Episode 449 - The 2005 George Lucas Rolling Stone Interview

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Tv & Film

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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It’s the epic conclusion to our trilogy of George Lucas Rolling Stone interview episodes and this week it’s The Revenge of the Lucas (or is it the Return?). Either way, this Lucas is in the world between worlds, ending his saga and feeling pretty good again. Along the way he’s getting deep on creating life and wondering if he’s ever known anyone in an iron lung. Which all makes total sense. So have a Diet Coke, 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	Are you happy with the way it all came out?
0:03.1	Yeah, actually, I'm very happy.
0:05.1	Yeah, I'm very pleased with the whole thing.
0:06.9	And action.
0:08.5	If the movie-making technology has moved at warp speed in the last six years,
0:13.7	George's personal life has changed very little.
0:17.1	I'm open!
0:20.2	A single dad, he still spends as much time as he can with his three adopted children,
0:25.6	Amanda 23, Katie 16, and Jet, 12, who's already taller than his dad.
0:33.6	I've discovered that that truly is where the happiness is, is, you know, at home with kids.
0:41.7	What if someone else beside you came to you and said, I want to make episode seven?
0:49.0	Could you see that happening?
0:51.4	No.
0:52.7	No, absolutely, positively, you're really closing the door without any
0:57.0	wiggle room whatsoever. Right. There is no episode seven. But there will be other films. He's
1:02.3	producing another Indiana Jones movie with Steven Spielberg directing. Then he says he'll return
1:08.8	to directing films, but different kinds of films they're going to be
1:13.2	small movies you said to somebody i'm going to go off and make these art films that nobody's
1:18.5	going to want to watch yeah i've i've earned enough i've worked enough to be able to fail the rest of my
1:23.4	life and that's what i'm going to do that's some ambition well it's what you's what you work for in the end. It's a little weird. Well, not really. I don't think everything should be this big blown out, a super kind of movie that I stumbled into is definitely not what I meant to do. And I've just sort of followed it to the end. You called it a detour.
1:45.3	It is a detour. Only is the 30-year detour.
1:47.5	It is. We're in a lot of Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, uh,
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