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- This week, we're talking about the brand
new trailer for "The Mandalorian" and "Star
Wars Jedi: Fallen Order."
Plus, Andi sits down with the cast of "The Mandalorian."
Where is Andi?
- Need another co-host?
- Oh god.
Not this.
- [LAUGHS]
[THUNDERCLAP]
- This week on "The Star Wars Show."
[BATS SQUEAKING]
- Hello, and welcome to "The Star Wars Show,"
the only "Star Wars" show that's celebrating
Halloween by hiding one of its co-hosts
as part of a spooky mystery.
Where is Andi this week?
Was she captured by ghouls, ghosts, phantasms?
Actually it was phlegm, the spookiest
of all Halloween scares.
But at least you still have me. - And me!
[LAUGHS]
- No.
- Let's go to the moon.
- No, no more of that.
- Aw.
- We don't need it.
Yesterday, EA released a brand new trailer for "Star
Wars Jedi: Fallen Order."
And in it, we could see a probe droid flying over a graveyard
of Venator ships with a mysterious tentacle creature
dangling its appendages.
We're also treated to more Ninth Sister action, lots
of lightsaber combat and combo moves,
temple ruins, lots, lots more.
You can watch the full trailer right now at this link.
"Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" is available for preorder
now and will arrive on store shelves on November 15.
And while we're talking about trailers,
"The Mandalorian" dropped a brand new trailer on Monday
night.
It gives us lots more Werner Herzog lines,
which is always a wonderful thing in my book.
A couple of Blurrgs on a cliff.
Shout out to all my "Battle For Endor" ride or dies.
The Mandalorian tussling with Trandoshans,
aliens in carbonite, an epic no look blaster shot
to a stormtrooper, the Razor Crest flying through space,
Bill Burr double wielding blasters with a third blaster
on a little--
I don't know what that is on his back.
It was great.
Lots and lots of Mandalorian mayhem.
"The Mandalorian" day and date with Disney Plus on November
12, which, if you are keeping track,
is less than two weeks away now.
And since you're hyped on "The Mandalorian,"
let's take a look at Andi sitting down with the cast
before she was sick.
We did not get "The Mandalorian" sick, I promise.
- Or did we?
[LAUGHS]
- No, we didn't.
You're not needed.
You're not wanted.
I've got this.
- Great suit. - Thank you.
Great outfit. - Thank you.
All right, so we're going to start
off with a real tough one.
- Oh, boy.
- Action Jackson, Apollo Creed, Greef
Karga, who wins in a fight?
- I think Chubbs Peterson wins.
[CLAPS]
- That was my answer!
- Nice hair.
- Your hair is gray.
- Nice jewelry. - Oh, thanks.
I like your sneaks.
I have to ask just as, like, a fellow introvert,
what has this process been like for you coming into this world?
- Honestly, it's been really kind.
The fans, they hold on such a precious level.
And so it almost, like, is intimidating.
Because you're like, oh, I don't want to ruin "Star Wars."
[LAUGHTER]
- Best shot?
- That's Chubbs Peterson also, even
though he's only got one hand.
- But it's all in the hips.
So--
- Back again.
There you go.
It's all in the hips. - It's all in the hips.
- There you go. That's right.
- People are always asking you what you stole from set.
But we happen to know that you stole
your Lego mini figure from the Triple Force Friday set.
- How did you find that out?
- I know people.
- I got invited to my first, like, neighbors party, right.
- Her youngest son followed me to my house.
And sitting there was the little Lego.
And he was like, this is mine.
- Oh no!
- And I was like, no, it's not.
[LAUGHS] It's literally not.
Give that back to me right now.
- Who's the smoothest talker?
- I would say the smoothest talker would be Greef Karga.
There's something about him being
able to spin a yarn that I think can get someone's attention
and have them believe that he might
be being honest with them.
- Yeah.
- He's a little bit of a liar.
- I'd love to hear about your perspective
of working with Dave and with Jon and the cast.
- I didn't know Dave Filoni was this guy.
- Oh.
- I thought-- when I first met him,
I was like, who's this guy? He's hilarious.
[LAUGHTER]
This guy's, like, full of funny stuff.
Then he became the guy where I'd go to and ask questions.
Like, what does this do? What's that?
Would this do that?
And then it wasn't until, like, almost 3/4 of the way filming I
realized, oh, Dave Filoni's a superstar.
OK. [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah.
- I didn't know that.
- What kind of adjustment period was
it like taking on a role where your face
wasn't going to be seen?
- Very liberating. [LAUGHS]
- Yeah?
It could be incredibly challenging.
- It is challenging. - Yeah.
- You wouldn't be surprised how much it helps with
concentration and, like, being able to believe the world that
you're in, without your concentration
being distracted about-- oh, what do I look like?
What do I look like?
That being said, there is a very, very specific body
language to discover, paying attention
to all of the details, carrying the weight, all the gear,
so that it looks like he's been in it for as long as he has,
and that he functions at his best with all of the gear.
- Now that you're involved in "Star Wars," which
is such a generational franchise, what's it like now
knowing that your grandchildren are going to get
to see you in "Star Wars?"
- That's cool. - Yeah.
- In a word, that is cool.
- I mean, they probably already thought
you were super cool, but--
- You know, some of them do. Some of them don't.
- Now you're in "Star Wars." - Yeah.
But also someone else's grandchildren too.
That's a part of this business that I love.
