Showing posts with label Matt Wood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matt Wood. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Six 'Star Wars' Voice Actors Announced As Guests For Celebration Chicago

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By: Dominic Jones

Star Wars Celebration is less than 100 days away, and now Lucasfilm is beginning to announce some of the guests who will be on hand at the convention to meet fans and sign autographs.  Today, it was announced that six voice actors who have lent their voices to Star Wars characters will be on.  The guests are Christopher Sean (Kazuda Xiono on Star Wars Resistance), Suzie McGrath (Tam on Resistance), Scott Lawrence (Yeager on Resistance), Janina Gavankar (Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi on Star Wars: The Clone Wars), and Matt Wood (General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars).
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

'The Clone Wars' Voice Actors to Reprise Their Roles in 'Battlefront II'

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By: Dominic Jones

Back at EA Play this summer, Electronic Arts announced that more content from the clone wars era would be added to the game later in the year.  This included the planet Geonosis, as well as the characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, and General Grievous.  Now, as we approach the release of the new content, EA has announced that voice actors from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will reprise their roles in the video game. 
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Video: "The Force of Sound: Creating Sounds in Galaxy Far, Far Away"

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By: Dominic Jones

ABC News Features has released a half hour documentary focused on the sound design of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  The documentary focuses on the work that sound editors Matt Wood and Ren Klyce and their team did to create the iconic sounds featured in the film, like BB-8 and Porgs, with insight from writer/director Rian Johnson.  Check out the entire documentary below,
 
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Friday, February 16, 2018

Trailer Released For Upcoming ABC Documentary 'The Force Of Sound'

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By: Benjamin Hart

One of the many elements that makes up each and every Star Wars film is the sound design. While much of their work goes unnoticed by the average moviegoer, sound designers still go the extra mile to make their films sound as real and immersive as they look.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

'The Last Jedi' Earns Two BAFTA Award Nominations

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By: Benjamin Hart

Earlier today the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the nominees for their upcoming 71st awards ceremony. Many of the top films of 2017 were given a nod, one of which being Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Matt Wood Reveals the Jedi Code From "Legends" Can Be Heard in 'The Last Jedi'

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By: Dominic Jones

Fans of the Star Wars "Legends" story telling (the books, comics, and video games released prior to September 2014) should pay extra attention to a certain scene in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  Supervising Sound Editor Matt Wood revealed in a recent interview with /Film that a nod to those stories can be heard in the new film when Rey approaches the Force tree on Ach-To.  During the scene, a chant can be heard that is luring Rey towards to tree where the ancient Jedi texts are kept on the island. 
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson, and Matt Wood Discuss 'The Last Jedi' Cameos and a "Legends" Reference

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By: Dominic Jones

SPOILER ALERT!

With the latest three Star Wars movies, one thing that always happens after the film is we start learning about the "surprise" cameos by the filmmakers and their celebrity friends.  There was Daniel Craig and Michael Giacchino in The Force Awakens, director Gareth Edwards and the droid Chopper from Star Wars Rebels in Rogue One.  Now some of the cameos in The Last Jedi are being revealed, thanks to a special live Q&A hosted by Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican, which included writer/director Rian Johnson, Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill, and sound editor Matt Wood.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Alan Tudyk, Billy Dee Williams, and More To Attend Celebration Orlando

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By: Dominic Jones

The guest list for Star Wars Celebration Orlando continues to grow.  Today four more guests from across the saga (including Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels) were announced to be signing autographs at Celebration.  Attending Celebration are Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian), Alan Tudyk (K-2SO), Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), and Matt Wood (General Grievous). 
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Matthew Wood Breaks Down Rogue One's Audio Easter Eggs

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By: Benjamin Hart

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was chock full of Easter Eggs from all corners of the Star Wars Galaxy, including everything from appearances by Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan, to the Ghost and Chopper from Star Wars Rebels. But not all them can be see, and there's quite a few interesting details you can catch if you listen closely.

