This week we’re talking Star Wars video games coming to Celebration.
Plus, I sit down with the voice of Anakin from The Clone Wars, Matt Lanter.
There’s so much more than that.
Oh, tons more than that.
Like 5-6 minutes more than that.
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, the only Star Wars Show on the internet that has
hidden a secret message in every episode of the show we’ve ever done.
Wait, really?
I don’t know, have we?
I feel like I would know this.
Uhm, well anywho.
Let’s go to the news.
You’ll have to go back and watch every single episode, multiple times to see.
The Mandalorian, the new Disney+ series executive produced by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni has
officially wrapped principal photography.
Starring Nick Nolte, Werner Herzog, Gina Carano, and Pedro Pascal as the titular character,
The Mandalorian follows the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the
galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.
The series will be exclusive to Disney+, which is set to launch in the US late 2019.
Star Wars Celebration has recently announced a 20th Anniversary panel for
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
The panel, which is scheduled for Monday, April 15th, will take a look back at the film
that kicked off the prequel trilogy and introduced us to memorable characters like Darth Maul,
Padme Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Jar Jar Binks and of course
Kitster!!
Yeah!
But it’s not just panels about podracing and midichlorian counts, no, a whole plethora
of Star Wars games are coming to Chicago as well.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will debut an exclusive first look at the game coming from
Respawn and EA during a special panel on Saturday April 13th.
The game which follows an Padawan who survived Order 66 as they explore the galaxy in the
time after the fall of the Jedi Order, will feature a discussion revealing never before
heard details ahead of the games fall 2019 release date.
Aside from the panel, fans can check out more Star Wars games on the show floor like Star
Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Star Wars: Pinball.
Plus Star Wars: The Old Republic will be hosting its own special event during Celebration.
More guests have also been announced to the growing lists of Celebrities you can rub elbows with.
Matt Lanter, from the Clone Wars, and this very episode of this show, will be there,
along with Tiya Sircar from Star Wars Rebels, and Ray Park from The Phantom Menace and Solo.
For more details on all Star Wars Celebration happenings check out StarWars.com/SWS
Star Wars Battlefront II has released the Chosen One update today, which officially
brings Clone Wars era Anakin Skywalker to the game.
And finally brings Matt Lanter onto the show, which once again coming up in just a few minutes.
Always plugging.
The new update also brings fixes to legion appearances, emote fixes, and more.
Check out BattlefrontII.com for the full rundown and blog.
And for more breaking Star Wars news from around the galaxy check out StarWars.com/SWS.
TTL about 15 seconds, that’s time till Lanter.
Counting down.
Thrilled to be joined by Matt Lanter.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you very much.
Welcome back to The Clone Wars, right?
I know.
It’s wild to be sitting here talking about Clone Wars.
Yeah, it was all quiet for a few years and now all of a sudden it’s not just the series,
it’s Battlefront II as well.
Yeah, it’s loud now.
Yeah.
[Laughing]
It’s loud now.
We’ve got Clone Wars going on, Battlefront happening.
How does it feel to be coming back to the character?
It’s great.
I never felt like I really left because there was some kind of intermittent toys and little
games here and there that I would still do Anakin for.
Even on Rebels I went in once or twice for Anakin there.
So I never quite put it down but now we’re kind of like full on now.
We literally know everything that happens to this character.
We know the future of this character.
Does that make it harder or easier for you to come in and sort of play this character fresh?
I think that it can be both.
At some points in the Clone Wars we were very specific about it.
Dave and the writers and everybody to show moments of Vader Anakin.
So we were very specific in doing that and having that arc or already knowing that arc helped.
Well I feel like it was such an opportunity for the entire team and for you to give so
much growth and space to this character that had to kind of like grow and change so quickly
in these movies and it was kind of nice to see a slower kind of growth of Anakin throughout
The Clone Wars.
Yeah, you know what, Hayden Christensen had a very, very difficult job in taking Anakin
from who we saw him as in Attack Of the Clones into the most hated, loved villain of all time.
I mean it’s a really hard job and he didn’t have much time to do it.
I’m very fortunate that I did get the time to kind of stretch that out and really that
was my job is to add that connective tissue between Attack Of the Clones and Revenge Of the Sith.
So for Battlefront II obviously there is a more photorealistic style to the game.
