'Star Wars' Book News: Ian Doescher's 'Jedi the Last' Due Out in July 2018

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Cover art by Nicolas Delort. (C) 2018 Quirk Books and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)
Zounds! Fans of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars series, rejoice. The eighth book in the series of Shakespearian plays set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" will hit bookstores in our galaxy this summer. 

 Long-time Shakespeare buff (and life-long Star Wars fan) Ian Doescher has taken writer-director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi and re-imagined it as a four-act play written in the Elizabethan era by none other than the Bard of Avon himself. 

 Quirk Books of Philadelphia will release the resulting book, Jedi the Last: Star Wars, Part the Eighth on July 10, 2018 in hardcover, e-book, and audio editions.



The Star Wars saga continues, with adventure and surprises galore!
In the aftermath of Han Solo's death and the return of Luke Skywalker, what secrets will be revealed, what mysteries will deepen, and who will join the struggle to bring peace and freedom to the galaxy? Experience the latest chapter in the Lucas series in an all-new way, with The Last Jedi reimagined as if it came direct from the quill of William Shakespeare. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialog, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars universe. - Quirk Books' publisher's blurb. 

The cover art is done by the series' long-time illustrator Nicolas Delort. The featured character on the main illustration is the last Jedi Master, Luke Skywalker. Although Luke has appeared on two of the three dust jacket illustrations of The William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy, this is the first time that he is the central figure in a Delort woodcut-style cover piece. 

Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth is available for preorder at Amazon and other online retailers. 
  

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