- This week, tons of new Star Wars
was revealed at New York Comic Con.
- Plus, Silent Bob won't shut up about Star Wars.
Seriously, it was a 45-minute interview.
- That you only get to see five-ish minutes of.
- It was mostly swears, and this is a family show.
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 is here to remind you
that we are 73 days away from "Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker."
- I like to think of it more like roughly 1,752 hours away
from "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
- Really?
What about 105,120 minutes away from "Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker?"
- Do seconds next.
- OK, can I sing them?
- No.
Well, let's go to the news.
New York Comic Con was last weekend,
and a plethora of Star Wars publishing news was announced.
- Some of the big reveals of books and comics
included a brand new trilogy from Timothy Zahn entitled
"The Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy," which will, of course, star
our favorite blue space boy.
- The "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"
novelization by Ray Carson was also
announced, plus a junior novel by Michael Kogge.
- A follow-up to "Star Wars: Myths and Fables"
titled "Star Wars: Dark Legends" will be written by George Mann
and illustrated by Grant Griffin and will
tell tales of the dark side.
- It was also announced that all current ongoing Marvel Star
Wars series will reach their dramatic conclusion at the end
of the year with a new slew of new ongoing titles beginning
next year picking up directly after the events
of "The Empire Strikes Back."
- The first two titles announced are the flagship Star Wars
series, which will be written by Charles Soule with art
by Jesus Saiz beginning in January.
- A new Darth Vader series written by Greg Pak with art
by Raffaele Ienco will begin in February.
- It was also teased that our favorite space
archaeologist Doctor Aphra will have
a returning title next year.
- Always need more Aphra in my life.
- We all do.
For more on all of the upcoming titles announced and teased
at New York Comic Con, including the multi-author
"Project Luminous," check out starwars.com.
- But the comic fun doesn't stop there.
We have another "Journey to Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker" exclusive preview
before it hits shelves on October 16th.
- Written by Ethan Sacks with art by Luke Ross,
"Allegiance #2" has Leia Organa on Mon Cala with some
of the resistance's finest heroes,
Rey, Chewbacca, and Rose Tico, to ask for help
from Admiral Akbar's son.
But our heroes aren't met with open arms.
- To get a closer look at the cover and some preview pages,
head over to starwars.com/sws.
- Shifting over to games, General Skywalker
is coming to the Star Wars mobile game "Galaxy of Heroes."
- The chosen one will be the most powerful character
in the game to date and can be earned
by completing the new epic confrontation Clash on Kamino.
- The event will first take you to the conflict
raging in space where you will battle
against General Grievous.
Then you will head down to a ground battle
and defend Tipoca City from Asajj
Ventress and the separatist invasion
with the help of General Kenobi.
- General Skywalker is available between October 11th and 13th.
And for more details on all the news stories we just shared,
and for even more Star Wars news from around the galaxy,
check out starwars.com/sws.
- Overjoyed to have sitting with me here in the studio
this week director, writer, actor, blazer
and trench coat enthusiast--
- Yes.
- --Kevin Smith.
- Thank you.
- Welcome, sir.
- You know, I've heard trench coat enthusiast,
but blazer enthusiast is new.
- Lately--
- Number one, I'm just happy to hear
anyone use the term blazer.
My mother was the one that popularized that term for me.
Everyone else calls them a jacket or something like that.
- Yeah.
- But my mom is still to this day-- she's like, tiger,
you wearing a blazer today?
I was like, blazer, Mom?
- My mom says the same thing, a smart blazer.
She's like you were wearing a smart blazer--
- Smart blazer. - --on that thing.
- My mom knows me well.
She includes nothing about smart in any of it.
So blazer is good enough.
- I was watching "Endgame" the other night.
- Yeah.
- And as I'm sitting there listening
to War Machine and Ant-Man talk about "Back to the Future"--
- Right.
- --it occurred to me that before "Clerks"
and "Mallrats" I don't think I had ever heard--
- People talk about other movies in a movie?
- Just casually.
You know what I mean?
Just casually.
- See, I remember one of the last episodes
of "Facts of Life."
Jo, the roughneck girl, was like, hey,
we're all gonna see the new Star Wars movie together.
And my mind melted, where I was like the girls from Eastland
know about Star Wars?
Like pop culture being referenced in pop culture
was so weird.
So the notion of like talking about movies within movies
laid itself early on.
Quentin Tarantino made it possible for me.
Because I saw "Reservoir Dogs."
At the top of the movie, they're doing the Madonna lyrics.
- Yeah.
- And I remember watching that scene
and being like, that counts?
That's movie dialogue now?
You can just talk about Madonna lyrics?
If that's the case, I'm gonna talk
about movies because that's all we talked about.
That was our currency.
Me and my friends didn't really talk to each other
in original thoughts.
We just quoted like "Raising Arizona"
and "Star Wars" and stuff.
