Ep 064 : Leonard Maltin - CLASSIC CLIP - The Legendary Film Critic Talks Star Wars & Those George Lucas Interviews - CLASSIC CLIP
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2015
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Leonard Maltin is one of the best-known names in film criticism through his long running film book guides and from his work on Entertainment Tonight.
But for Star Wars fans, he's the guy who interviewed George Lucas for the 1995 VHS box set release of the original trilogy whilst he was in the very early stages of preparing for the prequels.
In a 50 minute chat we discuss…
- Was Star Wars ripped off at the Oscars?
- His favorite things about Skywalker Ranch.
- Behind the scenes stories of his iconic interviews with George Lucas for the Star Wars VHS box set.
- As a film historian how does he feel about the special editioning of Star Wars? Do the fans or the creator “own” Star Wars?
- Leonard tries to answer the question what is George Lucas like and why?
- Gives his thoughts on the original trilogy, the prequels and on the upcoming Star Wars episode 7 while speculating on who Max Von Sydow might be playing.
- And that time he watched George Lucas write a $170 million dollar cheque.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. |
| 0:02.7 | I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. |
| 0:07.5 | Please enjoy this classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars. |
| 0:19.8 | I think a lot of Star Wars fans most relate you with is on the 1999 |
| 0:27.1 | re-release of the Star Wars films. |
| 0:31.4 | They sold 25 million cassettes. |
| 0:33.6 | It's quite revolutionary at the time. |
| 0:36.2 | You did DVD extras before DVD. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, sort of, yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | I mean, I interviewed George Lucas at some length, |
| 0:44.0 | and they cut the interviews down to about seven minutes each, |
| 0:47.4 | one for each episode of the trilogy. |
| 0:51.1 | And I was hoping they would use more |
| 0:52.6 | or release the whole interview intact and I couldn't |
| 0:57.0 | get anybody interested in doing that. Fox's own video just didn't care about it and I even pitched |
| 1:02.0 | to George at one point and he wasn't uninterested but he didn't pursue it. |
| 1:07.9 | Well as someone that watched those interviews like I'm sure many people are listening right now over and over and over. |
| 1:18.4 | The fact that there was a lot, like it was, I think it was frustrating for me. |
| 1:22.3 | It's just like, you know, I talked to him for that long? |
| 1:24.9 | Like, there's more questions. |
| 1:26.7 | Sure, there's more questions. But how did that interview come about that that long? Like, there's more questions. Sure, there's more questions. |
| 1:28.2 | But how did that interview come about that you were? |
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