Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
5/4/20261 hr 28 min
How does George Lucas top the most successful film of all time? He outsources the writing and directing, finances it himself, and then wonders if it could've been as successful if it had just been a little bit worse! This week, Chris & Lizzie head to Hoth to watch Irvin Kershner's cameras freeze, Dagobah to bear witness to Frank Oz create our favorite little bog freak, and navigate the asteroid field of Han and Leia's all too meta verbal sparring!
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First 90 secondsLizzy Bassett· Host0:00
[wind blows] [screams] [instrumental music plays] And action. [screams] Hello and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one, let alone the ultimate sequel perhaps made amidst a bit of personal turmoil. I can't wait to hear about this story. I'm one of your hosts, Lizzy Bassett, here as always with Chris Winterbauer. And, uh, uh, Chris, uh, what's, what's today's date?
Chris Winterbauer· Host1:04
[laughs] May the fourth be with you, [laughs] Lizzy.
Lizzy Bassett· Host1:08
And also with you.
Chris Winterbauer· Host1:09
It is a date for Star Wars fans and our lisp-bearing audience- [laughs] ... all the world over. Yes, we changed up our schedule so we could land a Star Wars film on May the fourth because it is on a Monday this year. We're very excited. We also ran a poll a couple months ago, our last audience-selected poll because now