This week on the Star Wars Show. From Rooster Teeth, Burnie Burns and Blaine
Gibson! We take a trip to the Lucasfilm company picnic!
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, welcome to The Star
Wars Show Episode 8, an episode so secretive we don’t even know what its about yet.
Actually! The Yoda fountain said what the episode was about.
I never listen to what that guy says anyway. LETS GO TO THE NEWS!
If you’re like any Star Wars fan on the planet you’re probably anxiously awaiting
to hear any tidbit regarding films like Episode 8 or The untitled Han Solo Star Wars Story.
Well if you’re attending Star Wars Celebration Europe you might just be lucky enough to get
a glimpse at what the future of the Star Wars galaxy holds during the Future Filmmakers
Panel. Heard it here first folks!
The panel, hosted by the Lucasfilm Story Group’s Pablo Hidalgo, will be an informal chat with
Lucasfilm president, Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm Senior Vice President of Development, Kiri
Hart, Episode 8 director Rian Johnson, as well as Chris Miller and Phil Lord, directors
of the upcoming, untitled Han Solo Star Wars story.
The panel takes place Sunday, so if you’re lucky enough to attend, DO NOT MISS IT!
LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens was released yesterday on nearly every console imaginable.
The game features new story modes that take place between Return of the Jedi and The Force
Awakens, a new multi build system, an exhaustive roster of un-lockable characters and ships
to play as, and jokes. Lots of jokes…because what would a LEGO game be without some goofs,
and guffaws, and gags, right?! Right.
Finally in Lucasfilm news, the 38th annual Lucasfilm company picnic happened last weekend
at Skywalker Ranch, and our own Kaitlyn Marshall managed to sneak a camera inside the secretive
base. Watch.
Hey everyone, Kaitlyn here, And I’m at Skywalker Ranch, where right behind me friends and family
are celebrating the 38th annual Lucasfilm Company Picnic. We got food, we have family,
and we have fun. Let’s go check it out! Doug, how long have you been coming to the
Lucasfilm company picnic? I started the company in ’89 so it’s been
26 years. It’s just one of those events that we always look forward to as a family.
I’m here with Jane Bay, the creator of the Lucasfilm family picnic. Jane, how did you
come up with this wonderful idea? We had a picnic up on the lawn in front of
the main house and then we decided to have another picnic and it became an annual thing.
Pablo, what is the storyline of Episode 8? Technically today is a vacation so I’m not
working so, uh, I can’t tell you. Do you know any inside scoop on the new movie?
(BAAAAAA!) The goat just told us.
Really? The goat spilled all the beans?
The goats a liar! The goat spilled all the beans.
(licking noises) I wouldn’t believe that goat.
What is your favorite part of the Lucasfilm picnic.
Well I do enjoy watching the egg toss. If I were to put money on it I always put it
on John Knoll. Are you aware that people have you as the
forerunner for the egg toss winner? That’s very kind of them to express that
sentiment. I’m just here to have fun. John has actually run a computer simulation,
he said, “you want a 46 degree loft to-“ -45!
“-45 degree loft.” It’s beautiful up here, there’s fun things
to do, there’s good food, there’s ice cream.
They’re giving it out for free. They’re giving ice cream out for free?!
They’re giving ice cream out for free! Guys, this has been a lot of fun here at the Lucasfilm
picnic, but I have to go get myself some ice cream!
(wookiee noise)
I’m here with Burnie Burns and Blaine Gibson from online production company Rooster Teeth,
fellas, thanks so much for being here, welcome to Lucasfilm!
Thanks for having us Thank you
I’ve been trying to like sneak in here for years.
I’m still not sure its real though. Yeah!
Blaine’s a little like, he’s looking over his shoulder a little bit, he’s, he’s
been through a lot. There was a pretty significant Star Wars
themed prank There was.
that you guys pulled on Blaine not too long ago.
Rooster Teeth is about 200 people now. Yeah.
But it started as a group of you know, 5 guys working in a spare bedroom. And the first
show that we made was Red vs Blue it’s uh, it’s basically a cartoon based on the video
game franchise Halo. So we’re obviously very hardcore nerds, you know? Blaine he claimed
to be the biggest star wars fan in the world. Uuuuuh…
That is like, so insulting to a group of people. I grew up watching Star Wars.
