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Looking at Lucasfilm Episode 44: Does it have to be called “Star Wars”?

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Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dan Zehr & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about how the phased opening of the Disneyland Resort may impact this year’s Star Wars Celebration as well as Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite. They then look back at how 20th Century Fox’s market research almost tripped up George Lucas’ chance to make “A New Hope” at that Studio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to looking at Lucasfilm, the podcast with a different perspective on the world of Star Wars,

0:05.2

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

0:10.3

and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

0:15.0

I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and my co-host, the one, the only Dan Zee and I are recording this on Wednesday, June 10th. So Dan, did you see the news about the reopening of the

0:28.8

Disneyland Resort? I did, and it's just amazing how every time you and I said to record something

0:35.0

breaks or you know is revealed and then we can plug it into the show and of course

0:40.0

you're always on top of things so So yeah, this is some interesting news and

0:44.0

interesting specific dates and historical relevance to them too.

0:48.5

Yeah, you know, just, well, what Dan is referring to is we know, again, today Newsburg about the phased opening of the

0:58.4

Disneyland resort.

1:00.4

And remember, they've been closed since middle of March, right?

1:04.0

Yeah.

1:05.0

Oh, yeah.

1:06.0

So, okay.

1:08.0

We start with downtown, the downtown Disney retail dining district that that supposedly is going to open

1:16.2

on July 9th. Then on July 17th, which as you just point out historical significance that's the what is it that's the

1:26.8

65th anniversary of the opening yeah yeah pretty It can't be an accident.

1:35.0

The polite way of saying that Dan is there's a warehouse full of 65th anniversary

1:41.0

merch that was opened.

1:43.0

It go ordered many months ago.

1:45.0

And it's like, you know, I am not going to eat these t-shirts.

1:48.5

You open that park in the 17th.

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