Hey Dad, where’d the Yoda fountain go?
I don’t know I thought it was supposed to be like right here?
Huh?
CH-33Z!
He said to follow him!
Alright, good luck!
May the Force be with you!
Are we on?
I’m not sure.
I don’t know what to do.
Usually we start talking after the Yoda statue stops talking…
Are the cameras even on?
I don’t know.
I’m Peter Townley?
And I’m Andi Gutierrez?
I guess while Action Movie Kid is running around trying to find the Yoda statue let’s
do the news?
Hey it worked!
Sweet!
Big news this week from the set of Episode 8, as director Rian Johnson revealed that
the film has officially wrapped shooting.
Posted as a video on our facebook and twitter feeds, the director shared, (quote) “Final
slate of the final shot.
VIII is officially wrapped.
Cannot wait to share it with you all!”
This comes hot on the heels of his appearance at Star Wars Celebration where he revealed
that Episode 8 will start unlike any other Star Wars film by picking up immediately where
The Force Awakens left off.
December 2017 can’t come soon enough In other news, the results are in for the
fan vote for which character from the Star Wars Universe will be included in a future
wave of Black Series figures.
And the winner is…not Kitster.
It’s Jaina Solo, Han and Leia’s daughter from the Star Wars Legends series of books.
But it wasn’t just Jaina’s figure that was announced this week at Comic Con, tons
of figures including new black series versions of: Hera, a Tusken Raider, Qui Gon Jinn, Older
Obi Wan, the Emperor’s Imperial Guard inspired by Crimson Empire, and of course, the smuggler
of smooth, Lando Calrissian.
I'm very excited for that one.
Hasbro also announced new 3 ¾” inch figures for Grand Admiral Thrawn, Fenn Rau from season
2 of Rebels, Hera in pilot garb with her A-Wing, and a radio controlled AT-ACT from Rogue One
that walks around using a smart phone! Speaking of Rogue One and San Diego Comic
Con, a brand new character from Rogue One was revealed on the show floor. Edrio Two
Tubes, an ally of Saw Gerrera from the planet Yar Tonga, who according to the information
from the Rogue One ComicCon costume exhibit, is a mercenary pilot with his “eggmate”
Bethnic. For more information on Edrio Two Tubes, and
any other Rogue One breaking news, make sure to check out Star Wars.com
Finally, since the news coming out of comic-con and because, if we’re being honest, we were
just too tired to go after Celebration weekend, we sent our good friend Matt Lieb to the show
floor to show off some Star Wars highlights at San Diego Comic Con.
Enjoy!
Here we are check it out! It’s the Rogue One Costume Exhibit!
Check this out, we got Orson Krennic here, we got his entire costume including the cape,
as you’ll notice its flowing in the air conditioning.
that’s an Imperial Death Trooper
and he’s got full bars on his belt, which means he’s got service wherever he goes.
Wow look at it, its twerking! Oh the nose is cold! That’s how you know
it’s healthy. How you doing in there Rancor?
Doing pretty good!
(Chewbacca roar)
Whoa, this thing shot Adam Driver
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, my watch ran out of batteries and I down know what time it is
You just proposed to Hailey in front of all these people. How do you feel?
Relieved And you said? I said yes!
I would love to be there at your wedding
Well we had a great time here at Comic Con
2016. Signing off for the Star Wars Show this is Matt Lieb.
Goodbye
Hey guys! Who’s that!
Ooh sorry Move along
How Rude! Quick before the fighters get here!
You know, none of this is canon
I’m here with Daniel Hashimoto, Action Movie Dad, though you may be more familiar with
his son, James (Action Movie Kid) who I think is chasing CH-33Z around somewhere right now.
I think so, they’re tracking down that Yoda statue you guys promised me in the front
That’s right, we’re working on that. We’ll get it here. Thanks for being on the show
by the way! Thanks for having us, its been a blast. One
of the things I think is so great is that you have been doing visual effects and filmmaking
since you were just a little guy. You had a Betamax and an Amiga?
