This fall there are going to be twenty new Star Wars books that are going to be published and will bridge the gap between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. This is an ambitious plan, seeing that it will cover multiple formats and multiple publishers. This series is going to be called Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Not only will there be multiple publishers for these books, but they will cover a wide variety of types of books, from graphic novels, to adult literature, to children's books.
One of the reasons that Disney is doing this is because after buying the franchise from George Lucas and starting production on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they needed to decide what was canon and what wasn't. They basically said that any novel ever written that had to deal with Star Wars was out. This covered a lot of books! From Heir to the Empire to The New Jedi Order, everything was thrown out of the window. This also left a large gap in the history of a galaxy far, far away. What happened over the last thirty-two years that we don't know about? And there are going to be a lot of questions about this by the time the movie arrives!
To cover all of these questions and not to leave out any fan, no matter what their age, Disney will team up with Marvel Comics, Del Rey, and Dorling Kindersley to reveal these stories, as well as using their own Disney Publishing company. Most of these books are still works in progress, but some have already been finished and their titles have been announced. These titles include Smuggler's Run, Moving Target, Weapon of the Jedi, and Lost Stars.
Like I said earlier, these books will be released during the fall of this year, so it will give readers a chance to get caught up on the things that took place over the last thirty-some odd years before the movie gets released on December 18th.
Looks like I've got some reading to do...
One of the reasons that Disney is doing this is because after buying the franchise from George Lucas and starting production on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they needed to decide what was canon and what wasn't. They basically said that any novel ever written that had to deal with Star Wars was out. This covered a lot of books! From Heir to the Empire to The New Jedi Order, everything was thrown out of the window. This also left a large gap in the history of a galaxy far, far away. What happened over the last thirty-two years that we don't know about? And there are going to be a lot of questions about this by the time the movie arrives!
To cover all of these questions and not to leave out any fan, no matter what their age, Disney will team up with Marvel Comics, Del Rey, and Dorling Kindersley to reveal these stories, as well as using their own Disney Publishing company. Most of these books are still works in progress, but some have already been finished and their titles have been announced. These titles include Smuggler's Run, Moving Target, Weapon of the Jedi, and Lost Stars.
Like I said earlier, these books will be released during the fall of this year, so it will give readers a chance to get caught up on the things that took place over the last thirty-some odd years before the movie gets released on December 18th.
Looks like I've got some reading to do...
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