Hey, did ya hear?
There’s a whole bunch of new stuff from Solo to talk about.
Oh and we’re gonna talk about it.
With Han and Lando.
What?!
Yeah.
That I did not know.
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, your weekly source for things that already happened
in the Star Wars Galaxy.
Hey now, we break news on this show all the time.
No, I’m talking about how all of Star Wars actually already happened.
Oh yeah, long time ago, galaxy far far away-yeah, yeah I guess you’re right.
Is this show an elaborate section of a Ken Burns documentary?!
I don't know. Did all your jokes go to college this week?
Let’s go to the news!
Solo: A Star Wars Story has a new poster which was revealed over the weekend.
The poster features L3, Lando, Han, Qi’ra, Chewie, Beckett and Val, with the cockpit
of the Falcon looking over a vista with these two creatures hanging out on a cliff.
Hello, creatures.
And that poster can probably be seen outside of the Grand Amphitheatre Lumiere because
Solo: A Star Wars Story is going to Cannes!
The film will screen outside of competition joining Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith
as the only other Star Wars films that have screened during the film festival.
Also revealed this week were a cavalcade of new Solo products and toys from Funko, Mattel,
Hasbro, Jakks, LEGO and more, including the Black Series figures of Han, Lando, Chewie,
Qi’ra and the range trooper, The Funko 2 pack of fighting droids…
…Because Gonk Droids with blades and weapons is now a thing.
How is that not our top story this week?!
Very dangerous.
It’s very great.
Also unveiled were tons of LEGO sets like Han and Moloch’s landspeeders,
an Imperial TIE fighter, and the Kessel Run Millennium Falcon.
Plus Jon Favreau tweeted a picture of his character, Rio Durant’s Hot Wheel saying,
“My character in Star Wars Solo is ready to roll.”
All these products, plus a picture of a family dressed as wookiees can be found right now
on StarWars.com.
And speaking of Star Wars.com, if you’ve been dying to read an excerpt from Daniel
Jose Older’s upcoming Han & Lando novel, Star Wars: Last Shot, then may we highly suggest
you head on over there right now!
Or after the video.
Whichever you prefer.
But there is a great interview coming up in a minute or two, so, choose wisely.
Thank you, it is a pretty good interview.
The excerpt finds Han, Chewie and Sana Starros in Maz’s Castle facing off against a couple
of not-so-happy looking bounty hunters.
You can read, or listen to the excerpt right now on StarWars.com
Or once again, after the interview.
Finally, in what probably should’ve been our top story, Solo: A Star Wars Story released
a brand new trailer on Sunday!
The guitar heavy trailer gave us more looks at Han and Chewie, Lando finally speaking
at a table filled with all sorts of nefarious looking creatures…
…THERM SCISSORPUNCH!
Yes, Therm Scissorpunch was indeed in attendance.
Also we were given our first non-Ron Howard tweeted glimpse of Paul Bettany as Dryden Vos
and the Falcon, more Falcon, and even more Falcon!
Solo: A Star Wars story hits theaters on May 25th.
And for more breaking Star Wars news from around the galaxy, check out Star Wars.com.
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Hi!
Hi, I’m Andi.
Hi, Andi!
Nice to meet you.
I’m Donald.
Nice to meet you.
To this treacherous chair.
Oh, yeah.
Woah, oh, oh.
Yeah.
[Laughing]
It’s real rickety.
Nothing but the best.
The fans know that you are a big Star Wars fan.
You’ve talked about it a lot before.
And the fans have been talking a lot about how you being cast as Lando was like utter perfection.
Does that add to the pressure of filling these shoes or does it make you feel like, yeah,
I got this?
[Laughing]
You tend to do a better job of things when you’re a fan.
You have standards a little bit.
Like, you just know what you would hate.
Right.
A little bit more.
I think you’d just be like, oh, man, if that happened you’d be like, this is whack!
So what did you do when you found out you got this role?
I said a lot of words I probably can’t say here.
I was just kind of like, wow, oh my God.
It’s crazy.
You know other roles that I’ve gotten, you call people and they go, wow, that’s amazing.
This one is so enormous that you call people and their like just silent, their just sort
of shocked and stunned.
So, there’s a lot of that.
Where is Han in his life at this point in the timeline?
How is he different than how we’ve seen him in the past?
I think you’re meeting him at a time where he’s younger and he’s more of an idealist.
He still has kind of a romantic vision or feeling that he’s gonna get out of this.
He grew up in pretty rough circumstances.
So getting out of that and making a life for himself.
Did you use the original films as most of your inspiration or was there other sources
that you drew from to inform your choices?
The day I found out I got it, I remember I bought like a whole pizza and went home and
watched Empire Strikes Back.
That was definitely the beginning but then I watched a bunch of other cool 70’s stuff
that I thought would be his kind of style.