/Film's Peter Sciretta recently sat down with Rogue One's supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and Christopher Scarabosio to discuss a number of audio Easter Eggs that are hidden in Rogue One. Wood specifically had some fascinating insight into some sound gems that you may or may not have noticed.
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Friday, May 27, 2016

Video: 'Hearing Star Wars: The Force Awakens'

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By: Benjamin Hart

While Star Wars has also been beloved for its stunning visuals, what we see on screen would not have near the impact if it wasn't for what we hear. Sound design is key in any film, but Star Wars takes it to a whole other level with incredibly iconic sounds such as the Lightsabers, blasters, Droids, aliens ships, and much more. Legendary sound designer Ben Burtt created many of those sounds during the production of A New Hope in the mid-1970's and subsequently went on to work on all six of the original Star Wars films.


Now, in the wake of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we have a whole new collection of sounds to enjoy, as well as some old favorites. Burtt returned to work on the seventh installment in the saga alongside supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and David Acord. The Force Awakens is full of interesting sounds, some you've heard before, like the the scream of TIE Fighters, the firing of Han Solo's DL-44 Blaster and Chewbacca roars. The film also introduced a plethora of new sounds, including BB-8's voice, the sizzle of Kylo Ren's Lightsaber, and the terrifying roars of the Rathtars.

A new supercut video created Zackery Ramos-Taylor brings attention the incredible sound design of The Force Awakens, quickly cycling through an assortment of sounds. Everything from Han Solo punching a Kanjiklub member to Starkiller base firing is in there. Be sure to watch, and listen, below:

Hearing Star Wars: The Force Awakens from Zackery Ramos-Taylor on Vimeo.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

'Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey' Documentary to Premiere at SXSW

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By: Dominic Jones

The world premiere of one of the bonus features from the blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will take place next week during the annual South By South West festival in Austin, Texas.   The feature length documentary, Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey will premiere on March 14th, followed by a Q&A with The Force Awakens visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett, supervising sound editor Matthew Wood, and co-producer Michelle Rejwan. 

StarWars.com describes the 70-minute documentary as, "the complete story behind the making of The Force Awakens, revealed through in-depth footage and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers in this feature documentary."


SXSW takes place in Austin, Texas from March 11th-20th.


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Saturday, February 6, 2016

Matthew Wood & David Acord Discuss The Sounds Of 'The Force Awakens' With Nerdist

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By: Benjamin Hart

The sound designers behind Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens have been getting a lot of much deserved attention recently through interviews and even awards. Supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and David Acord are widely know for their work in the Star Wars saga and deserve much credit for not only mixing in classic sounds but also creating new ones, even providing their own voices in many instances. Just recently Wood and Acord spoke with Nerdist about the sound design of The Force Awakens. They cover a variety of sounds and how they created them, including Kylo Ren's Lightsaber, Teedo, the Rathtars, and further discussed the various voices in the film, which included David Acord's now infamous portrayal of FN-2199(Traitor!!). You can check out a few excerpts from the extensive interview below:

Nerdist: Star Wars is, more than any other film, I think, known for its unique sound. Can you talk about some of the new sounds you designed for The Force Awakens?

David Acord: I think the most obvious new sound effect in the movie is Kylo’s lightsaber. We were attempting, along with his Force power effect, to create sound effects that would mimic his persona, which is this raw power he has that’s not quite formed. He’s not well trained, but he’s extremely powerful. It’s a little wild and dangerous. The sword itself, the look of the sword has the extra darts coming out the side, and it’s really sparky and wavery and it looks a little homemade. The idea of the sound was to match that–something that sounds like raw energy, just pure power, very brutal and kind of wild and dangerous sounding.

The Force sound to go along with Kylo had that deep, raw, animalistic sound. It’s a chunky, raw growl that’s supposed to imitate the Force power he wields, which is a little more raw versus Rey’s Force power , which tends to be—in the few moments when she’s using the Force, hers is a little more smooth and rhythmic and like a heartbeat. That’s the contrast between the two.

Nerdist: Since you do contribute to rounding out and developing characters’ personalities with your work, at what point in the story process does your work start?

David Acord: Once you read the script and come on board, early on there’s some obvious pieces [you know] you’re going to need to tackle. I mentioned the sword, there’s some new spaceships, some ambiances. Maz’s bar–you know that’s going to be a whole thing even before you see a frame of it. Then obviously, once you see the image, it all starts to take shape.

