Episode 448 - The 1983 George Lucas Rolling Stone Interview

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Tv & Film

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It’s the darker middle chapter in our epic trilogy of George Lucas Rolling Stone interview episodes as we discuss the chat from 1983. It’s wild as to say Lucas is a little grumpy in this one is an understatement. But it’s not all doom and gloom as he dares to be cute defending Ewoks and takes time out for his favorite healthy breakfast. So don’t listen to Luke Skywalker and his friends, 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	It took so much effort to get up to speed,
0:03.0	which was essentially to make the first film.
0:06.0	And I created this great world,
0:08.0	but I didn't have the fun of being able to run around in it.
0:11.0	Now that I knew the world and I could see it, and it was a real thing,
0:15.0	it brings up all kinds of ideas of things,
0:18.0	and funny moments and adventures that you could have in that environment
0:23.3	that you've created. And I never got to exploit that. And I always felt in my first film
0:29.4	was that, now if I went back and made another film in that environment using those characters,
0:33.0	I could make a hell of a better movie. And it would just be infinitely more exciting and
0:36.7	interesting and fascinating.
0:39.1	Because the first one was just trying to, you know, you're in a foreign environment,
0:42.4	and you just don't know what's going on.
0:44.3	And it's the same for the author as it is for the audience.
0:47.0	I think what happens in a project when you're with it and with the characters is,
0:51.8	which is what happened to me, and the first one sort of led me along this course, is you fall in love with the characters and you fall in love with the environment.
1:02.2	It's like a home. You feel very comfortable making up things that happen in there.
1:07.2	It comes your own little fantasy land, I think. The reality is, is I love that world. I mean, there are friends there. It comes your own little fantasy land, I think. The reality is I love that world.
1:12.6	I mean, there are friends there.
1:15.6	It's like a home.
1:16.6	I have a home there.
1:18.6	And so there's always going to be a desire on my part
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