Talking About The Star Wars Prequels: An Empire Podcast Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The new issue of Empire — on sale now at all good, evil and intergalactic newsagents — is something of a celebration of 25 years of the Star Wars prequels, George Lucas' trilogy of movies that began with The Phantom Menace in 1999 and concluded with Revenge Of The Sith, Order 66 and all that, in 2005. Since then, the prequels have generated more debate among Star Wars fans than pretty much anything else you care to name, something that is very much the case in this special podcast episode, as Chris Hewitt, Alex Godfrey and James Dyer talk through the magazine's world-beating coverage of the prequels, discuss their own complicated feelings about the movies (including, yes, Chris' own history with Attack Of The Clones), and bang the drum for the things they love about the trilogy. Does that mean there are plenty of terrible impressions of Boss Nass, Sebulba, the Emperor and more? Not as many as you'd imagine, thankfully. Enjoy. Peeeeeeeeeeeeace!

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0:23.8	Metal is a mobile-based account. Hello Paul and I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to a very special edition of the Empire Podcast and this one is dedicated to well frankly the new issue of Empire magazine.
0:49.9	Yes this is the big push, yes this is the big sell, but it also is a chance for an illuminating
0:56.2	and entertaining conversation about something that quite frankly makes me
1:00.8	feel really old. It is 25 years of the Star Wars prequels. That is the cover
1:09.0	story on this month's empire, the April edition available right now in all good, evil and
1:15.2	virtual news agents. My God, I feel old, but it's true, The Phantom Menace Star Wars episode one,
1:21.4	The Phantom Menace is 25 years old this year and so we have come together as a magazine
1:26.4	to celebrate this and to celebrate the other two Star Wars prequels at
1:30.9	George Lucas directed Star Wars episode, oh what's it called?
1:35.2	Attack of the something? The five-star masterpiece that is Attack of the Clones. We didn't give a five stars, did we?
1:39.7	No one would do that. What idiot would do that. Attack of the Clones and of course Star Wars episode 3, Revenge the Sith in 2005.
1:48.0	And join me to discuss this and to talk through this incredible feature
1:53.7	feature. Alex Godfrey.
1:55.2	Sorry, award winning features editor Alex Godfrey.
1:58.4	Bow down. Bow your heads, you dogs.
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