The Kristian Harloff Show - Will Luke Skywalker appear in Dave Flioni's Star Wars movie?

Episode Date: April 27, 2023

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You can see my out-of-the-the-the-the-reaction, if you want to check that out. It's up there now, but I wanted to get back and make sure that I could do an episode today, and I was like, well, you know, I haven't done the questions from the audience, because there's always a lot of great topics and things that you guys always bring up.

So figured we would do that today. I posted on the big thing Twitter account and the my Facebook page and the community page here. And you guys submitted a bunch of questions. So we'll get into that for sure. And obviously one of those, as you saw from the title, is how involved is Luke going to be in the Asoka series and the Filoni movie moving forward? I'll give you my answer when that question comes up. So we have a lot going on, man. Listen, if you're not going to be able to be there, God, I hope you're able to be there.

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Let's do it. It's Sith Council. I'm ready. You're ready. Let's do it. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Sith Council It is me

Christian Harlow And I'm excited to be here with you today The Mandalorian has officially ended Season 3 It's over in the can Divisive season Divisive season Um

Stand by the thing There was a lot of enjoyable moments from it I do think that it's Absolutely could have been You could have dove deeper. Kind of dove deeper. But there's a lot of people who liked,

there's a lot of people who didn't. Certainly the most divisive season out of the three for sure. And so now, you know, where does Star Wars go from here with Mandalorian season four, with the other things kind of coming up. But speaking to Mandalorian,

we had a really great interview with Katie Sackoff, who's just the best. And that's up on the channel now. And a lot of you guys might have found the channel from that interview. A lot of you guys might have seen clips and stuff going around.

from that and um it was a really good interview was a good talk and um and i'm glad that she's doing as well she is she's really she's just such a genuine human being and i love getting a chance to talk to her and and uh and yeah i'm glad a lot of people are really catching who she really is also besides just the bo-catan moniker she's just a as i've said and you can tell when we talk to her she's just she's the same person i met 17 years ago she doesn't have a she doesn't have an ego. She doesn't have a false sense of self. She knows exactly who she is.

So I think there's a reason why people are starting to catch on. I'm glad that interview is getting around. So if you haven't checked it out, you can head on over to the playlist. You can find it there. And it's in there. And it's actually the featured video on this channel of the moment. So here's what we're going to do, guys. You guys have a bunch of questions, and we're just going to go through them.

I collected them from, like I said, from Twitter and Facebook. and the community page here. I just took a bunch of them, and we're going to go through them. So let's get into it. Let's get into these questions. We'll start with the first one by Michael Braga. Thank you, Michael.

Michael says, should end or season two end where Rogue One starts? I mean, I think that's the plan. I think that Tony Gilroy has always said that. I think that everything inside of season two is ultimately the lead to Rogue One. I think there's going to be a little bit of a time jump, obviously, from what we've seen,

in the in from what they sit what would they did show oh no they didn't show a trailer i thought they showed a trailer for um it was asoka but from what they said is that um mon mothma is past just the you know the kind of trying to figure out what she wants to do i think that she's in the leadership position by the time season two starts at least that's what i remember reading somewhere but i think there's a time jump and it should be a time jump if there's only going to be two seasons and i think it does lead to, I think, the last, I feel that Jin Erso is going to be in this season, I think K2SO is obviously going to be in this season, so curious still on how they're going to do.

It's going to answer so many questions about Canon in general once that scene comes in. I'm being very clear that I don't necessarily think that they need to do it the way. If Tony Gilroy has a different way to introduce how, Andor and K2SO met in Canon, and he feels like it's the right story to tell. Well, who the hell am I to tell Tony Gilroy, who just annihilated it in season one? Well, no, you should stick to what they did in the comic books.

I'm just saying it makes a definitive statement about Canon that anything you read in comic books and anything you read in the novels that they told you was canon, it's, it's, it's, it's not. It is if they don't do anything with it, but they're going to switch it up when they need to, which is maybe the right call. It was the wrong call in 2012 to say, everything. It's all connected. The way that James Gunn did it for DC is like there's, for what we're selecting in this DCU, there will be things that directly coordinate. Not everything is going to be canon, but the stuff that we're directly coordinating through games and comics and all that, that's going to. to be canon inside of it. Not everything. That's too confusing because you might have to

change things up and if we do, it's we're going to be going back on our word, which is exactly what happened here. However, if they find a way to maneuver it a little bit and it is pretty much on par with what they set up in the comic book, well, then F me. I'm going to say, whoa, that was that was not, not, I was surprised. I didn't, that was a curveball. I would just put those odds low that that's going to happen. But as far as it tying into Rogue 1, yeah, I think that's a definite. I think that's a definite.

