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The disastrous Star Wars Holiday Special aired exactly once, on November 17th 1978. For decades, George Lucas attempted to erase all trace of it from pop culture, and very nearly succeeded. So here’s an exhaustive history of how and why it happened.

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CLIPS USED: 

Meet Boba Fett: Initial 1978 Costume Test

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

The Donny and Marie Show: Star Wars Special (1977)

Bob Hope’s Scar Wars (from the Bob Hoope All Stars Comedy Special 1977)

George Lucas Video l Robot Chicken

MUSIC USED:

John Williams - Cantina Band

The Doors - The Alabama Song

“Leaving Home”, “Covert Affair”, “Backed Vibes Clean”, “Thinking Music”, “Cool Rock”, “The Hall of the Mountain King”, “Chill Wave”, “Holiday Weasel”, “Rock Hybrid”, “Malicious”, “Tango de Manzana”, “Prelude and Action”, “Peaceful Desolation”, “Bossa Antigua”, “On The Ground”, “Loopster”, “Rollin at 5”, “Rising”, “Odyssey”, “Deadly Roulette”, “Morgana Rides”, “Floating Cities”, “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys”, “Study and Relax”, “The Path of the Goblin King”, “Groove Grove”, “Moonlight Hall”, &“Frost Waltz”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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“Suspended Animation” & “Synapse” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

In 1950, Cinderella saved Disney from destruction. In 2015, Cinderella went on a wild journey from swashbuckling adventure to a visually sumptuous but emotionally vacuous film that set the template for the Live Action Remakes that now threaten to swallow cinema whole.

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CLIPS USED: 

Cinderella (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 2015)

Steven Soderbergh's State of Cinema Address at the San Francisco International Film Festival

The Creator (dir. Gareth Edwards, 2023)

Kenneth Branagh on Kermode and Mayo

Variety Artisans: Sandy Powell and the Costumes of Cinderella

Cinderella Costume Designer Sandy Powell (Press Conference)

Cinderella Interview - Sandy Powell

Sandy Powell Interview

MUSIC

"Backed Vibes Clean", "Divertissment", "Loopster", "Waltz - Tschikovsky Op. 40", "Chill Wave”, “Deadly Roulette”, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”, “Dirt Rhodes”, “Morgana Rides”, “Crypto”, “Arid Foothills”, “Bleeping Demo”, “On The Ground”, “Lost Frontier”, “Rollin At 5”, “Frost Waltz”, “The Snow Queen”, “Unanswered Questions”,  “Frost Waltz (Alternate)”, “Gymnopedie No.1”, “Concentration”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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“Suspended Animation” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

“Blue Danube”, “Romeo and Juliet” by PM Music

This is not the story of the Gladiator II that you will see in cinemas. This is the story of the time Russell Crowe went rogue and commissioned a script for a Gladiator sequel where Maximus returns from the dead to save the early Christian Church from annihilation and is cursed by the gods to live forever.

FOGHORN: Sound of Freedom is real bad y'all!

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CLIPS USED: 

Gladiator (dir. Ridley Scott, 2000)

Gladiator: Deleted Scenes with Commentary from Ridley Scott (Dreamworks)

Gladiator: Behind the Scenes (Dreamworks)

WTF With Marc Maron: Nick Cave

Happy Sad Confused: Russell Crowe 

Ridley Scott Talks “Gladiator 2” by Nick Cave

MUSIC

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition #3

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrad - Barbarian Horde  

Harry Gregson-Williams - Logan Through Time

“Leaving Home”, “Deadly Roulette”, “Morgana Rides”, “Crossing the Chasm”, “Devastation and Revenge”, “Crypto”, “Shadowlands 1- Horizon”, “Gloom Horizon” “Black Vortex”, “Intrepid”, “Cambodian Odyssey”, “Lost Time”, “Ever Mindful”, “Darkling”, “Rynos”, “Synapse”, “Divertisment”, “Peaceful Desolation” & “Unanswered Questions”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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“Suspended Animation” & “Synapse” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Francis Ford Coppola is undeniably one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever lived. Megalopolis is the film he has been chasing for nearly 40 years. But when the posters declare “From The Man Who Brought You The Godfather and Apocalypse Now”, they should probably add “And Live Cinema and Tetro.”

