- A whole bunch of new photos from the set
of "Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker" were just released.
- Let's look at them, shall we?
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- 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 "Star Wars"
show that, much like Episode I, will be divisive at first
but overwhelmingly beloved 20 years later.
- Wait, we're going to keep doing
this show for 20 more years?
- No, no, no, no.
- OK, phew.
- Yeah, our contracts have us doing this for next 40 years.
- Wait, what? - Yep.
Let's go to the news.
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This morning Vanity Fair released a treasure trove
of new images from the set of "Star
Wars, The Rose of Skywalker."
- The spread from legendary photographer Annie leibovitz
captured behind-the-scenes moments from the set,
as well as featuring the landscapes of the Wadi Rum
in southern Jordan, which is being used for the backdrop
of the faraway planet Pasaana.
- The cover images feature Rey and Kylo Ren
on a collision course with a closer look at both fan
favorite characters.
- Rey is also seen with her staff from "The Force Awakens"
again.
- We're also given a first look at Finn a new ally Jannah,
played by Naomi Ackie, as they lead the charge against
the mechanized forces of darkness atop orbaks,
a new horse-like creature featured in the film.
- Also featured were the Jordanian locals,
who played the native Aki-Aki of the planet Pasaana,
as well as this shot of Joonas Suotamo, Daisy Ridley,
John Boyega, and Anthony Daniels awaiting
the call to action for what promises
to be a thrilling desert chase.
- Inside of the Millennium Falcon,
we're treated to a picture of its original owner,
Lando Calrissian, along with Poe Damron, Chewbacca,
BB-8, and newcomer droid D-O.
- The First Order as well represented as well,
with the first look at Anthony's personal hero,
Richard E. Grant--
- Woo!
As the Allegiant General Pryde alongside
Donald Gleason's General Hux.
- Meanwhile, in the Theives' Quarter of the snow-dusted
world of Kijimi, we're given our first look at Zorii Bliss,
the helmeted character played by Keri Russell, whose motives
are as masked as her face.
- And let's not forget about this image
of Luke Skywalker and R2-D2.
Because, as we all know from the teaser,
no one's ever really gone.
- Also included in the spread are behind-the-scenes images
of JJ Abrams and his crew, a watery lightsaber clash between
Rey and Kylo, John Williams composing the score with
a bonus image of General Leia in the screen in front of him,
and much, much more.
- Plus, Vanity Fair also produced a special short
featurette filled with even more behind-the-scenes
moments and imagery capture during the photoshoot.
- You can look at the images and watch
the full behind-the-scenes short right now at StarWars.com/SWS.
- Finally this week, "Vader Immortal" was finally released.
And because we love synergy here at "The Star Wars Show,"
Anthony got a chance to sit down with Colin MacKie and Jose
Perez III to talk about it
- This week saw the release of the Oculus Quest
and, along with it, of course, the first episode
of "Vader Immortal."
Joining me now from ILMxLab, we have Jose and Colin.
I got to experience it today.
It was amazing, not just to be in "Star Wars" in VR,
but to be in "Star Wars" in VR and learning new things
about characters and places that we feel
like we've known for 40 years.
Because we do.
We learn some new things about Vader and about Mustafar
in the series.
- Right, and that was something that was kind of
ridiculously exciting for us.
We'd seen early on Ralph McQuarrie had some drawings
that he'd done for the castle way back in the day,
so this was something had been floating around kind
of in the lore for a while.
We saw it in "Rogue One."
You know, it was something that was super exciting for us.
It was also the first time we really
got to start to explore what Mustafar really is,
and there's some really cool story bits that
come out over the course of it.
- We started with a lot of versions of the story
as it unfolded, how Mustafar came to be Mustafar.
It wasn't always the hellscape that it is now.
And what kind of people are on Mustafar and who they are.
- I like that he says Muh-stafar and I say Moo-stafar, and I
don't know which one's true.
- No, no, no--
- I think you can say either way.
- You can say it either way.
- Yeah, yeah.
- We're big fans of everybody on the couch saying
one word a different way here.
We're deadly serious about that, yeah.
I say light-sah-ber.
- I say lit-saber.
- Oh, lit-saber. That's pretty good.
I'm gonna do that from now on. - You should.
- Yes.
- What were some of the goals that you had with kind
of putting people into "Star Wars" in VR?
- Well, there are a couple of things
that are just those iconic "Star Wars" moments.
