1 00:00:09,090 --> 00:00:12,970 We're trying to draw from all over from Star Wars. 2 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:16,640 A lot of the stuff that we're doing, a lot of the designs and things 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,680 are things from old video games, like the incinerator trooper. 4 00:00:21,770 --> 00:00:25,940 Uh, the E-Web cannon goes back to, I think, Empire Strikes Back. 5 00:00:26,020 --> 00:00:27,900 Play it like it's twice as heavy. 6 00:00:29,860 --> 00:00:32,530 And, uh, we got the death troopers from Rogue... 7 00:00:32,610 --> 00:00:37,870 Rogue One, so from the sequels and the other properties. 8 00:00:37,950 --> 00:00:40,990 We're using a lot of stuff that was built for other movies, 9 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,000 like aliens and suits and things. 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:49,130 So, um, in the spirit of television, we're using resources from the features. 11 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:03,100 We go down prop rabbit holes all the time, trying to figure out... 12 00:01:03,180 --> 00:01:05,440 Can we please talk about the ice cream maker? 13 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,020 Talk about your ice cream maker. 14 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:10,570 It's a specific type of ice cream maker. I think it's...hard to get. 15 00:01:10,650 --> 00:01:13,360 I think the ice cream maker is the most specific... 16 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,070 It was the camtono, the thing he carried the Beskar around in. 17 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:20,990 Bryce, you got such good acting. You're acting interested in this. 18 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,160 I am. I'm very curious about this real ice cream maker. 19 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:25,000 It was in your episode. 20 00:01:25,090 --> 00:01:25,830 It was. 21 00:01:25,910 --> 00:01:27,000 It was in your episode. 22 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,090 You didn't get the Camtono, so you don't know the joy of this prop. 23 00:01:30,170 --> 00:01:31,460 No, no. 24 00:01:31,550 --> 00:01:33,630 Allow Jon to regale you the joy of this. 25 00:01:33,710 --> 00:01:35,340 To me, it's the deepest, deepest cut. 26 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:39,180 This is based on Willrow Hood's famous ice cream maker. 27 00:01:39,930 --> 00:01:40,930 There it is. 28 00:01:43,020 --> 00:01:45,020 There's a bunch of people at Celebration 29 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,230 that dress up as a character that they've named Willrow Hood... 30 00:01:48,310 --> 00:01:51,520 It is. I don't know where the name comes from. Continue. 31 00:01:51,650 --> 00:01:54,030 It's somebody running in the background 32 00:01:54,110 --> 00:01:56,150 at Cloud City as everything's going crazy, 33 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:00,530 running with a prop that...clearly, he was a deep background character. 34 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:03,200 So it's just an off-the-shelf ice cream maker. 35 00:02:03,290 --> 00:02:07,840 So it's a bucket with a little motorized thing on it that you plug in to make ice cream. 36 00:02:07,930 --> 00:02:08,670 It's amazing. 37 00:02:08,750 --> 00:02:11,290 And this thing has become such a focus of the fans 38 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:15,300 that they have people who dress up and find that ice cream maker 39 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:18,010 so that they can go to Celebration in the jumpsuit... 40 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:19,800 It is hard to get it. 41 00:02:19,890 --> 00:02:20,630 It's so sought-after. 42 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,510 It's hard to find the ice cream maker. 43 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,720 And then they have...it's a highlight of Star Wars Celebration 44 00:02:25,810 --> 00:02:28,100 that they have the running...what's it called? 45 00:02:28,190 --> 00:02:28,932 "It's a highlight". 46 00:02:29,022 --> 00:02:30,820 The running...might be a stretch... 47 00:02:30,910 --> 00:02:31,650 What is it? 48 00:02:31,730 --> 00:02:34,150 It's the running of the Willrow Hoods. 49 00:02:34,230 --> 00:02:37,780 They're gonna expect you to do it now, once this gets out. 50 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:38,860 Get your jumpsuit ready. 51 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:40,540 Some make their own and go through. 52 00:02:40,630 --> 00:02:41,370 They'll make you one. 53 00:02:41,450 --> 00:02:46,200 With everybody dressed as stormtroopers, as Mandalorians, as rebels... 54 00:02:46,290 --> 00:02:49,370 And then you have a bunch of orange jumpsuits... 55 00:02:49,460 --> 00:02:52,130 Running with ice cream makers through the Celebration. 56 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,050 And everybody goes berserk. They love it. 57 00:02:55,670 --> 00:02:57,130 Because if that's not true, 58 00:02:57,210 --> 00:02:59,720 if that's not the essence of being a fan, I don't know what is. 59 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:00,510 Yeah. Oh, my gosh. 60 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,340 Yeah. 61 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:02,170 I was like... 62 00:03:02,260 --> 00:03:03,470 He has an action figure. 63 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:06,140 He has an action figure, too. He has all sorts of fan fiction. 64 00:03:06,220 --> 00:03:08,600 There's been such outcry. He got an action figure. 65 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,230 So we took the ice cream maker and made it the thing like in Pulp Fiction 66 00:03:12,310 --> 00:03:16,070 when you open the...the golden briefcase light. 67 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:21,530 This is a big, big deal. 68 00:03:21,610 --> 00:03:23,370 We reveal what was inside. 69 00:03:23,450 --> 00:03:25,450 But I love, with this show, they had... 70 00:03:25,530 --> 00:03:28,750 At the same time we're doing this, there's the big Episode IX going on, 71 00:03:28,830 --> 00:03:29,570 and ours was like, 72 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:30,820 let's take...in my mind, it was like, 73 00:03:30,910 --> 00:03:37,250 let's take the most obscure characters that were right on the edge of not... 74 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:41,010 Of being kind of not that cool and not... 75 00:03:41,090 --> 00:03:43,180 that you really have to love Star Wars. 76 00:03:43,260 --> 00:03:44,000 Peg-warmers. 77 00:03:44,090 --> 00:03:46,050 To give permission to yourself 78 00:03:46,140 --> 00:03:48,350 to like these things and to take the characters 79 00:03:48,430 --> 00:03:51,810 that are normally deep in the background and put them center stage. 80 00:03:51,890 --> 00:03:55,110 So that's why IG-11 was like IG-88. 81 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:58,400 He was the most absurd Bounty Hunter that you saw. 82 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,150 They clearly were just stacking things up behind Boba Fett. 83 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,700 You are free to use any methods necessary, 84 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:06,330 but I want them alive. 85 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,790 They built him out of parts of the old cantina set from A New Hope. 86 00:04:10,870 --> 00:04:12,620 "What's left? You gotta build us a robot". 87 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:13,900 But then we, as children, were like, 88 00:04:13,990 --> 00:04:18,510 "That's the coolest assassin robot. It must be a killer Bounty Hunter". 89 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:19,340 It's standing there. 90 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:21,380 It doesn't move because it's so badass. 91 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:22,800 It's so stoic. 92 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,510 No, it didn't move 'cause it was bolted to the floor. 