When Disney announced that they were releasing a new series of movies based in the Star Wars Universe, it was assumed that George Lucas would have some involvement. Abrams has been praised by critics lucky enough to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens early ( including yours truly), but there is something that has been hanging over the film for some time now. ''Without revealing what those pieces are, it will just allow readers to speculate about the new film: What could a location mean, or what could a character mean?'ĭisney also plans to publish a series of Young Adult novels based on three Star Wars films, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. However, supporting characters from the films will act as the storytellers in those books.īe sure to follow T-Lounge on Twitter and visit our Facebook page.J.J. 'The partnership with the story group and the editorial team always had to be true to the sanctity of the film while making sure that we find these moments to introduce hints, clues, and puzzle pieces,' says Sugarman. Basically, the idea is to get readers interested in the new films by catching them up on events that happen before events in the first movie. One thing you can expect from the new book series are hints of what's to come in the new films, although many of these plots have remained secret. 'To track it, a lot of top-secret meetings were happening up in San Francisco as we worked through this program.'

' The Force Awakens is an extraordinarily, heavily guarded storyline,' says Andrew Sugarman, executive vice president of Disney Publishing Worldwide. The new collective series of books, Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, will have multiple authors, multiple editors and a variety of publishers. Instead, we're getting all new stories written by authors who've worked closely with those writing the scripts of the new J.J. Of course, this means that those non-canon books that had Han and Leia married with twins could be wrong and that Vader never had an apprentice named Starkiller.

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