Sunday, July 16, 2017

Show Notes - Ep. 40, 7/7/17

Ron Howard: “I’ve been a SW fan all my life.”

Howard talks about his SW history at Cannes Lyons film festival about 57:35 until about 59:30

Awesome letter he wrote to Newsweek in 1999 blasting them for the “Manequine Skywalker” comment

Will Ron Howard be eligible for a director’s credit? Not if Lord and Miller have shot 90%

Is there a disturbance in the franchise? Really good piece.

From last week: remember the R2 unit that was available at auction? Went for a cool $2.76 Million; Luke’s light saber went for $600K (?).

Forces of Destiny shorts – focus is heroines of SW. Voiced by actors from the films, including here in this clip, Sands of Jakku, with Lupita Nyung’,o (Maz Kanada – narrator?) Daisy Ridley (Rey Kenobi), and BB8. Another Ep. Ewok Escape features Princess Leia voiced by

IGN reporting Rian Johnson shot a scene of Ep. IV for Colin Treverow, start at :32

Will the next trailer for TLJ debut at D23? ComicCon?

Star Wars example for Apple’s jump into VR – demo at WWDC on 6/5 was SW with John Knoll

Spectacular SW Fan Poster for Obi-Wan movie

First, Mark Hammil’s joker was reading President’s tweets…starting around New Year’s (first 5 sec)

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough: Obama is a Jedi – can use his powers to make the President agree with him

Hamill shuts down Trump with three words
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mark-hamill-donald-trump-voter-fraud_us_5959c373e4b0da2c73245638