One is being on the deck of your own ship.
You're a smuggler with your sidekick, ZOE3--
we call her Zoe-- voiced by Maya Rudolph,
who did a spectacular job.
Then we laid into the lightsaber and, of course, meeting Vader.
Those are the primary elements of this experience.
That's the quintessential experience we wanted to give.
- Yeah, absolutely.
And it's wild to me to just be walking
around in Vader's castle.
What did you sort of want people to get out of this
as an interactive experience?
- What we wanted to do is we wanted
to strike a balance between the story and the narrative
we wanted to give but also the connection
you have to the world.
And that means picking up stuff.
That means picking locks and using
lightsabers and battling stormtroopers and really
discovering this world.
- So, obviously, you get in, you get your lightsaber
in the narrative part of the experience,
and you do get to use the lightstaber in there.
But the Lightsaber Dojo is a completely separate mode,
right?
- Yeah, it's more of like a meta mode.
And that's where we go a lot deeper on the mechanics.
It's round-based part of the experience.
A lot more action, a lot more slicing up training remotes
and fighting big, scary training droids.
- I love that because there is something nice about being
able to just be like, nah, I just want to swing
around a lightsaber right now. - Totally.
If you pick up "Quest," you know,
for Thanksgiving and you're at your grandma's house
and maybe she doesn't want to go through the story
at that exact moment, you can do the lightsaber stuff then.
Then when the night gets a little bit calmer,
then you can throw it on and have this nice, cool story
experience.
- My grandma can do the back-bend
thing that Ray Park does
- She should play this.
Can we get video of this?
- Absolutely.
It's crazy watching her do it.
- All right.
- So you all previously worked on the "Secrets of the Empire"
VR experience, which you can experience at The VOID.
The two connect, right?
- They do. They do.
- Can you talk about that at all, or--
- A little bit.
So we know from "Secrets of the Empire,"
Vader is looking for artifacts.
And that story thread will be expanded on and explained
in "Vader Immortal."
- So the first episode is available now
on the Oculus Quest for $9.99, but you
will be coming to the Rift platforms in the future, right?
- That's right.
- Near future.
- So go check out Episode I right now on the Quest
and, soon, on Rift platforms.
Thank you so much, guys. - Thank you.
- Pleasure to be here. - You're.
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- Show.
- "The Star Wars Show" presents Everything Is Important.
This week, Dobbu Scay.
Limited to 17 seconds of screen time, Dobbu Scay
is the happy inebriated alien having a night out
at the Casino on Canto Bight.
A-hem, thanks to the tipsy Dobbu shoving BB-8 full of coins
because he thought he was the slot machine,
the ball droid inadvertently had the perfect amount of ammo
to aid DJ in escaping the prison guard
and picking up Finn and Rose to make their escape
from the Canto Bight guards.
And without Dobbu Scay, Finn and Rose
might not have relied on a mediocre codebreaker that
got them captured, giving DJ the chance to double cross
the Resistance, having the First Order blow away
most of their ships, and giving away
the Resistance's plan to hide.
So thanks, Dobbu.
Without your buffoonery, Finn and Rose
may have made their way back to the codebreaker suggested
by Maz, successfully completed their mission,
and kept the Resistance alive and well.
The First Order salutes you, Dobbu Scay.
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- With the opening of "Star Wars" Galaxy's
Edge happening next Friday--
- What?
- We thought it'd be fun to find out
what you're most looking forward to experiencing
on the planet of Batuu.
- We're talking attractions, food,
drinks, droids, lightsabers.
Whatever it is you're excited about, we want to hear it.
- I'm just going to be swinging around a lightsaber
and eating space food for hours.
- That's cool.
I'm just going to find all the creatures.
- Great.
We want to know what you're amped about.
Use the hashtag #BATUU4U, and we'll feature
our favorites here next week.
- And, as always, remember to like the video,
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and have fun this weekend.
- Thanks for watching, and may the Force be with you.
I was not going to have fun this weekend,
but now that you've ordered me to have fun, I suppose I will.
- That's how it works.
[SHIP BLAST OFF]
Wow, dude, you party so hard.
- Yeah.
Are you having fun?
We're having fun, right?
- We're having fun, right?
- And then I feel the pressure of having fun.
- You're having fun, right?
- Does that make you the fun police?
[LAUGHING]
- How? - God, if you're--
- You have to tell me.
- If you're the fun police, you have to tell me.
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