IGN UK Podcast #266: Gary Whitta Talks Star Wars & Starlight

IGN UK Podcast

IGN

Leisure, Video Games

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We really are spoiling you with our pod-guests these days. Hot-on-the-heels of Ex Machina’s Alex Garland and Evolve’s Phil Robb, we’ve now got games journalist-turned-screenwriter Gary Whitta joining Chris and Gav for an epic cast. Whitta started out in the games industry in the late 1980s before making the transition to film via The Book of Eli and Another Earth. For the last year he’s been busy working in a galaxy far, far away, writing the first standalone movie in the new Star Wars cycle, which will be directed by Gareth ‘Godzilla’ Edwards and hitting screens December 2016. Gary doesn’t reveal much about the movie – bound as he is by the mother of all non-disclosure agreements – but he does talk about his love of The Empire Strikes Back, how the original trilogy inspired his generation of writers and filmmakers, and what working on this new movie has been like as a creative experience. Oh, and his failure in a Star Wars quiz many moons ago also gets a (somewhat unfair) mention. If that weren’t enough, Gary offers his advice to aspiring screenwriters, talks about games as an art-form in the 21st Century, explains where’s he’s at with his adaptation of Mark Millar comic Starlight, tells an AMAZING story aboutFrank Darabont, and gives us the skinny on his forthcoming novel Abomination, which is available via pre-sale this Monday, February 9. Braking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul hits Netflix this week so the boys discuss their hopes and fears for the show, while the conversation about potential TV reboots rumbles on, with Star Trek, The Crystal Maze and Green Wing all getting a mention in reader feedback. Out this week includes games Gunman Clive 2, Game of Thrones Episode 2 and Evolve, while the big movie releases are Selma, Shaun the Sheep and Jupiter Ascending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Igen UK podcast I am Chris this week I'm joined by
0:09.8	Gavin and we are spoiling you yet again because we have another guest and it's a really good one this week.
0:16.4	It's a gentleman called Gary Whitter.
0:18.6	Hello.
0:19.6	Hello Gary.
0:20.6	Gary is a game journalist turned screenwriter, turn comic book writer, turn game writer, turn book writer.
0:27.0	I do a lot of turning, apparently.
0:29.0	Yeah, well you've done it all though.
0:31.0	I've done a bit, a fair bit.
0:32.0	It's impressive. I'm quite old, so I've had time to do lots of things and you're
0:35.2	also pretty much the perfect guess because those are all the subjects we cover on
0:38.0	this podcast yeah I know I'm like the Igen like if you built like an Igen podcast robot yeah it'd be you kind of like me I suppose if.N. podcast robot. Yeah, it would be you.
0:43.0	If we were in America, you'd be the MVP.
0:47.2	I like that. And you now live in America.
0:49.5	I'm now live in America. I'm very good friends with a lot of the I.
0:53.0	I was there. I'm old enough to remember to be like Grandpa Simpson telling all those old stories.
1:00.0	I remember when I. G.N. was created when it was Imagine Games Network.
1:04.6	That's what the I. G. N originally stood for.
1:06.2	And I used to work for a company called Future Publishing, which they did an Ameri.
1:10.5	He was the editor of PC gamer back many years ago and future became or
1:14.0	launched an American version of itself called Imagine.
1:16.5	And Imagine Games Network was the online part of that and then many years later it's
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