Ep 113 : Kevin Rubio - CLASSIC CLIP - The creator of the legendary Troops fan film
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Rubio creator of the seminal late 90's fan film Troops discusses the genesis and production of the seminal Troops fan film and the unique challenges of producing the film in the late 90's.
We chat about Lucasfilm's reaction to the fan film before and after the production. His interactions with George Lucas and what lead to Kevin creating the Tag and Bink Star Wars comic characters and writing a episode of The Clone Wars.
Plus we discuss the similar underground Hollywood rise that Troops shares with South Park, the hilarious lengths Kevin went to track down Stormtroopers and so much more!
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | In the timeline, we just, we just jumped through from Jedi to Phantom Menace. |
| 0:25.9 | Yes. |
| 0:26.7 | But in the middle of that, there was another little Star Wars film that went for about 10 minutes. |
| 0:32.5 | Oh, that one. |
| 0:33.1 | Okay. |
| 0:34.4 | Trying to think which, what, the EWalk adventure? |
| 0:44.5 | Uh, true. trying to think which what the EWalk adventure uh troops which I I hope everyone listening has seen it is a Star Wars parody of the COPS TV series and I remember almost like seeing back, I don't know if it was the late 90s |
| 0:57.9 | when I saw it or the early 2000s, but the first time I saw it, and I think it was at a convention |
| 1:03.4 | in Australia, but it was just like seeing like this, like it was, because of the internet |
| 1:10.2 | wasn't as developed, |
| 1:11.6 | it was just like seeing this amazing secret tape. |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.8 | And it, it was just such a privilege and such like a, like a, I don't know, |
| 1:22.1 | like a forbidden thrill to see this, this fan film because we weren't used to fan films. |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.3 | Like the fact that some guys went out to the desert to make this, fan film because we weren't used to fan films like the fact that some guys went out |
| 1:29.2 | to the desert to make this this funny sketch or film like it blew my mind tell us how the the |
| 1:37.1 | genesis of the idea uh for the film came along and is that my coffee that is your coffee there's sugar |
| 1:44.1 | there i didn't bring you cream that's the genesis of before the film came along. And is that my coffee? That is your coffee. There's sugar there. |
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