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Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Ep 114 : Anthony Breznican - CLASSIC CLIP - The most read journalist in Star Wars talks Lucasfilm, leaks & safety pins

Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast

Steele Saunders

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.5524 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican discusses the pros and cons of being one of the most connected journalist in Star Wars.

We talk about his dealings with the likes of Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Harrison Ford, how leaks impacted his cover stories and his take on the tensions around the Rogue One reshoot rumors.

Plus we go deep on journalism in Star Wars and Anthony opens up about how he reacts to online accusations that he's just a Lucasfilm mouthpiece.

 

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this

0:08.8

classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars.

0:20.2

A quick warning, there is some occasional course language, so if you are around sensitive

0:25.0

ears or are easily offended, move along to another Steel Wars episode.

0:29.6

This is not the podcast you are looking for.

0:35.7

And which movie is your favourite? hmm that's tough i i mean like because how

0:43.7

do you separate one from the other empire i think objectively empire is the best one that's i

0:48.7

didn't say the best one that's not well i'm getting that my favorite i love the force awakens

0:53.6

partly because i got to cover it so extensively

0:56.9

from very early on.

0:59.6

I got to reveal the character names after the first trailer didn't, all we saw was the

1:06.7

baldroid, the girl, the desert girl, the black storm trooper that people weren't sure is he all we've

1:15.1

ever seen are sort of like this i mean the whole stormtrooper uh name comes from Nazis you know

1:22.3

and so they always seem like a white sort of uh uh monolithic organization homogenized. And they had this sort of white supremacist

1:33.3

thing. I know that's controversial to say today, but they really did seem to be like this

1:36.6

group that had nobody of any diversity in it. And yet we saw the black stormtrooper and people

1:43.0

like, is he a rebel opposing as a stormtrooper? Is saw the black stormtrooper and people like, is he, is he a rebel

1:45.5

posing as a stormtrooper? Is he actually a stormtrooper who's running away from that life

1:51.3

and trying to escape? And of course, that's what it turned out to be, but people didn't know.

1:55.2

Or is this film getting released in 2015? Yes, exactly. So I remember, you know, know writing about figuring revealing some of that information

2:04.1

like he i remember jj telling us at the at the uh celebration panel no he's actually a stormtrooper

2:10.0

who's who's who's uh who's turning away from that life uh and and so naturally just that being that

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