So we had had this conversation about Star
Wars, me and my producer Scott Mosier,
when we were in film school.
We started free associating in this coffee shop in Vancouver.
This is like 1992.
And there was a dude in the coffee shop,
wasn't with me and Mosier, sitting at another table.
I see the dude slowly put his paper down and listen.
Now this was at a time where, believe it or not,
there was a moment where people weren't
talking about Star Wars.
And I think that dude was just so electrified to hear anybody
else talking about Star Wars.
If we had waited three more years,
the internet would happen and that conversation
wouldn't matter because you have that conversation 1,000 times
a day on the internet.
- Right.
- But we had it in real life, and I saw someone react.
And I said, I'm gonna put that in the movie, man.
I'm gonna include that scene.
When I was writing the flick, I was like,
I'm gonna do that Star Wars conversation I had with Mosier
because I remember some dude reacted to it.
And then when the movie came out, no matter where we went,
that was the international currency.
They say the international language is love or whatever.
Not at all.
The international language is Star Wars.
- That is amazing.
And it's amazing now that like that
is the common vernacular of characters in pop culture now.
- Yeah, it became the dominant culture in pop culture.
I just got lucky over the course of my career
that the things that I really loved when I was a kid
wound up becoming popular again.
I was a kid who loved this stuff like it was my own religion.
I walked in to see "Star Wars" at seven years old.
I was young Catholic boy, I walked out, I was a Jedi.
And so long before the internet, I
would be that kid that would go to the library,
like wind microfiche to read articles that
were in other papers from other states about Star Wars
because that's how you get your news, right?
Sometimes "Bantha Tracks," if you remember the club.
And now we live in a world where you're gonna
die before Star Wars will.
I'm gonna die long before Star Wars will.
A child who's born in a hospital right
now is gonna die before Star Wars ever will.
This stuff is with us forever.
It's delightful to live in a world
where it's like that vernacular is the common vernacular, is
current vernacular. - Yeah.
- And when I was a kid, people would be like, don't waste
your time with this stuff, man.
You should learn something useful and stuff.
What are you gonna do with all this knowledge about Star Wars?
I literally live off of it to this day.
Star Wars is a cornucopia that's continued
giving from the moment I first walked into a movie theater
to enjoy it till right now in my career.
Like I get to be on this show because it's like, oh,
he referenced Star Wars once.
The only movie that I probably talk about more than "Clerks"
is "Star Wars."
- You talked about Jay and Silent Bob being R2-D2
and C-3PO, but somewhere along the way
they became Han and Luke.
- That's true.
They were background characters that slowly moved up
to the foreground, and that's by virtue of the fact
that Jason Mewes is just that interesting.
And for years, Jason Mewes would be like, you should do
another Jay and Silent Bob movie.
And I'd always always be like, I'm shocked we got away with it
once.
I don't know if we could do that ever again.
And so after trying to make "Clerks 3" and "Mallrats 2"
and watching them fall apart, I got frustrated and I was like,
you know what?
Why am I banging my head against the wall?
I own these characters, and Jay wants to make the movie.
So let me just make a Jay and Silent Bob movie again, man.
He deserves it.
- I love it.
And you are touring the movie around.
You are going from city to city, you and Jason are.
- Yeah, so they can go see it October 15th
and October 17th at the Fathom Events
screening at any multiplex anywhere in the United States.
But if they want to see it with me and Jay,
we take the movie on tour, man, like a rock group.
We sit there and watch the movie with everybody,
and then afterwards we all sit around
and Q&A. That's called the Jay and Silent
Bob Reboot Roadshow Tour.
I'll be doing that from October 19th till February 26th, 62
dates.
- And if they want to find out when it's coming to their city,
where do they go?
- They can go to RebootRoadshow.com is
the web address or you just follow me
on Instagram or Twitter, man.
Believe me, I'll shove my stuff in your face constantly.
I'm always in sales mode, something I
learned from this organization.
- You're watching. - The Star.
- Wars. - Show.
- I never realized how similar the Star Wars universe
is to the View Askewniverse.
- Yeah, it's funny how hundreds of viewings of Star Wars
can shape how a filmmaker makes movies.
But that conversation did give me an idea for a "Clerks"
Star Wars mashup Halloween costume.
- OK.
- Jay-3PO and Bob-2D2.
Maybe that should be our costumes this year.
- Huh.
- Oh, or we could go as Mark Hamill's character
from "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back."
What was his name again?
Say his name into the camera.
- OK, oh wow, look at the time.
We better wrap this episode up.
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- You can just say no to the costume.
Thanks for watching, and may the force be with you.
You do remember the name though. Just--
- You have to be Jay-3PO.
- It's a blonde wig over a 3PO mask.
And then we draw a beard on you because that's funny.
- That's always fun.
- That's good times,