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Looking At Lucasfilm Episode 13: The Star Wars-themed coaster that Disney wanted to build in the 1980s

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dan Zehr & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about how (based on what happened with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) “Episode IX” really was wrapped production. They then talk about Ron Miller’s role in persuading George Lucas to let the Imagineers develop some rides, shows & attractions based on Lucasfilm productions for the Disney Parks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Industrial Light and Magic, Lucas Arts, Sky Walker Sound, Lucas Film Animation. This is looking

0:10.4

at Lucas Film with Jim Hill and Dan Z.

0:15.0

Welcome to Looking at Lucas Film, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of Star Wars,

0:20.0

Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas,

0:23.3

Kathleen Kennedy, and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm

0:26.2

have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

0:29.1

I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill, and my co-host, the one the only Dan Z, is busy updating the scoreboard where if

0:36.2

you look close for those who are playing along at home, I was wrong.

0:40.9

Again. again. and you were right. Yes that much I got right at this point everything we're being told is

0:55.8

Star Wars celebration that's where the trailer's gonna drop yada yada yada yada you did

1:00.8

better than the rams. Yeah it was hard not to do worse than the Rams. But yeah, if you remember from our last looking at Lucas film podcast, I mentioned that the trailers for Captain Marvel, Avengers Endgame, and the Disney's live action version of

1:16.0

Aladdin would be shown during this year Super Bowl. And well, okay, I was two-thirds of the way right. The first two, the Marvel movies, they did have commercials that did

1:25.0

air during the CBS broadcast, whereas Disney's ad for Aladdin wouldn't show up on television

1:31.1

till a full week later.

1:32.5

Mind you, it was on CBS, but the Aladdin ad aired during the Grammys,

1:37.9

which, okay, so you have Will Smith as the Genie.

1:42.0

I get that. It makes sense to drop that during the Grammys. But did you see the footage of the genie there? I did. I did. And I don't have a problem with it at all really okay I'm a guy who

1:57.1

likes to grade in a curve I mean again I'm sorry I looked at that CG footage and

2:02.2

suddenly Max Reboe is a really attractive guy.

2:06.0

He was much more hip, yes, and much more vocal.

2:11.0

Yeah, okay, we're gonna talk about this later

2:13.6

when we talk about episode nine,

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