I think we lead right into that scene of why Andor has to go and, you know, shoot that guy in the beginning of Rogue 1, leading us into the entire movie. So, yeah, I think it's, I think that's absolutely what's going to happen at the very end. It might be the closing scene. to lead into it. Hey, we just, we just did this big battle, this big thing. And we did it, but now I need you to go do this. And, um, and Andy Circus confirmed that he knows coming back. So that's cool. I'm never going to complain about Andy Circus being in anything.

So thank you again, Michael, for that. I appreciate it. You we got one. Do you think that season three story should have been told in two seasons instead of one? No, but I do think, and I apologize to people because I know if I was watching the show and it's like, here he goes again with this, but I just, I can't always assume that everybody has watched the show before. So allow me to say the same things that I have been saying just to reiterate the point and to answer this question that just was asked. I think had the episodes been longer, I think had they put more detail into it, there is, look, I love Dave Faloni. I've been talking about Dave Filoni as directing things for a long time and his vision and understanding of the Star Wars universe and his care for it and how he really understands it. He's fantastic. I think he's a little too locked into what George says stuff.

What are you talking about? George Lucas created all. Of course he's got to do that. The majority of the philosophies, yes. but he gave an interview on the Collider and talked about how I think Steve asked him if there was going to be longer episodes

and he's like well yeah for Asoka and he said yeah we're probably going to have longer episodes not too much longer but the reason that John Favreau and I always talked about it was that we wanted to stick by George Lucas's philosophy of faster faster and keeping everything moving

and it's like yeah but you can still make things fast and to his credit as well too he said if it's up to him he's going to take the longer storylines and and let it flow and but they they cut a lot of things out to make it move faster and an example of that is what katie told us in the interview and that was that they had this whole speech that was that she told and and she said said that the speech was significantly longer and had like a William Wallace kind of quality to it and she had a chance to kind of really rile everybody up and when it plays it just cuts quick and then they move. I think they lose,

I think they lose character development that way. I think it cuts too much more into almost like an animated show when you're doing 32, 33 minutes. So no, I don't think it should have been divided into two seasons. I think it should have been longer episodes. I think each episode shouldn't be anywhere between 45 to an hour because it allows you to, to develop more characters that develop, you can develop Axmore, you can develop Oscar Reeves, you can develop so many, so many things you can develop. You can develop a lot of different,

you got bow and go back into the Satine stuff, you can try, you know, go more so into the adventure of Dinn, a little bit set up Mof Gideon with this, there's a lot. Like, and I, I really enjoyed this, and again to keep repeating myself, it really felt like, you know, this sandwich is decent. I'm still starving.

And there's not enough meat on it, but it was pretty good. And there's one, you know, like if you, let's say you don't like olives. You know, I wish they wouldn't put olives on this. That was the Jack Black and Lizzo episode. Some people like olives. I don't like olives.

So that was the olives episode. Some people say, yeah, I like it. It was good. And I like olives on my sandwich. Get them out of there. It doesn't work. But, yeah, I think that more so that it should have been, yeah, not two seasons, but just split up a little bit more. Thank you, Iwiaka one.

Mark, the top fabricator, 6047. A problem that I have with the Disney era of Star Wars is that I find very lackluster a lot of the lightsaber duels, with the only exception being Nassoka versus Mall from the Clone Wars. and Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader from what we want, which are two of my favorite lightsaber duels ever. So do you think that Asoka series will give us great lightsaber duels? First of all, I agree with you. I think that they've kind of leaned away from it.

And The Last Jedi for what people always said, there's a great lightsaber fight in the throne room. Two lightsabers, I don't even clash in that fight. There is no lightsaber fight in The Last Jedi. there is with Kylo Ren and Ray in the in Rise of Skywalker and there's that first one in Force Awakens there's nothing in Rogue One obviously there's nothing in the solo so it's been a really good movie one in quite a while and as far as the the Obi-1 had a good one at the very end of the series whether you like the series or not I think that's what most people

agree that fight was pretty good. But I do agree that there's been a significant kind of lack of it, but it doesn't look like that's the case. And there's a lot of great ones in rebels, not just Clone Wars, a lot of great ones in rebels. And so I think that I think Flonnie's a big fan of light saber fights. So I think we're going to get a light saber fight. I think we need quite a few.

