Welcome to Looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different respective on the world of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one and only Dan Z, and I are recording this

show on Wednesday, February 4th.

By the way folks, I don't know how many of you were following Dan on Twitter.

He regularly tweets out some very cool items on his coffee and canobe account and Dan I just want to say this

past week I particularly enjoyed that vanity fair piece you found about the effects

for Risero Sky Walker?

Is that the Bresnakan piece?

I think so. I just I loved especially the footage of how they worked with the Carrie Fisher stuff from the

force awakens? Yes and incorporate into the rise of Skywalker just yeah

absolutely incredible.

How could you not want an Oscar for this?

Oh, no, no, totally, totally.

But again, for me, what's fascinating is the choices they made.

I mean, they basically kept Carrie's face so you you got

the emotion you got the reality of that performance but then everything else from

what they changed her hairstyle, her wardrobe, the setting she was in, and you

look at the finished footage and you never, never know that this wasn't shot right there on the set.

Right.

It's, it's, uh, I mean, it really is stunning.

I had someone say to me a couple of days ago. They said, I'm really confused Dan.

Wasn't Carrie Fisher, didn't she pass away before this movie? Because it seems like they filmed her stuff already. And because this person didn't know. this

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