Episode 72 - The Star Wars That Almost Were Star Wars

Blast Points - Star Wars Podcast

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4.8 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jason and Gabe are kicking off their birthday party for the original STAR WARS with a look at weird and wild early drafts of the 1977 classic. With vastly different outlines and scripts that spanned from 1973 to just months before filming began, the story of how they evolved and the stories inside them are equally insane. Who is Captain Kayos & what about Luke Starkiller with his twin brothers Biggs and Windy? It's all in there and Jason & Gabe may still be confused about it all! Before that, they share how they spent their May the 4th, how they both failed at Star Wars trivia, discuss some interesting Last Jedi stuff and there's listener reviews!! So get your space ostrich, grab your lazersword 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 Jason at Gibnerd@hotmail.com May the Force be with you, always.

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0:00.0	The original concept really related to a father and a son and twins, I mean, a son and a daughter.
0:17.0	And it was that relationship that was the core of the story.
0:21.6	And it went through a lot of mechanations before I even got to the first draft screenplay.
0:30.6	And various characters changed shapes and sizes.
0:36.6	And it isn't really until it evolved into what is close to what Star Wars now is that then I begin to go back and deal with the stories that evolved to get us to that point.
0:54.0	And that, you know, it's hard to say really
0:57.1	where the, you know, how it evolves into a piece because it, you know, you evolve with
1:05.6	various scenes and various moments. And when you're creating something like that, the story itself takes over and the characters
1:13.6	take over and they begin to tell the story apart from what you're doing, you know, and you
1:18.6	kind of go with it and you have to go with it and it sends you down some very funny paths.
1:22.6	Then you have to figure out how to break that apart and put the puzzle back together so it makes sense and is cohesive. But that's the adventure of writing, the fact that you're not sure where it's going to go.
1:31.3	And I think it took a while, I mean I worked on Star Wars for a couple of years
1:37.3	before it evolved into what it is.
1:39.3	... The The
2:03.6	Weirr, Oh Oh Oh Oh
2:35.0	Oh
2:39.0	Oh All right. All right. Hello, Star Wars fans and MoofMilkers everywhere.
3:13.8	Welcome to episode number 72 of Blast Points.
3:16.6	This is Jason.
3:17.7	And this Gabe, too.
3:19.0	May the 4th, came and went.
3:21.2	Did you do anything to celebrate?
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