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

I'm an entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Brian Gone and I are recording this week's show on Tuesday, January 10th, 2022.

By the way, it's my brother Peter's 60-second birthday today. Yeah, I can have your birthday, Pete. Happy birthday, Peter. Yeah, I have a poor guy's at home recovering from a herty operation. Oh, God.

By the way, quick suggestion here, regard to choices coming to birthday cake, Pete. Don't go with a pound cake.

And go with the angel cake or angel food cake. You know, lighter. There we go.

If all goes according to plan folks, this episode will be posted online on Wednesday, January 11th, which is one episode eight of the Willow limited series at Lucasfilm,

a different Disney plus wood debut, likewise episode three of season two of Star Wars bad batch Brian and I will be talking about both of those shows in the second half of today's show, but first the news.

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Please book online at storybook destinations dot com. Okay, Brian, I wanted to do a quick follow up on a story we reported on our last looking at Lucasfilm involved legendary conductor and composer John Williams, who will be 91 next month.

There was a video making the rounds that was recently taken at a concert in Italy. Williams is at the podium and is about to treat that audience to some music that he had written for Indiana Jones in the dial of destiny.

But before John begins conducting this piece of music, he says, so we have just about completed the film. We may have maybe another ending to shoot and to record maybe in a couple of weeks.

So couple of new sites online. This one here included took that story and ran with it, suggesting that maybe a new ending for Indiana Jones five might be in the works, which I don't, did you see this is Brian where James Mangold, the actual director of dial of destiny took to social media on Sunday, December 18th to do spute.

Yeah, he, he fell short of calling John Williams, see now saying he's an old man. He doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not going to be any new ending.

Well, I mean, I'm paraphrasing. I'm paraphrasing. There we go. All right. At that time, Mangold said, so I took a birthday break from trolls. I mean, it seems I got a once again, say, we're not shooting.

And never shot any new scenes or alternate endings are filmed. It's 99% finished getting rated by the MPAA and visual effects being completed. So it's sort of like Indiana Jones and dial destiny is still on track to open in theaters June 30th of this year. That's a Friday, by the way.

And since the 4th of July is on a Tuesday in 2023, well, that's going to translate into a super long opening weekend.

Yeah, that's exactly what you want, but I'm surprised they're going to do it on a Friday because movies of this caliber, they usually do on a Wednesday to get the run up to, or actually, you know, it says it's open on Friday, but it really is going to open on Thursday.

You're not wrong. You're not wrong. And sometimes those preview nights are insanely lucrative. But again, that's all part of Disney's playbook. You know, those are the previews. Likewise, what they've been doing publicity was going to face it. Nobody markets like the mouse.

Right. So we had trailer for Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny was placed in front of most prints of Avatar, the way of water.

And I closed my eyes. Did you? Yeah, I'm realizing there's a there's an article that came out about how marketing ruined a movie, ruined movies.

And it's true. There's like with the first Indiana Jones, the first Raiders of the Lost Ark, they showed in the trailer the guy with the sword and in deshooting him.

Well, I was very fortunate to see it at a preview the two weeks before it came out. So I was surprised, but nobody else was surprised.

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