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Looking at Lucasfilm with Brian Gaughan Ep 93: How Billy Dee Williams was recruited for Star Wars

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Brian Gaughan & Jim Hill start this week’s show by discussing why “The Mandalorian & Grogu” will be shot in the State of California. They also talk about the first five episodes of Season 3 of “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: When will the new version of the “Star Tours: The Adventures Continue” ride film debut at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida and Disneyland Paris What frustrated Ewan McGregor about the shooting of the finale of “Star Wars – Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith” Who was Billy Dee Williams’ stunt double when it came to the scene in “Return of the Jedi” when Lando Calrissian dangled over the Sarlacc pit When does Stellan Skarsgard believe that the second season of “Star Wars: Andor” will begin airing on Disney+ How will the announced layoffs at Electronic Arts reportedly impact that Star Wars-themed first-person shooter that Respawn Entertainment was working on 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,

0:06.7

and all of the other entities at George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Faloney, and John Favreau, and the rest of the team at Lucasfilm have dreamed up over the past 40 years.

0:18.0

I'm Entertaker writer Jim Hill, and my co-host Brian Gunn and I are recording this week's show on Wednesday, March 6,

0:26.0

2024 and we're recording on that date because well to be honest Brian and I wanted to catch up on season 3 of Star Wars the bad batch

0:36.7

which and glist as the show now returned on February 21st after nearly a year.

0:43.0

Last episode of season 2, a bad batch,

0:47.0

that one was entitled Plan 99,

0:50.0

debuted back on March 29, 2023.

0:53.0

So we'll be discussing the first five episodes

0:57.0

of season three, which were confined.

0:59.4

Pat's Unknown Shadow of Tennis, a different approach approach and the one that debuted just today the

1:04.6

return later on in today's show. We'll also be talking about what have we hear,

1:09.3

Portraits of a life that's Billy D. Williams memoir that Random House published back on February 13th.

1:16.5

Brian and I will share a few stories from the 288 page New York Times Best Seller, again later on the show.

1:25.0

But first, the news.

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And as always, the news portion of today's show,

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1:49.9

OK, Brian, so we talked on last week's show about Mando excuse me it goes to the name right the

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