And I think we're going to get really good ones. So I think, and then we're going to get a ton of them in the Acolyte. I think that they're aware of that. I think that there's a reason why there's so many Jedi and Sith and stuff popping up now because they almost like threw them in the

in the back like yeah it's too much now nobody wants to see you guys anymore and it was like where the hell of the Jedi and the Sith where are they where the lightsaber fights where's where's the force and now they seem to be doing it a lot especially with the acolyte Asoka looks heavy

heavy leaning on it so so we'll see but I do think I do think we're going to see a lot in Asoka for sure all right moving on here Jimito Rivera Don of the Jedi 25,000 years before the current era

what kind of Star Wars tech are you expecting? Well, it depends on how they approach it if they approach it the same way with Knights of Republic

by the way I saw the, I kind of really I've gotten better at it I've gotten better at it but on Twitter I just like I said I usually use it just to promote it and one of the reasons I hated it is because it's like that

natural instinct that if somebody says something, you have to go back and I, and I wrote something and I took it away right away. But some idiot was like, as I posted, there was the thing, tell me who your favorite Star Wars characters are, you know, at all time. And Revin is easily, Revin and Bain are probably inside of the whole Star Wars kind of universe. Movies, it's palpiting, but as far, Revin and Bain, but Revin, for that storyline, still, I've said it that after Empire Strikes back, I think that Knights of Republic is my favorite Star Wars story. And if you've been following

me long enough, you know that I've been talking about Knights of Republic and Revin and all that stuff for all the damn time. And I posted it in somebody who was like, oh, interesting that you put, this comment was fine. You guys said, interesting that you put a video game character over this person, this person, this person, and without even allowing me to

respond some other ball bag a la Rusk was like, this clowns never watch. or played nights of all republic no way and I was like and I don't remember what I responded back was so stupid I was like and I think I said something like was stupidest comment on the internet it wasn't anything like you know it was just something along the lines if I literally talk about this all the time like why am I responding to this and I had to kind of dive deep into that conversation that I had that we

had with Katie and it's just like you can't understand the point of view that someone from the other side of the computer is tweeting it. You don't know why this person is as angry or looking for a fight or all that stuff. And I had to tell myself that again. And it's a process. And it's something I'm learning over the last couple of years. You got to just, it's not worth it. So I was like, and I laughed about it.

I deleted it as a why? How am I responding to this person? But that it just goes back to answer your question. I went off on a, I don't know where the hell I went on that. But the technology in Nights-O-Republic, which is years and years and years and years and years and years before, it's like thousands of years before, I guess something like 3,000 years before episode one. And the technology in the game is pretty much like kind of the same stuff. And the way that I justify that is because, just because technology ages differently on Earth, doesn't mean it ages differently the same way here. Maybe it's a little bit more clean.

I mean, it's clearly super clean in freaking the prequels. I think too clean. But who knows? Who knows if they play with the StarForge or whatever the hell they do. But I don't know if they're going to. But whatever they might do, I think technology, it won't be, I think that they even said that, James Mangold. It's not going to be, it's still going to feel like Star Wars. It just is also, it's just going to be biblical and kind of the idea of how the setup is.

There is still going to be tech. all that and there should be and the start of the droids or whatever it might be I think that they all should be there I think that droids should be have been around for thousands upon thousands upon thousands of years because I think that's what makes Star Wars star wars right so if it's 25,000 years before I think the tech should still be there and I think it should still be prominence and it's different planets you know like it's it's each planet could have come up with technology years and years and years beforehand it doesn't mean that every single and now a

different like there's maybe a planet like, I don't know, Tattoine. I hope we don't see Tattoine again, but I'm just saying Tatooine could be not even just, you know, colonized yet. And there could be certain planets that weren't colonized yet. But because of its different planets, technology could have been set up 40,000 years ago on certain planets. Who knows?

Maybe it's just each different planet. Maybe there's certain planets that don't have the tech yet. But the tech could have been discovered 50,000,000 years before. because and there could be certain planets that were wiped out there could be certain planets that were thriving that are that are barren by the time we get to them years later so and it could be the first planets that discovered and eventually they had to get so there's a way to to get around that I think the technology should be virtually the same to be honest with you because time just works differently and civilizations work differently so it's it's if it was the same planet it would be weird but if it's if because it's like well they've had the same technology on this same planet for years. Like Corrassan should look different. Maybe Corrassan is vast with green and maybe some technology.

And maybe it's the start of it. Maybe that's who knows. But there's, yeah, there's a ways around that for sure. All right. Telequin. Is that the same? Wait, hold on a second. No. It wasn't. Sorry. Telly Quinn. Do you sense that Star Wars

creatives are afraid to take risks or make bold choices with characters because of online backlash? Also, do you think they're holding off on some name-dropping sateen for something in the future? I don't think that, no, I think here's the unfortunate part of it, like I said. And I think that, I still think that with Faloni working on Asoka, still think that he was around, has his office is around there. I don't know.

