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

Indiana Jones, and all the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Faloney, and the rest of the crew

with Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

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

on Sunday, December 13th. And Dan, I thought it would be worth mentioning

as we start out here that 51 weeks ago,

almost a full year, last year on December 20th, Star Wars episode 9, the Rise of

Skywalker arrived in theaters.

You know, supposed to be the dramatic close of the Sky Walker

soccer with the button on 42 years of epic. supposed to be the dramatic close of the Skymarker soccer

with the button on 42 years of epic filmmaking.

I don't want to get into the rehash of the rather mixed response

that J.J. Abram films got.

But do you remember how Disney Plus actually moved up the release date of episode

7? I do.

Again, season one of my Mandalorian,

moved it for two days because they didn't want those two Star Wars

productions to go head to head on the same day.

Yes, we had made a week between the last two episodes.

That we did.

That we did.

It just for me, it just seems weird how the end of the Star Wars

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