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This Week in Marvel

Writing Star Wars with Gary Whitta!

This Week in Marvel

Marvel

Arts, Tv & Film

4.2982 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ryan is joined by Pull List co-host Tucker Markus, as well as writers Matthew Rosenberg and Gary Whitta, for a BONUSdiscussion about all things Star Wars, from the making of the comic book adaptation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi to the process for developing the script for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Hello Marvelites you are listening to a bonus episode of this week in Marvel. I'm Ryan aka Agent M.

0:26.1

And we are celebrating Star Wars. With the upcoming release of Star Wars, The Rise of

0:31.3

Skywalker in theaters December 20th, We are here in full Star Wars

0:35.2

mode. We had our special big talk last week. We have another one coming later this week. And

0:39.4

today we are thrilled to share our interview with writer Gary Witta. and I didn't do it alone. I was there,

0:44.6

but really I was just riding sidecar because I was joined by Matthew Rosenberg,

0:49.3

writer extraordinaire of many comics including some Star Wars books and Tucker Marcus my co-host on

0:54.4

Marvel's pullis who is a ginormous Star Wars fan in and of himself so Gary

0:59.4

Weta is known in the world of Star Wars for helping develop the story for the 2016 film Rogue One, a Star Wars story.

1:05.5

He's also the writer of Marvel's comic book adaptation of Star Wars The Last Jedi.

1:10.0

He's a Hollywood, Bigwig screenwriter. He penned the films The Book of Eli and After Earth.

1:15.8

He has a ton of years of experience as a journalist. He was editor-in-chief of PC gamer magazine.

1:22.0

I currently enjoy the Dulscet tones of his British accent on

1:26.1

kind of funny's podcast. He does every Widow Wednesday. So without further ado,

1:31.1

please enjoy our chat with Gary Witter.

1:33.2

All right, we are here in San Francisco.

1:39.9

Gary Witter, we are sitting across from each other at a wonderfully bizarre esoteric space here in San Francisco.

1:47.8

How are you?

1:48.8

I'm good. Yeah, I feel like audio listeners are missing out on this very interesting environment you found for us to

1:53.0

podcast in. Yeah all credit goes to Becca our audio producer for finding this

1:58.8

space but I am not alone here with Gary no Tucker you're here hi Ryan and of course we have

2:05.3

Matt wrote I don't know why I said of course it's not like you're on every episode no I'm

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