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Radio Land Murders: A Quirky Tribute to Classic Hollywood from Lucasfilm (Ep. 100)

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Looking at Lucasfilm, Jim Hill and Brian Gaughan celebrate October with a special look at horror films and their unexpected ties to Lucasfilm. Brian kicks off by sharing his month-long cinematic Halloween project, while Jim reveals his love for Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and its surprising connection to Lucasfilm’s scrapped Frankenstein CG film. The episode also pays tribute to the late Lucasfilm producer Robert Watts, dives into the anniversary of Star Wars Rebels, and previews the upcoming John Williams documentary debuting on Disney+. Also in this episode: The removal of the Indiana Jones films from Disney+ and what’s behind the licensing shuffle. Updates on The Mandalorian and Grogu feature film, set to hit theaters in 2026. A deep dive into Radio Land Murders as it celebrates its 30th anniversary, and how it laid the groundwork for future Lucasfilm projects. Join Jim and Brian for a nostalgic, fun, and insightful journey through the world of Lucasfilm, just in time for Halloween! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Looking at Lucasome with Brian Gunn, the podcast with a different perspective in the world of Star Wars,

0:07.2

Indiana Jones, and all of the other entertainment entities that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy,

0:12.2

Dave Faloney, and John Favreau, as well as the rest of the team of Lucas film, have dreamed up over the past 43 years.

0:20.0

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill, we by the way we are recording this on

0:25.9

October 16th and I'm joined tonight by my co-host pop culture enthusiast and all-around good guy, Brian Gunn, who's undertaking a kind of unique

0:36.9

project for the, well now the better part of October, sort of a cinematic celebration of Halloween if it were. Brian can you explain what you've been up to?

0:46.4

Yeah for my five or six or so people who follow me on Instagram. No, there's more. I use a couple years ago what I did was I went out and I bought these cool Halloween t-shirts and every day I would wear a different Halloween t-shirt and I would

1:05.3

take a picture of it and what it means to me and Jaws is my favorite movie and things

1:11.2

like that and it was fun and then didn't do anything last year but then this

1:16.0

year I decided I was going to watch a horror movie every day and then write about it the next day and put it up there. It's

1:27.3

funny how I'm finding films that kind of tell a story of where I was at the time I saw it. I mean most of these films mean a lot to me.

1:37.0

Even the ones I've just discovered and I asked you what your favorite scary movie was so I could watch it and write about.

1:47.8

And I, of course, this is what I do.

1:50.4

I threw Brian a curveball because my favorite horror movie is Abbott Gisolo Beat

1:56.7

Frankenstein from June of 1948. By the way I am serious about this.

2:01.6

Yep. If you If you actually watch this movie, first of all, the monsters, or at least two of them in this thing are played by the actors who created these

2:17.6

roles. You've got Bella Legosie as Count Dracula, you've got Lon Cheney Jr. is Lawrence Talbot, the Wolfman. And they play it, the monsters, the

2:28.0

classic monsters, the universe of classic monsters, straight. By the way, the movie has amazing production values.

2:35.0

I mean, but again, you know, the universe has these horror sets lying around.

2:40.0

So it's just sort of like, hey, oh, you need a laboratory.

2:42.0

I got one of those.

2:44.0

Abbott Kosello are in top form.

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