[ Music ] Interviews, analysis, and event coverage. You're listening to Radio 1138, part of the JEDI News Network, gathering news from across the galaxy, hosted by James Burns. [ Music ] You're listening to Radio 1138, this is London Calling. I'm James Burns, and welcome to another show. It's been a busy week for Star Wars, and this past weekend saw D23 return to the Anaheim Convention Center with lots of announcements, including confirmation that the Mandalorian and Grogoo was currently shooting. John Favreau and Dave Filoni shared some footage, revealing Zeb piloting a brand new razor crest, and a chase scene on an icy planet involving the Mandalorian, piloting what looked like to be an ATST, and being chased down by ATAT Walkers. We finally got a trailer for Skeleton Crew, introduced on stage by one of the show's stars, Jude Law, and it's coming to Disney Plus in early December. That's December the 3rd in the US, and a few hours later on December the 4th in the UK and Europe. And we'll be sure to include links to the trailer in the show notes. Diego Luna breaks the stage to share some footage from the second and final season of Andor, which is coming to Disney Plus in 2025. Meanwhile, at the Parks panel, we learned that Smuggles Run would be updated in 2026, both at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, with a new adventure based on the Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Lucasfilm's other temple franchise, Indiana Jones, was confirmed to be getting an all-new adventure coming to Animal Kingdom replacing Dinosaur. No real time scale on that one yet, although we're expecting 2026, 2027, but we'll let you know as soon as we hear. Now the Lucasfilm Pavilion at D23 showcase some costumes from Skeleton Crew, revealing that the pirate Vayne, who we first met in season three of the Mandalorian, will be in the show, and also ILM Stagecraft got its first public outing with demonstrations of the technology from Rob Redrow and Doug Chang. Now as you'd expect at a Disney event, Star Wars Celebration D23, there was lots of exclusive merchandise available too, including an awesome limited edition Star Speeder 3000 with a droid factory cardidrex, as well as a loose version. Hasbro, if you're listening, take note. Why, oh, why can't you include cardid versions and loose versions of like the ghost crew in the upcoming ghost, which costs 500 pounds. It's crazy, please, please consider that. In addition to Rex, we also got a loose R2-D2 to pilot the ship. There was also a single cardid droid factory R6-D23 Astromech that was available to purchase too. And I believe that some of those are still available. If you live in the US, you can head to Disneystore.com and you can still get those, although the Star Speeder 3000 is completely sold out everywhere. Now we have a Star Speeder 3000 on its way from the US and we plan to do an unboxing when it arrives. Now, as if all of that wasn't enough, this week saw the release of new episodes from season two of Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures. And we got the opportunity to take part in a roundtable with a multi-talented D-Bradley Baker, who voiced his n-ups in the series. Here's the audio. - Hello, Dee, this is-- - Hey, again, Brian. - Brian with full of Sith and I'm joined by my son Kingston, who is a huge young Jedi Adventures nerd. - Hey, Kingston. - And the first thing we wanted to ask you is just, it seems like there's probably some difficulty there in playing a character who's speaking not English, but communicating that way. It reminded me a little bit of Chaplin's sort of song and dance in modern times. - Yeah. - And wondering if you could talk about that. - Yeah, you know, there's a lot about animation because it's very visual and it needs to be clear. It needs to be very relatable. And that, to me, tracks back to Vodville. It tracks back to like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd. I was just starting to watch some of his stuff this past weekend. But it's that clarity of storytelling that is, it's very human, it's very smart, and it's good theater because it connects and because it's clear. And that's very much what you've got at play in a series like young Jedi, where the storytelling, because of the format, is necessarily, it's time constrained, right? Just like the old silent movies were, is you had like 10 or 20 minutes maybe, and that was all you had to tell your story. They got longer and longer eventually, but it started out as a very economic way of telling a story, which that kind of continued its way onto the Warner Brothers, Looney Tunes stuff, and then into what you have now, which are these little gems of stories that are very quick, but it's the full story with the full range of emotion that plays out. And so the important thing is to, as always, is you've got to have good writing, and it's got to be clean and clear what the story is with a beginning and a middle and an end. That's, that is something that, well, you can track it back to Aristotle if you want, but that's something that you very much had back in the days of vaudeville and silent pictures, and it's still that kind of tradition of storytelling, of clarity, and economy