Episode 112 - Marcia Lucas (The Mystery And Influence Of The Most Secret Secret of Star Wars)

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

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4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week Jason & Gabe explore one of the greatest mysteries in Star Wars history, the past and continuing influence of MARCIA LUCAS! Her editing helped shape the saga but just how else did she help make the saga what we know it to be today? Join us as we take a look at her life, career, her time time with GL & beyond. It's a fascinating look at one of the greatest unsung behind the scenes stories of the saga. PLUS : Last Jedi blu ray talk, Episode 9 speculation, KISS references and so much more! So, get out your Cokes & Hershey Bars and celebrate the love with BLAST POINTS!! Blast Points t-shirts are now available! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 visit the Blast Points website! www.blastpointspodcast.com reviews! comics! recipes, articles and tons more! if you dug the show please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, i will read it on a future episode! honestly! talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points leave feedback, comments or ideas for shows! also like Blast Points on Facebook for news on upcoming shows and links to some of the stuff we talk about in the show!! we are also on Instagram! Wow! your hosts are Jason Gibner & Gabe Bott! contact BLAST POINTS at contact@blastpointspodcast.com send us show ideas, feedback, voice messages or whatever! May the Force be with you, always.

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0:00.0	My name is Marsha Lucas, and I edited Star Wars.
0:14.0	I will tell you one thing about the editing was I had edited movies for my husband, George Lucas.
0:20.0	I had edited American graffiti. I'd been Lucas. I had edited American Graffiti.
0:21.6	I'd been an assistant on his first movie,
0:23.6	THX1138.
0:25.6	And then when we were in London,
0:28.6	filming Star Wars,
0:29.6	I was never designated to be a film editor of the movie.
0:33.6	But then he had an English editor that was working with him,
0:36.6	and he kept coming home and being very unhappy.
0:40.3	And eventually, George had kind of decided that he didn't want to bring the English editor
0:46.3	back to the United States, and he asked me if I would edit the movie.
0:49.3	And that's how I came to edit Star Wars.
0:51.3	But if there was anything that was dramatic or emotional, George gave it to Marcia.
0:58.0	And George always said, he said, always keep one person whose opinion you trust to the very end.
1:06.0	And that was always Marsha.
1:08.0	Marcia has always been the family of the Lucasfilm family.
1:11.6	Always has been.
1:13.6	40 years later, it's hard for me to believe that Star Wars is still alive, is still vibrant,
1:19.6	it's still everything that George wanted to be, and everything that I helped him and supported him to make it be.
1:25.6	I got stuck editing the end battle in Star Wars for many months.
1:32.3	And we brought in to more wonderful editors.
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