Boots Riley

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401 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

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Fresh Air · Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you · 13 May 2026 podcast

When can I see it?

Yeah, well, I mean, but to be fair, Star Wars was supposed to be the Star Wars for radical politics.

George Lucas, and I've confirmed this with him in person and you can find him online talking about it.

I just want to drop the fact that I have met George Lucas.

Right.

Is that he originally was supposed to do what became Apocalypse Now.

And after American Graffiti, he had this hit.

He figured he could do whatever he wanted.

So it was based on Heart of Darkness.

So he was doing Heart of Darkness, but where the main characters were the Viet Cong.

And the person that they were going to get their version of Kurtz was someone who had betrayed them and started working with the United States and became evil in that.

They were like, it's too radical.

You're not going to... You're never going to make this...

movie, nobody's going to fund it.

And he couldn't get funding.

And he was like, how about if I put it in space?

Yeah.

Here's my thing.

I feel like

As long as I can keep you... So I've just done a tour since South by Southwest.

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