This week, on the Star Wars Show!
Andi sits down with Weird Al Yankovic
We get a closer look at a homemade Rancor
and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
And much, much more.
And now, from the Lucasfilm Headquarters its
the Star Wars Show!
Hello I’m Peter Townley
And I’m Andi Gutierrez welcoming you to
The Star Wars Show, the only Star Wars Show
on the internet that has secret Star Wars
messages hidden on its book shelves every
week.
Is that true?
Nah, I’m just messing with Reddit.
Let’s go to the news!
Kicking things off this week with some
comics news, because its Wednesday, Marvel
has just sent over the first look at Star
Wars #22.
The comic, written by Eisner Award winner
Jason Aaron with art by Jorge Malina and cover
by Mike Deodato finds the rebel alliance on
a mission attempting to hijack a Star Destroyer.
And you can find out for yourself how this
adventure pans out when the issue hits store
shelves on August 24th.
Also from Marvel this week are more variant
covers for the 25th and final issue of Darth
Vader.
First is the action figure cover by John Tyler
Christopher featuring Doctor Aphra in classic
Kenner form.Next up is Adi Granov’s cover
featuring a powerful image of vader and his
saber, flanked by Dr. Aphra as well as triple
zero and BT-1.
Finally, my favorite artist Jamie McKelvie’s
cover depicting a fleet of Star Destroyers
You can pick up all of the variant covers for Darth Vader #25 when the comic is released later this year.
In movie news, we are very excited to reveal
an exclusive first look at a brand new ship
in Rogue One.
As seen in this never before seen still from
Rogue One, the ship is called the U-Wing,
and here to talk more in depth about the ship
is our good friend, from the Lucasfilm Story
Group, Matt Martin.
Hey this isn’t my office.
So, the U-Wing?
The U-Wing is a new ship in the Star Wars
Universe its a troop transport and gunship
so its there to bring in Rebel Troops to heavy
fire zones and get out as quickly as possible.
So it’s not just a fighter?
Its got a convertible wing situation?
Going back and forth?
Exactly, the wings move depending on the situation
and its there to both drop off troops and
provide air support.
Whats the full technical name?
Its the Incom UT 60D.
Also really cool about it, is that it was
sort of secretly unveiled at last year’s
Star Wars Celebration Anaheim where the very
first piece of Rogue One concept art is actually
showing a U-Wing dropping off Rebel Troops.
Super cool, thanks Matt!
No problem!
And for more Star Wars news from around the
galaxy make sure to check out Star Wars.com.
Stick around, more Star Wars Show after this.
I’m Kevin Kiner, the composer for Star Wars
Rebels and you’re watching the Star Wars
Show
Welcome back, I am now joined by the one and
only Mr. Weird Al Yankovic.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come
and chat with us
My pleasure I think I am the only one, has
that been proven?
I think, I think so
In a multiverse there may be several others
In like, yeah I had to write this down because
I thought it was so amusing.
Your Wikipedia page lists you as: Singer,
Songwriter, Parodist,Record Producer, Satirist,
Actor, Voice Actor, Music Video Director,
Film Producer and Author.
I’m a hyphenate!
Its crazy!
You are having kind of a crazy week, you just
did two nights at the Hollywood Bowl, Conan
at Comic Con and now you’re here
It has been crazy, i’ve been kind of nervous
about the Hollywood Bowl shows because thats
been kind of a big deal.
LA is my hometown so, if you do a big show
in your hometown and you suck…you have to
move!
And I didn't want to move!
You know?
What a pain
So tell me a little bit about the shows, you
actually played with a full Hollywood Bowl
Orchestra
Yeah, Thomas Wilkins was the conductor and
it was the full 85 piece Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
And then that includes having the 501st members
Yes, I was included in the 501st on that number
Thats wild, so it was the Southern California
Garrison?
Yeah yeah
You’re also a film buff.
Are you just a consumer of all pop culture?
Well i’m particularly a Lucasfilm fanboy
and I’m a fan.
I love pop culture and I try to be aware of
wants going on and having a tour here was
pretty mind boggling.
I had my iPhone out taking pictures of everything.
Everything was just amazing to me
So you’ve done two pretty popular Star Wars
parody songs and you close all your shows
with “Yoda” which has become a pretty
important part of our fan community, I mean
people have grown up listening to that song.
What was the inspiration to do that song in
the beginning?
Well, I was a huge fan of the Empire Strikes
Back and Yoda was the sort of standout character
in that film and I was a big fan of The Kinks
so then the idea just came up so i’ll just
do Yoda to the tune of “Lola” and I was
in college at the time.
It was 1980 and I recorded a really primitive
version of it for the Dr. Demento show, just
me and the accordion.
The Yoda/Lola connection I think is a little
more logical but when you did “The Saga
Begins” to “American Pie” how do you
pair that up?