I just curious about how Locked. into Mandelorini was because there was a lot of details that I think could have been there from stuff that he created in Clone Wars and Rebels and I don't know how, I mean, I know that John Fabro was a voice in both Clone Wars and Rebels, but a stronger voice in Clone Wars. But I just don't know how much John Favro's watching Clone Wars. I don't know how much he's going back into that history and talking about it. I just don't know. So I think that Flonny's going to be concentrating on.

his movie. I think Flomene's going to be concentrating on Asoka seasons one and season two and connecting it all. I don't think he's going to be that involved in Mandalorian. So, I don't know. So I don't think Sotene is going to, I don't think she's, it's going to show, she's going to show up. I just don't. I think that's, I think that if they were going to do it, I think the time is, I think time has passed. It should have done it last season. I think time has passed. But as far as your other question, do I think that the risks are because of backlash? No, I don't think it's because of backlash. I think it's because of, I think it's,

Lucasfilm right now is, is, they are, they're under the spotlight. They're under the microscope. And it's like, it's like, hey, Kathleen Kennedy, here's the thing. We bought this company, we bought this, we bought this product for $4.4. Whatever was a billion dollars.

We have Marvel continuously making us money. We have this stuff. The last movie you made, made a billion dollars. Four out of the five movies you made, made a billion dollars. The argument can be made that solo was Disney's mistake of putting it out on, not making it, but putting it out when they put it out, where Kathleen Kennedy was pretty adamant about releasing it in December, and I think it would have done significantly better.

So there is an argument to be made that, you know, they could have saved some of their losses there. But nonetheless, and I had this conversation recently. This is where I stand with the approach on where I think Kathleen Kennedy is coming from. And it's funny because it's going to defend both her abilities as a really good producer, and it's also going to defend people who think

this is not the right person to be running Star Wars creative. Now, as a good, let's go on the good, Let's go on the good producer side of it, right? So if you've just lost $200 million on Strange World, if you've lost $200 million on Light Year, and you need to make up that money, you're going to start looking and going, hey, Star Wars, what's going on?

Where's the movie? We need the cashiche. What's going on? So they're going to look and they're going to go, hey, we got to get a movie out. there. So they're going to look at the best movies and this is what took so long probably. They're going to, okay, here's the three movies that we're going to announce. Which ones realistically can we do?

Which ones should make the money first? And what's the game plan going forward? So as the producer brain goes like this. All right. Now, well, why Lindelof left and why he took off, whatever the story was, whatever it might be, who knows? But what we do know is that Daisy Ridley is coming back. And now Daisy Ridley and Ray is coming back. Now, I think an argument that I understand, the question is, well, why would you, and I think even heard Campia talk about this, and he said, well, why would you leave with that movie when it was so divisive among fans?

Well, the answer to that question is they all made a billion dollars. Now, the follow-up to that is going to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but each one lost, I mean, not lost, but each one did significantly less than the last. It's still made a billion dollars. so as where you and I could can look at it and say yeah yeah but there are some people who just didn't like it and it could have made a lot more you're absolutely right it could have made a lot more

had it been more creative had they put more love to it had the story's been better and people really loved it could have made so much more it's still made a billion dollars so in the grand scheme of things when they look it's like yeah that movie made less than you know normally sequels that are really popular should make even more than the last

it's still made a billion dollars. That's the point. It made significantly less, or something more. Now, by taking that break, it had they put, now the question is a fair question that someone would then say, all right, well, what if they would have put another Star Wars movie out in 2020? Would it have done a billion dollars? Maybe not. Maybe not. In connecting with the way that it was at that point, maybe not. but there has not been a Star Wars movie in a little bit. So whatever the movie might have been with Lindelof and the idea of now going,

okay, well, we're going to make a movie leading and announce Daisy Ridley, what the answer, again, a question of a question of a why would you do that if it was so divisive among fans is because the average non-hardcore Star Wars moviegoer fan will see Daisy Ridley relate to it and go, oh, they're doing another Ray movie. Okay.

And they're going to try to get that casual fan that was part of that billion dollar club. And they're going to try to get those people back into the theater. And it is not going to relate to the next movie because there are some people, the hardcore fans that are going to say, hey, I'm not going to see the movie. I didn't like the story that they were going to do. I don't care who's involved in it now. I don't want to see any more of those of that time period. But man, I want to see what Dave Filoni is going to.

to do? I want to see what Flonny's going to do. I don't want to see how it's going to... I like the Mandalorian. I want to see how it's going to connect. So in 2026, they're hoping for the people that don't go in 2025, they're going to go in 2026 because it's not related and you're not you might not get that drop off

that, you know, you got normally for... I saw episode 7, didn't like it, don't want to see 8. Saw 8, didn't like it, don't want to see 9. You're hoping that it's not connected, that you're going, this is a different Star Wars movie. in the same way you're like, well, you know what, I'd rather see,

I would much rather watch Black Panther 2 than I would Quantumania. That's where they're going with, which is not a bad strategy. So the Kathleen Kennedy producing brain is going, if I structure these things, put someone in there that everybody knows and that all three of the movies

that Daisy Ridley did were billion-dollar movies. And if I do that, in the long run, Kathleen Kennedy does not care about canon, Kathleen Kennedy does not care about what's best for the Star Wars lore. She cares, and is why she's a good producer. Whether you agree with it or not, a good producer as far as producing money.