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses fictional depictions of sexual assault and sexual violence from 24: 35 to 27:15, and allegations of inappropriate on-set behaviour from 1:06:30 - 1:07:30

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CLIPS USED: 

Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 2024)

Megalopolis Trailers (Lionsgate)

Francis Ford Coppola Predicting The Future At 1979 Oscars 

Adam Driver Talks 65, Fighting Dinosaurs, and Filming Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (Collider)

MUSIC

“As I Figure”, “Egmont Overture”, “Crypto”, “In The Hall Of The Mountain King”, “Dirt Rhodes”, “Vanishing”, “Dark Times”, “Morgana Rides” “Odyssey”, “That Zen Moment”, “Chill Wave”, “On The Cool Side”, “Screen Saver”, “Metaphysik”, “Groove Grove”, “Fairytale Waltz”, “Divertisment”, “Peaceful Desolation” & “Unanswered Questions”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“Suspended Animation” & “Synapse” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

PM Music: Ride of the Valkyries, Winter

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 

Zack Snyder has a reputation as a Director’s Cut director: but what does that actually mean? And what happens when he’s given the chance to simultaneously make a Directors Cut and a ‘theatrical’ cut that will never go to theatres?

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses fictional depictions of sexual assault and sexual violence from 44:55 - 47:28

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CLIPS USED: 

Rebel Moon Part One - A Child of Fire (dir. Zack Snyder, 2023)

Rebel Moon Part Two - The Scargiver (dir. Zack Snyder, 2024)

Rebel Moon Chapter One - Chalice of Blood (dir. Zack Snyder, 2024)

Rebel Moon Chapter Two - Curse of Forgiveness (dir. Zack Snyder, 2024)

Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire with Zack Snyder and Louis Leterrier (The Director’s Cut Podcast Ep. 464)

Zack Snyder 😜 Life is Short with Justin Long

The Joe Rogan Experience 2114 - Zack Snyder

Happy Sad Confused: Zack Snyder Vol II

How the Guys of Rebel Moon Got Ripped

MUSIC:

“Cantina Band” - John Williams

“Niamos (Morlana Club Mix)” - Nicholas Britell

“Whitsun Oath” - Tom Holkenborg

“The Land We Breathe” - Tom Holkenborg

“Harvesting” - Fumio Hayasaka

“Industrial Cinematic”, “Odyssey”, “Hyperfun”, “Protofunk”, “Hitman”, “Hiding Your Reality”, “The Descent”, “The Path of the Goblin King V2”, “Thinking Music”, “Hit the Streets”, “Death of Kings”, “Neo Western”, “Devastation and Revenge”, “Dark Times”, “Groove Grove”, “Screensaver”, “StyleFunk”, “Covert Affairs”, “Minima”, “Ever Mindful”, “Enter the Maze”, “Echoes of Time V2”, “Sunset at Glenorm”, “Bicycle”, “Immersed” & “On the Shore”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“Suspended Animation” & “VHS Dreams” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Zack Snyder first pitched the idea Seven Samurai in Space when he was in college. In 2012, he pitched it to Kathleen Kennedy as his way of “fixing” Star Wars. In 2023, Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire was released on Netflix.

This is the story of how one idea becomes ten hours worth of movie.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses suicide at 16:10. There is also discussion of fictional depictions of sexual assault and sexual violence at 6:55 - 7:04, 15:08 - 15:27, 28:58 - 29:06, 32:05 - 33:45, 37:25 - 38:23

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You can subscribe for bonus episodes, plug-free versions of the show and my undying love and gratitude. Please do it! I need to buy so many Rebel Moon art books.

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CLIPS USED: 

Rebel Moon Part One - A Child of Fire (dir. Zack Snyder, 2023)

Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire with Zack Snyder and Louis Leterrier (The Director’s Cut Podcast Ep. 464)

Zack Snyder 😜 Life is Short with Justin Long

The Joe Rogan Experience 2114 - Zack Snyder

Zack Snyder on How Rebel Moon Is a Rebellion 30 Years in the Making (Tudum)

MUSIC:

“Crypto”, “Industrial Cinematic”, “Virtutes Instrumenti”, “Oppressive Gloom”, “Protofunk”, “Morgana Rides”, “Rollin at 5”, “Screen Saver”, “Funkorama”, “Olde Timey”, “As I Figure”, “Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Intermission”, “Spy Glass”, “Loopster”, “Constancy Part 3”, “Lithium”, “Enter The Maze”, “Chill Wave”, “Simplex”, “Floating Cities”, “Leaving Home”, “The Chamber”, “Heart of Nowhere”, “Ever Mindful”, “Lost Time”, “Deep Haze” & “Magic Forest”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“Suspended Animation” & "Space Race”, by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

At World’s End was once the most expensive movie ever made. But at what cost?

