Talking Star Wars with George Lucas Biographer Brian Jay Jones | 8

Inside Star Wars

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Documentary, Film History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this special BONUS episode, INSIDE STAR WARS creator and host Mark Ramsey interviews Brian Jay Jones, the author of the recent best-selling biography “George Lucas: A Life.” We talk about our shared love of the original film and how the franchise shaped our youths. We discuss what it’s like to chase down the details of a living legend who has contributed so much to modern pop culture. And Brian reveals the one question he would most like to ask Lucas today: “Are you happy?”

It’s a fascinating conversation about the man at the center of Star Wars.

Brian Jay Jones also wrote a wonderful biography of Muppet creator Jim Henson, and his current best-seller is this great book: “Becoming Dr. Seuss - Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination.”

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Inside Star Wars ad free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	The following may contain mature content.
0:20.0	From Wundry, I'm Mark Ramsey Ramsey and this is a special bonus episode of Inside Star Wars.
0:27.0	I am here with Brian J Jones.
0:30.0	Brian is the author of many excellent and popular biographies of some of the best known names in popular culture.
0:35.0	He wrote among others, Jim Henson, the biography about the legendary Muppeteer.
0:40.0	Brian's newest book, which is available at bookstores and online right now is
0:43.8	becoming Dr. Seuss, Theodore Geisle, and the Making of an American Imagination.
0:48.8	It's a mouthful Brian, but I get it.
0:50.3	It's the reason... I hate subtitles, but that one had to work.
0:53.8	It's a great subtitle.
0:55.2	It's a great subtitle.
0:56.7	The reason he's here with us today is because of the book he wrote in between those two projects
1:01.0	and it was one of my main sources for various parts of
1:05.0	inside Star Wars is called George Lucas A Life. It's an incredible biography
1:09.7	really the best of its kind. One of the questions I want to ask you in fact Brian is that there
1:15.1	aren't a lot of books on George Lucas, it seems to me. There are a lot of books on
1:21.1	Star Wars, but there aren't a lot of books on George Lucas.
1:24.0	Right. There were there were two other biographies.
1:28.0	One was written by Dale Pollack that came out in 83 the first time.
1:32.0	So it was like right. Is that sky walking sky walking yeah right right and it's right as Jedi is coming out and so you know
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