- Yeah.
- That generation after generation
you can reinvent yourself.
- From MMA, to "American Gladiators,"
to "Star Wars," what has this past 10 years been
like for you?
I can imagine it's been a bit of a whirlwind.
- It's been hard.
And every time I've almost left this really difficult business,
a hook grabs me, and it, like, jerks me back in.
It's like, no, you are doing this.
And this time you're doing "Star Wars."
And so I appreciate sitting here.
I appreciate being a part of professionals who are
passionate about storytelling.
And I'm going to use that going forward.
- In all of this process--
I mean, you were a Star Wars fan before you
took on this project.
And now you've been introduced to the Star Wars community.
Is there anything in this process that surprised you?
- I didn't realize that it would be so welcoming,
and that you would feel this level of support.
I've been a part of these big projects,
but I haven't felt anything like this.
It was, like, viscerally understanding in an instant
that I was being welcomed into a family.
And I would say completely unique to this.
- Did you learn that to monologue?
- [LAUGHS].
- Sorry, I had to.
- Obviously I didn't, as this interview indicates.
- No, you're great.
I'm not going to smush your head.
Awesome.
Well, thank you so much.
- It was a pleasure getting to talk to you.
- I learned how to put on a helmet.
- That's good.
That's very helpful.
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- Everybody back.
Everybody with safety glasses.
- Set. - Go up.
- We're hot.
- Speed! [LOUD BANGS]
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[CHEERING]
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- Recently HasLab created this incredible replica
of Jabba's sail barge through a crowdfunding effort.
And our first thought at "The Star Wars Show"
was, how cool would it be to recreate
the scene from "Return of the Jedi" and blow one of them up?
- Then we thought, hey, why don't we do it at the studio
where that scene was originally done and bring some modern high
frame rate slow-mo cameras.
So that's exactly what we're going to do.
- Otherwise it would just be laundry day.
So this is better.
- We're here at 32Ten--
historic building.
Historic, obviously, because ILM built this place
and did a lot of great movies in here.
We're back in here to blow up Jabba's sail barge once again.
- Historically, this is really significant,
because this is a picture of the original crew
doing the original explosion.
And it happened on our roof at this building.
- I built the original body.
We called it Jabba's pleasure barge-- for "Jedi."
We had the hero barge and Sean Casey
molded that and cast really thin, fragile, epoxy shells
for pyro.
The Hasbro model is a beautiful copy.
But it's really tough.
So it's hard to break.
For these guys to try to blow one up is taking a lot of work.
- One of the things that's kind of interesting
is it's ABS plastic.
What we're doing now is taking it and pre-scoring and cutting
away, so that these areas will be able to control
the breakage points.
So when the explosion happens, it'll blow
right through these openings.
- We're attempting to replicate the original as close
as we can, given that we're at a different scale.
The original model was blown up from back to front.
And that's what we will be seeing today.
- Yesterday we did a couple of camera tests
to dial in exposure, and also size of the fireball
and the spark element.
After we popped that one off, we decided
to dial down the gasoline a little bit
and try and get more length out of the fireball.
- We are going to be filming this explosion in high speed.
We're using a Phantom high speed camera.
And we're going to be filming at 500 frames per second.
There's such attention to detail in the model
that it's pretty cool that we're actually
using this as a practical model for an effects shot.
And I think it's going to look spectacular.
- This is an ActionMaster 500 high speed
16 millimeter camera.
So I was walking through the commons, ran
into the "Star Wars Show" team.
They were carrying this huge sail barge.
And they said they were going to blow it up.
And I thought, well, you know, I actually
have the camera that shot the original test for that
in case you're interested.
And they were.
And so here we are.
We're going to bring in the ActionMaster 500 here on 16,
put it alongside the other camera
and see what it captures.
- I think it's going to be awesome.
It's what we do.
We blow stuff up.
[BOOM]
- Everybody back.
Everybody with safety glasses.
- Set.
- Still hot.
- Cameras armed.
- It's on you, Geoff.
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- Speed!
[BANG]
[SCREAM]
[LAUGHTER]
- Yes!
[LAUGHTER]
- So we've concluded our investigation.
And we believe that the fire started here in the kitchen.
Somebody was frying up some frogs and left the burner on.
We don't know who it was.
- We're not pointing any fingers.
- That was awesome.
- Beautiful action.
- Boom!
- The canopy just flying.
- That's an engine. You need that.
- Wow!
- Oh, love the big panel coming off.
- That's such a beautiful explosion.
[FILM REEL]
- That was awesome, wasn't it?
- It's great to have "The Star Wars Show" here, recreating
shots from 36 years ago.
I just hope you come back, and we blow up more stuff.
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- Man, I cannot believe we made it through an entire Halloween
episode with only a few brief cameos
from the copy machine ghost.
It's as if he, too, is over his shtick after four seasons.
- Did somebody say my name?
- Yes, but not to bring you here.
Never to bring you here.
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Thanks for watching.
And may the Force be with you.
- Every Halloween!
[LAUGHS]
- Why, man?
Why?
- Because it's Halloween.
- I know it's--
you're not part of Halloween.
I don't know where you got the idea
that you're part of Halloween.
- Tradition, baby!
[LAUGHS]
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- Oh, so glad this bit is back.
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You're the least spooky thing in this whole place!
The plumbing is spookier than you in this place.
- I'll give you that one.
- [LAUGHS]
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