This week we visit a replica of the interior of the Millennium Falcon, and then we build
a scale model of the entire ship out of red cups.
Plus we’re talking to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about his Star Wars fandom.
Why red cups I wonder.
This is The Star Wars Show.
From the Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco, here’s your hosts, Andi and Anthony!
Hello and Welcome to The Star Wars Show, a weekly show that simultaneously proves that
yes, you can do this every week, and yes, you can only talk about one overarching subject
for 3 years and people will still watch it.
We’re like state TV but for Star Wars and on the internet.
We still both have free will and opinions!
As long as they’re scripted.
And now, the news.
New character posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story were revealed this week featuring Solo,
Qi’ra, Lando, Chewie, Beckett, Val, Dryden Vos, L3, and Rio Durant.
But that wasn’t the only bit of Solo news this week.
Oh no!
Ron Howard, the world’s #1 source for breaking Han Solo news once again scooped the world
on Friday when he tweeted out a photo of his brother, the legendary Clint Howard, in Solo
during a final mixing session saying, “proof that Clint Howard fans have something to look
forward to on May 25th.”
He then tweeted out a confirmation on Sunday that Solo has officially wrapped post-production.
Scooped again by Ron Howard!
In self congratulatory news for a second year in a row StarWars.com won the Webby for Best
Website in the movie and film category as well as the people’s choice award.
And the Webby for Best Social Channel for entertainment.
For the full list of winners and honorees check out StarWars.com.
Finally, if you’ve ever wanted to experience what it’s like to step inside the Millennium Falcon.
Have we got a treat for you.
Lucasfilm has created a replica of the Falcon’s interior and are taking it on the road for
fans across the country to experience for themselves.
But instead of talking about it, let’s show you, shall we?
Hey, I’m Este.
And I’m Michael.
Welcome to the Millennium Falcon experience.
So we’re inside three 40-foot shipping containers which represent a replica of the interior
of the Millennium Falcon from Solo: A Star Wars Story.
And we’re going to be taking these on tour around the country to let the public inside
to live life a little bit like Han, Chewie, and Lando.
This construction project involved 20 volunteers that were working here on site.
We had four different countries.
We had Germany, Belgium, The U.K., the United States.
These are found items that we scoured the internet for and combined they create Lando’s bar.
And here we are at a very familiar location.
Throughout this beautiful couch we have these very detailed pieces.
These are very accurate because they were created by the U.K. team at Pinewood.
And the Dejarik table came directly from Lucasfilm headquarters.
Here we are in the nerve center of the Millennium Falcon, every fan’s wildest fantasy, the cockpit.
Throughout this cockpit there’s amazing little detailed pieces created from the same
molds used in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
And for more details go to StarWars.com.
[Porg sounds]
Sitting down with me now, the president of Marvel Studios, Mr. Kevin Feige.
Thank you so much for coming in!
Of course, excited.
And congratulations on ten years.
It’s unbelievable!
That is amazing!
Ten years.
Eighteen films culminating in Avengers: Infinity War.
Yes, focusing on this tenth anniversary and I’ll tell you a secret.
We have a cool new logo that says Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years.
That was directly ripped off of my very positive memories of 1987 and Star Wars: The First Ten Years.
There wasn't much entering the dark times, as collectors call it.
[Laughing]
When there wasn't a whole lot of stuff.
Mhmm.
Bend-Ems came up and I remember thinking, woah a Star Wars figure on the shelf!
Bend-Ems are not great but we were desperate in the dark times.
[Laughing]
But Lucasfilm acknowledged the tenth anniversary.
And they called it the first ten years which got me excited as a fan to think, well, there
would be more.
Must be the first of many.
Mhmm.
And it took many years to fulfill that.
But as we were saying let’s celebrate our tenth anniversary and I was trying to come
up with a tagline we just stole it from the Star Wars anniversary.
Amazing.
What I love is that you were brought on specifically because you had already known this universe.
You were already invested in Marvel Comics.
I knew these types of characters.
I didn't know as much as I know now.
But I knew I wanted to work on these kinds of movies.
Mainly because of this movie.
I knew I wanted to be a part of these types of movies and the Marvel source material,
which I knew some of when I was a kid.
I had the pajamas, I had the toys, I watched the cartoons.
But as I start to read more of the comics, I went look, let’s just do this.
This answers the development questions we were trying to figure out or finding interesting
backstories for the characters.
I go, it’s all right here in these comics and really believed that these characters
could become these amazing cinematic icons.
And that’s what's so interesting to me is now ten years on I think so many people are
like, well of course Marvel Studios blew up.
But at the time you were making the first Iron Man it felt like entirely new ground
and also kind of a long shot, didn't it?
It was.
It was our first film that we got to do entirely ourselves and we weren't supremely confident.
