A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Photo Credit: www.rebelscum.com. (C) 1998 Hasbro, Inc. and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)  The boggy, swamp planet Dagobah is the principal planet in the star system of the same name. Although explored, Dagobah remains sparsely populated because of its inhospitable climate and generally unpleasant surroundings. Constantly shrouded in mist and strangled by dense vegetation, the planet is the home to numerous animal life, including dangerous flying predators. The Jedi Master Yoda also makes his home and hideout there and is the only resident of notoriety. – From the package blurb, Star Wars – Power of the Force: Dagobah with Yoda (Complete Galaxy) Twenty years ago, Hasbro, Inc.’s Kenner division released a new assortment of globe-and-figure sets called Complete Galaxy. Sold as part of Kenner’s revived Star Wars: The Power of the Force collection, this assortment consists of four detailed globes based on three planets and one battle station where crucial events of the Galactic Civil War oc

Cover art by Drew Struzan. (C) 1996 Varese Sarabande Records and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) In 1996, Lucasfilm gathered several authors, artists, and representatives from Hasbro and other licensees to discuss a huge multimedia project that was, in short, everything but the full-fledged filmed version of a Star Wars movie. To kick this ambitious campaign, writer Steve Perry was hired to write an original novel for Bantam Spectra that would be the core of the project called Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. The novel. Photo Credit: www.mycomicshop.com. (C) 1996 Bantam Spectra and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) The novel would be a stand-alone Expanded Universe novel, the first of the Bantam Spectra series to depict event between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jed i. All the other products, ranging from Hasbro's Kenner action figures to Nintendo 64 cartridges, would use Perry's novel as a starting point and expand the story, sticking to the essentials of the centra

(C) 1997 HighBridge Audio and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Blood of a Jedi Cast Han Solo (Perry King) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Major Derlin  (Tom Virtue) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Lando Calrissian (Arye Gross) Wedge Antilles (Jon Matthews) Gray Leader Green Leader Admiral Ackbar (Mark Adair Rios) Red Two Red Three Luke Skywalker (Joshua Fardon) Emperor Palpatine (Paul Hecht) Lord Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Bunker Commander Trooper #1 Control Room Voice Anakin Skywalker/Unmasked Vader (David Birney) Narrator (Ken Hiller)  Sound FX Roles Chewbacca Artoo-Detoo Wicket Glider Ewok Nien Numb Reviewer's Note: All quoted material is from the 1996 Del Rey book Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The National Public Radio Dramatization.  This edition contains Brian Daley's complete radio play, which differs slightly from the version of the Radio Drama which aired on National Public Radio in 1996 and the origi