is still very much in play. - Hi, Dean. - Good to see you again. - Hello again. - Hi, we've been talking for 15 years now, and your vast array of voices never cease to amaze me. I'm wondering, you know, how do you bank them? Do you have an encyclopedia? Memory that each voice, each character's got its own and way about it, because we've seen you before that you can just turn any character on almost instantly. So how do you, you know, how do you compartmentalize that, if that makes sense? - Well, sometimes I can't remember what I did, and I need to have the engineer play it back. But in a lot of the times, creating a character is like, it's like setting up a campsite on a river that may be remote, but when you set up that campsite, it faces a certain way, you know where the woods are, you know where the water is, the road is up this way, over here is a good source of kindling, and you just kind of have this familiarity with how that lives, so that if you come back in a year or two, it's like, oh, I remember this space, and it all just kind of jumps back because it was this place that you lived, right? And it has all these kind of practical realities that suggest from the site itself. And so I look at a character like that, that this is a, it's like a campsite that I have set up that is familiar to me once I can start to see it, that there's ways that this character behaves, the way the placing of the sound, the pace of it, all of that is kind of contained in the original creation of the character, that still it's like it sits on a shelf or something in my mind, and in the case of like, I mean, the extreme case would be the bad batch, where I'm playing very different characters, but they're all in the same story in the same kind of shell, if you will, and it became that they were all so very familiar to me that I could just jump from one to the other, and we just read straight through the scene, so that they're different people, and so it seems odd, but that's how it feels to me, it's just because these characters are so different and specific in this kind of universe that each of them inhabits, that it's easy to kind of jump back in, in many cases, just jump right back into what that character is. - Great, thank you. - Hi, this is Alex from Star Wars Explained. - Hey, Alex. - Hi. - So the characters of the young Jedi adventures in season two, they're growing up, they've got their mission robes, younglings are looking up to them. We also see evidence of an older Puba Jedi named Barabo, so I'm wondering if you've thought at all about what nubs will sound like as he gets older. Basically, what does a Puba sound like after they've gone through puberty? (laughing) - Now you were setting it up just to tee up that word play there, and I see what you did, and my Star Wars helmet is off to you. (laughing) - I appreciate that. - Yes. Well, well, I can't speak too specifically about it, but I would say that if you're interested in what a grown up Puba sounds like, then stay tuned. (laughing) - Stay tuned. - Thank you. - I read it with Talking Bay '94. There's such a vast array of Star Wars sounds and alien languages going all the way back to '77 with Ben Burt. You're such a huge part of that legacy now, and nubs and the pooping language, but right into that legacy. Are there any classic Star Wars characters or sounds or aliens that you're itching to portray that you haven't had a chance to just yet? - You know what, I mean, as you say that, I think it was one of the things that just struck me between the eyes, it just knocked me out of my seat when I was a kid watching episode four, was when you're in the cantina, which of course, you know, all these aliens and stuff, I just went completely nuts for that. But when Han Solo sits down with Greedo and Greedo starts talking with subtitles, I was just like, there's subtitles because, of course, because he's speaking another language. This is, and so that blew my mind. So I think it would be really fun to be another character like that that requires the something magical about subtitles to me, that I just, I really, I don't know why, but I just love it. And ultimately, the way that we do creature sounds now, like with nubs, for instance, is that you could do it with subtitles if you wanted, but with the specificity of the performance that I'm bringing, hopefully, in addition to what my fellow scene mates are saying around me, you know pretty much exactly what nubs is saying. And that's always the goal with any kind of creature or non-speaking word performance is that there's a clarity to what is being said so that the audience understands it. So they're not disoriented and you're not stopping the story in its tracks with just a bunch of weird sounds. And so, yeah, I mean, a lot of my Star Wars enthusiasm very much tracks back to Alien utterances by Greedo himself. - Awesome. Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Lee from the Resistance Broadcast. So I have a three-year-old Daisy who is obsessed with nubs. She loves nubs, thanks, it's the funniest thing ever. So one of the big things about being a mom of a young kid is you get to kind of experience kid shows again, all over again from what you loved when you were little. So my question is, did you have any cartoons that you were drawn to when you were younger that then maybe influenced nubs or what you do now? - Well, the kind of stuff that I loved watching, it was numerous. I really liked the old Looney Tunes cartoons, which is it's got a real economy to the storytelling as I was talking about. I really, I liked Scooby-Doo a lot because there's kind of a, it was like a, there was a mystery to it. There was always something, and I always wanted to like, there's ghosts and UFOs and things like that. So that had my attention. Johnny Quest really, that and Land of the Lost, those were like my childhood sci-fies that really captivated me, as well as the old school Star Trek as well. And so that very much carved out a space of for this young aspiring actor, 'cause I wanted, I liked acting a lot. I never wanted to be an actor, 'cause I didn't think you could earn a living as an actor. It was always just something fun to do. But there are these versions of acting and performing where it's like, well, you can do acting, but there's actually, there's like sleestacks and monsters and aliens, it's like, I don't, I don't think-- - All the fun stuff. - Yeah, the fun stuff is like, I don't see any way to get to that. I don't think I could earn a living doing that, but man, if I could, you know, if I could live in the fantasy world of HR puffin' stuff, maybe sing some songs, have a bunch of weird creatures to talk to, that sounds like heaven to me. And I think I'm in heaven now. I think I have found my heaven with young Jedi and Star Wars and all of this. It's absolutely just the child in me is screaming for joy with telling these tales and being a part of them. It's such gratifying fun. - Well, it's so fun to watch. Thank you so much. - Oh, good, good, good. - Hi, Dee, Gustavo from "Tried of the Force." Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. And thank you for young Jedi adventures. Like I was watching in, I was thinking like, it would have been great to have like this type of Star Wars show when I was growing up. - Oh, yeah. - I guess my question stems from the types of Star Wars shows that we have been used to. And as we all here know, like you're no stranger to Star Wars galaxy, having played characters and song wars and rebels and obviously the Bat Batch. And they've all been tinged with some sort of darkness and maturity in the storytelling based on like what the stories are in those shows. And obviously, young Jedi adventures is a little more lighthearted for a different type of audience. So I guess my question is like, how has your approach for this type of Star Wars story and this show been different from your previous Star Wars experiences and how you prepare for the characters? - Well, to begin with, it feels like Star Wars to me, like it did. I mean, I saw it when I was 13. And I mean, everybody in the world saw that movie again and again. (laughs) But you could say that was a story originally that started out angled towards a younger audience and towards a younger mindset in any case. So Star Wars very quickly became something that was much more sophisticated and varied, even starting with Empire Strikes Back, which was part of what was interesting and really artistically impressive, I think, about the way that George Lucas took that series. So yes, Star Wars has certainly become much more varied, much more sophisticated. It's built out this whole grand story since the prequels on into what you have playing out now. But for me, going back to do something that's for a younger audience as we do with young Jedi, and this is, for the first time, really specifically angled to pre-school. So it's lighter in tone, it's sweeter, it's less peril, less, the drama of it is dialed back. But it still feels very much like Star Wars to me. It still feels fun and it still feels relatable and connected and innovative and it's got lots of great specificity to this wonderful world. This is big adventure to it. It feels of the same universe to me, even though the tone, it shifted a little bit as it does for all the different properties that you have out, whether you're talking about the acolyte or Andor or Boba Fett or whatever. I mean, each one kind of takes a different angle, but they all sort of fit together for me as part of Star Wars. - Thank you. - May the Force be real. - Thank you. - Thank you so much. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Big Big thanks to Disney Lucasfilm and of course D for taking the time to talk to us. You can watch new episodes from Star Wars, Young Jedi Adventures on Disney Plus and Disney Junior right now. We'll be back to talk Star Wars again very soon. In the meantime, you can get in touch or ask us a question by sending an email to podcasts@jedinews.com and we may read out the answer to a question on a future show. Find us on social media, on sites including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other platforms, just search for Jedi News Network. Stay connected to all the latest Star Wars News 24/7, 365 days of the year at jedinews.com. This is James Burns signing off another Radio 1138. 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