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The ForceCast: July 8th - J.W. Rinzler

ForceCast Network: Star Wars News and Commentary (All Shows)

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The ForceCast is BACK! This week, Ryan and Daniel sit down with former Non-Fiction Editor for Lucasfilm, J.W. Rinzler.The trio discuss his career at Lucasfilm, the making of books, working with GL himself and his upcoming project, All Up.

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0:00.0

This is a presentation of the Force Cast Network, the official podcast network of the Force Cast. Join us each week for the latest Star Wars news, rumors, celebrity interviews, and more.

0:30.0

Now here are your hosts Ryan and Daniel. Welcome to a very special edition of the Force Cast. This is a regular episode of the Force Cast, but we had an hour long discussion with J.W. Rinsler.

0:55.3

If you don't know who J. W. Rinsler is, look him up.

0:59.9

He was at one time the non-fiction editor for Lucas Film in their publishing edition all the way

1:06.3

from like early 2000s to 2014.

1:10.8

He was making a Force Awakens makeup book until Disney squashed it.

1:15.0

He no longer worked for Lucasfilm, but he does have a cool novel coming out.

1:18.0

We do touch into his entire career at Lucasfilm.

1:21.0

We have interest in bringing him back on, but we thought this was so great.

1:24.6

We'll just make the whole episode about this conversation with J W R Rensler.

1:29.6

We talk about Revenge of the Sith, Making of New Hope, Making of Empire, Making of Return of the

1:35.0

Jedi books. Talk about his star at Lucasfilm. Talk about George, the culture around

1:40.0

Lucasfilm during the prequel era, Rick McCallum, everything you can think of.

1:43.6

So if you don't know who this is, go look up J.W. Rinsler and then listen to it.

1:47.3

But he's made Making of Revenge of the Sith, Making of Star Wars, the Making of Empire, the Making of Return of the Jedi,

1:53.6

amazing in-depth coffee table books,

1:55.8

just a great guy with a great career

1:58.6

and has a lot of fun stories to tell.

2:00.4

So hopefully we'll have him back on again soon. You can go to his website or pre-order his

2:06.7

book on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or anywhere books or sold. So anyways, here, I don't know this is just the intro welcome to the

2:16.3

Force cast this is the Force cast for Tuesday July 7th hope you're all staying

2:21.0

safe enjoy this conversation with me, Daniel, and JW Rinsler.

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