79.1: WookieFest! (featuring clubbed thumbs and six fingers)

Movie Meltdown - Episode 79.1

Welcome to WOOKIEFEST!! It's so packed with Wookie-fun it's like a trip to Kashyyyk! And along the way we cover…

Booting Megan Fox, …in the Cardio-Theater, Frank Frazetta, Heavy Rain, more Gidget?, Ponty Pool, Fire and Ice, milk and Mountain Dew?, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, JTT??, making the Mushroom Kingdom, Robert Rodriguez buying vinyl models, wasn’t there a Treasure Planet?, the importance of physical visuals, Super Mario Bros., Transformers 3, the freaky reason Bryan is hot for Gemma Arterton, why were you watching Miami Medical?, McG is kind of a dork, rebooting Treasure Island, my fifth-grade JTT crush, Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Bay as Hitler, kid stars hooked on meth, the serious John Leguizamo, Silent Hill, Dennis Hopper and Mojo Nixon, another project for David Fincher, another project for Ridley and Tony Scott, watching Gossip Girl?, having a thing for Samantha Mathis, Blue Crush for Twilight girls?, and when should you just scrap the movie and make a video game?

Plus our interview with Peter Mayhew, who you would know as CHEWBACCA! Did he set out to be an actor? And what was it like getting back into the costume after a 22 year span?

“I'd like to see the old classics, set in space - steampunk style.”