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Back up to speed with The Force Awakens updates!
Speculation on Greg Grunberg’s character in The Force Awakens, via Star Wars 7 News
Scenes from the resistance, via Making Star Wars
A collection of tidbits from The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and Episode VIII, via Indie Revolver
A potentially revealing tweet from Fangirl Going Rogue Tricia Barr, via Making Star Wars
Star Wars Fun Fact
Surprising or little known Star Wars tidbits, sometimes related to today’s Force Feature.
Happy belated birthday to Steve Sansweet! He’s the “chairman and president of Rancho Obi-Wan, a nonprofit museum that houses the world’s largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia” (per Wookieepedia). He’s a former newspaper guy, having worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wall Street Journal, and taught business journalism at USC in the 1980s.
Then, according to him (and Wookiepedia), he made a leap of faith and “followed his bliss” — and passion — to become Director of Specialty Marketing at Lucasfilm Ltd. His title later changed to Director of Content Management and head of Fan Relations. He served in that position until 2011, at which point he retired and begin a new career with the management of Rancho Obi-Wan.
Life on “Tweet”-ooine
A featured dispatch from the Star Wars Twitterverse!
JJ, Kathleen Kennedy, Lawrence Kasdan & special guests kick off #StarWars at @Comic_Con with a special look at #TheForceAwakens on 10 July!
— The Force Awakens (@StarWars_VII) June 10, 2015
Star Wars Swag Bag
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Trivia Time!
Test your knowledge of the Star Wars universe!Yesterday’s answer: Jack Purvis
Today’s question: Who’s philosophy was, “There is no try”?
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Hey there, I love the podcast in general. I do have to say that I thick this recent episode was a bit too “spoilery”. It might be true that Hammil and Ridley are filming at Skellig Michael for E VIII, but for me that reveals way more about Rey than I currently know.
While this is super cool news as I have been to Skellig Michael, this is more than I want to know.
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Thanks for your comment, and your kind words about the podcast!
For what it’s worth, your comment included:
“It might be true that Hamill and Ridley are filming at Skellig Michael for E VIII…”
I haven’t yet listened back to the podcast to double check, but if I said they were there for Episode VIII, then I misspoke. All that’s happened is that the crew allegedly went back there with Episode VIII stuff on the mind, but what specifically they were after, no one’s reported yet. So, possibly less “spoilery” than it might have seemed.
That said, I’ll definitely take your comment into consideration as we work on future episodes. Occasionally, we draw a line in the podcast and tell people to skip ahead if they don’t want to hear potential spoilers….does that work well for you?