You sort of like early on absorb all the original movies and look at everything and try and
take that in and get the spirit of it and just like feel it in your bones a little bit.
You don’t want an imitation in this kind of thing.
Right because then you would just be like imitating Billy Dee.
Yeah.
You just want somebody to exude that feeling currently.
How does Solo the film differ from other Star Wars films that we’ve seen?
It has a lot of jokes, a lot of humor.
You spend a lot more time dealing with the feelings and the kind of inner life of the
characters and kind of all the characters in a certain way in this one.
I like seeing Han and Lando beforehand because it allows you to just know that yeah, like
people aren't perfect.
Like, people have to grow.
And especially with Lando’s clothing and hair style, facial hair style choices.
You can tell he’s not quite there.
You know, like, senior year in high school, early college, where you’re like, I can
buy my own clothes but I don’t have a lot of money, and I’m trying to figure out what
works for me and my body.
And capes were obviously the proper choice.
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.
You can tell he invested like probably by the time we see him in Empire Strikes Back
he’s pulled back on capes.
So far what’s been the best part of this process?
I think getting to be a part of this world is really special.
Not a lot of people get to do it.
Getting to be on the Falcon.
Getting to participate in this world.
Me getting the role was announced at Star Wars Celebration.
And you don't know what to think.
You go there and just the love that people have for the story and the world and the franchise and everything.
It means so much to people and you kind of ride on that wave of their positivity and excitement for it.
Being in this kind of movie and yet at the same time getting to play a character that
has so much to it.
That’s been a lot of fun.
Here we go.
Hold on.
Let me velcro.
And now you’re Muftak.
Can I adjust Muftak’s velcro?
No one can adjust Muftak!
Muftak is like really aggressive.
Muftak sees four times as much as you do.
I’m here at New York at the headquarters of Tom Spina designs and Regal Robot with
the man himself, Tom Spina.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you.
It’s great to see you again.
Now fans of the show probably know that you help us out with all kinds of things from
alien costumes to Gonk droids but you do a lot of work with costumes and props and all
kinds of movie memorabilia here in the studio.
We are super lucky.
We have the best job in the world.
Tom Spina Designs is this weird Swiss Army knife of a studio where we get to do everything
from bronze busts, and wax figures, and sculptural stuff, to making monsters for your show and
even restoring original movie props for places like the Lucasfilm archives.
We made Muftak in late 2011 in about two-and-a-half-weeks for a Volkswagen Super-Bowl commercial.
It’s this really fun, wearable costume and whoever puts it on everybody just wants a
hug, everybody wants to take pictures with you.
It is I, Muftak, attorney at law.
I demand justice.
So in addition to all your work on costumes and props and restoration, you are now making
physical objects for people.
It’s the coolest thing in the world.
For a kid who grew up buying Star Wars toys to actually make Star Wars products is a dream come true.
What we have here are some of the latest versions of our Mandalorian aka Mythosaur aka bantha skull...
...if you’re old like me.
[Laughing]
These are new incarnations of the things we showed at Celebration last year.
It would be very easy for you to scan these, models these, print these, and then just have
them done on an assembly line.
But you do everything by hand including painting them.
Yeah.
To me it’s the way to make sure each piece gets a little bit of personal touch.
[Chair squeak]
I wanna thank you for meeting me here Tom.
I’m honored to be here.
This feels good to sit in!
I love the idea of figuring like how do we make this unwieldy, gigantic prop that would
cost way too much money and could never fit through anyone’s door into a functional chair
that still captures that vibe.
Tom, thank you so much for showing us around, man.
All of this stuff is amazing.
If people want to keep up with everything you are doing, where do they go?
TomSpinaDesigns.com
They’ll find us on RegalRobot.com.
And they can find us on Instagram, Twitter, and even Facebook.
Great!
Oh uh, one more thing.
We broke the T-shirt cannon that you made for us.
You need to fix it.
Bye!
[Porg sounds]
With a new Solo trailer comes a whole slew of new alien cuties and creatures.
That’s why we’re launching #CutieWatch2018!
Oh because you saw new aliens and creatures, they’re all suddenly branded cuties?
Just the cutest of them, Andi.
Just the cutest.
Let us know which of the new cuties in the Solo Trailer you liked the most using the
best hashtag of all time, #CutieWatch2018 and we’ll feature your favorites here next week.
Which cutie are you picking?
Thank you for asking.
There are so many!
There was the little space rat cutie at the start of the trailer, there’s the one eyed
cutie with Lando, the two headed cutie,
THERM SCISSORPUNCH!
See!
Too many cuties to name.
Uh huh.
Except for Therm Scissorpunch, who gets named the best.
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Thanks for watching and may the Force be with you.
Do you think Therm Scissorpunch is his given name?
I am Muftak!
Stop laughing at Muftak!
Respect me!
I went to Cornell.
You remember the Muftak dance.
Lay out a cardboard box so Muftak can kick windmills.