93 00:04:25,590 --> 00:04:27,220 It didn't have feet designed for it. 94 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:30,470 Subparagraph 16 of the Bondsman Guild protocol waiver 95 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,390 compels you to immediately produce said asset. 96 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,810 IG Unit! Stand down. 97 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,480 Affirmative. 98 00:04:39,570 --> 00:04:40,740 Taika's voice on him is amazing. 99 00:04:40,830 --> 00:04:41,570 It's so funny. 100 00:04:41,650 --> 00:04:42,900 That's Taika Waititi on there. 101 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:44,820 Stop that. 102 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:47,160 Identify yourself! 103 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:48,870 I am IG-11. 104 00:04:48,950 --> 00:04:52,910 I am this child's nurse droid and require that you remand him to me immediately. 105 00:04:53,790 --> 00:04:55,750 Hey. 106 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,340 And Jon's like, "With these elements, we could launch Disney+". 107 00:05:05,010 --> 00:05:07,850 But there is something with satire or with storytelling, 108 00:05:07,930 --> 00:05:10,140 where you take the most mundane and elevate it, 109 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:12,890 and if you're taking something that's really elevated, 110 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,770 make it on a small scale. 111 00:05:16,850 --> 00:05:20,360 Like, bring it down to the grit of it. 112 00:05:31,490 --> 00:05:33,790 So the Quarren is...what's a Quarren, Dave? 113 00:05:33,870 --> 00:05:35,620 Explain, you'll do a better job of it. 114 00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:38,670 You at first see it in Return of the Jedi, in Jabba's palace. 115 00:05:38,790 --> 00:05:41,300 It's one of the aliens. They were called, "Squid Head". 116 00:05:41,420 --> 00:05:44,090 It's your choice, but I warn you not to underestimate my powers. 117 00:05:45,010 --> 00:05:48,680 His species is the Quarren, and they hate Ackbar's Mon Calamari. 118 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:49,930 It's a trap! 119 00:05:51,510 --> 00:05:53,310 You can watch that whole war in Clone Wars. 120 00:05:53,390 --> 00:05:54,930 The two aquatic species fighting... 121 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:57,390 They don't get along. 122 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,100 It's like Siamese fighting fish. 123 00:05:59,190 --> 00:06:02,650 But the first takes we did of our Quarren were almost too real, remember? 124 00:06:02,730 --> 00:06:04,030 That was a big thing. 125 00:06:04,110 --> 00:06:07,070 So we had the first Quarren, and it looked like Davy Jones with... 126 00:06:07,150 --> 00:06:07,740 Everything going on. 127 00:06:07,830 --> 00:06:08,570 Yeah. 128 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:09,990 They're gonna know that's not... 129 00:06:10,070 --> 00:06:11,250 It feels like we're reinventing. 130 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:12,080 It's too much. 131 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,660 The blurrgs are from where? Where do the blurrgs come from? 132 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:16,555 Pixomondo did the blurrgs. 133 00:06:16,645 --> 00:06:18,750 But where did it come from in Star Wars? 134 00:06:18,830 --> 00:06:20,380 It's a deep cut. 135 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,550 Part of our goal was to take...how do you describe it? 136 00:06:27,630 --> 00:06:29,260 That our big brother took all... 137 00:06:29,340 --> 00:06:30,080 Yeah. 138 00:06:30,170 --> 00:06:31,010 All the good toys away. 139 00:06:31,090 --> 00:06:34,390 Our older brother took all the cool toys, and then we got left with 140 00:06:34,470 --> 00:06:37,310 Ugnaughts and Jawas and other peg-warmers, 141 00:06:37,390 --> 00:06:39,350 but somehow, we got a Boba Fett figure, 142 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,560 and then we painted him silver and made him cooler, 143 00:06:41,650 --> 00:06:43,980 'cause sometimes you make it your own. 144 00:06:44,070 --> 00:06:47,690 Here's the strange thing about blurrgs. I don't know why 145 00:06:47,780 --> 00:06:52,370 every Star Wars story I've been associated with has a blurrg in it. 146 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:54,870 You had blurrgs in Clone Wars. 147 00:06:54,950 --> 00:06:56,410 - And Rebels. - In Rebels. 148 00:06:56,790 --> 00:06:58,060 You said, "I'm gonna put blurrgs in". 149 00:06:58,150 --> 00:07:03,380 Like you were doing something nice, and I'm like, "These things don't make any sense". 150 00:07:03,460 --> 00:07:06,090 And Ugnaughts, right? What's the Ugnaughts from? 151 00:07:06,170 --> 00:07:06,910 Cloud City. 152 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,260 Cloud City. That's right. 153 00:07:11,130 --> 00:07:13,350 They're like little worker bees over there. 154 00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:16,140 And IG-88's actually in the corner, shot in that scene. 155 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:19,980 And we made him like our Yoda. We made him our mentor... 156 00:07:20,060 --> 00:07:22,270 He's, like, the spiritual center. 157 00:07:22,350 --> 00:07:23,690 I have spoken. 158 00:07:24,230 --> 00:07:26,150 There was a funny story there, 159 00:07:26,230 --> 00:07:28,150 where originally...people don't know this. 160 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,360 You had the idea the Ugnaught didn't speak English 161 00:07:31,450 --> 00:07:34,410 and we had these actors temping the scene... 162 00:07:34,490 --> 00:07:36,200 I wrote it. It was gonna be subtitled. 163 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:39,830 And Ugnaught was speaking Jawa back to the Jawas. 164 00:07:39,910 --> 00:07:43,000 With a pig...it sounded like a pig talking. 165 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,630 And Dee Baker, my friend from Clone Wars, 166 00:07:45,710 --> 00:07:48,010 was doing the temp voicing and was like... 167 00:07:48,090 --> 00:07:50,720 Snorting and stuff while he was doing it... 168 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,970 And then we have, "We have traveled a long way". 169 00:07:54,050 --> 00:07:54,930 The Jawas are like... 170 00:07:55,020 --> 00:07:55,760 For 15 minutes. 171 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:57,350 I'm like, "We can't do this". 172 00:07:57,430 --> 00:07:59,060 They're going back and forth like this, 173 00:07:59,140 --> 00:08:03,260 and you and I are sitting there in the edit, watching it, and we're both really quiet. 174 00:08:03,350 --> 00:08:04,100 And thank you for not... 175 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:06,360 But without that... 176 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,260 You let me find my way to it on my own. 177 00:08:09,350 --> 00:08:10,150 I liked it. It was strange. 178 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:11,570 "Is this gonna work?" 179 00:08:11,650 --> 00:08:13,570 I didn't know if this was live-action. 180 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:16,240 No. Plus, it's also a dude and a bucket for his head 181 00:08:16,330 --> 00:08:18,790 and a dude with a pig mask on and then a Jawa. 182 00:08:18,870 --> 00:08:21,830 There was nothing to cut to with any human expression, 183 00:08:21,910 --> 00:08:23,170 and then there were subtitles. 184 00:08:23,250 --> 00:08:26,290 Another interesting trivia bit, the way this show runs, 185 00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:31,340 the first human face that I ever shot in live-action was Werner Herzog. 186 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:34,090 In that story, there was nobody... 187 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:34,920 It was good. 188 00:08:35,030 --> 00:08:37,140 And Tate and the guys in the bar. 189 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:40,100 But, really, the first lens I looked through and saw a human being, 190 00:08:40,180 --> 00:08:41,680 and I'm looking at Werner Herzog, 191 00:08:41,770 --> 00:08:42,510 "What is this?" 192 00:08:42,650 --> 00:08:43,440 You could do worse. 