The Fall of Skywalker IV: Fix It In Post
6/12/20261 hr 28 min
Without the edit, there is no film. Without Marcia Lucas, there is no Star Wars.
Sideway’s video Why the Music of Rise of Skywalker Felt Misleading is absolutely fantastic - also give his video on Cats a watch too if you were raised Catsolic by a Cats loving mother and have a lot of thoughts about the musical crimes of that film which are hard to share in polite company.
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Guest Starring:
Grace Koh as Maryann Brandon
Abigail Nussbaum as Kathleen Kennedy
Christian Byers as Chris Terrio
Kim Ho as Joseph Campbell, a man so racist people assumed he was doing a bit
CLIPS
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Skywalker Legacy
Star Wars Icons Unearthed Unplugged: Marcia Lucas Full Interview (Nacelle Company)
Rough Cut Podcast: Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker
The Art of the Cut Episode 28: “Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker” Editor Maryann Brandon, ACE
Dolby Creator Talks Episode 62 - The Sound of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
MUSIC
Duel of the Fates, Fanfare and Prologue from Star Wars Episode IX, We Go Together & A New Home - John Williams
Avalon - Benny Goodman
“Loopster”, “Industrial Cinematic”, “Drums of the Deep”, “Groove Grove”, “Crypto”, “Stormfront”, “Sneaky Adventure”, “Thinking Music”, “Showdown”, “Vanishing”, “Decisions”, “Floating Cities”, “Lost Frontier”, “Oppressive Gloom”, “Bleeping Demo”, “Enter the Maze”, “Secret of Tiki Island”, “Smoking Gun”, “Anguish”, “Thunder Dreams”& “Myst on the Moor”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
“Suspended Animation” & “Synapse” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
"Romeo & Juliet" by PM Music
“Venus” & “Mars” from Holst’s The Planets, as performed by USAF Heritage of America Band
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsTansy Gardam· Host0:00
Going Rogue is made possible by our Patreon supporters. If you like the show, you can become one at patreon.com/goingroguepodcast. [instrumental music] Star Wars would not be Star Wars without editors Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, and Marcia Lucas. And initially, none of them were meant to work on the film. But when George Lucas fired his original editor, John Jympson, he cobbled together a new team of three editors at short notice. And for short notice, he got some pretty great editors. Richard Chew had done One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Paul Hirsch was Brian De Palma's go-to editor, and Marcia Lucas had just cut Taxi Driver. Everything that could be fixed in post on the first Star Wars film was. The pace, the uneven opening, even tiny moments like the Tusken shaking their staff. That was created in the edit bay by reversing and looping footage of one tiny movement. Most famously, though, the entire idea that the Death Star was about to fire on the rebel base was added in the edit through a combination of ADR, inserts, and repeated shots. If you look closely, no one ever says on camera with their mouth moving that the Death Star is coming into range.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:13
The Death Star is cleared to fire.
Marcia Lucas· Soundbite1:16
Rebel base in range.
Tansy Gardam· Host1:18
But it is a vital piece of the story. It puts a ticking clock on the trench run, and it makes the threat of the Death Star immediate rather than just theoretical. The rebels need to win now or they'll lose