Hayden Christensen is coming to Celebration!
Do you think he’ll read my fan-fiction?
No.
Because he’ll be busy reading mine first.
(sad trombone sound)
This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver, Chris Comely!
Doug Chiang takes us inside Vader’s castle, and much much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hey I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome to The Star
Wars Show, a show where genuine Star Wars excitement is often misconstrued as “cringe”
in the comments.
SORRY IF WE LIKE STAR WARS, INTERNET.
Yeah!
He gets excited and I’m the girl.
IT’S OUR THING!
DEAL WITH IT.
Okay that actually was a little cringe.
Let’s go to the news.
On Friday, Lucasfilm officially announced that Hayden Christenson will be returning
to Star Wars Celebration for the first time in 15 years next week in Orlando.
The sand hating Sith lord will be joining Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni, Mark Hamill,
Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams on stage for the 40
years of Star Wars panel.
The panel begins at 11am on Thursday, April 13th, and promises plenty of surprises that
will set the tone for the entire weekend at this year’s Celebration.
All we can say is…if you’re attending, you will want to BE IN THE ROOM for this one.
If you’re watching the stream…WATCH IT LIVE.
Do.
Not.
Miss.
This.
Panel.
Cannot stress that enough.
WATCH IT.
You think they got it?
WATCH THE PANEL.
I think that was it.
Okay cool, good.
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We started to come up with the idea of where Krennic would meet Vader; we started to play
with mood and look.
Ralph did some early exploration of what Vader’s castle was, and so when this scene came up
we thought, lets resurrect that idea.
In doing the research, Ralph did a lot of drawings for Vader’s castle but he really
didn’t do any interiors.
But what found particular interesting was that Ralph had designed this upside down red
triangle as the symbol for Vader.
And so I really wanted to evoke that in the set itself.
So as we were designing the room we tried to very subtly plays that.
If you look at the entrance when Krennic first arrives, the exterior of that meeting room
is an upside down cone.
For fans, if they’re familiar with Vader’s symbol, they’ll see that connection in there.
And then likewise, when you see the actual doorway its in the shape of Vader’s mouth.
And so that whole idea for me was to play off the subtleties that when you come to visit
Vader you’re literally going inside of him.
It was interesting we were talking about how we reveal Vader because he’s so iconic.
You can identify him just by the silhouette itself, and so Gareth thought well why don’t
we introduce him by seeing his shadow first because that’ll be even more threatening.
And what was great was that we were paying homage to Indiana Jones when Marion was in
the bar you saw the villains come in and you see their shadows creep up.
Well wouldn’t it be powerful to do a similar thing and it works really well because even
in silhouette form you immediately know it’s him.
And if you notice there’s a circular platform where Vader and Krennic meet and what I like
about that idea is, if you think about it for Vader to have a confrontation in this
big open space, where you can easily fall off the edge is very intimidating.
So whoever is coming to visit him is always under this veil of threat that Vader could
force them off the edge.
Part of the history that we do in designing Vader’s castle is where are all the rooms.
And so we decided that the castle itself was centered around the Bactra tank.
That was the most important thing.
But we also knew there was going to be another meditation chamber, he had to have like a
training area down below in the catacombs in a more ancient area.
The map of Vader’s castle is all thought out and I’m hoping that we’ll have an
opportunity to explore it.
The captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you.
Hey guys, welcome to the show this week, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver, Star Wars filmmaker
and super fan, Chris Conley.
Your history with Star Wars has been going on for quite a while now, when I was working
the Star Wars twitter account we would talk every once and a while because you were working
on your film, “Retribution”.
What was it like after it came out?
You finished the film and you released it.
You know sometimes athletes get pigeonholed into stereotypes of what they are what their
interests are and what they can do.
And I think the first response I got from a lot of people was like all football players
aren’t dumb.
I think Retribution really opened the door for me to fall in love with filmmaking.
So the prequels came out right when we were at that perfect age to go to the theater
Impressionable.
So impressionable.
Right?
And you’re just like AHH give me everything.
You’re a pretty hardcore fsn, where did you go next?
My mom was big on making us read.
She’s a teacher and if I had a choice of what book it was a Star Wars related book
and then immediately once I was old enough and allowed to play video games.
From N64 to the old computer games like Jedi Knight Academy, Jedi Knight Outcast
So I was told that you’re a big Old Republic fan, you still play from time to time.
Yes, you know when the game first came out I was on there an obscene amount of time.
I play competitively online and I even had a gaming laptop in my dorm room and a table
that I had set aside and it was just for that game.
Nerd.
Yes, nerds come in all shapes and sizes I think it would be more evident if a lot of
the cons actually weren’t during our football season because I’d be at every single one.
You know I’ve met tons of guys who can actually follow this stuff and I think its something
that’s bigger than stereotypes.
I think it’s a great community of people whether it’s in the video games, or the
books or even the movies, the prop building community that come together.
There’s so many facets of the story of Star Wars and the world that people can connect
to in their own way and I think that the talented people in this building who are working on
all these projects, Star Wars is in great hands right now.
And I’m confident that it makes me happy as a fan to know that you guys work around
something that is so dear to so many of us.
That’s awesome.
I wish you all the best, luck in the world.
Thanks for coming by.
Thanks for coming to the launch of the all new trivia night, still a night of brain busting
trivia and its all for a great cause.
The trivia questions have all been written by Pablo and I am so sorry for you all.
Pablo is merciless.
There is only one Star Wars question and it is worth a whopping 1 point.
So let’s do this!
Rock and roll and may the Force be with you.
What is the most popular sandwich in America?
How many hearts does an octopus have?
What film director coined the term, McGuffin?
And now, which Star Wars character can you add a 4 to and create potassium sulfate?
Ladies and gentlemen give yourself a round of applause because you’ve just completed
Trivia Night in first place.
Lets not forget what is most important, that’s right what’s most important tonight is all
the money that we collectively helped to raise for some incredible local charities.
Here is a $143,661 dollars and 50 cents.
That’s incredible everybody and thank you so much
Last week, inlieu of joining the cavalcade of internet April fools jokes, or as we like
to call it here at the Star Wars Show, fake news day (crickets)
We asked you to name your favorite Star Wars Goofs.
Lots of you, like Horta do Rosario and Elsa Berglind, called out the improvised K2 slap
across the face as their favorite funny moment, while Empress Bacca and Robert Bisset sent
in their votes for Kylo’s temper tantrum, But the clear winner was the storm trooper
who hit his head on the doorway.
So here’s to you, nameless extra who couldn’t see out of his helmet, your mistake made Star
Wars what it is today.
And as always make sure you like the video, subscribe to the channel, follow us on Twitter
and Instagram, like us on Facebook and download the Star Wars app.
Goodness, anywhere else you want to send them?
Everywhere.
Thanks for watching and may the force be with you.
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Got it all?
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