193 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:47,110 His enthusiasm outweighs his discretion. 194 00:08:49,650 --> 00:08:51,990 If you see this, you remember it from New Hope. 195 00:08:52,070 --> 00:08:55,030 That light pattern, you remember it from New Hope. 196 00:08:58,740 --> 00:09:00,700 Please. No. No, no. 197 00:09:01,950 --> 00:09:04,870 We're doing fan service, creatively. Like, would this be cool? 198 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,710 For those who know, they'll appreciate it. 199 00:09:06,790 --> 00:09:09,040 Those who don't, it looks like a cool Star Wars thing. 200 00:09:09,130 --> 00:09:12,420 Now in walks this...or here's a vehicle. 201 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:15,220 We should make it the Kenner Troop Transport, 202 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:17,220 where six stormtroopers stand on the side. 203 00:09:17,300 --> 00:09:19,680 That wasn't based on the movies. Let's put it in. 204 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,850 Somebody's gotta torch the bar. Let's use the incinerator stormtrooper. 205 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:28,480 Can we do that? We don't have one. Paint it like this. We're painting, it's there. 206 00:09:33,990 --> 00:09:35,570 And then who you cast also. 207 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:39,320 People who are either fans of Star Wars 208 00:09:39,410 --> 00:09:43,290 or people who have a body of work from other things 209 00:09:43,370 --> 00:09:45,210 that when they come into the Star Wars world, 210 00:09:45,290 --> 00:09:47,750 the fans are like, "That's cool". 211 00:09:47,830 --> 00:09:48,960 So, let's just do this job. 212 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,880 We get in, we get out, and you don't have to see our faces anymore. 213 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,380 Because we're not George Lucas, because we're also... 214 00:09:55,470 --> 00:09:57,760 We're just filmmakers who grew up watching it, 215 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,180 just because we say it doesn't mean it's cool. 216 00:10:00,260 --> 00:10:02,810 We're definitely thinking about, 217 00:10:02,890 --> 00:10:04,350 how is this gonna play with fans? 218 00:10:12,770 --> 00:10:15,440 It has to work on a story level and a character level. 219 00:10:17,490 --> 00:10:18,490 Tiny. 220 00:10:18,570 --> 00:10:22,080 And then the fan gets the little bit of gold in there, 221 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,290 and then people...what is that? Why are you excited? 222 00:10:25,370 --> 00:10:28,500 That's because it's this droid that was in Empire Strikes Back, 223 00:10:28,580 --> 00:10:31,920 it just stood there and looked menacing, but I had the action figure of it. 224 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,090 And you're like, "What? Did it do anything?" 225 00:10:34,170 --> 00:10:37,170 No, didn't do anything, but it did something in my mind. 226 00:10:37,260 --> 00:10:39,470 And there's many layers of that. 227 00:10:40,220 --> 00:10:43,100 But to me, it's just using the universe that was created. 228 00:10:43,180 --> 00:10:46,270 It's not taking it in a different direction. 229 00:10:46,350 --> 00:10:49,900 It's not just throwing a term in there for the sake of winking, 230 00:10:49,980 --> 00:10:53,940 saying, "See? I get it". That's something that takes practice. 231 00:11:05,620 --> 00:11:06,700 Goodness gracious me! 232 00:11:19,170 --> 00:11:21,970 Well, there are two banthas down there, but I don't see any... 233 00:11:23,140 --> 00:11:24,810 Wait a second. 234 00:11:24,890 --> 00:11:27,270 They're Sand People, all right. I can see one of them now. 235 00:11:32,730 --> 00:11:34,020 Tusken Raiders. 236 00:11:34,110 --> 00:11:35,980 I heard the locals talking about this filth. 237 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:38,570 Tuskens think they're the locals. 238 00:11:38,650 --> 00:11:40,860 Everyone else is just trespassing. 239 00:11:40,950 --> 00:11:45,200 Whatever they call themselves, they best keep their distance. 240 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,370 Yeah? Why don't you tell them yourself? 241 00:12:02,470 --> 00:12:03,550 AT-ST. 242 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:07,220 Imperial walker. What's it doing here? 243 00:12:08,180 --> 00:12:09,180 I don't know. 244 00:12:10,350 --> 00:12:12,600 The AT-ST. You wanna talk about the AT-ST at all? 245 00:12:12,690 --> 00:12:14,400 Let John talk about the AT-ST. 246 00:12:14,490 --> 00:12:15,230 Where'd that appear? 247 00:12:15,310 --> 00:12:17,760 That's from Return of the Jedi. 248 00:12:17,850 --> 00:12:18,650 - Return of the Jedi. - Oh. 249 00:12:18,730 --> 00:12:22,860 There's a chicken walker that's different in Empire Strikes Back. 250 00:12:22,950 --> 00:12:23,780 We're going deep nerd now. 251 00:12:23,860 --> 00:12:26,660 What's the difference between a chicken walker and a AT-ST? 252 00:12:26,740 --> 00:12:27,870 I didn't know this. 253 00:12:27,950 --> 00:12:32,920 In Empire Strikes Back, there is, I think, just one shot of a two-legged walker 254 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,170 running around that I think Joe Johnston did just kind of... 255 00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:37,500 - On a whim. - Uh-huh. 256 00:12:38,010 --> 00:12:38,750 As a lark. 257 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,050 But George really liked it, and then later in Return of the Jedi, 258 00:12:43,130 --> 00:12:45,470 it got upgraded to the full-on...yeah. 259 00:12:45,550 --> 00:12:48,220 Again, one of the least intimidating 260 00:12:48,310 --> 00:12:51,930 pieces of mech in the originals that we upgraded 261 00:12:52,020 --> 00:12:55,270 to the Big Bad in our Seven Samurai episode. 262 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:08,160 Go. Go! 263 00:13:11,580 --> 00:13:14,040 Well, and I like the work you did on that, 264 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,380 and the animation because you had done a lot of tests for Rogue, 265 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:23,170 where they would animate the CG walker right over footage of the old stop motion. 266 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:26,090 And if you don't get that kind of hitch in its giddyup, it just... 267 00:13:26,180 --> 00:13:27,890 it doesn't feel like the walker. 268 00:13:27,970 --> 00:13:31,680 It needs to have that kind of staccatoed motion. 269 00:13:31,770 --> 00:13:34,230 'Cause now we could do it smooth, but it just doesn't... 270 00:13:34,310 --> 00:13:35,730 It lacks the character, 271 00:13:35,810 --> 00:13:39,270 and part of our walker is that it's supposed to be more like a creature 272 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,320 than it's supposed to be the old military one, 273 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,110 'cause ours is beat up and repurposed. 274 00:13:49,410 --> 00:13:50,870 Just a few more steps. 275 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,380 Both the blurrg and the AT-ST began their life as stop-motion... 276 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:07,680 Their cinematic life as stop-motion creations, 277 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,890 so it was useful on the blurrg to go back and actually do some stop motion 278 00:14:11,970 --> 00:14:13,560 to kind of figure out... 279 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,390 Stop motion doesn't look strictly real, 280 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,230 just because of artifacts inherent in that technique, 281 00:14:18,810 --> 00:14:20,060 but there's a magic to it, 282 00:14:20,150 --> 00:14:22,820 and so figuring out how to tease out some of that magic 283 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:25,650 but still have something that feels like a modern visual effect 284 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:30,320 that's gonna blend well with live-action is super tricky. 