06 - Ryan Johnson's Star Wars Prequel Rumors
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🗓️ 5 March 2020
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EPISODE VI
RYAN JOHNSON'S STAR WARS PREQUEL RUMORS
It is a period of hope: the late 1990s!
A student at the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, CONNOR RATLIFF is tasked with creating a web page to promote himself as an actor.
This leads to the unlikely creation of a fictional character with a name that would someday become legendary in ways that even a Jedi master could not have predicted.
Meanwhile, half a world away, veteran stage actor HOLMES OSBORNE's career is ascendant, thanks to an opportunity given to him by TOM HANKS in his feature film debut as writer/director, That Thing You Do! Soon enough, he would be revealed to the world as DONNIE DARKO'S FATHER.
Little do they know that a young man named RIAN JOHNSON has just begun a 7-year journey to make a movie of his own, the success of which would set in motion a chain of events that would transform him into one of the most powerful filmmakers in the galaxy...
More than two decades later, a mysterious podcast reveals the ways in which these seemingly unrelated figures are connected. Connor, obsessed with his firing from Band of Brothers, enlists his friend, Syfy's JACKIE JENNINGS, to help him unpack the myriad ways that their fates are entwined, in his unending search for ANSWERS...
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum original. |
| 0:05.0 | I mean, I understand from your point of view, there is one thing to not like about Tom Hanks. |
| 0:12.0 | For all the rest of us, there is literally nothing |
| 0:14.7 | to not like about Tom Hanks. |
| 0:17.6 | You can, that's part of what's charming. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm talking to filmmaker Ryan Johnson, |
| 0:22.1 | writer director of Knives Out, Looper, and Star Wars episode 8, The Last Jedi. |
| 0:27.6 | If you've seen any of Ryan's movies, you know that he's known for writing stories that often go in unexpected |
| 0:32.1 | directions, twisting and |
| 0:33.8 | turning in ways that are surprising and often thought-provoking. Hopefully this |
| 0:38.3 | episode is a little bit like that. Well thank you so much for doing this, Ryan. |
| 0:43.0 | No, I'm happy to talk. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm not sure whether we talk, what element of this could I possibly weigh in on? |
| 0:51.0 | There's several different elements actually. What you're about to hear is a |
| 0:55.8 | complicated story but I promise you all of it is true. I'm just going to start |
| 1:01.1 | out by listing four films and the people who wrote them. |
| 1:05.0 | George Lucas wrote and directed Star Wars. |
| 1:08.0 | Tom Hanks wrote and directed that thing you do. |
| 1:11.6 | Ryan Johnson wrote and directed The Last Jedi. And I wrote and |
| 1:16.2 | starred in a very obscure, very low-budget feature film called Living in |
| 1:21.0 | Missouri. I did not direct it, but I played a main character in it, a villain. |
| 1:26.0 | And I promise you, this all leads back eventually to me in the year 2000 in the room re-auditioning for Tom Hanks and a sentence that I very |
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