam savage here in my cave where things are in a little
bit of a mess but that's fine uh and i am answering questions from tested patrons today
oh that's better uh and uh today on the subject of my tenure at industrial light and magic um
and today's question comes from ian masten who wants to know um would you ever consider
going back to ilm for a one-time dream project and if so what would it have to be
okay this is a really fun one to think about
obviously obviously i would love to make a mcguffin to me the height of prop making is
not just to make a hand prop that a character uses but to make a prop that's a mcguffin
what's a macguffin you ask well you can certainly look it up there's wonderful
wikipedia entry on it a macguffin is a term if i remember correctly coined by alfred hitchcock
and it is a thing that propels the plot forward it is an object whose sole purpose is to be the
engine of the plot the maltese falcon is perhaps the most famous macguffin it doesn't do anything
in the story except move the plot forward the most famous macguffin in the world though i believe
is r2d2 uh i know it might be controversial but i'm sticking by it i would love to make a prop
that's a mcguffin like luke's compass or the jedi books or something like that yeah i mean we got we
got 10 star wars shows coming up kathleen kennedy if you get wind of this video just give me a call
i'll make a mcguffin for you guys for free you just got to let me have it back when it's
all over and i'm pretty sure that disney would never allow that to happen so just letting you
guys letting that hang out there uh i'd love to build a macguffin prop but to be honest
knowing the wonderful folks that i do at ilm um it would it could be anything i would love to just
go work with those folks again working with my friends is what it would be and there's
nothing better than working with your friends and something that you're excited about that
you know to do work that you're going to be proud of really like what could be better
so to be perfectly honest i think if john knoll called me up and said hey could you
build a thing for me i would say absolutely i would be delighted to do such a thing um
yeah it doesn't have to be a specific franchise
no um but again you know i i i got my hands full keeping this thing running um and
that would be the thing that i think that would end up being the sticking point right like
i would love to build something but i'd also want to cover it to tell the story about it here
and therein you're moving through disney's a multi-billion dollar corporation with big
restrictions on how they let information and stuff like that out there and i mean i don't blame them
for it but it probably precludes me being able to uh do something and also tell the story here
untested not to say i wouldn't do it and not tell the story that's certainly feasible but um
i'll be uh yeah i'm just starting to think about how much fun that would be
uh yeah a mcguffin prop that would be the most fun to do that would be the most fun so like you know
have doug chang show me a drawing see what do you think about making something like this that
now would be but you know doug and i are talking about doing something like that extracurricularly
not involved with the star wars universe but maybe collaborating on something um for tested in order
to have some fun um we have spoken about that and that might be something that happens yeah again
not within the star wars universe but uh you know something within the doug chang universe which
is a really cool universe um dudes and dudettes thank you so much for these awesome questions i
love chatting about my tenure at industrial light magic still one of the greatest company names that
anyone has ever come up with uh tested patrons please keep submitting your questions and even
if my answer is short i will endeavor to answer them thank you guys so much see you next time