285 00:14:30,410 --> 00:14:31,150 Yeah. 286 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,700 Something we can't jump over, either, is in 3, we have an array of Mandalorians 287 00:14:35,790 --> 00:14:38,120 rocketing out of the sky and landing, 288 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:41,710 which is something for me, as a kid, I would've just died to see. 289 00:14:49,220 --> 00:14:51,510 Because we all ordered the Boba Fett figure 290 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,270 by sending in our proofs of purchase from the back of the package, 291 00:14:55,350 --> 00:14:58,890 and we got this figure before he ever appeared on-screen. 292 00:14:58,980 --> 00:15:01,690 You could get Boba Fett in the mail before the movie came out, 293 00:15:01,810 --> 00:15:04,150 and the only time we'd seen him was the Holiday Special, 294 00:15:04,230 --> 00:15:06,190 which you know, 'cause you put the gun in. 295 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,490 Let's talk about that gun. 296 00:15:07,570 --> 00:15:09,990 Yeah. The fork gun from the Holiday Special, 297 00:15:10,070 --> 00:15:11,820 that Boba Fett carries. 298 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:16,580 Yes, that was one of the deep cuts that we had, 299 00:15:16,660 --> 00:15:20,120 the zapper that he uses to corral his... 300 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:22,420 Whatever that dinosaur he's riding in the swamp is. 301 00:15:32,850 --> 00:15:35,680 I remember when you were all proud when George came to set. 302 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:36,770 Did you see the gun we have? 303 00:15:36,860 --> 00:15:37,600 Yeah. 304 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,520 Do you know that that was an homage to...that's canon, right? 305 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:43,400 - Because you wrote it. - Not really. 306 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,280 You said, "We put that gun in from the Holiday Special". 307 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,320 And he goes, "I had nothing to do with that". 308 00:15:57,290 --> 00:15:59,870 I need passage to the yards. 309 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:23,480 What? It's just a little mousey. 310 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,190 Come here, little mousey. 311 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,020 Burg. 312 00:16:27,110 --> 00:16:28,240 Mousey, come here. Come here. 313 00:16:28,330 --> 00:16:29,070 Burg. 314 00:16:49,210 --> 00:16:51,800 We pulled in for the final episode... 315 00:16:52,340 --> 00:16:53,340 The darksaber. 316 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:58,310 So the way the darksaber came about was I was a character on Clone Wars, 317 00:16:58,390 --> 00:17:00,350 a Mandalorian named Pre Vizsla. 318 00:17:00,430 --> 00:17:03,770 This lightsaber was stolen from your Jedi Temple 319 00:17:03,850 --> 00:17:07,150 by my ancestors during the fall of the Old Republic. 320 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:11,570 Since then, many Jedi have died upon its blade. 321 00:17:11,650 --> 00:17:13,950 Prepare yourself to join them. 322 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,120 It's like a katana. It's pretty cool. 323 00:17:18,210 --> 00:17:18,950 It's really cool. 324 00:17:19,370 --> 00:17:22,120 And you're figuring out how to show it on-screen. 325 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,960 John and I are working on that. 326 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:25,420 We've gone around and around. 327 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:28,380 So how do you make a thing that has no light but just has... 328 00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:31,670 But what we're digging is actually that... 329 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,590 Much like the old lightsabers, that there's actually a practical element 330 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,930 that has weird anomalies that makes it look... 331 00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:42,850 That makes it look like those reflective dowels that they used. 332 00:17:42,930 --> 00:17:46,400 And actually, one of them is a spinning reflective dowel for the old one? 333 00:17:46,490 --> 00:17:51,480 That's something we have to kind of experience, which is when we do take things that... 334 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:53,860 It came from The Clone Wars. 335 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:57,110 We have to think that, in that show, they are stylized 336 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,990 and that that was an animated style of something from live-action, 337 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,040 and it's not about doing any of those things one-to-one, 338 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:06,580 but it's about saying, 339 00:18:06,710 --> 00:18:08,130 "That's based on something". 340 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:08,960 How'd he have done it? 341 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:10,660 That's through the lens... 342 00:18:10,750 --> 00:18:11,500 How would George do it? 343 00:18:11,590 --> 00:18:13,260 This is Mos Eisley Tower. 344 00:18:13,340 --> 00:18:14,340 We are tracking you. 345 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:16,470 Head for bay three-five, over. 346 00:18:16,550 --> 00:18:17,840 Copy that. 347 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:19,260 Locked in for three-five. 348 00:18:25,140 --> 00:18:26,350 Come along, R2. 349 00:18:38,110 --> 00:18:41,030 Picked up this Bounty Puck before I left the Mid Rim. 350 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:43,080 Fennec Shand. 351 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,660 In episode 105, we get to go back to Tatooine, 352 00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:50,460 and we go inside the Mos Eisley Cantina, which was awesome. 353 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:53,920 It was great. The art department did an amazing job. 354 00:18:57,130 --> 00:18:58,470 A-mark. 355 00:18:58,550 --> 00:19:01,550 You're walking into a bit of history there. 356 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,760 Camera, and action! 357 00:19:03,850 --> 00:19:06,270 We were treating that like a museum piece. 358 00:19:06,350 --> 00:19:09,690 In the original bar in Tatooine, they had green on this side, 359 00:19:09,770 --> 00:19:12,400 and they had red on that side, 360 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,190 and so every detail in here has been duplicated. 361 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:19,820 So that's what I'm doing. Hope you guys appreciate it. 362 00:19:19,910 --> 00:19:22,160 It should look very faithful to the original. 363 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,790 We did a little bit less than half of the build, 364 00:19:25,870 --> 00:19:30,460 and the rest was on the screens, so unless the screens were up, 365 00:19:30,540 --> 00:19:33,130 you were just seeing a little part of it, 366 00:19:33,210 --> 00:19:35,500 and then, click, you turn on the switch, there it is. 367 00:19:35,590 --> 00:19:37,710 We were able to build a recreation of EV-9D9, 368 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,470 which is now the bartender droid. 369 00:19:39,550 --> 00:19:41,800 Mark Hamill came in and voiced the droid, 370 00:19:41,890 --> 00:19:45,220 who had appeared in Return of the Jedi. 371 00:19:45,310 --> 00:19:49,730 Unfortunately, the Bounty Guild no longer operates from Tatooine. 372 00:19:49,810 --> 00:19:51,020 He now serves drinks. 373 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,980 It's smoother if you're slower, but if you want to do a quicker... 374 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:55,650 And I really liked this aspect, 375 00:19:55,730 --> 00:19:58,440 that in the original, droids weren't allowed in the bar. 376 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:00,080 Hey. We don't serve their kind here. 377 00:20:00,170 --> 00:20:01,910 What? 378 00:20:01,990 --> 00:20:03,660 Now? Yeah, sure. 379 00:20:03,740 --> 00:20:06,200 Droids are working the bar, and for all we know, 380 00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:08,790 they might own the bar, so I thought that was a great twist. 