This week on The Star Wars Show!
Peter sits down with the voice of Darth Maul, Sam Witwer
A couple of major Rogue One announcements and 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.
Your weekly 8 to 10 minute look at the inside of The Star Wars galaxy.
Wait, how do you look at the inside of a galaxy?
It’s space fantasy Peter, not science fiction.
But…a telescope.
Oh!
Let’s go to the news!
If you’ve been reading Marvel’s Darth Vader you’ve probably taken quite a shine
to Dr. Amphora.
And with that series ending its run today with issue 25, fans might’ve thought that
today would be the last we saw of her.
Well (And this is a massive spoiler warning, so if you want to mute for a second go ahead)
we have learned, exclusively that Doctor Aphra will be getting her own on-going series beginning
December 7th.
The series will follow her adventures around the galaxy stealing artifacts, and returning
to her familiar life as a space archeologist.
Plus Triple Zero, BT-1, and Black Krrsantan will all be returning.
The series will be written by Aphra creator, Kieron Gillen with art by Kevin Walker.
And you can find more information, including an interview with Kieron Gillen right now
on Star Wars.com.
But, in other news- Whoa whoa whoa you don’t want other news
right?
You want breaking news Yeah!
That would be great!
What do you mean by breaking news, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards?
That is my name, yes.
I mean, I want to exclusively reveal that tomorrow morning we will be releasing a brand
new trailer for Rogue One.
Awesome! Every one is going to be so excited!
I can’t wait!! That’s too far. Yeah, do you have anything right now? We’re
kind of all ready. Okay, for the Star Wars Show, I can exclusively
show you for the first time ever, the new poster for Rogue One.
Oooh man. Look at that. The gang's all here.
Beautiful. Jyn looks awesome.
I love the texture over her face, its beautiful.
Oh, theres a familiar face.
And the AT-ACTs
TIE Fighters, a U-Wing...dope
Oh yeah theres Saw, he looks really heroic there.
Wow Gareth, thank you so much. That was phenomenal. I can’t hang around and chat though, I got
a film to finish I’m sorry.
No problem at all, we got to finish this episode too anyway.
Ladies and gentlemen, Gareth Edwards! And for more breaking Star Wars stories from
across the galaxy, including the new poster that was just revealed, check out Star Wars.com
What you see before you are two young filmmakers, Peter and Andi They want to make a fan film
for the pound sign Go Rogue contest. But there’s one problem, these boys don’t know the first
thing about making a film. Actually I’m a woman.
Then why do you have a man’s name? Eh, slugger?
STEP 1: CREATING A STORY! The first step in any great film is a dynamite
story. One with a beginning, middle and end. Think of it as a book, but with less hard
words to say. Atta boy, slugger. Story away on those keys!
STEP 2: PRODUCTION! Here we have Peter, shooting his film on a
space age telephone. UH OH! Peter is shooting it all wrong!
That’s right. Always remember to hold the camera correctly. Nobody wants to watch a
portrait. STEP 3: POST PRODUCTION!
Now that these two have finished shooting their original pound sign Go Rogue
story comes the difficult task of editing- Adding music and sound effects from a pre-selected
and legally approved collection of tracks available on the easy to remember information
super highway exit of http colon slash slash www period star wars period com slash go dash
rogue dash contest! Gallivanting! Lollygagging! More editing-
Wasting Time! Hours of horseplay! Debating for hours on the merits of whether
or not they want to release it- Then and only then will it receive their seal
of approval and be sent to actual Major Motion Picture Executives to judge the merits of
their filmmaking! Jolly Good!
And now you know how to make a pound sign Go Rogue Fan Film. Congratulations.
I’m here with Sam Witwer who’s voice you will recognize as Starkiller, Darth Maul,
the Emperor and many others. Sam! Thank you so much for being on the show
my man. Thank you thank you, happy to be here.
You’ve been in a lot of different stuff. A variety of things, but the things that have
seemed to be most successful has been the genre stuff.
