# 06 - Ryan Johnson's Star Wars Prequel Rumors

3/5/2020

## EPISODE VI
### RYAN JOHNSON'S STAR WARS PREQUEL RUMORS

It is a period of hope: the late 1990s!

A student at the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, CONNOR RATLIFF is tasked with creating a web page to promote himself as an actor.

This leads to the unlikely creation of a fictional character with a name that would someday become legendary in ways that even a Jedi master could not have predicted.

Meanwhile, half a world away, veteran stage actor HOLMES OSBORNE's career is ascendant, thanks to an opportunity given to him by TOM HANKS in his feature film debut as writer/director, _That Thing You Do!_ Soon enough, he would be revealed to the world as DONNIE DARKO'S FATHER.

Little do they know that a young man named [RIAN JOHNSON](https://twitter.com/rianjohnson) has just begun a 7-year journey to make a movie of his own, the success of which would set in motion a chain of events that would transform him into one of the most powerful filmmakers in the galaxy...

More than two decades later, a mysterious podcast reveals the ways in which these seemingly unrelated figures are connected. Connor, obsessed with his firing from _Band of Brothers_, enlists his friend, Syfy's [JACKIE JENNINGS](https://twitter.com/ohhijackie), to help him unpack the myriad ways that their fates are entwined, in his unending search for ANSWERS...

[Episode Transcript](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQS89BDQZ9X3gRqB0BBhxtFdTtNFeH2D33Gpmr0Q01K2zF5HHnA3ciNrDIjKFSqS1vgiHV7jE43lQjH/pub)