381 00:20:08,870 --> 00:20:12,250 And then I'm driving R5-D4 through the scene. 382 00:20:12,330 --> 00:20:14,040 It doesn't get much better than that. 383 00:20:16,460 --> 00:20:21,260 Hey, droid, I'm a hunter. I'm lookin' for some work. 384 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:22,340 R5-D4 was great 385 00:20:22,430 --> 00:20:27,010 because we had that particular type of droid, but he wasn't painted like R5. 386 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:30,430 And then I was looking at it, and we were gonna shoot Mos Eisley, 387 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,230 I went to Josh and I said, "Can you repaint this thing to look like R5?" 388 00:20:34,310 --> 00:20:35,500 And he said, "Yeah, sure. Why?" 389 00:20:35,590 --> 00:20:36,330 And I said, 390 00:20:36,420 --> 00:20:38,280 'cause I don't think he ever got off Tatooine. 391 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,940 I think he's been stuck there and is probably working. 392 00:20:41,030 --> 00:20:43,700 There's a lot of EU stuff about, that he's a Jedi special... 393 00:20:43,780 --> 00:20:45,700 Yeah, I know. 394 00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:48,040 But you even made him paint the restraining bolt thing. 395 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,910 The busted restraining bolt, yeah. 396 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 And where his motivator got shot. 397 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,420 This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look. 398 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:58,130 Where was his bad motivator? 399 00:20:58,210 --> 00:20:59,210 This one? Yeah. 400 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:02,880 Gunk that up and let it come down the side, 401 00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:04,720 just oil and grease stains on this guy. 402 00:21:04,810 --> 00:21:05,550 Gotcha. 403 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,180 We made it a little burned up on top of his head. 404 00:21:08,260 --> 00:21:09,850 And now he's in the cantina. 405 00:21:30,450 --> 00:21:34,370 Behind me is a TIE fighter in its landing position, 406 00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:38,090 with landing gear out, which hasn't ever been shown before, 407 00:21:38,170 --> 00:21:42,920 and the wings are gonna be added in CG, 408 00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:46,470 where we fold them based on Doug Chiang's drawing. 409 00:21:46,550 --> 00:21:50,680 It was a design that was done years ago that was never used, 410 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,850 and we saw it and decided we wanted to pull that into our story. 411 00:21:55,940 --> 00:22:00,190 I think my favorite moment of just shooting this and being involved was... 412 00:22:00,270 --> 00:22:02,480 It was the first day that I was shooting. 413 00:22:02,570 --> 00:22:06,070 It was coming onto the outside set, the backlot, 414 00:22:06,150 --> 00:22:09,490 and kind of in my head, I'd seen the previs, 415 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:12,450 but you know, none of it's real until you're on set 416 00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:15,660 and I could walk around the corner and there's 60 stormtroopers 417 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:19,380 just standing around in that courtyard, 418 00:22:19,460 --> 00:22:24,720 and I just remember walking past and just going, "Okay". 419 00:22:26,380 --> 00:22:29,510 And instantly, I was like, get my phone out so... 420 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,470 No one's gonna see these. 421 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,520 Stormtroopers! Oh, my God, so amazing. 422 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,350 I kept taking photos of stormtroopers, 423 00:22:35,430 --> 00:22:37,850 and I was so impressed, 'cause there were so many of them. 424 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:39,150 What was that gang? 425 00:22:39,230 --> 00:22:41,940 What's that secret? It was probably no secret. 426 00:22:42,020 --> 00:22:42,765 The 501st? 427 00:22:42,855 --> 00:22:44,690 They brought those guys in. 428 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:47,650 And they were...their suits looked amazing. 429 00:22:47,740 --> 00:22:51,870 Well, we were in a production meeting preparing for that shoot, 430 00:22:51,950 --> 00:22:54,410 we were around the table going through the script, 431 00:22:54,490 --> 00:22:56,580 we said, "How many stormtroopers did you get?" 432 00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:58,870 They're like, "We got...", what was it? 30? 433 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,815 Yeah, it wasn't a lot. 434 00:23:00,925 --> 00:23:01,670 It was a lot of like... 435 00:23:01,750 --> 00:23:03,800 It sounded good when we planned it long ago... 436 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,420 But we had maxed out the costumes. 437 00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:06,250 Yeah. 438 00:23:06,180 --> 00:23:06,920 It was the costumes. 439 00:23:07,010 --> 00:23:07,760 It was the costumes. 440 00:23:07,850 --> 00:23:08,590 Yeah. 441 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,470 So it was like, what are we doing? 442 00:23:10,550 --> 00:23:14,010 Then he and I leaned into each other, 'cause it was... 443 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,770 I knew that George Lucas, when he would do an appearance or something, 444 00:23:17,850 --> 00:23:21,190 he could call up the 501st, and he'd have 100 stormtroopers show up for an event. 445 00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:22,010 Yeah, easily. 446 00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,020 And I was like, "Could we call them?" 447 00:23:24,110 --> 00:23:25,570 He knows 'em all, and he was... 448 00:23:25,650 --> 00:23:27,660 Now I may not remember. 449 00:23:27,750 --> 00:23:28,490 Yeah. 450 00:23:28,570 --> 00:23:30,240 But you already were in. 451 00:23:30,330 --> 00:23:31,070 I was already in, yeah. 452 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:31,905 So you were like, 453 00:23:31,995 --> 00:23:34,370 well, let's see. It's Southern California... 454 00:23:34,450 --> 00:23:38,500 they'll fly down, come in. I could probably get about... 455 00:23:38,580 --> 00:23:40,790 And he made some calls, and they showed up. 456 00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:42,880 But the funny thing was that they showed up, 457 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,170 and they didn't know what they were coming to. 458 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:47,710 What calls do they usually get? 459 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,550 They get calls for...they'll do premieres. 460 00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:55,310 If you see them at a Star Wars function, appear, a lot of times, the 501st, 461 00:23:55,390 --> 00:23:57,520 they do, on their own, visits to hospitals. 462 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,640 They do a lot of charity things. 463 00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:04,360 They do a wide array of things, and they are called often to represent 464 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,610 for the company at public appearances related to Star Wars. 465 00:24:07,690 --> 00:24:10,450 So Lucasfilm will call them up if they're... 466 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:13,820 If they're at a convention or an appearance or there's a parade 467 00:24:13,910 --> 00:24:17,200 or events where they want background stormtroopers. They know that... 468 00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:18,700 - But not a movie. - Yeah. 469 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:23,130 So they show up not knowing where they're going, and they literally are 470 00:24:23,210 --> 00:24:26,300 driving them into the middle of the set in front of camera, 471 00:24:26,380 --> 00:24:30,300 and they were realizing that they're gonna be in the show. 472 00:24:30,380 --> 00:24:32,970 In their armor that they made themselves. 