A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Many Star Wars EU/Legends fans would love to have seen films based on Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. But the window for a live-action version closed long, long ago. © 1991 Bantam Spectra & Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)  Quora member Michael Justin asks: Will Lucasfilm ever do a Star Wars movie set between Episodes VI and VII with a de-aged CGI Han, Luke, and Leia? And I say:  No. First of all, as it stands now, the technology for such a complex project is too primitive  and  extremely expensive, plus the results simply would not be convincing. Just look at  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story  from 2016. which uses CGI technology to superimpose the likeness of Peter Cushing (who died in 1994) on actor Guy Henry (who wore motion-capture headgear while filming) to play Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin in a film set shortly before the events of  Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope.  Ditto for the brief appearance of Norweigan actress Ingvild Deila (with...

(C) 2010 Dark Horse Comics and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)  Pros:  Three hard-to-find Star Wars comics series by Dark Horse; great writing; nice art Cons:  Shadows of the Empire has been edited somewhat. In 1996, one year before the 20th Anniversary of Star Wars ' theatrical premiere and almost three years prior to the release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace , Lucasfilm Limited commissioned a huge multimedia project titled Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire . With Steve Perry's hardcover novel of the same title at its core, Shadows of the Empire was Lucasfilm's "everything-but-the-movie" bid to tell the untold story of what happened between 1980's Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's  Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In Shadows of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is still reeling from the duel with Darth Vader on Bespin, where he lost his right hand to the Dark Lord's lightsaber and was told that his mentors Ben Ken...