Young Indy Chroniclers (Podcast)
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Young Indy Chroniclers (Podcast)
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Behind the hat, the whip, and the legend — The Young Indy Chroniclers takes you deep into the untold history of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles & Lucasfilm
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Big thanks to the @IngloriousTrek.bsky.social podcast for the shout-out!
They highlighted our documentary George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age — exploring the decade that birthed Young Indy, Radioland Murders, and the Star Wars Special Editions.
Back the film → www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
ILM veteran Yusei Uesugi helped launch digital filmmaking — from Young Indy’s first all-digital matte paintings to Die Hard 2 and the Star Wars Special Edition. Watch this Thursday at www.youtube.com/@youngindychroniclers
#ILM #YuseiUesug #IndustrialLightandMagic
Before The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles hit TV, Indy was already on the page.
These frames from Simon Jowett’s UK Young Indy newspaper strips show a young Indy modeled after River Phoenix — at least in one issue.
🎥 Full chat with Simon: youtu.be/ivc7VaJpmMU
Kickstarter Update:
George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age is officially going into production!
Help us get to $30,000 so we can film interviews in the UK.
Support now to lock in your DVD or Blu-ray copy:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
#GeorgeLucas #Lucasfilm #TheLostGoldenAge
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Young Indy prepared Simon Jowett for 007.
Those Lucasfilm newspaper strips led to his James Bond comics for Dark Horse — and now the upcoming James Bond video game First Light. 🕶️🎮
Full episode: youtu.be/ivc7VaJpmMU
#YoungIndy #SimonJowett #JamesBond #FirstLightGame #DarkHorseComics
We just crossed $20,000! 🎉 Huge thanks to Jon Jacobs for getting us over the line.

The film is growing bigger every day — next stop: $30K and interviews in the UK 🇬🇧 with the creatives who built Lucasfilm’s Lost Golden Age.

Support → tinyurl.com/mvzue57u
🎬 Kickstarter Update:
George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age is officially in production!
Support now to lock in your DVD or Blu-ray copy:
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
#YoungIndy #SimonJowett #GeorgeLucas #Lucasfilm #TheLostGoldenAge #ComicsHistory #ThePrincessOfPeril
When adapting The Princess of Peril for the Young Indy newspaper strips, writer Simon Jowett helped define the moment Indy became Indy — the hat, the jacket, the whip. 🎩
🎥 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/ivc7VaJpmMU
#YoungIndy #SimonJowett #GeorgeLucas #ComicsHistory #ThePrincessOfPeril
Before Young Indy was a show, he was just 12 minutes of The Last Crusade.
Writer Simon Jowett tells how he built Indy’s world from scratch — researching the Templars, Freemasons, and sketching a backstory that didn’t yet exist.
🎥 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/ivc7VaJpmMU
#YoungIndy #SimonJowett
Before writing the Young Indy newspaper strips, Simon Jowett was inspired by the 1980s comics boom — discovering V for Vendetta & Miracleman by Alan Moore in Warrior magazine.
🎥 Full episode: youtu.be/ivc7VaJpmMU
#YoungIndianaJones #SimonJowett #AlanMoore #VforVendetta #ComicsHistory
River Phoenix and the First Young Indy Comic-Strip | Simon Jowett
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Next time on The #YoungIndy Chroniclers, we talk with Simon Jowett, writer of the Young Indiana Jones newspaper strips that came before the TV series.
🎬 #GeorgeLucas: The Lost Golden Age is officially going into production!
Support now to lock in your DVD or Blu-ray copy: tinyurl.com/227yj28h
Young Indiana Jones shows George Lucas at his most mature — mixing adventure with philosophy & morality in ways he never did in Star Wars.
We’ve hit our goal — the film is happening! More support = deeper dives.
🎬 www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
We did it! 🎉 George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age is fully funded — we’re going into production!

Huge thanks to Brandon Rice, Co-EP backer Stephen Jared (who got us halfway there on Day 1), and Matthew Rose, whose pledge pushed us over the top.

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We Hit Our Funding Goal!
Hi everyone, We did it! Thanks to all of you, George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age has officially reached its $15,000 funding goal — which means we’re guaranteed to go into…
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Our podcast opened doors we never imagined — we’ve spoken with Ben Burtt, Rick McCallum, and others who shaped the most exciting periods of George Lucas’s career. 🎬

They’re sharing stories no one’s told before — and we’re already 88% funded on Day 3!
Please support the doc now:
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“The Special Editions weren’t just re-releases — they invented techniques that transformed cinema.” 🌌

We’re already 83% funded! Help us cross the goal:
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#GeorgeLucas #StarWars #Kickstarter
We are beyond grateful to actor Stephen Jared, who has backed George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age at the Rick McCallum: Co-Executive Producer level with a $9,500 pledge. 🙏
Thank you Daniel!
Go support this kickstarter campaign for a documentary created by @youngindypod.bsky.social called George Lucas The Lost Golden Age which covers what Lucas was doing in the 16 years between the release of Return Of The Jedi & The Phantom Menace www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age
A feature-length documentary uncovering George Lucas’s lost decade — the hidden revolution that changed cinema forever.
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