473 00:24:33,050 --> 00:24:34,100 That's significant, right? 474 00:24:34,190 --> 00:24:34,930 Yeah. 475 00:24:35,010 --> 00:24:37,560 Because suddenly, the dream of anybody 476 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,600 that makes your own suit of stormtrooper armor 477 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,730 is that you would have an actual screen-used prop, gun or mask, 478 00:24:44,810 --> 00:24:47,070 but the minute you walked on our set and got shot, 479 00:24:47,150 --> 00:24:51,360 your armor that you made became screen-used, which is pretty cool. 480 00:24:54,570 --> 00:24:56,620 It's episode 108, the big finale. 481 00:24:57,410 --> 00:24:59,870 We got our whole cast here. We got the 501st. 482 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 We got them on camera as part of our background. 483 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,040 It's been a real treat, real fun. 484 00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:10,710 The 501st Legion is the world's largest fan-based costuming group. 485 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,470 We do things mainly for charity. 486 00:25:14,380 --> 00:25:17,180 We're bad guys doing good. 487 00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:21,430 But we're also big kids, so we do this for children 488 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,560 and these children as well. 489 00:25:24,650 --> 00:25:27,400 We love dressing up and costuming and playing the part. 490 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,860 My armor is about six years old, oddly enough, 491 00:25:32,950 --> 00:25:38,160 but I do take care of it, because I invest a lot of time in that kind of stuff. 492 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,910 It starts off as a piece of white ABS plastic, 493 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,790 and then they're vac-formed into shapes to fit your body type, basically. 494 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,710 A lot of it's fairly generic. It comes in a certain size, 495 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,920 but you have to shim it and shape it and get it to conform to your body. 496 00:25:54,010 --> 00:25:58,010 Otherwise, you don't look right, you don't articulate correctly. 497 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,760 You're not gonna look like a stormtrooper. 498 00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:03,230 You'll look like something trying to be a stormtrooper. 499 00:26:03,310 --> 00:26:06,690 Lucasfilm put out a last-minute call, yeah, and here it is. 500 00:26:06,770 --> 00:26:09,900 We were able to get some folks from our garrison in the Bay Area 501 00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:11,610 and bring a few people down to join... 502 00:26:11,690 --> 00:26:13,280 A few hundred miles down here. 503 00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:14,110 ...our friends in SoCal. 504 00:26:14,190 --> 00:26:15,950 You guys came down from San Francisco? 505 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,660 All right. Go, Oakland. 506 00:26:19,990 --> 00:26:23,160 We got here, we got into our armor, we got bussed over to the set. 507 00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:24,910 It was cool, 'cause the PAs were like, 508 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 "Hold on. You're gonna have a moment". 509 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,590 And then we walked around and saw what we were walking into, 510 00:26:29,670 --> 00:26:31,000 and everybody lost it. 511 00:26:31,090 --> 00:26:32,590 I don't even know what to say. 512 00:26:32,670 --> 00:26:35,470 I had absolutely no clue until he told me this morning what it was. 513 00:26:35,550 --> 00:26:39,180 I just thought it was an event, a high-profile event. 514 00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:43,180 It's my first one here, and it's a doozy. 515 00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:45,850 This one's big. I had no idea. 516 00:26:45,930 --> 00:26:46,673 Making Star Wars. 517 00:26:46,763 --> 00:26:48,270 I had no idea. None. 518 00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:50,900 So they walk onto our set, and they're right in the middle 519 00:26:50,980 --> 00:26:54,150 of the filming of The Mandalorian, which they'd been hearing rumors about, 520 00:26:54,230 --> 00:26:55,900 and it was fascinating. 521 00:26:55,990 --> 00:26:59,160 We'll do some marching today. We'll look good, crisp, and feel good. 522 00:26:59,240 --> 00:26:59,780 Yeah. 523 00:26:59,870 --> 00:27:01,370 Right on! Right on. 524 00:27:01,450 --> 00:27:04,370 You're walking in, and seeing all the props and the detailing 525 00:27:04,450 --> 00:27:07,290 in every single door, every single accessory, 526 00:27:07,370 --> 00:27:09,540 and it's like, "I'm in Star Wars". 527 00:27:09,630 --> 00:27:11,290 Like, this is a dream. 528 00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:12,120 A-mark! 529 00:27:12,210 --> 00:27:14,590 We're all like, "Oh, my God. This is real". 530 00:27:14,670 --> 00:27:16,840 I think all of us started crying a little bit. 531 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,300 It's good we wear helmets. Nobody could see us cry. 532 00:27:19,380 --> 00:27:22,220 You bring in the 501st, they're professionals. 533 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,560 And lo and behold, I think 25 people show up. 534 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,350 In addition to the stunt people and the people in costumes, 535 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,520 we had over 50 of them. 536 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,270 Members of my escort have completed assembly 537 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,150 of an E-Web heavy repeating blaster. 538 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,240 It looks huge. Fills up our entire set. Looks great. 539 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,990 And they know exactly how to act like a stormtrooper. 540 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,080 You direct them, but they know how to move. 541 00:27:45,910 --> 00:27:47,000 They know how to stand. 542 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,710 They are stormtroopers. 543 00:27:49,790 --> 00:27:52,580 They were wonderful. They did a great job. 544 00:27:52,670 --> 00:27:54,630 We got so much energy from them. 545 00:27:54,710 --> 00:27:55,450 Action. 546 00:27:55,540 --> 00:27:56,590 You will have until nightfall. 547 00:27:56,670 --> 00:28:00,130 And they could not have been better, more professional, cooler. 548 00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:02,850 We'll take some pictures with you. We'll hold onto them... 549 00:28:03,010 --> 00:28:05,450 We'll give them at the end once it's out. 550 00:28:05,540 --> 00:28:06,180 Cool. 551 00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:07,600 - Thank you. - Thank you. 552 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,480 You had people who were all walks of life. 553 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,810 You had mothers and daughters, once they popped the helmets off. 554 00:28:13,900 --> 00:28:19,320 I'm Rick Alpi, TK 50311, and I'm from Mission Viejo. 555 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,740 Jacko Luong, TK 88808, from Huntington Beach. 556 00:28:23,820 --> 00:28:28,700 My name's Mark Edwards. My TK number is TK 7328. I'm from Los Angeles. 557 00:28:28,790 --> 00:28:33,630 My name is Jacob Gonzales, TK 86267 of the Inland Empire squad. 558 00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:38,550 Chris Elguera, TK 87007, part of the Inland Empire squad. 559 00:28:38,630 --> 00:28:43,050 Sam Newcomer, also known as TIE Racer, TK 54548. 