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CLIPS USED:

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Walt Disney Studios)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Deleted Scenes

Enter the Maelstrom

Anatomy of a Maelstom

Rango, with Director Gore Verbinski (DP 30)

GORE VERBINSKI Backstage at Field Trip to the Movies (Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press)

Empire Podcast 54: Danny Boyle, Jonathon Pryce

Hans Zimmer: Making of Pirates of the Caribbean Scores

Gore Verbinski on Steven Spielberg, Donald Trump and A Cure For Wellness (Joe.ie)

MUSIC:

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Score Excerpts:

- The Green Flash

 - One Day

 - Trying to Get Lost

 - Souls At Sea

 - At Davy Jones’ Command

 - Finale (William Tell Overture) 

 - Parlay

- Escape / Norrington Dies

- Hoist the Colours Declaration

- The Wedding

- Who’s Captain/Below Deck

"Leaving Home", "Divertissement", "Industrial Cinematic", "Halls of the Undead", "Scissors", "Echoes of Time v2", "Showdown", "Morgana Rides", "Simplex", "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys", "Magic Forest", "Oppressive Gloom", "Metaphysik", "Thinking Music", "Screen Saver", "Vanishing", "Unanswered Questions", "I Can Feel It Coming", The Snow Queen", The Chamber", "Deep Haze", "Danse Macabre", "Killers", "Bleeping Demo", "Bicycle", "Hiding Your Reality", "Enter The Maze", "Despair and Triumph", "Decline", "Floating Cities" & “Black Vortex”,

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“The Buccaneer’s Haul” and “Space Race” by Shane Ivers - 

Almost everything that could go wrong went wrong on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I still really like it.

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CLIPS USED:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Walt Disney Studios)

Writers Audio Commentaries for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

According to Plan: The Harrowing And True Story of Dead Man's Chest

Charting The Return

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Deleted Scenes

A Reeltime Conversation with Film Editor Craig Wood

Team Deakins Episode 88 - John Knoll

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Masters of Design: Crash McCreary -  The Cursed Crew

Bill Nighy Breaks Down His Career, from 'Harry Potter' to 'Pirates of the Caribbean’ (Vanity Fair)

Gore Verbinski Interview (Reba Merill)

MUSIC:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Score Excerpts:

 - Jack Sparrow

 - Davy Jones

 - The Wedding / Beckett's Arrival

 - Abandon Ship

 - Row to Tia Dalma's

 - Davy Jones Plays His Organ

 - Jack Sparrow's Theme (Demo) 

“Black Vortex”, “Bleeping Demo”, “Hiding Your Reality”, “Crypto”, “Oppressive Gloom”, “The Chamber”, “Kumasi Grove”, “Bossa Antigua”, “Thinking Music”, “Floating Cities”, “Firesong” “Morgana Rides”, “Lost Frontier”, “Tenebrous Brothers Carnival - Intermission”, “Nonstop”, “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys”, “Danse Macabre”, “ZigZag”, “Stormfront”, “I Can Feel It Coming”, “Leaving Home”, “Screen Saver”, “Showdown”, “Magic Forest” & “Deep Haze”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“The Buccaneer’s Haul” and “Synapse” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl has gotta be the only good film to come out of IP mining.

I cannot recommend Dan Golding’s video essay A Theory of Film Music enough, and also highly recommend his book Star Wars After Lucas (he also has a great talk on Nostalgia Piano, but I think that one might have just been a conference exclusive)

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CLIPS USED:

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Walt Disney Studios)

Audio Commentaries for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 

 - Writers Commentary

 - Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl — The Making Of An Epic At Sea

Dan Golding: A Theory of Film Music

All Access: Klaus Badelt (Film.Music.Media)

Hans Zimmer: Making of Pirates of Caribbean Soundtracks

Becoming Captain Jack

Composer Ramin Djawadi on working with Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt (TelevisionAcademy.com Interviews)

Interviewing Stuart Beattie, screenwriter of Pirates of the Caribbean & Collateral (Syd Field - The Visual Art of Storytelling)

Screenwriter Jay Wolpert on creating tension in action scripts & game shows (WGA West)

MUSIC:

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Score Excerpts:

Hans Zimmer Score Excerpts:

“Waltz: Tchaikovsky Op. 40”, “Adventures in Adventureland”, “Captain Scurvy”, “Division”, “In The Hall Of The Mountain King”, “Crossing the Chasm”, “Cut Trance”, “Eternal Terminal”, “Expeditionary”, “In The Path of The Goblin King”, In The Path of The Goblin King v2” “Dirt Rhodes”, “Loopster”, “Peaceful Desolation”, “Crypto”, “Rising”, “Vibing Over Venus”, “Industrial Cinematic”, “Kusami Groove Flugelhorn”, “Celtic Impulse”, “Unanswered Questions”, “Danse Macbre”, “Gloom Horizon”, “Screen Saver”, “Thinking Music”, “Enter The Maze”, “Morgana Rides”, “Odyssey”, “Lost Frontier”, “Ever Mindful” & “Deep Haze”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“The Buccaneer’s Haul” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com