He's taking some time off from writing due to a few personal/family-based reasons -- he was going through a nasty divorce a few years back, and he moved back to his hometown in Illinois (where I live) from Florida to take care of his sick mother.
One of the cool stories he told was of getting offered the Batman Begins novelization (which Denny O'Neil ended up writing along with TDK, and our very own @Greg Cox doing TDKR), but having to turn it down due to then being under-deadline with Revenge of the Sith (Warner Bros. was going to fly him out to NYC to meet with producer Emma Thomas and Frank Miller, the latter Stover said he hugely regretted not getting to meet, being a huge fan of Miller's '80s Daredevil-run).
Stover also talked about how ticked off he was at the time about the Disney de-canonization of most of the Star Wars EU in 2014 (he mentioned how his Sith book was exempted due to it being a movie-novelization), but I told him that Shatterpoint still largely fits into the new Disney-timeline (at least for the moment), and is still part of my SW-headcanon. But he then said that he understood why they did it from a corporate-standpoint, though, due to wanting to "clear the decks" for new viewers who hadn't read any of the Legends EU, in terms of making new films.
One of the cool stories he told was of getting offered the Batman Begins novelization (which Denny O'Neil ended up writing along with TDK, and our very own @Greg Cox doing TDKR), but having to turn it down due to then being under-deadline with Revenge of the Sith (Warner Bros. was going to fly him out to NYC to meet with producer Emma Thomas and Frank Miller, the latter Stover said he hugely regretted not getting to meet, being a huge fan of Miller's '80s Daredevil-run).
Stover also talked about how ticked off he was at the time about the Disney de-canonization of most of the Star Wars EU in 2014 (he mentioned how his Sith book was exempted due to it being a movie-novelization), but I told him that Shatterpoint still largely fits into the new Disney-timeline (at least for the moment), and is still part of my SW-headcanon. But he then said that he understood why they did it from a corporate-standpoint, though, due to wanting to "clear the decks" for new viewers who hadn't read any of the Legends EU, in terms of making new films.
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