Ep 016 : The Phantom Editor - CLASSIC CLIP - The re-editor of Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
When film editor Mike J. Nichols passed on his VHS re-edit of The Phantom Menace to a Hollywood friend, he had no idea it would lead to the him being the target of the biggest real life bounty hunt in Star Wars history.
The man behind the The Phantom Edit opens up about his love of Star Wars, the toll the publicity around the edit took on him. Plus his thoughts on ep7 and his interactions with J.J. Abrams.
CLASSIC EPISODE SIZZLE!
TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE AND HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTER EXCLUSIVE EPISODES BECOME A STEELE WARS SUPPORTER ON PATREON!
Enjoy all our bonus shows and full back catalogue direct to the podcast player or app of your choice while ensuring the continuing production of the Steele Wars Star Wars podcast.
Bonus content shows include Making Steele Wars, Steele Wars Live Movie Commentaries, Live Call In Bonus Show, Patreon Q&A Show, full length insert free versions of all Steele Wars episodes and Gonk & Steele's Trash Compactor (when Gonk isn't so busy).
LISTEN LIVE AND PARTICPATE IN THE STEELE WARS CALL I N SHOW
STREAMLIVE BlogTalkRadio.com/SteeleWars
CALL IN (646) 668-8360 USA
SKYPE IN +1 (646) 668-8360 WORLDWIDE
YOU CAN HELP Steele Wars a sweet 5 star review on iTunes or plug the show on Facebook or Twitter.
I really appreciate it.
IT'S THE ONION FOR STAR WARS FANS!
YOUR SNOKE THEORY SUCKS T-SHIRTS & STICKERS
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM T-SHIRTS & STICKERS
Purchasing through iTunes or Amazon? PLEASE USE THESE LINKS
GET A FREE STAR WARS AUDIO BOOK & HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW!
FOR A FREE 1 MONTH AUDIBLE TRIAL AND A FREE AUDIBLE BOOK CLICK
Get an audiobook of your choice, free, with a 30-day trial. Cancel before your trial ends and you will not be charged.
Listen to Steele's award winning comedy podcast:
I Love Green Guide...
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash Steel Wars. |
| 0:20.6 | So you go to see the Phantom Menace, you were disappointed. |
| 0:25.6 | At what point did the idea to re-edit a version come about? |
| 0:33.7 | Well, I think what I mentioned earlier is I was kind of already doing that anyway, |
| 0:37.3 | like even just doing messing with the, because the digital stuff was allowing. But when we were, |
| 0:43.0 | when you go to film school, one of the things that they do in many schools is they give you |
| 0:47.5 | pieces of unedited footage of things and they ask you to re-edit them. And so 30 kids in a class will |
| 0:53.4 | reinterpret something that somebody else shot. |
| 0:55.9 | You get all the dailies and then you project it and each one has a different take to it. |
| 0:59.5 | And so one of the things I did was re-edit an episode of Gunsmoke that they gave us the |
| 1:03.9 | dailies and you can put your own soundtrack in stuff. |
| 1:06.0 | This is projects that we did in school. |
| 1:07.7 | So that was always kind of out there anyway. |
| 1:11.6 | But there is a Halloween movie. |
| 1:14.8 | It was Halloween 6 that was originally supposed to be written by Quentin Tarantino. |
| 1:18.5 | And there's a rumor that he wrote the script and they said it wasn't very good. |
| 1:21.1 | So they went somewhere else. |
| 1:22.1 | I doubt that's true. |
| 1:23.7 | I've never been able to confirm that Quentin Tarantino. |
| 1:26.0 | I knew he wanted to do it though. |
| 1:28.3 | Everyone was desperate to do it, though. And... |
| 1:29.3 | Everyone was desperate to do Halloween 6. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Steele Saunders, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Steele Saunders and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.