Lawrence Kasdan, Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren, and Janet Lewin (ILM, Light & Magic) Interviews

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Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We attended a couple of incredible roundtable interviews for LIGHT & MAGIC, Lawrence Kasdan’s 6-part documentary series about Industrial Light & Magic. We couldn’t recommend the series more. We spoke to Lawrence Kasdan (!!!!), the director of LIGHT & MAGIC, writer of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RETURN OF THE JEDI, THE FORCE AWAKENS, SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and so much more. Then, we talked to special effects masters Phil Tippett and Dennis Muren about the changing industry and their friendship. Finally, we spoke with Janet Lewin, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of ILM today about the Volume, the sequel trilogy and Rogue One, and more. THANK YOU to Lucasfilm and Disney+ for this incredible opportunity and thanks to our fellow outlets for asking incredible questions, including Fangirls Going Rogue, Coffee with Kenobi, Jedi News, Skywalking Through Neverland, LaughingPlace, Ecron Fantastique, Frogi, CHIPPO, MoviePlayer, and more. https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:15.6	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:18.7	Hey everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this
0:21.7	exciting episode where we got to attend the Light and Magic Press Day, which means we got to do
0:28.0	a lot of exciting and very nerve-wracking interviews. Yeah, roundtable interviews. So you all know,
0:35.3	because you're reading the title of this podcast, but we got to ask Lawrence
0:41.0	Kasden two questions. So that is great. We have that audio and we have that here for you. All of these are
0:48.6	roundtable interviews. And I think a lot of really interesting things were discussed so I really hope you enjoy.
0:55.6	We just wrapped up these interviews. It was a wild ride and again, can't wait for you to listen to it.
1:01.0	We aren't sure where this is going to be airing, but Light and Magic comes out July 27th on Disney
1:05.9	Plus all six parts. It's a six hour, amazing ride and look into ILM and the history of ILM. And truly,
1:14.7	I feel like we as fans are so lucky to have this six-part documentary series that feels so akin to
1:20.3	these old special effects and behind the scenes specials that I think Caitlin and I watched
1:25.1	when we were young. And we now have this sort of, I don't know,
1:29.8	a primer, basically for the history of it starting. It's so zeroed in on ILM versus other parts
1:36.2	about Lucasfilm. And it's just amazing. So it was a joy to talk with these creators. We talked to
1:41.5	Lawrence Kasden. We talked to, I cannot believe we're going to say this,
1:45.2	visual effects masters Phil Tippett and Dennis Buren. And we also talked to Janet Lewin, who is the
1:51.6	senior vice president and general manager of ILM. A lot of cool things were discussed in that. I asked her
1:55.9	about the sequel trilogy. I don't know. It was great. And she really helped bring stagecraft to ILM and to Star Wars. So it's great. It's a great
2:06.8	conversation. She was super interesting. Everyone was super interesting. So without further ado,
2:11.4	here are the interviews. We're going to start with Lawrence Kasden. Then we're going to go to Phil Tippett and Dennis Mirren's joint
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