Author Charles Soule, who will be kicking off Lucasfilm’s massive new publishing program Star Wars: The High Republic in January with the release of his novel Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi, recently spent time speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about this new literary project. Check out the intro to his interview segment copied below and then head on over to THR’s website for the full read.
Charles Soule — writer behind the first of the new generation of stories from a galaxy far, far away — talks about its origins, and what to expect.
This January, fans of a galaxy far, far away are going to get to visit a longer time ago than they’re used to, when Star Wars: The High Republic — a publishing program that spans multiple publishers and multiple mediums, set in an era that predates even the prequel movie trilogy, and shows the Jedi at the height of their powers.The High Republic begins with Star Wars: Light of the Jedi, a prose novel published by Del Rey and written by someone familiar to fans of the franchise: Charles Soule, who’s been writing Star Wars comic books for Marvel for the past five years, including his current tenure on the core series.
It’s the first Star Wars novel from Soule, and one that has to introduce readers to a number of new worlds, literally and figuratively — which, of course, makes it an ideal opportunity for Soule to get very ambitious indeed. “It’s a disaster movie; it’s a mystery; it’s a race-against-time-team-on-a-mission story,” he told The Hollywood Reporter when talking about the book.
That’s not all Soule revealed about Light of the Jedi, The High Republic, and building a whole new era of Star Wars. Keep reading to find out much more — including some teases about just what kind of threat faced the galaxy in the days before the Galactic Empire.