Creative head, different story. Producer, where they're like, we need money in the account. Well, her strategy is going to put Daisy Ridley in there, going to connect this story, and look, this movie could be great. Stephen Knight and, and, and, um, and, um, um, And shoot, Chabad, I always mess up the name. I'm sorry. But she, and I love what she did in Ms. Marvel.

So, Chabat Chinoi, right? Chonoi, sorry, I think. I'm learning. I get better at it. I screwed up about 7,275 times, and then I finally get it right. But that team could be fantastic. And that team could make the best Ray movie. It's very possible.

And that could also help with the word of mouth. No, no, this one's really good. That could help. So the idea behind it of saying, okay, so with all those pieces together and these things that I'm doing here, Disney wants a billion dollars in the account, that's what I'm going to do. Now, if people are going to go back and, yeah,

the creative head shouldn't be doing that if they want to really help the overall Star Wars brand. I don't disagree. But if it's about trying to get your bosses happy and show that you are a producer, winner, with budget and box office, that's the strategy there. It's not to appease us.

It's not. There are certain people in the producing, And not just like the Kevin Feigeys. There are other who want to do both. And that want to go, oh, I'm a big fan of this product. So I want something that I would love to see on screen. I just don't think that's her goals. And I think that if she's got the strategy of what she wants to do for these three movies,

that's why it's different timeline, which I like the different timeline thing. And she even said in an interview, it doesn't hold us into connected storytelling of everything. We can do it if we want to, but doesn't connect. I think that's a smart move. But yeah, I don't think it's a matter of fear of backlash. I think it's a matter of making the right movies that are going to put that cash in there. Because if it is a terrible movie, regardless of the Flonian movie coming out, if it's a terrible movie and it really gets another big backlash, as you say,

it's still, whether you want to see, you know, the Flonie movie or not, it's still, if it doesn't deliver and it bombs, Then a complete rehaul is just in the works. I just think a Star Wars movie at that point, it'll be what? Five years? No, it'll be, shoot, it'll be six years, six years. It'll be six years since a Star Wars movie hit the theater. So six years of not seeing Star Wars in the theater.

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Thank you again to Tully on that one. The NerdCal. Can we get the Harloff Minor in the Falloni movie? Yeah, for everybody who always asked me that, first of all, I appreciate it. And for people to know, the great Claudia Gray put Harloff Minor planet as canon in the Bloodline novel

and then followed it up in Leia. I think I screwed myself with the Galaxy's Edge thing on that gun, guys. I think the second that that nonsense happened, which was my fault, obviously. But when that happened, I think rightfully so. I think Harloff Minor blew up somewhere in an uncanon book. So don't bet on it. I don't think it's going to happen.

It blew up. It blows up, skis. But whatever. Shit happens. Next one. Let's see. Paul Reaper. What are the chances we see Bo Katan in the Asoka series?

After watching Katie's latest interview and trying to read between the lines is interesting when she said that Bo knows where Assoca is. Why would she know and how would she have found out? Well, they're in constant contact. I mean, of course she would know. I think that's obvious from if you watch Clone Wars and you watch rebels, especially the end of rebels, they're in constant communication. She knew where she was in season two. She knew where to find her. They're homies. So she would know where she was. I think Boca Tan and Assoca are tight. So yeah, that's why that would make sense. Do I think she's going to show up in Asoka?

She has told me nothing. She has told me nothing. And nor did I really ask, to be honest, off air because I know she wouldn't tell me and I don't want to do because I don't want to get in trouble. So this is me speculating. I don't think so. And I would say I don't think so because I think it's taking place in the majority of the unknown regions. I don't think Dinn is going to show up. I think it's going to be the unknown regions they're going to be the unknown regions.

to be out of, they're going to be out of sight. And I think Bo at that point from when this is set up is going to be on Mandelor. She's what she's going to, she'll leave Mandelor right away. She's on Mandelor. She's trying to set everything up. She's going separate adventures through the unknown regions. So again, hearing nothing, I could be 100% wrong. I just think that for what they have set up and all the stuff that they showed inside of that

trailer and they were filming it at the same time they're filming a lot of it at the same time a lot of it or they're set i guess i'm setting up and i guess they were filming recently well i guess i don't know and here's another thing so within that they were filming over the last year and i will say from what i listened to in the interview that i gave again nothing that was told by me except what except inside the interview that i listened to katy at one point said why i haven't worked in a year Now, that also could mean that they filmed her scenes, you know, a year ago. So I don't know. But I would say no.

