Collider’s Jedi Council: Episode 29
In today’s episode Kristian and Mark discuss new potential cast members for Episode 8. Will the new trailer be here soon? Kristian sat down and chatted with Dave Filoni from Rebels and author Claudia Gray to discuss Lost Stars. This and a ton more on today’s Jedi Council!!
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I was hoping for some cool event in London, so I already bought flights to and from London for the opening weekend. Now I only need to get movie tickets…
This was a great episode, I love both Kristian and Mark, but it was funny when Kristian was interviewing the author of Lost Stars – as much as he was lauding the book and her writing, he did feel inadvertantly poo-poo the broad YA genre which the author almost exclusively works in.
He pulled it back in the end though, and I think she was fine with where he was coming from.
P.S. I want Gugu Mbatha-Raw to be Lando’s daughter ( I could totally buy her as Billy Dee’s daughter ). Episode 8 is the right time to introduce his progeny, and she’d be a great new, terrific Calrissian!
Lost Stars is far and away the best book to come out of the new EU. I wish the other Star Wars would take their job as seriously as she does, I’m not even sure any of them ever passed a HS English class. I don’t know why but there seems to be a higher success rate among YA Star Wars novels than there are among the “adult” novels. Probably since the short page count doesn’t let them get too self-indulgent with their descriptions and dialogue like Troy Denning and John Jackson Miller were legendary for.
Best part is that the book leaves room open for a sequel which I presume would take place during the new trilogy.
Another excellent episode this week, especially loved the Claudia Grey interview.
Great episode. I really enjoyed the fact that the ripping of the PT was kept to a minimum and a statement acknowledging that there are actual fans of the PT exist.