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Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

They really can't use Aphra unless and until her comic series catches up to the Mando-verse timeframe. Given that she's been around for over 7 years and in that time the comics have only gone from about 6 months to a year post ANH to maybe 6 months or so post tESB where they are currently, it's going to take a while to get anywhere near 5 years post Jakku.

Maybe they'll do a time jump once they catch up to RotJ, or end the series and thus freeing her up in other properties. We'll see.
 
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Ithekro said:
The Book of Boba Fett did get Black Krrsantan, so comic book characters do appear now from time to time.
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That's not the issue. The issue is that she has an ongoing series that's set years prior to when most of the new live action stuff is taking place. If live action uses her, they risk penning in the comic writers who may have a different trajectory in mind for her. At best, it's poor form. At worst, it's a detriment.
It works in both directions too. It's why there were a bunch of Phasma centric material in the books and comics in the lead up to TLJ; because they knew she was getting killed off and the movie people were done with her.
By extension, this means there's almost certainly nothing planned for either Qi'ra or Sabe anytime soon, since they're both getting a lot of material on the literary side of things.

Krrsantan was never more than a supporting character, so it really doesn't matter that he showed up later on in the timeline anymore than Bossk, or Cad Bane. He doesn't have an ongoing story or character arc. He's a big scary mean Wookiee. That's all there is to him. There's no story there to disrupt.
 
Reverend said:
It's why there were a bunch of Phasma centric material in the books and comics in the lead up to TLJ; because they knew she was getting killed off and the movie people were done with her.
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Now you're reassuring everyone who wants to see Aphra, since that just means that it's possible to use the character if they communicate the right things between each other. :p
 
YellowSubmarine said:
Now you're reassuring everyone who wants to see Aphra, since that just means that it's possible to use the character if they communicate the right things between each other. :p
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That's not how it works. The Story Group is what facilitates that kind of flow of information, but it's up to the individual storytellers to tell their own stories. Dropping references is one thing, potentially tipping the conclusion or payoff to another story is something else entirely. The only time things like this are closely coordinated is if they're doing some big cross-platform event, which is something they rarely do because it's a major headache. Even when the movies were coming out, the literary tie-ins were highly selective. With one or two exceptions (like the Aftermath trilogy & Bloodline), post-Jedi stories about the OT characters were basically off limits. It's only recently with 'Shadows of the Sith' that we're getting anything of substance and it's been *3 years* since TRoS.
A big part of this is because the different mediums move at vastly different paces. Movies are years in the making, but can change radically at any point along the way. Comics are on a constant production lines so they have to be done on short notice. Novels on the other hand have to pretty much have a locked in manuscript fully a year ahead of the publication date, because that industry is a dinosaur and refuses to change. Animation is written two or more years ahead of the air-date and as such also need an early lock (and planning broadcast dates that far in advance is always tricky.) Then finally we have live action TV which generally shoots in blocks and can have anything from a few months to a whole year in post, depending on the project.

And just to be clear; I didn't say it was impossible, just not very likely. Once her comic run ends or it jumps ahead in the timeline, then the chances go up.
 
Reverend said:
They really can't use Aphra unless and until her comic series catches up to the Mando-verse timeframe. Given that she's been around for over 7 years and in that time the comics have only gone from about 6 months to a year post ANH to maybe 6ix months or so post tESB where they are currently, it's going to take a while to get anywhere near 5 years post Jakku.

Maybe they'll do a time jump once they catch up to RotJ, or end the series and thus freeing her up in other properties. We'll see.
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Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't think about the fact that her comic is still going, I was just thinking that she's a popular character.
That would also probably explain why we're starting to see stuff set in during The High Republic, but none of it seems to be set in the same time frames as the THR books and comics.
 
JD said:
That would also probably explain why we're starting to see stuff set in during The High Republic, but none of it seems to be set in the same time frames as the THR books and comics.
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Which is kind of annoying to read. I haven't been able to find the time to read The Path of Deceit, Convergence, or The Quest for the Hidden City, but from the first several chapters I've read they already seemeto have abandoned the time period in which the first nine novels were set, and moved onto a century (?) earlier. It would sound good enough to pick it up elsewhere.
 
The High Republic story telling is being done in phases.

We're currently in Phase II which is set before Phase I. IIRC Phase III will be set after Phase I, it starts in November 2023.
 
YellowSubmarine said:
Which is kind of annoying to read. I haven't been able to find the time to read The Path of Deceit, Convergence, or The Quest for the Hidden City, but from the first several chapters I've read they already seemeto have abandoned the time period in which the first nine novels were set, and moved onto a century (?) earlier. It would sound good enough to pick it up elsewhere.
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They'll get back to it. They're just pausing to wind back the timeline to tell a little of the backstory of what's about to happen. It's like the machette order, only on purpose.

On the whole it's a good thing that they're spreading out the stories across several centuries. It gives new readers multiple entry points, lets certain events and characters breath a little, so you don't end up with the EU scenario where there's such a density of events in the space of a few decades that there's a constant friction between creative visions which leaves to the overall outward impression of an impenetrable incoherent mess.

The High Republic as a whole seems like it's being run more like a TV show, with producers and a "writers room" so they can knock out the big world building ideas first and then decide who wants to tell what stories within that framework.
 
Yeah, that's the impression I've gotten too. I think it's probably the best way to do this kind of big collaborative project, that way everybody has a clear idea of what's going and what the stories are all heading towards.
 
YellowSubmarine said:
Wouldn't that also open up the (short) TV shows for setting their action more whenever they like?
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Well 'The Acolyte' is going to be set in the late High Republic, so yeah. That said, I'm not getting the impression that they don't already have free reign to go anywhere in the timeline they please. It's just the Mandalorian started off 5 years-ish post RotJ, so it's only natural the spin-offs are clustered there too. Plus Kenobi is set smack in the middle of the two trilogies, Andor is running concurrent with Rebels, so it's not like there's an strict mandate. I'm sure if anyone has a good pitch for an Old Republic show, or a post-TRoS show it'll get a fair hearing.
 
Random Star Wars thought: if Lucasfilm can't put together a new movie for several more years, maybe they should theatrically re-release the OT in 3D? (The thought of those fans who reluctantly trudged to theaters to see Phantom Menace in 3D, fearing that if they didn't do so, they wouldn't get to see a 3D OT, only for the Disney acquisition and everything else to follow, will never not be funny to me.)
 
The 4k releases of the ST and OT we have on Disney+ were done by George and co. during the prep for 3D apparently.

I wonder if finished 3D edits of the remaining films exist in the archive somewhere, or if the 2D edits were as far as they got.
 
I really wish they would release episode 3 in 3D. That was the only one I wanted to see.
 
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