560 00:28:43,140 --> 00:28:46,510 The camaraderie is more important than anything, and then love for Star Wars. 561 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,810 We all have a common bond that binds us together, like the Force. 562 00:28:49,890 --> 00:28:51,770 It's come full circle from watching New Hope, 563 00:28:51,890 --> 00:28:53,350 dreaming about being a stormtrooper 564 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,570 to actually being a stormtrooper in front of the camera. 565 00:28:56,650 --> 00:28:57,820 Just amazing. 566 00:28:57,900 --> 00:28:59,570 Let's take some pictures. 567 00:28:59,650 --> 00:29:00,940 Say, "whiskey"! 568 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:07,870 Maybe let's finish on talking about the X-wing pilots. 569 00:29:07,950 --> 00:29:08,690 Oh, no. 570 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:09,580 Yeah. 571 00:29:09,660 --> 00:29:11,210 Both of you have been X-wing pilots. 572 00:29:11,290 --> 00:29:12,130 Have you? 573 00:29:12,220 --> 00:29:16,290 Yeah, John's been...John appears in Battle of Yavin, don't you? 574 00:29:16,380 --> 00:29:19,230 Yeah, I'm actually all the X-wing pilots. 575 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:20,340 You're in Phantom Menace, too. 576 00:29:20,420 --> 00:29:22,010 You have a close-up in Phantom Menace. 577 00:29:22,090 --> 00:29:24,840 I worked on some special edition shots. 578 00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:26,890 Wait, wait, I'm worried about this one. 579 00:29:26,970 --> 00:29:27,710 Jon looks worried. 580 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,140 You're all of them? 581 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:30,890 You're gonna ruin it for him. 582 00:29:30,970 --> 00:29:35,020 The CG model of the X-wing, there was a figure, that's my head. 583 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:37,190 Every time. No close-up. 584 00:29:37,270 --> 00:29:39,020 You're on-screen in Phantom Menace. 585 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,370 I am the only Naboo pilot you see get killed. 586 00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:51,580 In The Mandalorian, we have a few X-wing pilots. 587 00:29:51,660 --> 00:29:53,750 One of them is Deb Chow, who you mentioned. 588 00:29:53,830 --> 00:29:54,570 One is Deb. 589 00:29:54,660 --> 00:29:56,420 One of them is Dave Filoni, 590 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:58,210 and one's Rick Famuyiwa. 591 00:29:58,300 --> 00:29:59,340 The leader of the squadron. 592 00:29:59,420 --> 00:30:02,630 It looks like something from the '70s, that sequence. 593 00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:06,970 Your direction for me was, "Act disinterested and bored". 594 00:30:07,590 --> 00:30:09,430 And I was like, "I can do that". 595 00:30:09,510 --> 00:30:11,930 I got a clear signal on the tracking beacon. 596 00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:14,310 That I could...but honestly, it was critical. 597 00:30:14,390 --> 00:30:16,855 It's great, because you ever see... 598 00:30:16,945 --> 00:30:17,690 It was critical advice. 599 00:30:17,770 --> 00:30:19,310 Pilots, no matter how nervous, 600 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,730 if you're on a bad flight, 601 00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:23,240 they sound so calm, talking to the military people. 602 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,490 Like in Apocalypse Now, you hear them calling in the... 603 00:30:26,570 --> 00:30:29,490 This is my day. I'm trying to shoot second unit for Rick. 604 00:30:29,580 --> 00:30:31,540 I'm out in the mud, in the pit, 605 00:30:31,620 --> 00:30:35,910 and yet, all day, I know looming is this X-wing pilot shoot, 606 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 and Rick and Deb and I have been texting each other all week. 607 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,550 "Are we really gonna do this? I thought this was a joke". 608 00:30:41,630 --> 00:30:44,550 "I know, but Jon liked it". So now we're kind of screwed. 609 00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:46,520 I was not giving up on this one. 610 00:30:46,610 --> 00:30:47,630 He wouldn't let us out of it. 611 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,180 I had a vision. 612 00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:53,020 Deb was mad at us 'cause we decided. She didn't think we were doing it. 613 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:55,310 "You have to show up today. We're gonna do this". 614 00:30:55,390 --> 00:30:57,270 Then I'm thinking, I have a flight... 615 00:30:57,980 --> 00:31:02,770 And if my second-unit shoot goes long, I have a good excuse. I've just gotta go. 616 00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:04,820 And then I get a text from this guy, 617 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:10,320 "If you leave without shooting this scene, I will never let you hear the end of it". 618 00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:11,620 Now I'm weighing my options. 619 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:12,440 I'm like, 620 00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:15,200 Okay, so I cannot shoot this and be happy with that, 621 00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:19,460 but I have to weigh that against Jon having something to give me crap about. 622 00:31:19,550 --> 00:31:20,290 Constant harassment. 623 00:31:20,380 --> 00:31:22,630 He already gives me crap about a bunch of things, 624 00:31:22,710 --> 00:31:26,130 like the cartoon, the Daytime Emmys. Different things, you give me a little... 625 00:31:26,220 --> 00:31:26,960 I'm just jealous. 626 00:31:27,050 --> 00:31:29,090 I know. Well, that's fine. Just fine. 627 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:31,350 I was only nominated for a Daytime Emmy. 628 00:31:31,430 --> 00:31:33,730 You can come look at mine. 629 00:31:33,820 --> 00:31:34,560 So I talk a big game. 630 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,680 So I'm weighing, am I gonna do this? Am I not gonna do this? 631 00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:40,650 I finally decide, you know what? I'm gonna do it. 632 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,440 There's something valuable in it. And I always take... 633 00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:48,200 Coming as an actor, there's so much that I can learn from that, 634 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,740 'cause I don't deal with live-action actors in this way. 635 00:31:51,820 --> 00:31:53,660 You've given me so much knowledge... 636 00:31:53,740 --> 00:31:55,330 Playing the X-wing gave you insight... 637 00:31:55,410 --> 00:31:58,160 It actually did. I had to tell you, it did, 638 00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,420 because what it was, was like, 639 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:04,210 okay, what is their preparation like, from having to put a costume on... 640 00:32:04,290 --> 00:32:05,035 True. It is vulnerable. 641 00:32:06,265 --> 00:32:07,010 What is that fit like? 642 00:32:07,090 --> 00:32:08,800 Now they gotta walk onstage. 643 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,680 Now there's all these people waiting for you. 644 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,470 Now you're getting in there, and it almost felt like, 645 00:32:16,810 --> 00:32:21,350 the closer I got to the X-wing cockpit, the narrower my vision was getting, 646 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,310 'cause there's so many people and all these lights, 647 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,820 and the X-wing itself was a funny story. 648 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,150 'Cause that wasn't a normal buck that you sat in. 649 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:29,785 It was a whole X-wing... 650 00:32:31,365 --> 00:32:32,110 It was a whole X-wing. 651 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,620 How did we get it? 