This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Star Wars Rebels’ Dave Filoni!
We check out the latest costumes from ANOVOS 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 and welcome to The
Star Wars Show where we’re going to be showing you the latest trailer for Rogue One!
…Later this week. Sorry.
You will show all of us the Rogue One trailer right now.
That only works on the weak minded, Peter That only works on the weak minded, Peter
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If you’ve been dying to know what happens to the crew of the Ghost following the season
finale of Rebels, the wait is almost over.
The third Thrawn-tastic season of Star Wars Rebels will begin Saturday September 24th
at 8:30pm on Disney XD.
Which also means for those of you who subscribed to the channel, that yes, Rebels Recon will
be returning September 24th as well.
Just had to get a little plug in there for our other show.
For your other show, that you do without me
In movie news, a brand new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer will premier tomorrow evening
during the Olympics.
I’m excited, Andi’s excited, everybody is excited!
Finally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens will
be re-released this Fall as a 3D collector’s edition.
Rolling out beginning October 31st and arriving in the U.S. and Canada on November 15th, the
exclusive four disc collector's edition features brand new bonus materials like additional
deleted scenes, new behind the scenes featurettes, new behind the scenes conversations with cast
and crew, as well as a brand new, never before released audio commentary by director JJ Abrams.
In addition to all of the new features, The Force Awakens 3D Collector's edition will
also include all of the classic bonus features from the original home release back in April.
And for more Star Wars happenings from around the galaxy, be sure to check out starwars.com.
In 3-D!!!
Alright guys, a little Mynock told me that Oakland A’s pitcher Sean Doolittle was coming
by the office for a tour so we decided to hit him with a little bit of Ambush Trivia.
Chief Wilson?
Chief Wilson…character.
No that was a baseball player!
Addi Joss?
Thats a baseball player Ransom Saserfoe?
Oh my gosh I want that to be a baseball player but I think he is a character from the novel
Awesome, well thank you so much for your time it was nice to meet you!Thank you, guys!
Welcome back to the Star Wars Show, today we are joined by good friend of mine, Dave
Filoni.
Hows it going?
Good!
I’ve never been on the show like this before with the couch situation and the whole…
Right?
What would you like to discuss?
So we’ve had you on before to talk about Rebels, today I want to talk about Dave Filoni.
Oh gosh Lets get to the heart of you
Why?
Why do we want to talk about that!
I’m curious how you started out with Star Wars because I know you’ve been a fan for
pretty much your entire life.
Yeah and well I mean there was no being a fan when I was a kid.
You were just a kid.
And we were lucky enough to grow up with Star Wars.
We were just kids growing up in the Star Wars era.
How exactly did you get started in the animation industry?
My first big job was working as a layout artist on “King of the Hill”.
Four guys drinking beer next to a fence Really?
You worked on “King of the Hill”?
I didn't know that You didn’t know that?
I was able to do layout, I was able to assistant direct, I was able to do timing.
I learned about design, talked to background artists…
I was able to do a whole bunch of things that had I been an inbetweener at Disney I never
would have made it or known about those jobs.
So, my skills I learned out of school wasn’t like, “what I like about this field isn't animating.”
I like telling the story.”
Tell me about how you got involved with Lucasfilm I was on “Airbender” and it was just a
great experience.
I worked with a lot of friends of mine from Mike and Brian to John Carlo and John Carlo
is like, “Filoni, what would you do, what would get you off this show “Airbender”?
Its such a fun show what would it take?”
And i’m like, “If George Lucas called and offered me a job I’d go!” and he and
I were like “Hahaha, never gonna happen!”
So a week later, I get this phone call and I answer it and it’s this woman, she's a
producer for Lucasfilm Animation and i’m thinking like, “Theres no Lucasfilm Animation,
what is this” And she says, “we’re hiring and want to
interview you for the supervising director of a Clone Wars TV series”
And i’m like, “Really?
Didn't you just do that?” and I said, “Look, I have to ask you a question.
Who is this really?
And she's like, excuse me?
Like is this the guys around the corner because this is kind of mean.
And she’s like, “is this Dave Filoni?” and i’m like “Yeah?”
“Do you work on Airbender?”
And i’m like, “Yeah” and she’s like “Well you're the guy” And i’m thinking
like, “Oh wait a minute, this suddenly sounds really real”
And my whole ambition was to just interview.
I just wanted to meet George so when I was in line for Revenge of the Sith I could say,
“I met George Lucas, how cool is that?”