Yes, my very first memory was actually watching Return of the Jedi where I was fascinated
by the fact that you could make these things manifest themselves on film and so I got into
finding out how they were made. I watched the Star Wars to Jedi making of/behind the
scenes documentary, which was wonderful, and it inspired me to go into visual effects filmmaking
and I’ve done it for the last 25 years. So Star wars has been there the whole time?
Absolutely, I used to make goofy stop motion Star Wars shorts with little toys and anything
I could find and miniatures and bad costumes As opposed to now where you just follow James
around with the phone making movies Yeah it's great, everyone is walking around
with a camera way more capable than any thing that we used to have when we were kids
Its such a common thing now, you go onto Facebook or whatever social media and everyone is posting
videos of their kids Absolutely and that’s basically the thing
that got me into doing this A lot of our friends were posting videos of
their kids on Facebook and we had just had James and he was really wonderful and we had
home videos of him so I thought, I’ll combine these two passions a little bit and I’ll
put out “fake” home videos of James doing dangerous things so all our friends could
get a good giggle out of it. And you also got to go to Star Wars Celebration
last year, that was the last time we saw you. Yeah last year Lucasfilm was kind enough to
invite us down to the celebration, which was a lot of fun. We got to let James run
around and hopefully you’ve seen some of the fun things he’s got to do there.
And so the last time we saw you at Star Wars Celebration, James hadn’t actually seen
a Star Wars film yet. Yes he had not, he knew the Star Wars stories
only as these bedtime stories that I would tell him every night. I would break up all the
original trilogy into five minute stories and tell him a little bit about the adventure
every time. And then shortly after the convention actually
we watched the first Star Wars and it was tremendous. He had a great reaction to Han
flying in and saving Luke at the very end and he really got into the film. It was exciting
for him to finally see all these things and characters come to life in a really wonderful
way. So what do we have to look forward to with
Action Movie Kid? Well it is really hard for us to separate
Star Wars from our lives these days. Every thing we do reminds us of some adventure and
I think it’s because they’re such relatable stories and so everywhere you are both things
visually and adventure is all around and Star Wars keeps being involved so you’re going
to see a lot more Star Wars videos come out and also somewhere in the background a feature
film is being worked on for Action Movie Kid which will be really fun and I have no details
to share No that’s awesome; I’m looking forward
to it. I’m gonna stay tuned to the channel
Dad! I think we found Yoda! What! Where?
Follow me! Well, uh it’s been nice!
Yeah! See you guys! Well I guess that’s the end of the interview. Check out Action
Movie Kid on YouTube and stick around for more Star Wars Show?
Yoda! We were looking for you all day! Awh but I’m just about to win!
You should let the Wookie win Good idea, wahhooo!!!! (Chewbacca roar)
Well that was an interesting episode. Who knew the Yoda statue had thrusters under it?
Right? This was just what I needed coming
off of Star Wars Celebration. And speaking of Celebration, last week we asked you to
share some of your favorite memories with us.
Like Stewart Spark who shared his memories of trying to bribe Gareth Edwards for a wristband
into his panel (and failing) and being in the audience for The Star Wars Show live for
most of the weekend. @rebel legion cz shared this photo of some
of their members in cosplay while Chameleon Cos shared this photo of her meeting with
Dave Filoni in her Ahsoka costume. Iain V Gardner shared this video on instagram
of Ray Park showing off his mad lightsaber skills and Eggman Studios posted a pic this
awesome BB8 diorama But a lot of you, including myself said that
their favorite Celebration moment was when you, Andi, got to meet Carrie Fisher in person.
That was insane It was such a great surprise! I had no idea
that was going to happen I can’t believe they pulled that off
So good It was an incredible time, and we cannot wait
to do it again next year in Orlando. Finally this week, because it was Comic Con,
and Comic Con is all about cosplay, we want to see your best Star Wars cosplay.
It can be from Comic Con, Celebration, Halloween, whenever, wherever, we want to see your best
Star Wars costumes on display. Just be sure to use the hashtag #SWSCosplay and we’ll
show our favorites here next week. Thanks for watching!
Yippee!!