Weirdly enough, yeah. So what kind of influence was Star Wars on
you before you were in Star Wars? Well, I’m part of that generation that didn’t
have a choice. Yeah. You were born just quoting the movies,
knowing how Luke Skywalker was so it was a tremendous influence. We didn’t have a say
about it! Yeah! It was this kind of inseparable element
of our childhood that was always there. So was Force Unleashed the first Star Wars
audition you ever had? No there was another Star Wars audition before
this. Yeah I auditioned for the part of Scorch in
Republic Commando. Really! Oh God I love that game.
It’s so cool. And Scorch was the favorite. Scorch is the best character.
He’s got all the gags. Force Unleashed showed up after that. I was
at my brother’s rehearsal dinner and I get a call late at night and it’s David Collins
and he goes, hey! So can you send me your headshot and your resume and your reel?
I’m like sure, why? And he’s like, well Darth Vader has this
secret apprentice. And I was like, what!! Forget I said anything!
I didn’t say anything! Shut up shut up! Force Unleashed eventually led to Clone Wars,
I remember Dave Filoni saying to me. So you know we just did that Savage episode
where they talk about how Darth Maul might still be alive. What do you think about that?
And I’m like, yeah I don’t know man. I don’t know, its weird.
Anyway, there might be something coming for you down the road.
And a year later, he calls and says I need Darth Maul can you do it?
So I said yes not knowing if I was up to it. You’ve gotten to play Maul not only evolving
over the course of Clone Wars but now many years later even in Rebels.
Yeah it’s been amazing. Because there was such an effort in Clone Wars to make sure
that every time the character showed up that he was different.
That there was some new element that we were adding to it. And same thing now, with Rebels.
But I mean back in the day, we would have conversations 3 months in advance to record.
Talking about the trajectory of the story and where we wanted the character to be.
This guy is living this empty existence and does not understand
He was so close too, he was actually doing well.
And he keeps getting knocked down. He was right there on the cusp of Phantom Menace
and he got knocked down. Getting back up there with Mandalore, he gets knocked down. And
now here he is no longer considers himself a Sith. So he’s not playing by those rules
anymore. When we were doing Darth Maul on Malachor,
one of the things I thought was important was because he’s so sincere with Ezra. That
twisted old man and he’s kind of kindly and he’s sincerely telling Ezra some stuff
that could be useful or that could mess with his head. But in order to lie about sincerity,
in order to lie that convincingly, you have to understand those emotions.
And I think at this point Maul understands those emotions. He understands what it means
to care about someone. He understands what it means to lose someone that you care about.
So this is a different guy than he was back in the Clone Wars.
Yeah, what a journey man. It’s strange.
Sam, thank you so much for being on the show, and we have more Star Wars Show coming up
right now.
Hey guys, Kaitlyn Marshall here to talk to you about the 2016 Lucasfilm Art Show.
The art show is an opportunity for employees and non employees working on the campus to
submit anything they want to show off their artistic abilities.
And it doesn’t need to be Star Wars related! This year’s winners ranged from an oil painting,
to ball point pen drawing to an actual Jabba the Hutt record player.
So Pete, we know it looks good but does it work?
(music plays) Congrats Pete!
Thank you! And thanks to everyone that participated in
this year’s art show.
As Gareth told us during the news, there’s a new Rogue One trailer coming tomorrow morning.
And just like we did with the last Rogue One trailer, we want to see your #RogueReactions.
So, when the trailer drops, fire up your cameras and shoot your reactions and maybe, just maybe,
you’ll see yours on the show next week. No matter where you post it, Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, remember to tag it with hashtag Rogue Reactions so we can find it.
And as always be sure to check out The Star Wars After Show presented by Verizon, where
I, along with my panel of Lucasfilm employees and Star Wars super fans break down all the
happenings in this weeks episode of The Star Wars Show.
Watch it this Thursday and every Thursday on YouTube.com/Verizon.
Thanks for watching, and may the force be with you.
What!? Just practicing my Rogue Reaction.
Yeah, I can tell it was good. Thanks.