So i’m like, “Theres no way I can get this job.”
So I go in and I meet him and we talk for about twenty minutes.
A twenty minute meeting.
And he looked at my portfolio and he kind of went though it like this and I thought
“Yeah yeah yeah this is what I thought, this guy’s not gonna, you’re not gonna
impress him with your art” And just remembering my manners went when
the time was up I got up and I thought “i’m never gonna see this guy again” so I shook
his hand “It was very nice to meet you.” and he says “It was very nice to meet you”
and I went back to the green room and I felt this great sense of relief that it was over
and that was cool.
And you know what, he was a really nice guy and then the door opens and Katherine sticks
her head out and says, “He likes you, you got the job!”
And I was like, “What?!”
And then she shut the door And I remember my first thought was like,
“Oh my gosh these people have no idea what they're doing.
You’re gonna hire me for this job!?
You’re crazy!”
What was it like going from a fan to being a peer of George Lucas?
You know at first it was incredibly intimidating and I think he knew he was intimidating but
he respects hard work and he respects creativity and he wants to foster that and make that
happen.
And so, you know we were always trying to surprise him and inspire him and make the
episodes better than he thought they could be.
With George Lucas, its surprising how normal a guy he could be.
So, moving on to Rebels and the re-introduction of Thrawn how do you approach bringing something
like that in and giving people what they have been begging for and what you think they’ll
love without it just being fan service?
I’ve always leaned towards the if we’re gonna create something we should check and
see if it existed already to the fans.
Because it has way more value if we bring that in.
Why would I just replace it with something new?
Yeah I could create a new guy, sure but what about Thrawn?
Thrawn is great.
He is a character we all know.
Thrawn has a lot of credibility.
So then you ask yourself, “Is it right to use him?
And can we use him in a way thats similar to the books?”
I think we’re going in a really great place in Rebels thats a huge team effort so i’ve been lucky
to be here at this time with so many talented people and we have this show.
We didn't have this before at Lucasfilm so its really exciting.
I do want to take a second to thank you so much for supporting our little team and all
we do so much.
Oh of course.
Well you guys report on the show, of course I have to!
So stick around there will be more Star Wars Show in just a minute.
More?
You said it was too long already?
Well we’re gonna cut you down
So we just got a special delivery and its from ANOVOS.
What do you say we crack these babies open and slip into something a little more, Star Wars.
ANOVOS specializes in fully licensed, high quality costume replicas. The ANOVOS Star
Wars costumes are as close as you can get to the real thing.
So, you come to Jakku often?
The Star Wars The Force Awakens Rey Jakku premier costume.
The dress is made of viscose gauze and the shirt is made of a cotton microbe.
The wristlet and belt are made of genuine leather.
You finally have an outfit to go with your staff!
I know!
Can I see it now?
No.
The First Order premier line costume ensemble body armor pieces that are made with a white
beat aes plastic.
The under-suit is two pieces with mock turtle neck and the boots are made with genuine leather.
This is so cool!
You ready to make best friends with a droid and beat some dudes up in the desert?
I could take on the whole First Order myself!
You wanna check out the helmet?
Yeah!
Hold that real quick…
Yeah hehehe sucker You will return my staff and leave this room
with the door open.
I will return your staff and leave this room with the door open.
And you’ll get me a sandwich.AND I’ll get you a sandwich.
That was a really great interview with Dave.
So insightful.
He is so much fun to talk to and you only saw a tiny, tiny portion of it.
The extended interview will be on our channel later this week.
But let’s move on to more pressing issues, naming the Rancor from last week's episode!
After a deluge of great suggestions like, Bob, Ricky the Rancor, Rancor McRancorface,
Weird Al Rankovick, Fluffy, Cuddles, and even a couple of Kitster’s, the creator has landed
on a clear winner.
The Rancor’s new name is…
Randy the Rancor, submitted by Matthew D Groves on Twitter.
As for this week, we want to see your reactions to the new Rogue One trailer.
It can be a video, a vine, a tweet, an instagram post, Facebook Live, whatever you want, just
make sure to put #RogueReactions in the title, and we’ll feature our favorites on the show
next week.
Also, make sure to check out our brand new series The Star Wars After Show presented
by Verizon where myself and a panel of other Lucasfilm employees will gather around to
talk more in depth about all the Star Wars we covered in the show today.
Who knows, maybe even some of your comments and questions about this week's episode will
be featured!
You can check it out this Thursday and every Thursday only on YouTube.com/Verizon.
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