Steele Wars Ep 149 : Mitch Dyer - The Battlefront II writer reveals how to get your Luke Skywalker story approved by Lucasfilm!
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the eve of Battlefront II's release, Mitch Dyer reveals his surprising journey from a critic covering the previous Battlefront to the writer of the next game in the series.
How closely did the team work with Battlefront II: Inferno Squad novelist Christie Golden with the difficult process of having a relatable lead character who is siding with The Empire.
We chat about the pressure of writing one of the first post Return Of The Jedi canon stories of Luke Skywalker and hear never before heard insight into what Lucasfilm's one big question was before he got the go ahead to tell it.
Plus how Janina Gavankar's poorly coded messaged kickstarted her way to the role and I pitch some amazing Ewok based video game concepts that could change the industry.
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| 0:00.0 | On the eve of Battlefront 2's release, Mitch Dyer reveals his surprising journey from |
| 0:05.5 | Battlefront reviewer to the writer of the next game in the series. |
| 0:09.4 | We chat about the heavy weight of writing one of the first post-return of the Jedi |
| 0:13.4 | Canon stories about Luke Skywalker and get never before heard insight into what Lucas |
| 0:19.0 | film's one big question was before he got the go-ahead. |
| 0:23.3 | That's incomprehensible to me that we got to take a look at Luke Skywalker in the aftermath of |
| 0:31.0 | Return of the Jedi when his father has died. He's seen his father redeem himself. The emperor has fallen. He's realized that Leia is his |
| 0:39.6 | sister. He's come to terms with a lot of stuff. He's probably in a pretty raw place. We had to think |
| 0:45.4 | about what is Luke thinking and how is he thinking about things right now? What kind of journey |
| 0:51.3 | is Luke on after Return of the Jedi? What is he seeking? |
| 0:56.0 | This is Steel Wars episode 149. Mitch Dyer. The Battlefront Two Rider reveals how to get your Luke Skywalker story approved by Lucasfilm. |
| 1:06.1 | This is Steel Wars episode 149 with Mitch Dyer. |
| 1:15.9 | The Battlefront 2 Rider reveals how to get your Luke Skywalker story approved by Lucasfilm. |
| 1:22.8 | This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. |
| 1:26.7 | Visit planetbcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. |
| 1:30.0 | As well as the Making Star Wars Podcast Network. |
| 1:33.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. |
| 1:36.4 | I am comedian, Steel Saunders, and I do love Star Wars. |
| 1:40.2 | And each week we find someone of interest to talk about it with. |
| 1:52.1 | And this week, we have got a man of the moment he co-wrote Battlefront 2 the video game that's about to chew up the lives of many of my friends welcome to the podcast Mitch Dyer |
| 1:59.5 | man that was an intro thanks Thanks, Steele. |
| 2:02.6 | What's going on, man? It's the calm before the storm. You're about to totally tear Star Wars |
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