Looking at Lucasfilm with Brian Gaughan Ep 90: When Luke Skywalker finally met his Mom

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Brian Gaughan & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about the recently announced “Mandalorian & Grogu” film project. They also discuss how the first C3PO AA figure was created for “Star Tours” Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: What are Kylo Ren’s original story in the Disney-produced “Star Wars” trilogy supposed to have been like Why has production of the previous announced Rey-tries-to-revive-the-Jedi-Order film project been delayed yet again What scene was the first to be shot during production of “Return of the Jedi” back in January of 1982 Which well-known British actors were reportedly considered to be inside of Darth Vader’s helmet when Luke finally removed his Dad’s face plate in Episode VI Who accidentally revealed that C3PO was supposed to the pilot of the StarSpeeder 1000 in “Sat Tours: The Adventures Continue” 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, Indiana Jones, and all of the other entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Day Faloney, and John Favreau, as well as the rest of the team at Lucas film, have dreamed up over the past 40 years.
0:17.0	I'm Entertainment Writer Jim Hill and my co-host Brian Gunn and I are recording this week's show on Saturday, January 13th,
0:26.1	2024, just two days out for Martin Luther King Day.
0:29.9	Do you have any plans for the three-day weekend, Brian?
0:33.0	Up to anything special?
0:34.7	Maybe a set of 12 hours of sleep, 13 hours of sleep.
0:40.9	Yeah, that's the joy of being an older white male, isn't it? It's like, oh, sleep.
0:49.0	Yeah, yeah. And naps, naps are a good thing.
0:52.0	Naps are the greatest things. Naps are a good thing.
0:53.6	So, has your new year gotten off to a good start?
0:57.5	Yes, yeah, we've done pretty good.
1:00.1	Leana, being Armenian, has this thing that if you lose something of value, then all the bad luck and evil will go with it.
1:13.0	When we first got married, she lost her wedding ring.
1:17.0	Now we found the engagement ring, but we lost the wedding ring.
1:21.0	She told me this, so it was easier to accept.
1:25.4	I've been married now for going on 26 years,
1:28.3	so I think it's pretty, it works. So this Christmas, it seems that Leana lost a ring that was worth quite a lot of money and she thinks that she threw it away into the recycling and she called
1:48.5	the recycling they go well we don't even look through it we just crush it right away and then we send it off. So I said, there it is. That's going to be our
1:58.7	2024. We're going to have a good one because all the bad luck and evil has gone with this very
2:06.4	expensive ring. That made me feel very good about this year. I haven't lost anything of value well other than my mind but yeah I know
2:16.0	can I just again I'm entering that phase of my life where you walk into a room with purpose and then like I'm coming in here because oh yeah you know that the thing I meant to do you know but just of, you know, you can walk my feet and your brain gets distracted.
2:36.3	Well, 2023 was not a great year and especially with the losing of Mr. Adams, which I'm still messed up about.
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