I think the first thing that I designed, I was asked to do—there were two things. One was the Teedo character that captures BB-8 in the beginning, the voice for him and then the two junkers that hassle Rey when she’s cleaning pieces of stuff, the voices for those two guys. Those are the earliest design pieces I made, and they’re vocal designs. That’s my favorite thing to do is alien and creature vocals; that was super fun for me.

Nerdist: Along that line, what are some of the weirdest sources you pulled from to design a sound in The Force Awakens?

David Acord: [Laughs] Off the top of my head, the Kylo Ren Force rumble—the really chunky and animalistic rumble—is my cat’s purring. It’s heavily pitched and slowed version of my cat’s purr that becomes Kylo Force rumble.

When the rathtar has his mouth on the cockpit of the Falcon, when it’s trying to eat the cockpit, that is me literally choking myself. [Laughs] Finger down my throat in front of the mic to accomplish that and then it’s pitched down.

Nerdist: Dave, I would be remiss if I didn’t ask you about voicing FN-2199, a.k.a. TR-8R. I know it was part of the “additional voices” recording—how were those recorded and how did “Traitor!” come about?

David Acord: Normally you have a loop group, which is a collection of highly trained, skilled voice actors, gather in a room. There are a couple of microphones, and the movie is projected on a screen and the scenes are tagged or spotted ahead of time [to say], “We need two stormtroopers talking in the background of a hangar here.” That scene will come up, two actors will walk up to the mic, and will ad-lib a performance. Matthew’s expertise is in dialogue and he was very careful to pick loop group actors that were all Star Wars savvy. There are a ton of Clone Wars alums and names from previous Star Wars movies who were cast as loop groupers because they would know what to say and how to properly deal with things like the mundane dialogue two stormtroopers would have.

And then occasionally, you’ll just be working and, “We need this guy to say this right now” and we’ll go record it. That’s another way; it’s on the spot. You find somebody that can do it, and you do it. That’s how FN-2199 happened. Originally, it was J.J. His voice was a temp placeholder, and he wanted to replace it. It went through four other actors, I think, before it landed on my performance and he was okay with it. It’s a really funny thing to me. It’s a cool scene; the stunt actor, Liang Yang, really did all the hard work in that scene, but it’s fun to be part of. I didn’t even know it was a thing on the Internet until Pablo Hidalgo emailed me and asked if he could post on StarWars.com that I was the voice of FN-2199.

You can read the rest of this insightful interview by clicking here, in which they discuss BB-8's voice, the sounds of Maz Kanata's Castle and an interesting Indiana Jones Easter Egg.


Source: Nerdist
Photo: Star Wars Aficionado

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

'The Force Awakens' Sound Crew Discusses Creating BB-8 & Kylo Ren's Voices

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By: Benjamin Hart

An orchestra of many different elements helped make Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens so great, and one of the most important things was the sound. Supervising sound editors Matthew Wood and David Acord, along with production sound mixer Stuart Wilson and re-recording mixers Andy Nelson and Christopher Scarabosio all earned Oscar nominations for their work on The Force Awakens. While the film brought back a host of previously heard sounds, it introduced an assortment of brand new ones, all of which had be created from scratch by Episode VII's sound team.

The group recently spoke with the Los Angeles Times about their handiwork in The Force Awakens, specifically detailing the development of the now iconic voices of BB-8 and Kylo Ren, among others things. A portion of the interview can be seen below.

On BB8:

"For the actors to interact with BB-8, the sound team built a receiver and speaker system into five different set versions. "This allowed J.J. to trigger audio from a tablet or a live microphone depending on the situation," Wilson says. In postproduction, Wood and Acord were tasked with developing BB-8's original sound. "J.J. had a lot of interest in the voice of BB-8," Wood says."

""He wanted it to sound distinct enough so if it was outside the doorway, and you couldn't see it, you'd still know it was him. We set J.J. up with a tactical interface so he could be more hands-on in the creative process and have points to touch on a synthesizer, controlling timbre and pitch. We then brought actors in to guide an emotional beat and refined BB-8 until we found its final audio palette," Wood says."