You know, I’m a pretty big fan. I wore my R2D2 Socks, so.
So we thought we’d have some- So clearly!
So clearly, the biggest fan! Obviously.
So, we rented out a theater. And we told Blaine that we had a special screening of Episode
VII a week in advance and that he had been invited to it because he’s a social media
influencer. We made him tweet about it, we made him make
like an audition video. Now the audition video was thing that really
killed me. Yeah.
Because you used it against him later at the screening.
Sure. Showed it to like, actual people in the theater,
and I was just like melting in my chair. If you look hard enough in the video when
the opening crawl comes up you can see little tears in my eyes.
Yeah. I was so excited!
I grew up with Star Wars. I saw it in the theater over 30 times. Running into somebody
later in life who is you know, is like, the biggest Star Wars Fan in the world, I don’t
claim to be the biggest Star Wars fan in the world, I know there are people out there that
would embarrass me if I ever said that, but Blaine apparently has no problem saying that.
So Blaine you claim to be the world’s biggest Star Wars fan
Oh no. Ask Pablo.
I was just about to say because I saw Pablo walk in!
Pablo Hidalgo from the Lucasfilm Story Group Hey Pablo.
I was actually really looking forward to meeting you.
Would you consider yourself, like um, like a Jedi Master of Trivia?
Uh, yeah, yeah, for sure. Lets uh Okay
Lay it on me here. Well okay, then there’s only one way to
pass these trials here. Oh my lord.
So here we go. We got the Jedi Masters Quiz Book, 425 Cosmic Questions and Answers about
Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back written by Rusty Miller an 11 year old Star Wars prodigy
back in 1982. What defensive equipment did the probot have?
Oh. It’s only a 7 minute show.
(laughter) Im gonna have to say, uh, some sort of a blaster,
of some sort. For defense?
According to the Jedi Masters Quiz Book, it could generate a protective force field parenthesis
novel. So I’m sorry I can’t give you that one. I’m going to jump one here, um, What
creature did Ben fend off from Luke in the cantina?
I can’t even remember his name. He looks like a-?
Like a spider kind of? Eeeeeh.
May I? Yeah.
I think uh, Walrus Man. Walrus Man.
I am going to take the title! Which is what it said on the Kenner toy.
I, I, I, I have to say that I am upset that this is our first encounter.
I’m not. I’m not. I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
You’re just coming in here punching me. Oh it’s Pablo! Oh, it’s Pablo…
Don’t worry about it I wont remember this at all.
Okay. (laughter)
He has more important things to remember. Pablo thanks so much for coming.
No, no he’s a good sport, come on, let’s give up a big hand for Blaine for being a
good sport. (clapping)
I can hear the YouTube commenters already. Oh yeah. Yeah. You’ve lost your title for
good. Alright, I gotta get out of here.
Thanks Pablo! Thanks Pablo.
So Burnie, did Star Wars influence Red vs. Blue in any way?
I think the title was one of the Dark Forces titles, but uh, it was one where you would
be, or maybe it was Jedi Academy, but you would be going through an Empire installation,
and there would be a Stormtrooper station and you would fight them in the video game.
Or if you didn’t fight them right away, if you just stood there around the corner
and you waited, they would suddenly like have these inane conversations of two guys that
are just standing there next to each other. Like a Clerks almost style conversation. And
I just always loved those. And I would like stand still and try and listen to as many
of them as I could. It was a little easter egg in the game, and so for Red vs. Blue,
the characters standing around just talking about nothing was like, it was a big inspiration
for that. Blaine, Burnie, thanks so much for being on
the show, you can check out all the great content at RoosterTeeth.com or their YouTube
channel. And stick around, more Star Wars Show up next.
If we want more people to see it we could use a broom and force it in their feed.
That’s not how Vine works!
Whew, what an episode! I think, this is the longest episode-
Whop, hold on! I think Cheese wants to talk about action figures.
Okay, yeah, I’ll talk about it. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but
we have changed the decorations on our set every week, but there are simply some characters
like KITSTER that don’t have action figures that we can put on the shelves.
So we want to know what characters (cough) KITSTER from the Star Wars galaxy, that don’t
have action figures yet, that you’d like to see in the future.
Let us know using the hashtag #StarWarsShowToys and we’ll feature our favorites like KITSTER
here next week. (cough) KITSTER!
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