Episode CCCXXV: Empire of Dreams
Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews
Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker
4.3 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Bryan, Holly, and Mike discuss the 2004 documentary Empire of Dreams that covers the making of the original trilogy and the behind the scenes drama that plagued the productions. With the documentary streaming for free on Amazon Prime, now is the perfect time to revisit the doc and then listen to the episode (or vice versa.) Afterward, Mike has an announcement.
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| 0:00.0 | The things that's sticking my mind that made me laugh were like memos worried about whether or not the Wookiee should have pants. |
| 0:07.0 | They're looking at this thing and saying, couldn't he have some laterhosen? |
| 0:11.0 | And what I thought, isn't this great, you know? |
| 0:14.0 | Of all the things to worry about, the Wookiee has no pants. Welcome Masters and Padawans to episode 325 of Cool Sith. |
| 0:46.1 | I am the Mike Ireland. |
| 0:47.1 | With me is my co-host, Holly Friam, Brian Young. |
| 0:50.3 | And I'm happy to be here with you guys this week. |
| 0:52.7 | We have some cool stuff to talk about and some other things, |
| 0:55.3 | and Brian, |
| 0:56.0 | why don't you set it up for us what we're going to be discussing today. |
| 0:58.3 | Well, as some of you may know, |
| 1:00.7 | we've talked about it a little bit on social media, |
| 1:03.6 | but Amazon Prime has put up the two-and-a-half-hour Empire of Dreams documentary, |
| 1:08.9 | free to anyone with a prime account. And we thought it would be great to go revisit that documentary and talk about it and talk about the making of the classic trilogy through the lens of that documentary, which it originally came out in 2004 for the 2004 DVD release of the Star Wars movies. |
| 1:30.7 | And it got an abridged, a much shortened down, cut down version that aired on television. |
| 1:38.0 | I think you might said the history channel is where you've seen it the first time. |
| 1:43.9 | And so yeah, we all took a gander. We all watched it all over again. |
| 1:48.4 | And I think I had a great time doing so. |
| 1:52.4 | I mean, we just were talking about this before the show. And I said it's, it's one of those |
| 1:58.0 | things watching that elicits so much love out of me for Star Wars. |
| 2:02.9 | Just watching and hearing, you're right, there was some things that I didn't remember watching it the other day. |
| 2:08.0 | And it was shortened for TV, right? |
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