I would say no because I don't think it makes sense for Boca Tan to be in this one. Now, Mandalorian season four, Asoka Season 2, the Mandalorian movie? Yes, I think it's very possible. And I think that it should happen. If she's not in that movie, we riot. Yeah, it's got to be in that movie. be stupid not to put the Mandalorians all of Mandalorian in the movie

and how do you not have Boca Tan in the Mandalorian movie be stupid but yeah I think that I think if they do so because season two but no I for that one I don't think so but we'll see we'll see Stefan Chandler

so how you doing I'm curious will you play Jedi Survivor and what do you think the chances are of Calcastus turning up in a live action Star Wars project Big fan of the channel. Keep up the great work. Well, I had actually heard something a little while ago.

Now, how true it is, and maybe they were looking at what the, how they were going to do on the sales of this game. And I had heard that they were working on a series for him. I had heard that from the same source that gave me something else. That turned out to be true. So I don't know if it's true or not, but they apparently, There was talk about Calgett and his own live action show. Now, I think they're going to look at how this game does, and they're going to probably see what the popularity of it is,

and maybe they go from there. I don't know. What was the other side of that? Oh, well, I play the actual game. Will I play the game itself? I will absolutely play the game. I was going to get it the other day, but I was like, you know what, I'm going to Vegas for the day,

and I got to find some time to do it, because we have the live show coming up on Friday, and I'd like to really kind of dive deep into it because then I can come back next week and say, hey, listen, this is significantly better than the last one because when I started falling off mountains, they told me why I shouldn't fall off mountains anymore and to go that way instead of continuously falling off mountains.

So I haven't watched anybody's videos. I haven't seen how the gameplay is. I've just seen great things from certain tweets. Jake Baldino, who I take his word when it comes to video games, in general. I saw that he loved it. So I'm gonna, I'm definitely gonna play it. I was planning on playing it anyway. But yeah, I think Calcast is good.

Why wouldn't you use that guy? He's a fantastic actor. So I do think, I do think he's gonna show up. If not in his own series, I do think he's gonna show up. Buckeye, 725. Let's pretend for a second that the dawn of the Jedi movie is absolutely happening. What are your expectations, desires for the film?

Who would you cast to lead it? Do you get a household name or do you fill the leaders with up-and-coming actors? Okay, so a lot of great questions. The first is, well, do I think it's going to happen? I think you have a better chance because of James Mangold, and apparently he's really kind of set on doing it and he really wants to do it. So he doesn't seem like the type of person that, you know, look, as I say that, a lot of these directors that fell out of the projects

was because creative differences and everything else too, but there's nothing really to connect to. But there can be any creative difference. So I don't know, but I do think it's going to happen. I don't know why. Call me, call me a stupid optimist. But I do think it's going to happen. What do I hope to see out of it?

I hope to get exactly what they pitched. And that's the biblical kind of spiritual discovery of the Jedi and the Sith and all of that stuff. And I don't need to see, and in no world, though, I think that this was it, like the formation of how the force began. I think it's the discovery of people learning how to use the force, which I think is fun. But the idea of, like, you know, all this is how the Middocrarians came about. And there's the first midilorians. They're not going to do that.

It's going to be like how this religion was formed and how that all started. That's fascinating to me because then it's also like the first. taste of like, oh, this is great. This is what we know how to use these powers. It's amazing. Like, everybody, we're going to use these for good. And then you get the person who's not going to use it for good and starts to crave the evil.

And there's no Sith rule of two back then. So there could be a ton as they start to try to like, you know, form their own army. And it could start 25,000 years ago. Tons of stuff could happen. Do I, you know, that's the type of stuff like expectations. You know, you want to trust in what James Mangold is going to, is going to give you and where he's coming from. But that's the kind of stuff, the Game of Thrones set up to that era.

But as far as the cast itself, as far as cast, I think there needs to be a mixture of both. But I think there needs to be names that are fantastic actors to what Mangold does really, really well. putting out putting actors in there that are known but are known for their acting ability

they still might be really famous but their acting ability I think you do need a couple of names in there that are going to sell tickets because yes it's Star Wars but you want names that are going to sell tickets because it's like oh they also have that person in there but then putting tons of people in there who are just great actors

and really develop again the characters and the, the story itself and not just go spectacle with it. So that's what I'm hoping for in that one. All right, next one. Level one. Will John Boyega return to Star Wars considering what he has expressed about his experience? Look, time can heal all wounds, right?

