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at Lucas Film with Jim Hill and Dan Z.

Welcome to Looking at Lucas Film, the podcast with a different perspective 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 had dreamed up over the

past 40 years. I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and as for my coists on the

show, the always informative and entertaining Dan Z

Dan Z. Dan, have you actually had a chance to unpack since we last talk because you just

got back from a very cool place.

Indeed I did. I think I'm 90% unpacked.

I, as you know, I think you referred to it as a Ninja Trip and I kind of had that in my at the back of my mind the entire time quite honestly.

So yeah we're pretty close and got lots of great stories to share with everybody too.

So that's what we call in the business a tease folks.

So Dan will get to describing this place and what he saw in the second half of the show.

But as for how we're going to start off this week, we're actually going to jump right back into what we wound up talking about on our last show. In fact, like an hour or so before you and I recorded our last looking at Lucasfilm Dan, the news about the Mandalorian broke.

It did and then after we actually recorded then even more news broke on it.

Just review here, the baseline on this thing is it's a 10 episode series that's supposed to run on Disney Play the

subscription streaming service that the Walt Disney Company is launching

next year and see I wonder because they already have an

app called Disney Play it's that gaming thing that they have when you're at the

theme parks I do not know what to tell you about that yeah isn't that weird

every so often Disney will reuse a name, but let's review here. So John Favreau is the executive

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