"Emerged from a school visit to discover my secret Star Wars Princess Leia book news is revealed! Am so excited!" Castellucci tweeted. "Guess I can go ahead and unveil my Star Wars Pinterest board now, huh?" Gray tweeted. The authors of the upcoming books were more than happy to share their excitement with their fans online. The " Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens" YA book series includes a Princess Leia adventure called "Moving Target" by award-winning YA author Cecil Castellucci a Luke Skywalker novel called "The Weapon of a Jedi" by Jason Fry, author of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia" a Han Solo story called "Smuggler's Run" by "Batwoman" comic book writer Greg Rucka and "Lost Stars," a book by "Evernight" series author Claudia Gray.
But will he remember all that singing during Wookiee Life Day?ĭisney and Lucasfilm are also focusing on young adult (YA) readers with a series of novels that focus on the main characters from the original trilogy as "a way to introduce the heroes and villains of that original trilogy to a new audience that might not be as familiar as the audience that went and saw the films when they first came out," Sugerman told EW. C-3PO gets to tell his side of things in a new Marvel comic. Marvel Comics are publishing a prequel called "Star Wars: Journey to the Force Awakens," as well as another comic from C-3PO's point of view. While many of the books are still in the development stages, EW.com revealed a few of the titles including the book "Star Wars: Aftermath" from fantasy publisher Del Rey, as well as a novel series that retells events during the original trilogy - "A New Hope," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" - from other characters' perspectives. "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?" "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," Andrew Sugerman, executive vice president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, told EW.com. While we reported last year that Lucasfilm revealed that the upcoming "Star Wars" films "will not tell the same story told in post-'Return of the Jedi' Expanded Universe," it looks as though fans will be getting a large dose of new stories in the form of 20 new books for both adult and young adult audiences.ĭisney Publishing Worldwide and Lucasfilm confirmed plans for the new books to Entertainment Weekly, saying the titles will foreshadow events in J.J.
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