This week, on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with the band Chvrches!
We take a trip to Japan to look at all their Star Wars stuff... 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, you weekly look at Star Wars
from inside the heart of Lucasfilm..’s old copy room.
But it makes an excellent looking set!
Mmmmhmmm.
NEWS TRANSITION!
If you saw the Force Awakens, which, if you’re watching this you probably have multiple times,
or if you read Claudia Gray’s book Lost Stars, you probably know of the Imperial Star
Destroyer known as The Inflictor.
For reference that’s one of the Star Destroyers that crashed on Jakku that Rey speeds past
in the opening of the film. Well, we here on The Star Wars Show our proud to reveal
for the first time what its captain, Ciena Ree, actually looks like. You ready? Here
she is.
She’s got so much attitude in that picture. I love it! The image was created as part of
Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures Game
Ooh, you like that one.
I love it. And speaking of games, Star Wars Celebration London announced yesterday that
this summer’s event will be the largest ever for Star Wars gaming in its history.
So, confirmed for the show are: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars Battlefront,
Star Wars: The Old Republic. Star Wars: Commander, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and Star Wars:
Force Collection. That is a lot of Star Wars.
And if you think you have what it takes to work in the art department at ILM, you only
have until 9:59 pacific tonight to register for the ILM Art Department Challenge. The
challenge, judged by a panel of top artists from Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic,
runs from now until August 1st, but you can’t participate unless you register. For more
information visit artstation.com.
And for more Star Wars news check out StarWars.com and stick around, more Star Wars Show coming
up in a Star Wars second. Star Wars!
Excuse me. Are they hiring here?
Hey, is there a movie in there today?
Walk please!
Can I get my parking validated?
Allow me. (laughing)
Hey, I’m Jeremy Saulnier
Hi I’m Anton Yelchin.
We’re here promoting Green Room at ILM.
You’re watching The Star Wars Show.
Is that what we’re doing? That’s what we’re doing.
Think that will hurt my chances of getting like-
To direct Star Wars? -asked to do some kind of franchise work?
I’m looking forward to just being in one of the Star Wars movies. There’s a lot from
what I can tell.
Dude, that’s a conflict, you’re Star Trek.
I can be in both! JJ can make both. I can be in both, right?
“Take care to bury all that you can. Take care to leave a trace of a man.”
Welcome back to The Star Wars Show I am here with Chvrches who took some time off from
their busy schedule to visit us here and talk about some Star Wars. How’s it going guys?
Really good.
Good. We’re very excited because we get to be in this building.
It’s like we’re kind of in the Death Star.
Little bit, yeah. So, you just came off of a really exciting weekend at Coachella, how
was that?
We did, that was absolutely mad.
Dusty.
Dusty! (Laughs)
It was very dusty.
A friend of ours made the point that, uh, Palm Desert kind of looks like a really well
developed Tatooine.
Yeah.
With like fancy cars and kind of-
Golf courses.
(Laughs) Golf courses! If the moisture farming business really takes off you could turn it
into Palm Springs.
Yeah.
They’re like, Tatooine is so commercial these days, man.
Yeah! (Laughing) they sold out!
It’s not what it used to be.
What is this? The golf course, they’ve got a music festival here now!!
Yeah.
It’s not the same. So I know that you guys make a lot of Star
Wars banter on stage-
I’ve been spotting more and more Star Wars t-shirts at our shows, I don’t know what
it is, maybe it’s because we talk about Star Wars a lot then.
But it could be because of your Jawa impression, which is really really good.
(Jawa Impression) (Laughing)
See that’s good!
You had the Halloween costume once. I did!
Not a sexy Jawa! It was not a Sexy Jawa.
Well, ‘cause this is the thing that upset me when I was like, looking for female Star
Wars character costumes, it was always like sexy this, and sexy that and I was like I
don’t want to be a sexy Ewok, I just want to be AN EWOK.
Sexy Jabba. So I made a Jawa costume, which was kind of
like a brown monk’s cloak, um, like a cowboy gun belt, and it was like a Super Soaker gun
but I spray painted it black.
Nice!
Uh, and it was like a black, uh well, hockey mask that I spray painted black, and kind
of stuck light up bike lights on it.
Smart!
And I just put like face paint here so I could technically see out of the eyeholes. And the
other eyes were above my head.
That’s good!
It was quite impressive.
Let’s talk The Force Awakens, like what were your impressions of it when you saw it?
I thought it was incredible. And all the parallels were cool, but I hope that Rey isn’t related
to either a Kenobi or a Skywalker.
But it won’t be narratively satisfying if you just say it was some random, random people
or parents. How can you say that?!
You know…
This is what a lot of the afternoons in venues look like. It’s like this.
If she was a Skywalker, yes. But I feel like that would tie the whole series together if
she was like... I’m with you, I hope she’s, I hope she’s
a nobody. I don’t know obviously, but that’s like, that’s what I’m hoping for.
Definitely not a two dimensional character.
And she’s strong enough to carry Mark Hamill. Her Instagram is really amazing because she,
I think she posts loads of stuff that like you know like, young people who are following
her will find really interesting and useful.
She’s a badass! Like you’ve watched her training videos-
Yeah. It’s very impressive.
-Oh man, I need to, I need to do that.
Text back! Text back, Daisy, text back! (Laughing)
You texting Daisy? No, I’ve never done that.
You guys at home, check out Chvrches. Their new album, Every Open Eye is available on
shelves right now.
If you listen to it backwards it tells you who Rey’s parents are.
(Gasp) It doesn’t.
(Laughing) Spoilers!
Hey guys, Anthony Carboni here, in Japan, in Tokyo! In a store right now, called Star
Case which is just completely devoted to Star Wars collectibles and memorabilia. And I have
found some of the craziest Star Wars stuff I have ever seen in my life.
These are Egg Force figures. They transform into eggs…because Star Wars.
Throwing out everything in my kitchen. I have new things now.
They love pencil cases here! They can’t get enough pencil cases!
Nice chopsticks. What do you want, Luke Skywalker? Oh, I’m sorry, did you mean Jedi Luke?
I literally had to buy a new suitcase to bring all of the stuff that I found home. But on
the bright side I did pick up some stuff for you guys back in the studio, so enjoy the
care package!
Your hair was different in that interview.
It was the special edition.
Oh that explains it.
THE MOUSE DROID BEEPING.
Oooooh look! Presents from Japan!
Oh speaking of, does the mouse droid have a name yet?
It does! After tons of humorous suggestions like, Mon Mousema, Mouse Eisley, Mouse Windu,
Mouse Kanata, and seemingly hundreds of people suggesting Mickey
Mmmm. Yeah. Little on the nose.
We all agreed on the cute, yet Star Wars-ey name, CH-33Z, or Cheese, suggested by the
appropriately named @storydroid on Twitter.
Which brings us to an awesome little reminder, next week is the 39th Anniversary of the release
of Star Wars!
Woo hoo!
So we want to see your Star Wars birthday cakes! We’re looking for the incredible
to the hilariously terrible
Send them to @starwars on Twitter using the hashtag #StarWarsShowCake, and we’ll reveal
our favorites next week.
And now if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got to go play with some toys.
It’s very serious business. We’ll see you next week!
Oooh! Rey! “I’m gonna kick your butt!”