'Cause we're very...we use all parts of the buffalo here. 652 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:38,330 It was for Galaxy's Edge... 653 00:32:38,410 --> 00:32:40,588 It was shipped down to Florida. 654 00:32:40,678 --> 00:32:41,420 To Orlando, Florida. 655 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:42,620 For the theme park. 656 00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:44,460 The X-wing you see in Orlando, Florida, 657 00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:48,210 is the X-wing cockpit that we all sat in, in Mandalorian. 658 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:49,460 The one sitting outside. 659 00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:52,220 What's your character's name, by the way? 660 00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:53,430 Trapper Wolf. 661 00:32:53,930 --> 00:32:55,010 Trapper Wolf sat in. 662 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,600 But the thing is this. 663 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,430 I couldn't believe we didn't have an X-wing cockpit in California. 664 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,190 Like, you gotta be kidding me. That's insane. 665 00:33:02,270 --> 00:33:03,010 They brought it... 666 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:04,520 We kind of hijacked it. 667 00:33:04,610 --> 00:33:06,570 We hijacked it. It was being transported. 668 00:33:06,650 --> 00:33:07,395 We pulled it off. 669 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:08,440 We cut it up. 670 00:33:08,530 --> 00:33:12,740 Because it had to be reinforced for storms or whatever. 671 00:33:12,820 --> 00:33:15,570 There's a big steel bar right where you put a chair. 672 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:18,580 So we had to remove it and replace it, and he... 673 00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:19,950 Chuck a seat in there. 674 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,830 And then they put...they dressed that thing up. 675 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,000 Looked like an X-wing with lights and everything. 676 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,250 But we had to climb up there in this platform, way off the ground. 677 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:30,800 It should've been right here. 678 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,970 And so I'm up a ladder in this. 679 00:33:33,050 --> 00:33:35,640 I look like a grapefruit in this outfit. 680 00:33:35,730 --> 00:33:36,470 Yes. 681 00:33:36,550 --> 00:33:37,800 And I get in this seat... 682 00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:38,635 It's not your color. 683 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,180 It's not my color. 684 00:33:40,270 --> 00:33:43,190 And it felt dangerous getting in there. And then you're... 685 00:33:43,270 --> 00:33:45,840 There was no dialogue for these pilots... 686 00:33:45,930 --> 00:33:46,730 So I had to give you some. 687 00:33:46,810 --> 00:33:49,560 ...and then on the day you decided... 688 00:33:49,650 --> 00:33:50,400 I would feed you lines. 689 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,400 You were like, say something like, "They're launching a gunship". 690 00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:58,330 And I'm like, "Okay". "And don't be interesting". 691 00:33:58,410 --> 00:34:01,450 Yeah, that's a gunship. All right, I'm going in. And then... 692 00:34:02,450 --> 00:34:03,205 And then, it's so cool. 693 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:05,540 It's so cool. 694 00:34:05,620 --> 00:34:08,040 You think I'm kidding you. It is the coolest... 695 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:13,300 We're in a review of Rick's first cut of this episode and we're watching it, 696 00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:15,090 and as we're watching it, it dawns on me, 697 00:34:15,180 --> 00:34:17,430 I'm like, "No, we're about to watch the X-wing scene". 698 00:34:17,890 --> 00:34:20,720 And then we come out, I hear... 699 00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:24,480 And everybody's just business, and this guy is going out of his mind. 700 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,300 I love it. 701 00:34:25,390 --> 00:34:26,940 It looked like found footage of... 702 00:34:27,020 --> 00:34:30,045 The fans are gonna love that sequence. 703 00:34:30,135 --> 00:34:31,190 Really B-rate, C-rate actors. 704 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,320 Wait'll you see cosplay. 705 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,780 But it looks like what you would've had in the '70s. 706 00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:36,605 I copy, Gold Leader. 707 00:34:36,695 --> 00:34:38,780 We're starting for the target shaft. 708 00:34:38,870 --> 00:34:42,290 We're in position. I'm going to cut across the axis and draw their fire. 709 00:34:47,580 --> 00:34:48,830 Are those X-wings? 710 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,380 Yep, that's definitely a tracking beacon. 711 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:53,420 Looks like they're launching a gunship. 712 00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:54,760 Copy. Goin' in. 713 00:35:04,980 --> 00:35:06,390 Is there anything to say 714 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,060 before we break up this party, about anything? 715 00:35:09,150 --> 00:35:09,890 Thank you. 716 00:35:09,980 --> 00:35:11,440 "Thank you"? Good. Thank all of you. 717 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,360 The most fun part I've had on this show has been, 718 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,570 when I have a little idea or we talk about something and we push it out there 719 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,700 and the art department starts drawing cool stuff 720 00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:27,330 then the people at ILM start to come up with techniques 721 00:35:27,410 --> 00:35:29,250 and styles and suggesting things. 722 00:35:29,370 --> 00:35:34,760 It feels like we're an after-school club 723 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:39,010 that are making our own YouTube videos of Star Wars. 724 00:35:39,090 --> 00:35:41,350 And we have really rich parents. 725 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:46,600 It's a cumulative excitement, 726 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,440 because you're excited about your idea, I get excited hearing it, 727 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:50,730 Doug gets excited drawing it. 728 00:35:50,810 --> 00:35:54,400 We look at the drawing and go, "Oh, my gosh, there's more ideas", 729 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,320 and so the energy builds on itself. 730 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,820 Once you accept that each step is gonna get better than where it was... 731 00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:02,070 Some people tried to hold on to their original idea, 732 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,410 and nothing will be better than that original idea, 733 00:36:04,490 --> 00:36:05,830 and that suffocates the idea. 734 00:36:05,910 --> 00:36:09,460 But in filmmaking, everything has to progress forward, 735 00:36:09,540 --> 00:36:12,040 and that's what this production has done really well, 736 00:36:12,130 --> 00:36:14,750 is that everybody gets on the same page and carries the ball 737 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,130 farther down the field than the step that came before. 738 00:36:17,210 --> 00:36:20,220 We have some of the most amazing artists 739 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:25,890 and people with such extraordinary good taste in what they're trying to do. 740 00:36:25,970 --> 00:36:29,560 And they care so much about what it is they're trying to do. 741 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:35,440 We're always operating at such a high bar that, that pushes everybody. 742 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,480 It's Star Wars. It brings out the best.