Leland, I have a pitch for you.
Hear me out.
Han doesn’t die.
Episode 8, after the scroll we saw him fall, we didn’t see him land…you start with
“Error oof”.
“Little nerfherder stabbed me.
Cauterized the wound, no vital organs, I’m in a trash compactor again!”
Uh, no.
Think about it!
This week on The Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Taran Killam!
We go to the annual R2 Builders Club Meetup!
And much, much more.
Now from the Lucasfilm Headquarters it’s The Star Wars Show!
Hi I’m Anthony Carboni And I’m Andi Gutierrez, welcome to The Star
Wars Show, the only Star Wars Show whose editor, Frank, has been a meme on the internet.
Happy Birthday Frank Star Wars.
And now…news.
For the third week in a row, Ron Howard, the internet’s #1 source for Untitled Han Solo
movie news has scooped us and revealed even more behind the scenes teases.
First he revealed that Emila Clarke has wrapped shooting with this selfie.
On Tuesday he tweeted this image looking for a translation, which is a sly reference to
this original Ralph McQuarrie concept painting Then there’s this shot from a scene he’s
shooting about a, “desperate and dangerous time in the galaxy.
And finally this mysterious shot of what looks like a mine shaft that he just said was “Spicey.”
Huh.
Interesting.
Never heard that word before in Star Wars.
Wonder what that means.
But it’s not just Ron Howard revealing things on social media, Last Jedi director Rian Johnson
announced on Instagram that post production on the film has been completed with a post
stating, “Aaaaand that’s a wrap on the hardest working post production team in the
Galaxy.
Going to miss sitting in dark rooms with these goobers.”
Meanwhile in gaming news, BB-8 is coming to Galaxy of Heroes tomorrow!
The droid arrives to the game in a new legendary event called pieces and plans, which takes
place in a ruined Maz’s Castle on Takodana.
It's unlockable at level 20, though, but hey, that’s what mobile games are for!
Slyly hiding your phone under your desk while you should be paying attention, toiling away
to get to further along in the game.
Would you know anything about that Andi?
No!
I…I pay attention.
For more on the BB8 event in Galaxy of Heroes check out Star Wars.com
Finally this week, Industrial Light and Magic has revealed an all new special effects reel
for Rogue One.
In it, they show off how they created the planets of Scarif, Jeddah, and even how they
built Tarkin from the ground up.
In fact, because we love you so much, here an exclusive first look.
Enjoy!
I’m like so close, I’m like level 19.
I think he’s heading for that small moon!
That’s no moon.
Taran Killam stopped by today, say hi!
Hi!
Hi everybody!
So people at home don’t know how long this has been in the works.
I think from the initial launch of The Star Wars Show.
You had been working on Killing Gunther so you weren’t able to come but now you’re
able to come!
I’m here and I can’t believe it and already the tour has been so phenomenal and you’ve
been so generous and this is a dream come true for me, truly.
This is what we do.
Star Wars is my favorite thing in the world.
Most of our fans will probably know you from SNL, and you’ve been apart of skits that
kind of poke fun at the Star Wars community from a total place of love.
And as a huge fan.
Bobby Mohanahan and I were absolutely the resident Star Wars nerds and were on the show
at a time where Star Wars was being relaunched and there were new movies coming out and there
were new animated shows so we were pretty excited.
The staff maybe not as much!
It was sort of like, okay we get it.
You did it.
You said poking fun so I feel like you’re referencing the collectors commercial.
I love the collectors commercial.
Because we all know people like that.
They’re sitting in front of you.
Between Bobby and I it was just us taking ourselves to the bagilionth degree.
Getting to do Star Wars auditions with Daisy and John was the best.
One of my favorite things we ever did was Undercover Boss.
I don’t know if you’ve witnessed how big that’s gotten.
It’s gotten some love.
I own Matt action figures and an action figure of myself.
Both custom made.
It was pretty cool.
And now that JJ is back on board.
I’m really going to push to have him put my character in the background and make it
canon.
That would be cool.
That would be so cool.
And in Undercover Boss it’s actually Kylo Ren ‘s costume.
They shipped out the Kylo Ren hero costume and we got to touch and sniff and chew on
it a little bit.
Then you know, smacked away.
Take a little piece of lint.
Where do you find that line between respecting it because you love it…and poking fun?
It is significant…clearly to so many people and is it’s own mythology and is it’s
own religion.
Literally.
Since I can remember I’ve been a fan.
My mom and dad would go out on date nights and bring me back Star Wars action figures
and I’ve had toys my entire life.
What’s your holy grail?
My R2-KT that I bought at San Diego Comic Con just because I love the story behind it.
Star Wars is, for me about magic, dreams, about being a hero and it touches people and
then it’s become about this community of these people who feel ostracized as an outsider
or shy or intimidated and the community is always so supportive.
So let’s talk a little bit about Killing Gunther.
Sure sure sure!
The premise of it is kind of like what I would imagine the only kind of Boba Fett movie I
would like.
Oh cool!
Yeah okay.
Sure bounty hunters going after the bounty hunter.
So I’m really digging the premise of it.
Thank you yeah I wanted to do a documentary of it, of Christopher Gest, Eugene Levy films
and I love Michael Man, Bussan and Quentin Tarantino films so I thought what if there
was a mockumentary about hitmen.
Super cool.
So the first film you directed, and you produced it, and you wrote it…did that too.
And you’re in it.
I threw all hats on.
That’s an insane amount of work to take on.
IT was a lot, it was a lot of work, it was the hardest I’ve ever worked, and it was
the most fun I’ve ever had professionally.
It was the most fulfilling project I’ve ever taken on.
Well, awesome.
Thank you so much for coming.
I’m a piece of this now.
I am part of the set.
Future guests will just be like, oh that’s just Taran.
I don’t want to leave!
I’m here at R2LA, the largest droid builders gathering outside of Star Wars Celebration.
This even started in 2003.
First one had like 12 people and maybe one complete droid.
And now this year, how many droids, how many people do we have?
I’m guessing in the 25-30 range of droids that are complete and then over 100 people.
There’s a child in there!
So obviously R2LA, tons of R2 units but tons of other droids as well.
So if I wanted to get started in droid building would a Mouse Droid be the way to go?
I think it would be a great entry level because you’re dealing with a lot of the same things
you have in an R2.
Hey I’m going to go feed my meter can you help me out?
Thanks.
Doug you have got some very serious customizations on your R2 one of which I am totally in love
with.
Tell us a little bit about what you did.
Sure so he has dual carousels in the front, this is a dual Taser right now.
When the tasers go back in, he can change it up and he’s got a laser arm and a hyperdrive
arm.
Basically it allows you to put the tool in any position that you want to do.
R2LA!!
You’re watching The Star Wars Show!
Droids have been kind of a running theme this episode.
We had the BB8 thing in the news, Taran Killan name check R2-KT, and then we went to a droid
meet up.
It’s almost as if we had a droid-centric episode of Science and Star Wars this week
too.
Funny how that works out.
**WINK** Anyway, with all this droid talk we want to
know who your favorite droid of all time is.
Mine are probably GONK droids because they’re kind of goofy.
As for me, I’d have to say AP-5.
I aspire to be AP-5 in all areas of my life.
Just kind of surly?
Just a beautiful, surly, put upon attitude.
I love it so much.
Yeah he’s good.
Send us your favorites and why using the hash tag #SWSDroids and we’ll feature our favorites
here next week.
Thanks for watching, and as always, may the force be with you.
You can come back now.
Hi friend.
He’s angling for his own anthology movie.
He’s been hanging outside my door all week.
Yeah.
Maz’s Castle on Takodana.