The character is going to be based a bit more on Hayden’s actual likeness from Episode III.
Does that change the way you approach the character to know that it’s more Hayden
based Anakin than a Clone Wars looking Anakin?
I want to give Anakin the same feel we’ve given him in The Clone Wars with the last 10 years.
It works, people really love it and I feel like it kind of gives Anakin a little more
time to expand on who he is.
So I don’t want to try and copy a Hayden performance or anything.
That’s definitely not the goal here.
I’m not gonna try and do anything different with that.
I’m gonna bring my Anakin to the table and I think they’ll mesh well.
Excellent.
Well I’m very excited to see it.
Uh, we are just asking everybody that we’re interviewing from The Clone Wars to just give
us one big Clone Wars spoiler.
Just whatever you feel you wanna.
Oh man, uh, well Anakin eventually, he turns into Darth Vader.
Which is…
Yeah, yeah.
He’s such a bad guy.
That’s why that’s such a huge spoiler.
I’m gonna need a minute to deal with this.
Thank you Matt for sitting down with me.
You’re welcome.
You’re watching The Star Wars Show.
We’ve got Chris with us who’s one of the product managers here and this is the Sail Barge.
And it was crowdsourced through Hasbro through HasLab.
It is.
It was the first time Hasbro has done a fan funded crowdsourcing initiative.
It was over a year in the making and they are getting ready to ship.
We have one of the very first ones here for us to take a look at.
Fans were excited as much as we were to make this and make this a reality.
Ultimately I believe a little under 10,000 of these were made.
And if you didn’t participate, you’re not going to have the opportunity to unbox
this when it arrives on your doorstep.
But you can live vicariously through this.
[Laughing]
You can watch this segment over and over again.
And this thing, you can pull so much of this apart and see the detail inside.
All the hatches open, there’s trap doors, there’s just tons of really, really fun
playable details that went into this.
We’ve gone to the archives, we’ve gone through the blueprint for this, we’ve gone
through anything that we could have and take to put into the overall design.
Even under the sails you have tons and tons of detail.
Yeah, make sure you go the PA system, it’s very important.
[Laughing]
Yeah.
So here’s Jabba in here.
Jabba does come with the Barge.
You get the best version of Jabba we’ve ever done.
He’s so gross.
So you get the two figures.
You get Yakface, a very unique Yakface.
That card is only available with this fan funded HasLab.
A few thousand lucky people got in on this.
This campaign is now over but the skiff is coming.
Yes, which is really cool.
If you have this, you have to get the skiff and complete your sarlacc pit experience.
We also have a couple figures down here.
Yeah, these were just announced.
So you’re going to be able to get some of Jabba’s guards so you can add to the skiff
if you have that.
Well, Chris thank you so much for showing this off.
This is amazing
Yeah, absolutely.
Hasbro teams have been working on this for over a year.
We are excited.
It’s just awesome.
[Porg sounds]
So it turns out a lot of our viewers are better at making LEGO Star Wars stuff than we are.
We are not surprised.
Mr. Star Wars Man shared his custom Star Wars ride he calls the Armis, Jeremy made a LEGO
version of the classic Kenner MTV-7 rig, and Brotherhood Workshop put in the recommended
amount of LEGO trees in their Endor diorama.
The Brick Wiz showed off his custom Kessel Run Falcon, Vigilante0915 made a Star Wars
food truck inspired by the Knights of the Old Republic comics, Dayman766 created a Geonosis
skyline, and the younglings podcast created a diorama of Han and Baby Ben spending an
afternoon in the park.
Bonus points for the wookiee on a teeter totter in the background.
Han never took Ben to the park, that was a part of the problem.
That’s why he’s Kylo Ren now.
Plus Zac…
[Laughing]
I got you!
[Laughing]
Plus Zac checked in with a Venator, Nick showed off his Imperial Base, Nick Dreadman made
an RC-BB-8, and David Hall showed off his massive, MASSIVE Battle of Crait, which took
over 13 months and 100,000 bricks.
It would have taken 13 months and 30 seconds to put a tree in there.
Just put one tree.
We asked for a tree.
I know it’s not canon but when you buy 100,000 bricks you get a lot of trees thrown in.
Yeah, hopefully.
Well, thanks to everyone that showed off their creations, we were floored by your creativity.
And with that, we close out another episode of The Star Wars Show.
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