On Kylo Ren:

"On set, Wilson placed a microphone inside [Adam Driver's] mask and attached another one to his chest. "Adam has a great voice, and by placing two mics and combining them in phase, it gave it this larger-than-life quality with a lot of bass and presence." Wood then recorded additional dialogue with Driver using the mask's final post processing. "We don't normally do that kind of thing live with an actor, but it allowed Adam to get more into the character and play with it as an acting tool." It was then up to Nelson to make the dialogue audible. "There's a tendency when you hear a line of dialogue a few times that it becomes clearer in your head even if the audience can't. So I became the gatekeeper and stepped in when we needed to lighten up so the audience wouldn't be left saying, 'What did he say?'""

In addition they discussed the sound mix for Finn's introduction into the film and when Rey discovers her powers. It's all very fascinating and I recommend reading the full article here!

Source: Los Angeles Times

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Monday, January 25, 2016

StarWars.com Reveals the Roles Played by Additional Voices Cast in 'The Force Awakens'

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By: Dominic Jones

After seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens many fans noticed several familiar names from the animated series' Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, as well as other previous Star Wars projects listed as "Additional Voices".  Now Supervising Sound Editor Matt Wood has revealed on StarWars.com which characters were voiced by which actor.  Check out the list below,

Attack on Jakku Village:

Stormtroopers: “Blast that X-wing!” “Over there, over there!” — Sam Witwer and David Collins

Alien Villager at gunpoint from two stormtroopers (Yells and Screams) — Dee Bradley Baker

Stormtrooper: “Keep moving!” “Stay here!” — Matthew Wood

Stormtrooper: “Nothing, Sir.” “Nothing here, go ahead!” — David Acord

Stormtrooper: “Check over there.” “Fan out!” “Copy that, 1138.” —  James Arnold Taylor and Sam Witwer

Red Eyed Sand Alien (watching BB-8 roll away): “Kojima.” — Robert Stambler

Star Destroyer:

PA Announcer (at Poe’s arrival): “Accelerator thrust compensator on Shuttle 338.” “Transponder code ship ID.” “Quantum field regulator/interpolator 385B.” — Sam Witwer

Jakku Desert:

Teedo (Alien dialect during capture/release of BB-8, speaks with Rey) — David Acord

Niima Outpost:

Alien Scavengers (reactions to Unkar Plutt’s “60 portions,” high pitched) — Matt Lanter and Karen Huie

Alien Scavengers (reactions to Unkar Plutt’s “60 portions,” low pitched) — Fred Tatasciore and Mark Dodson

Star Destroyer (TIE Escape):

Hangar Control Center Officer: “TIE launch in the hangar bay!!! (x2)” — David Collins

Hangar Control Center Officer: “Units 7,8,9, we have an unauthorized launch!” — Devon Libran

Hangar Control Center Officer: “Transponder Code Ship ID 177.” — Catherine Taber

Officer on Poe’s TIE Radio: “Unauthorized TIE launch!!” (x2) — Sam Witwer

Niima Outpost (Rey and Finn Meet):

Outpost Scavengers (No water to Finn): “No water!” “BLAH!” “Hashatta Combolia!” — Matthew Wood and David Acord

Hired Thugs (kidnapping BB-8 & alerting stormtroopers): “Mona Keeyana Droid Du Unkar Plutt.” “Asatoya!” — Matthew Wood and David Acord

Stormtrooper: “Call in the airstrike!” — Matthew Wood

Jakku Desert (During Falcon chase):

Scavenger runs to recently shot down TIE fighter: “Metat Teya Zed!” — Orly Schuchmacher

Han Solo’s Freighter:

Guavian Death Gang: Formation vocals and death screams — Matthew Wood and David Acord

Maz Kanata’s Castle Bar:

Laughing Fez Headed Gamers: Laughs — Mark Dodson

Resistance Loyal Droid (alerts Resistance of BB-8) — David Acord

Big Head (Quiggold) (offers work for transportation to Finn) — Matthew Wood

Red Helmet (Sidon Ithano) (converses with Big Head) — David Acord

Hosnian System Citizens:

Male Hosnian on Balcony: “What is it?!” — Tom Kane

Maz Kanata’s Castle Attacked / Forest:

Stormtrooper (radio prompts Rey to first see trooper): “FN-417, hold position.” — Matt Lanter

Stormtrooper (alerted to Rey’s position, fires from castle): “Blast ‘em!” — Matthew Wood

Stormtrooper (alerts Kylo Ren at castle): “Sir, the droid was spotted heading west, with a girl!” — David Collins

Stormtrooper (fights Finn with riot baton): “Traitor!” (fight efforts) — David Acord

Stormtrooper (apprehends Finn): “Don’t move! TK-338, we have targets in custody!” — Fred Tatasciore

Stormtrooper (reacts to incoming Resistance fighters): “We have incoming at 28.6! Move!” — Kevin Smith

Stormtroopers (getting in formation for Resistance attack): “Dispatch artillery!” “Go, go, move!” “Scramble all squads!” (x2), “Anti-air cover on lakefront position!” — Michael Donovan and Sam Witwer

Stormtrooper (running from rock wall incoming fighters): “Go, go, go!” — Sam Witwer

Stormtrooper (into comlink): “Request air support!” — Pip Anderson

Stormtrooper (interrupts Kylo Ren and Rey in forest): “Sir, Resistance fighters. We need more troops.” — Matthew Wood

Stormtrooper (gesturing a command at Kylo’s ship): “Heavy troopers.” “Pull back to tree line.” — Kat Sheridan

Resistance Soldier (disembarking Leia’s shuttle): “Let’s go.” — David Collins

Resistance Base:

Resistance Solider (BB-8 almost runs into soldier on airfield): “Hey!” — David Collins

PA Announcer Interior Base: “PZ-4CO, report to communications.” — Verona Blue

Starkiller Base Control Room:

Weapon Technician (responds to Hux): “Yes sir, weapon charging.” — Catherine Taber

Resistance Base Control Room:

Technician (interrupts Leia with Starkiller news): “Ma’am.” — Meredith Salenger

Starkiller Base:

Stormtrooper (to Kylo Ren in corridor): “Sir, sensors triggered in hangar 718, we are searching the area.” — Verona Blue

PA Announcer (Rey sneaking in corridor): “All sentry droids (x2), resynchronize to Galactic Standard Time, offset 473.” — Michael Donovan

Stormtrooper (as elevator opens, revealing Chewie): “Hey!” — Nigel Godrich

Stormtroopers (as Rey sneaks out toward ledge): “You checked out the new T-17s? The T-17s, as far as I can tell, are a great improvement. Yeah, that’s what they tell you, but believe me, they don’t hold up. They don’t? No…” — David Collins and Sam Witwer

PA Announcer (as Rey climbs down ledge and into machinery): “Technician Mandetat to 44.59 North, 104.7155 West.” “Baryonic Matter Conversion complete in Precent 12.” — Michael Donovan

Control Room Technicians (responding to Hux’s “Dispatch all squadrons!”) — Taylor, Tom Kane, and Verona Blue

Stormtroopers (running as group before Finn sneaks in): “We think they may be splitting up.” — Sam Witwer

Stormtroopers (running as group before Finn sneaks in): “Heading to quadrants four and five.” — Devon Libran

Resistance Fighters Attack Starkiller:

Ello Asty (in X-wing cockpit): “But no damage!” “Roger!” “I’m hit!” — Matthew Wood

Starkiller Base Oscillator:

Stormtroopers (searching under stairs, radio voiced): “Check over there!” “This way!” “Roger that.” — Matt Lanter and James Arnold Taylor

Stormtroopers (aiming at Han Solo in Oscillator): Very distorted commands — Devon Libran and Sam Witwer

Resistance Base Airfield:

Resistance Medical Team: “Let’s get him inside and stabilize him.” “Easy, easy, he’s hurt.” “We got a heartbeat!” — Kat Sheridan, Michael Donovan, and Patrick Correll

The Additional Voices Cast (crowd and background):

David Acord, Michael Donovan, Devon Libran, Kevin Smith, Dee Bradley Baker, Terri Douglas, Elle Newlands, Robert Stambler, Verona Blue, TJ Falls, Michelle Rejwan, Catherine Taber, Eugene Byrd, Dave Filoni, Meredith Salenger, Fred Tatasciore, David Collins, Amanda Foreman, Christopher Scarabosio, James Arnold Taylor, Patrick Correll, Karen Huie, Orly Schuchmacher, Emily Towers, Jonathan Dixon, Tom Kane, Kat Sheridan, Sam Witwer, Mark Dodson, Matthew Lanter, Christian Simpson, Matthew Wood

It's really cool to see so many familiar names from the previous era of Star Wars being brought back for a little more.  