I knew that I wanted to do something with
Episode 1, I was trying to think “what song
could I parody it up with?” and normally
I do a song thats very contemporary and popular
and I was looking at the charts and thinking,
yeah I don't know if I want to.
Star Wars seems like it’s weighty-er than
that.
It has more gravitas and I thought I should
do it with a classic rock song, and then I
thought of “American Pie” it had a real
narrative structure to it and I thought, “oh
I can really can do something with this”.
But at the same time everyone was saying Don
McLean is never going to let you do that.
That song is sacred and so iconic he never
lets anyone do anything with that song.
And I said, “well it never hurts to ask”.
We put the request out and he came back and
said “Yeah!
So now you’re doing your Mandatory Tour
and you’re on your second leg of it, correct?
Yeah its the same tour, basically we just
took a big break in the middle.
We did 5 months last year.
Took a lot of time off and now we’re doing
a 4 month block this year.
And we got about 2 more months to go and then
the tour will end at Radio City Music Hall
on September 24 and then I’m done for a
while! I’m taking next year off touring entirely.
And then if and when we come back to tour
it’ll be 2018.
Thats great, you get some time off!
But before we go the Star Wars Show would
like to present you with a very special award.
The “Star Wars Show Lifetime Musical Achievement
Award”!
The plaque is in the mail.
Whoa!
Thats awesome!
Thank you so much!
How cool!
So thank you for all the work you have done
and spreading the Star Wars love
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that!
Yay!
Thank you so much for taking the time to talk
to us.
This was a ton of fun.
Everyone at home check out to see if the Mandatory
World tour will be coming to your city and
we’ll be back with more Star Wars Show in
just a minute.
Recently at San Diego Comic Con we spotted
this incredible Rancor costume and after doing
a little research, we found out that it was
created by Jeremy Fisher here who works as
an animator at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Jeremy, tell us about this incredible costume
you’ve created
Yeah it started with the crazy idea like I
wanted to do something bigger and badder than
i’ve ever made before and the Rancor seemed
like the perfect challenge for myself.
Something that had more teeth and more drool
and more warts than the last thing you built.
Thats all I could hope for
So tell us a little about how you made this
So it starts out with a sketch and trying
to figure out where I want to see out of
Where do you see out of this?
In the mouth here
Rarrrrr sorry I can’t help myself
The rest of it is a lot of foam, PVC piping
for the bones, soft cushion foam for the folds
and the wrinkles and bumps.
This whole thing took you a year, what took
the longest out of the whole thing?
The process of the body pieces together, the
huge forms that you have to figure out and
its all patterned off a toy Rancor.
Congratulations, is it a boy or a girl?
Can you talk a little bit about your background
and how that led you to this passion project?
I fell in love with the creatures, the monsters,
AT-AT walkers and found out that its all stop
motion so I wanted to do that for a living.
So Jeremy said, “I want to build a Rancor”
when he told you about it, what was your first
reaction?
“Hell yeah”
“Hell yeah?”
Obviously you have a lot of really talented
artists and animators here that are huge Star
Wars fans.
It seems like its something you encourage
especially seeing that Rancor costume.
I mean, everybody who works here grew up watching
Star Wars so the fact that someone like Jeremy
can build this thing on his spare time, not
even when he’s working here is mind boggling.
Maybe you could put it on for us now?
Thanks so much you guys for showing us this
costume, its incredible and I hope to see
you at future conventions!Thanks so much for
having us!
We're gonna put this back on -- Sorry we’ll talk to you soon!
I had no idea The Star Wars Show had a lifetime
musical achievement award.
Oh yeah, it’s VERY prestigious.
I’d say it’s just as cool as a Grammy.
So it’s like a Grammy, but only for music
about Star Wars, awarded by a 3 month old
show that’s also about Star Wars?
Yup.
Just like I said, it’s VERY prestigious.
Huh.
Okay….
Last week we asked to see your cosplay, and
boy did you deliver, from the store-bought
costumes from the 70s, to a shirtless Kitt
Fisto, an Ahsoka and Dave FAUX-loni, a Broba
Fett from loyal viewer Star Wars Explained,
even a Jocasta Nu!
There were so many great costumes we couldn’t
fit them all in here so we highly suggest
you check them out for yourselves by searching
#SWSCosplay.
Speaking of cosplay, the Rancor costume you
saw a few moments ago, well, it doesn’t
have a name yet, and it’s creator Jeremy
has asked us for your help.
Leave your suggestion for a name in the comments
below or use the hashtag #NameARancor and
we’ll share our favorite name next week.
Finally, we have an exciting bit of news to
share.
The Star Wars Show is happy to announce our
brand new series, The Star Wars After Show
presented by Verizon, where we, and other
Lucasfilm employees sit down to discuss the
biggest Star Wars stories of the week in a
free form roundtable setting.
It’s super relaxed, super fun, and a great
all-around time that you will definitely not
want to miss.
The show begins Thursday, August 4th with
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