Episode 447 - The 1977 George Lucas Rolling Stone Interview

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Tv & Film

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Join us as kickoff a new trilogy of Blast Points episodes exploring a series of revealing interviews George Lucas did with Rolling Stone magazine starting here with a look at his first one in August 1977. It’s all good times and sugar free ice cream as Lucas talks about how he was unhappy with the film, his hopes for the sequels, his passion for narrative art, how the reaction to American Graffiti inspired Star Wars and how now he just wants to open a store. So get out some hamburgers and old rock & roll records, celebrate the love and listen today! JOIN THE BLAST POINTS ARMY and SUPPORT BLAST POINTS ON PATREON! NEW ANDOR SEASON 2 EPISODE COMMENTARIES! COMMENTARIES FOR EVERY SKELETON CREW EPISODE! NEW EMPIRE STRIKES BACK COMMENTARY! Theme Music! downloadable tunes from episodes! Extra goodies! and so much MORE! www.patreon.com/blastpoints Blast Points T-SHIRTS are now available! Represent your favorite podcast everywhere you go! Get logo shirts while supplies last! Perfect for conventions, dates, formal events and more! Get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/Gibnerd?section_id=21195481 If you dug the show, please leave BLAST POINTS a review on iTunes, Spotify and share the show with friends! If you leave an iTunes review, we will read it on a future episode! Honestly! Talk to Blast Points on twitter at @blast_points "Like" Blast Points on Facebook Join the Blast Points Super Star Wars Chill Group here www.facebook.com/groups/ BlastPointsGroup/ we are also on Instagram! Wow! www.instagram.com/blastpoints Your hosts are Jason Gibner & Gabe Bott! contact BLAST POINTS at : contact@blastpointspodcast.com May the Force be with you, always! This podcast is not affiliated in any way with Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, The Walt Disney Company, or any of their affiliates or subsidiaries.

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0:00.0	You really must begin at the beginning.
0:03.0	Now just behave yourself, Artou.
0:06.0	Don't be so stubborn.
0:08.0	You know perfectly well where it began.
0:10.0	It began with Mr. Lucas.
0:13.0	I think one of the key factors in the success is that it's a positive film.
0:20.0	It has heroes and villains,
0:23.1	and that it essentially is a fun movie to watch.
0:27.7	It's been a long time since people have been able to go to the movies
0:30.6	and see a sort of straightforward, wholesome, fun adventure.
1:49.8	Music wholesome, fun, oh, oh. We're All right, all those Star Wars fans and Moof Milkers, Everywhere.
1:54.8	Welcome to episode number 447 of last points is Jason.
1:56.4	And this is Gabe.
2:02.1	This week, we are starting off a trilogy of episodes.
2:03.3	Right?
2:07.6	We had so much fun doing the two Revenge of the Sith episodes.
2:09.3	We're like, well, why not do a trilogy?
2:12.8	Yeah, there's two Sith, but there's always three.
2:15.5	The movie's always come in threes.
2:16.5	They're always trilogies.
2:18.3	It's a trilogy of trilogies, so let's do our own. And what do we love more than anything other than just Star Wars or
2:24.3	George Lucas? Interviews with George Lucas about Star Wars. Yeah, it's such a thing too, because
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