Josh Clark

I mean, talk about a breakout hit.

Like no one had ever seen anything like it before.

No.

2001 had come out in the late 60s.

Yeah.

But it wasn't.

It still isn't accessible to all audiences.

It's not a cerebral film.

Yeah, it's not an adventure movie like Star Wars.

This is like basically swashbuckling on the screen, but in a galaxy far, far away.

Star Wars just changed everything, and it came on just like a hammer.

Yeah.

There's a new hope, by the way.

yes and i know we're going to get stuff wrong nerds so yes just go ahead and get your little fingers ready to email us like if it wasn't driven home that i'm not a nerd by the fact that i don't have opening night tickets or any tickets yet give me a break okay and by proxy chuck too okay thank you so um it's it's hard to state how great star wars was in everyone's mind yeah right bill murray came out with that lounge singer star wars thing yeah it

everywhere.

And if you just listen to the lyrics of it, it's just Bill Murray singing about how much Star Wars is awesome.

So by the following year, George Lucas wanted to figure out a way to keep

just engaged with the whole Star Wars franchise that he was just starting to build.

But he knew that Empire Strikes Back was a couple more years out.

Sure.