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Friday, March 14, 2014

The SWU Podcast LIVE | 14/03/14

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It's a Super-MEGA-Sized episode of the SWU Podcast this week!  First up Chris, Ben, and Dominic chat with Clone Wars voice actor Stephen Stanton about Season 6 and more!  Then Dominic talks with, Lucasfilm Supervising Sound Editor and voice of General Grievous Matt Wood at Toronto Comic Con!  Plus they break down the Order 66 arc from The Clone Wars Season 6!  Throw in a few live calls, a "This Is Madness" update, a plea for support for Ahsoka, a contest, headlines, and an Episode VII rumor!  And they announce the #ThankTheCloneWars campaign, tune to find out how you can support it!  All this and much more!


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Monday, March 10, 2014

Matt Wood Confirms Involvement on 'Rebels', Talks Episode VII, 'Clone Wars', and 'Detours'

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By: Dominic Jones

Matt Wood, voice of General Grievous in Episode III and The Clone Wars, and Supervising Sound Editor on Episodes I, II, III, and VII, was at Toronto Comic Con this past weekend and took part in a Q&A hosted by InnerSPACE's Morgan Hoffman.  During the Q&A he discussed many Star Wars projects, past, present, future, and cancelled.  I was in attendance for the event, and here are some of the highlights!

The biggest tidbit Matt dropped at the event was that he is working on the upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels.  He said,
"I'm doing some work on Rebels.  I'm looking to kind of godfather some younger folks to get on there and give some opportunity back.  I think that show's fantastic, but I'm probably going to have my hands full with Episode VII when that comes down the pipe.  But I want to make sure (Executive Producer Dave Filoni) is happy and that we can re-capture some of that magic we had on Clone Wars."

He also discussed the now postponed (cancelled) series Detours saying,
"I don't know what will happen with Detours, but I worked on all those episodes.  We did those during Clone Wars...We did those right around the time of the Disney deal.  I don't know what will happen with them.  It was fun working with Seth (Green) and Matt (Senreich) from Robot Chicken...As soon as the word came out that we were going to do Episode VII, which was very surprising to everyone, most/all of the resources of the company have gone towards that."

When asked about how he found out about Episode VII he described the situation as,
"I remember I got called into a meeting and it was like, 'Just hypothetically, could you put a budget together if we were to do Star Wars film?'  'Why?  We're done, I talked to George directly and he said we're done.'  'Well just hypothetically.'  So I kind of took what we were doing on Star Trek Into Darkness and used that as a guide, and not even knowing that they were going to get JJ (Abrams) do the film."

Matt also addressed his experience on The Clone Wars saying,
"We started out very child friendly and I think we did go a bit off the rails there into our darkness.  The end of season 5, in particular, I hope I'm not spoiling it for anybody who hasn't seen it, I just thought that the way Ahsoka left the order was so poignant and amazing, I'm even getting a little emotional even thinking about it!  It was so good the way that was done with the music and we all felt, I think at that moment, as a crew that the show was really special.  We did it to such high technical standards too, George just wanted it to feel like mini movies!  It was shot in the aspect ratio of films, the way it looked, we had a full orchestral score on those episodes, we had a full 5.1 soundtrack, and then just world class actors doing to voice roles for that, and everyone just loves Star Wars.  And George put so much time and effort behind the show.  It was funny that they put it on Saturday morning cartoons with everything else, it just seemed a little out of place.  I'm glad it's on Netflix now so you can watch it now.  We all really loved that show."

I want to thank Matt for coming out to Toronto Comic Con and discussing Star Wars with his fans!  We can't wait to see what he and his team have in store for us with Rebels, Episode VII, and beyond! 


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