And so can money. And I think that how big of a role he's got, in it if he's got one at all I don't think it'll be that big but I also think that him and Daisy Ridley are are really good friends so if anybody's

going to get him to come back it's going to be Daisy Ridley who's going to just take a meeting they really want you in this they want to do right by you this time unless she goes don't do it but I think as far as showing up I think he shows up I don't know how big of a role

he's got, but I think he shows up. And I think that it doesn't look like he's as vocal about the tough times and the bad times. I think he got it out of his system, rightfully so. I think he was treated horribly. I think his character was handled terribly.

The first movie was a good setup. The second movie handled them awfully. Last Jedi was, I mean, if you're going to dislike that movie at all, it should be what they did to Finn. I mean, it's Terrible. It completely, he completely just went from being, you know, one character with an arc to right back to where he was, and even worse so, and then running around on a casino. Terrible, terrible. And then in the third one, oh, he's got the force. He's going to tell right about it? Well, he's going to tell her that he's got a secret needs to talk to her about. Well, when does he tell her? He does it.

He just, he just goes back to his stormtrooper routes and fights some other stormtroopers and then fights on a horse. Oh. And he screams a lot. Oh. It's not good. And he's a fantastic actor and a great dude, a great dude. So I think he had every right to be pissed off and every right to vent. But I feel like he said, I got it out. Talk to who, I got it out there.

I tell people about my experience. So they want to talk, I'll talk. I'll always look at the old Vince McMahon stuff with like the Ultimate Warrior and a lot of different wrestlers that people always tell. People always talked about this. And I always thought it was interesting, you know, as far as the business decisions and everything, too. Like, there's tons of stuff that had happened in wrestling,

where just people going after events and talking about airing out public dirty laundry and all these things. You're like, oh, they're never going to work together. And it's publicly just going after each other. And the business decision was the right business decision because it was going to bring in more money. So they figured out their differences. and they brought somebody and they brought him back.

So there's always in wrestling. They never say someone is not coming back. Contract's right, they'll come back. And I think it's the same thing here, where I think that Lucasfilm and Disney probably will make amends to Boyega at some point if they haven't already. And I think he'll, I don't know how big of a role,

but I think we'll come back one way or another. Andrew. When is Rick Famoea getting his own Star Wars project as a director? He nailed every episode of Mando that he directed. Would you like to see him have his own series or a movie? I think the answer is yes, sure, absolutely. I think he's great. But I think that there's a reason why they made him executive producer. I don't think it's a coincidence that Faloni was essentially moved over to do Asoka and Rick Famouille was essentially took over the Faloni responsibilities. And he did

episode one and episode seven and eight, I think. So I think he's going to be heavily involved with Favro on four. I think that's why. what he's going to be doing right now, eventually ever, if he still wants to play in that universe, he might want to go back and do other things. He's a very talented director, so he might not want to stick around in the Star Wars world and just do Star Wars.

So I think, yeah, absolutely I love to see him do his own thing if he thinks the story's right, but I just don't think right now that I think he's doing season four. So I think he's going to be tied up in season four, and then I see him doing other stuff, and maybe get a movie, possibly get a movie, and it should be because he's awesome. But I don't think his own right now, I don't think it happens.

I think he's too locked into season four of Mando. Hey, Mando. All right, here it is. This is the question. This is the one. Do you think that Luke, this is from Eddie, Eddie Pevisick. Do you think that Luke, Han, and Leia will be involved in the Faloni movie? I wonder how much they'll make it like Air to the Empire.

Not sure how I feel about using de-aging for a movie, though. Why not? The aging in a movie. The aging in a movie, if you look at, I think the best case of it ever to this day is the Michael Douglas Antman one. Now, we're talking deep fake, and you would have to, you would have to do deep fake, obviously, for Carrie Fisher. I think it would be the better option because they did, you know, they did the deaging in Rogue One. And I think it looked decent in Rise of Skywalker. but I think deepfakes should be where they go with it.

Now, I think that Luke is going to be a prominent character in that movie. I think he's going to be big and they're going to market it on him because that's how you're going to have to get people into that theater to see that movie. You're going to get the Mandalorian people. Now, there's still a heavy, there's still a big audience for it. Lost a chunk. Was not as popular as seasons one and two. Lost a chunk.

Still a good enough audience that will go out and go see the movie, but enough to make it get to $600, $700, $800 million in the box office? How do you market that movie? You have to hope that people watched seasons three and seasons four. Or excuse me, season four, what if people didn't like three? And they bailed on four? I'm not caught up. How do you get them in the theater?

