Chris Klimek

Hey, Chris, congrats on the new gig.

Thank you.

Gentlemen, as Star Wars enters its hutsploitation phase, there are no two guys I'd rather chop it up with.

Okay.

Empty calories.

What about you, Chris?

Yeah, this is sort of the right sizing of Star Wars in a way.

I feel like, you know, 50 years later, this is the dream of George Lucas realized.

He just wanted to make his homage to cereals and Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.

And by pushing out all of the temperamental artists...

Like George Lucas was certainly that.

His quality variable certainly, I think, had the greatest success when he outsourced the actual screenwriting and directing to others, but definitely an idea guy.

And, you know, when you get rid of a guy like that and you bring in a Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, I mean, these are company men.

You know, these are reliable directors.

competent sort of uninspired guy and that's these are all adjectives that apply to this movie too i did enjoy it but there's no sense of of specialness there's no sense of struggle and there's a sense that like here's john favreau with unlimited resources you know shooting this in a volume in manhattan beach california pedro pescal recording his lines on the way to shoot another movie exactly

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, I have to feel like Robert Downey Jr.

is calling his agent to be like, hey, do I actually have to like come to set to be the star of this movie?

Like, it's fine.