We just had beliefs, had ideas of how we could bring Tony Stark to the screen and believe
that the marquee name was the character.
And over the years the actors had became marquee names because Robert Downey Jr., and Chris Evans,
and Hemsworth, and Scarlett have all become mega stars.
But at the time we really believed, let’s find the best actors for the parts.
Not dissimilar from a little movie forty years ago that found great new actors who became icons and stars.
You site as sort of an influence for you a book that’s very important to a lot of people.
Which is the sourcebook for the Star Wars tabletop game.
Absolutely.
I was never a big roleplay gamer but when that came out I was the kid that kept playing
with Star Wars toys maybe a little longer than the other kids did.
Same.
So I was ten years old when Jedi came out.
Had all those.
The Power of the Force line came out in ‘85 so there hadn't been a Star Wars movie in
a couple of years.
And, as you know, that’s when Kenner stopped making the Power of the Force line was the
last line they did.
I got all those.
And I was like, where, where is everybody going?
Yeah.
[Laughing]
There’s still Star Wars.
I have a sarlacc pit in my backyard.
Where…
Where is everybody going?
And I think it was around that time in ‘85 that the West End Games came out and I read
it cover to cover and it was a wealth of new information.
And one of the great things about Star Wars and one things that I think is great about
the Marvel characters from the comics and what we try to emulate in the movies is if
you’re the kind of person that wants to go see it on opening weekend, our job is to
make sure you have a great time.
If you want to see it a second time, our job is to make sure there’s more there.
Third, fourth, fifth time, still more there.
And even the deeper you go, there’ll be things to reward you.
And I learned that directly from Star Wars and from those West End sourcebooks.
Yeah.
Reading about the real names of all the Cantina characters.
I didn’t know they had names.
This is unbelievable.
And when the Power of the Force 2 line came out in ‘95, learning more names and more backstories.
Hammerhead has a real name, Walrus Man has a real name…
Right.
...and a real backstory and a real history.
Keeping that much detail and kind of juggling all these threads, keeping all these balls
in the air has to be kind of complex.
Within Lucasfilm we have story group whose sort of watching over everything.
Do you have something like that within Marvel Studios?
We do.
I mean we have the core group of filmmakers of the executive producer teams.
Again, we’ve been together for almost ten years.
And it’s a little internal group that for various reasons we call Parliament.
At the least of which is we often yell at each other across tables.
[Laughing]
And keeping track of that is not as complicated I think for us as it is for Star Wars.
We’ve got ten years, Star Wars has got like 40 plus years.
But it really comes out of each individual film and what's best for each individual story
that we’re telling but it is the core group of filmmakers that work on all these movies
that keep track of all that.
Kevin Fiege, thank you so much for coming by.
Congratulations on the first ten years.
Thank you.
Go see Infinity War.
You’re probably going to go see Infinity War.
That would be pretty cool.
We don't need to tell these people to go see Infinity War.
Today we are here with the unveiling of the Solo cup Millennium Falcon that was built
up here at 32Ten Studios for the new movie coming out on May 25th, Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The history of this facility is huge.
Almost all of the innovations in modern movie making history have been accomplished here.
So in this room was built the Millennium Falcon for Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
And then carrying that forward to the present is just awesome to be able bring it full circle.
To be able to use the cups and the products from Solo creatively was a lot of fun.
When you have something as iconic as a Solo cup and as iconic as the Millennium Falcon
you have to figure out where is the middle ground.
Where can I steer towards and be able to tie in all these elements together and create
something that people will look at and know instantly what they are looking at on both fronts.
I called in my friend Todd D’amario, who also shares a love of Star Wars with me.
My job on this project was to do what Sean says.
[Laughing]
No, it was good.
We want the best result at the end of the project.
Anything that we weren't clear about we’d figure it out together.
We started off by looking at the ways that the original model makers did the original Falcon.
The methods that they used were still solid to this day.
The importance to crew collaboration on a project such as this for such an iconic structure
is absolutely integral.
The fun part of the project culminated today with the gathering of all the entities involved
in this project.
We got together to unveil the Falcon and have a party and just celebrate this whole thing.
And to bring together, also, people that actually actually worked on the original.
[Crowd cheering]
That’s awesome!
Rad!
That is good!
Wow, guys.
Look at that landing gear.
Of course the engines themselves, we left this one loose.
[Laughing]
That’s really well done.
It was epic to have Lorne, Charlie, Pete, and Bill there.
Cause they were an influence on Sean and my life growing up just getting into this business.
It’s just such a team effort and it’s the history and the legacy of this place.
Just to bring everybody together to see this on the large scale and hang out and just have fun.
It felt really good.
Boy we sure did do a lot of show this week.
I know, it’s almost like we’re gearing up for something important happening this month.
Solo: A Star Wars Story, only in theaters May 25th.
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