How do you get people in the theater who's never watched? the show before, but like Star Wars movies. Never seen a single episode of the Mandalorian. How do you get him into the theater? With a guy who doesn't show his face, this Pedro Pascal have to start showing his face more, putting him out there. I think that's going to happen.

That'll be probably part one. Who's your star power to get them in there? Because right now, the majority of the people that you have in the show, leading the movies marketing on them, who do you got? you you if you market on I mean you probably obviously Rosario Dawson but still enough to get a big a big kind of pop culture buzz going around who bigger of a buzz to say look Lou Skywalker's in this movie and they're using they're going to be using the deep fake

technology to to be used the same way that they did Luke Skywalker's in this movie people will see the movie especially people who were like, oh, I remember what they did in season two. I didn't watch three and I didn't watch four, but I want to see Luke. So maybe I should catch up because I want to see what's going on with Luke.

You have to put him in to get people in the theater. So I think Luke is going to be in it. And Mark Hamill can still be involved in it, as he was on both BobaFed and season two. Now, the trickier, look what they've already done with Harrison Ford on Indiana Jones. Now, is he going to want to come back

to do something inside of the Mandovers? Maybe not, but maybe so. Possible. The trickier situation, obviously, is Carrie Fisher, but you could also do, there's two things you can do here. You can do the deep fake, and you can also now do,

this freaking AI voice stuff is getting better and better every day. and the emotions, even the emotions are starting to come out a little bit more of it. So I think that you can absolutely use all three of them. I don't know how big of characters they should be in the whole thing. And I don't know if you should mark it on the three of them, but I think you mark it on Luke. I think it's important.

I think it's important to sell tickets. I really do. I think it's going to be crucial. I think that Luke will show up in Asoka, if not in season two. For sure. If not in season one, he'll be in season two. Because of that whole line of, will I see you again and all that? I think Luke is, if we know he's out there, what the hell is he doing?

If we know Luke is out there at this point, they've set him out that he's out there. He just shows up for the kid and he doesn't do anything else. I don't see it happening. I see him doing a lot more. And I think that they should. Now, as far as the heir to the empire goes, Flonny said that there's going to be a lot. He's his on fan, you know, and I think that. there's going to be a lot of stuff that they do take. Mara Jade and all that, I don't know.

But if Mara Jade's in it, then Luke's got to be in it. And Luke and Thrawn, to see them kind of battle it out, I think it's, I think, I think, I would put a, heavy bet on Luke being in it. Luke being in, in, having a major role. I think it's important. I think it's really important. Now, is it going to play it all on Skeleton Crew? Same thing, it's like, how are they going to market that show? How they're going to market that show? And how they're going to tie it all in? I was very surprised that in the season finale of Mando that they didn't kind of tie into Skeleton Crew

to give them a boost of this is what you should be watching next, the way that they did in season two leading into BobaFat. It's like, this is what you should be watching next. BobaFat, get ready for it. Whether you liked it or not. It's like you were hyped for it when it started because of the way that they ended Mandalorian. Nothing for Skeleton Crow surprised that they didn't do that

to help hype the next thing. but yeah as far as i think i think luke showing up could be uh could be a definite all right next one mike riva six three four nine hey christian after some fan complaints of bocatan stealing the spotlight from mando in season three which you prefer or want bocatan to have her own spin-off series like boba did thanks um as far as complaints go it's like come on man it's called the mandolorean never told you exactly who the Mandalorian wants. It's about Mandalor and all that type of stuff. I think that, again, my biggest concern was that it wasn't just developed enough from a lot

of these different things. And there were certain things that were a bit rushed. And the faster thing that they talk about is, I think, is silly. Faster, more intense. That doesn't always work. And I think that that's more so what was my issue with it. I think Katie was the strongest one in the entire season because she's such a really good. actress she's she puts everything she has into it but that being said of course i'd love to see a

got her own show i think that that would be interesting to see all the stuff on and just call it mandolour or or or lady crease or whatever um it might be i'd love to see one full season of of katie uh doing bocatan stuff with the armor her and emily swallow while dan and grogher off on mandolian season four doing whatever they're doing but i i don't see see it in the cards because I think it would connect to the Mandoverse and it'd have to do everything now and I think it's going to all connect. I think they already have a plan. Remember, Pheloni's movie looks like it's going to come out in 2026 is what people are

rumoring. And if that's the case, you've got to set up Mandalorian season four, you've got to set up Asoka season two. You've got to set up skeleton crew and then you've got to get the movie done. There's no time in between to get a Bocatan series going now. plus where does it all lie into the lore. So I just don't see it happening. But maybe it does.

It would be great. I would love that. But I don't know. All right. I think that's it. So I want to thank you guys for joining me here today on the show. It was fun. I always love your questions.

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