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Skytalkers

George Lucas & Steven Spielberg: Best Friends and Filmmakers Forever

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Film Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, podcasting BFF’s Charlotte and Caitlin take a look at the relationship between filmmaker BFFs: George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. They dive into George and Steven’s friendship and partnership as creatives who have come to define the film industry for the past 50 years. The episode covers Steven’s early thoughts on Star Wars, the creation of Indiana Jones, their shared love of American artist Norman Rockwell, and much more.   Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more!: https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers  Show notes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84348744   http://skytalkers.com  http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers  http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod  https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast  http://www.twitter.com/crerrity  http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher  hello@skytalkers.com    #starwars #indianajones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Before there were BFFs, Caitlin and Charlotte, there were the arguably more famous BFFs, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg.

0:09.5

In this episode, we'll look at the partnership of a lifetime between these two monumental filmmakers.

0:29.3

Music Welcome to Sky Talkers.

0:32.7

Here are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.

0:35.3

Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers.

0:36.3

I'm your host Charlotte.

0:36.8

Hey, everyone.

0:38.0

I'm your other host, Caitlin,

0:44.6

and we are here this week to talk all about the most famous BFFs that we know of.

0:49.1

I don't know if they're the most famous, but they're like the most famous in my world.

0:57.2

To us. Aside from us, they're the most famous. Which is the relationship, the partnership, the friendship, the friendship between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I am really excited to do this

1:03.2

episode. It's one that I've actually wanted to do for a really long time. I love both of these

1:08.3

filmmakers and look up to them. I felt like ever since we did our George Lucas series,

1:12.8

Caitlin and I have kind of done these like sort of offshoots where we dive deeper into like one

1:17.6

segment of George Lucas's life. And it felt only right that as we're on the cusp of Indiana

1:24.6

Jones and the Diala Destiny, which is produced by Stevens-Fielberg,

1:28.3

but isn't directed. It's the only Indiana Jones movie that isn't directed by Steven Spielberg.

1:32.8

As we're coming up on that, it felt right to do this deep dive into Stephen and George

1:37.7

and their friendship and their relationship and their partnership in collaboration and things like that. So it's really exciting. I had so much

1:47.3

fun digging into this. I don't know about you, but it was so joy-filled. I don't know. I love this.

1:54.3

Yeah, they are, they're quite a duo. And it's one of those like fun things I think about

1:59.2

George Lucas's life that he has

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