We spoke w/ 'Star Wars: The High Republic' authors about Phase 3, character deaths, and jumping back in time to tell the story.
In 2020, Lucasfilm launched the Star Wars: The High Republic publishing initiative, which tells stories of the golden age of the Jedi, centuries before the events of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The initiative, which has produced best-selling novels and comic runs, and will soon branch out into visual media with the animated series Young Jedi Adventures and the live-action The Acolyte has been a massive success with audiences.
DANIEL JOSÉ OLDER: Well, for me, it's getting to explore a character who we met really old, but when she's really young, and they're both rebellious ages of her life, but in totally different ways. And so, getting to trace the roots of that, and having just so much fun with characters and pirates and chaos, and all the other elements that are part of the adventures, but taking a totally different direction than Phase 1.
GEORGE MANN: There’s a certain amount of freedom to going into a brand-new era, as well. Like I said, being able to introduce characters and tell new stories that feel slightly different, but to then set up things that are going to hopefully pay off later on, as well. Not just characters but other things, like exploring the origins of the Nihil.
So we talked about that, but at a certain point, the story can dictate some of those choices too. And, just as all of my colleagues said, there are a lot of advantages from a storytelling perspective to going back in time in Phase 2, and we wanted all of that. We wanted to not just tell the backstory in flashbacks or little anecdotes, we wanted to really make it rich.
And then, when we showed the logo and people went mad because it was blue, we were like, “We're gonna be okay,” and when we started to show the characters, and the response. We got off the panel and I opened my phone, and there was a fanart of Matty, and I was like, “I think we're gonna be alright.” And that was the daunting part, then we went, “Right, now we've really got to make this work,” because these people love this stuff.
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