Episode 455 - Starlog Magazine Predicts The Star Wars Future

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

Tv & Film

4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In 1987, in an issue celebrating the first 10 years of the saga, the legendary Starlog magazine featured an article titled Behind the Lines of Star Wars that somehow predicted the next almost 40 years of stories! Join us as we go through the article by the mysterious Michael Wolff and discuss what he got right and what it still could predict for stories not even told yet! So start a farm, listen today and celebrate the love! 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	The thrilling tales of the Jedi Knights made the Star Wars movies among the biggest ever made,
0:05.0	and they all started in the imagination of George Lucas.
0:08.0	But Leonard Malton found out on an exclusive visit to Skywalker Ranch in Northern California
0:13.0	that Lucas has more in mind for the Skywalker family.
0:17.0	There's a lot of things happening.
0:19.0	It's much more about betrayal and those kinds of issues.
0:33.4	Most moviegoers around the world are already familiar with those landmark films Star Wars,
0:38.9	The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. But many of them may not realize that those three
0:44.1	hit films were the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters of a much larger story. During a recent visit
0:50.0	with the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, he revealed some of his plans for the next series of Star Wars films. Well, the Star Wars saga, I'm not going to pin you down to things you may not even have thought of yet, but I mean, will it be a continuation the weight of the kind of films we've seen already? Yeah, it's pretty much in the same. It's designed to fit in one big package, so it definitely is not going to be completely different. There's some action, you know, there's action in it. There's some action set pieces and things like that, but it's more people betraying people. You're not knowing quite what's going on. You know, you don't know who the good guys are or who the bad guys are, and it's... Well, are any characters in it? If it's earlier, a lot of them wouldn't be alive, right? Well, it's...
1:30.6	It's... are who the bad guys are and it's, you know, it'll be interesting. Well, are any characters in it for these earlier, a lot of them wouldn't be alive, right?
1:29.3	Well, it's, you know, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker and Mrs. Anika Skywalker.
1:38.3	Mm-hmm.
1:39.3	One can only imagine a young Obi-Wan Kenobi flashing his lightsaber, and think of the possibilities of learning
1:45.2	how Luke Skywalker's father, Anakin, turned from Jedi Knight to the evil Darth Vader.
1:50.7	When you put it all together, it'll be a complete story. We're going to be. We're going to be. We're going to be. Oh Oh Oh Oh
2:18.3	Oh
2:20.3	Oh
2:21.3	Oh
2:22.3	Oh Oh Oh Oh
2:35.0	Oh
2:37.0	Oh
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