The "Journey To The Force Awakens" panel for Disney-Lucasfilm publishing just wrapped up at New York Comic Con and it turned out to be quite eventful. Panelists Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Bray, Chuck Wendig, Claudia Gray, Greg Rucka and Jason Fry had much to talk about their recent works, and even revealed a few new pieces of Star Wars literature coming in the next few months. Our very own Dominic Jones, Chris Seekell and Lillian Skye were there to report on the panel as it happened and provided us with a plethora of tweets and photos. You catch up on all that was said during the panel by taking a look at their hard work below:
#StarWars publishing panel starts now— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Panelist are Michael Siglain, Jason Fry, Greg Rucka, Claudia Gray, Chuck Wendig, Adam Bray, and Pablo Hidalgo #StarWars#NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Journey to the Force Awakens with Pablo Hildago,Adam Bray, @ChuckWendig,Claudia Gray, @ruckawriter,Jason Fry #NYCCpic.twitter.com/4P6tQMZsFV— Lillian Skye (@LillianSkye_) October 10, 2015Siglain reiterates that the Journey to TFA books all feature hints for #TheForceAwakens, but no spoilers #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Fry says he was always a Han guy but wrote Luke novel, Rucka says he was always a Luke guy but wrote a Han novel! #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Fry says he felt twice as much pressure to get Leia's character right than Luke's— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka says he asked to put in a new proposal for Shattered Empire when saw all the main cast on the cover of Issue #1 #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka says he wanted to make sure everyone knew the empire was evil, not just "the bad guys"#StarWars#NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray compares the process for writing Lost Stars to the #StarWars car scene i Ferris Bueller's Day Off #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray says she wanted to explore how good people wound up in an evil machine #NYCC#LostStars#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray says the most fun was establishing the characters home world in #LostStars and how that would effect the characters in the empire #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray compares the love story in #LostStars to Casablanca, rather than Romeo and Juliet #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Chuck Wendig describes how he got his job by tweeting about his desire to wrote at #StarWars novel #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Bray says authors of 'Absolutely Everything' saw as a challenge to get as much obscure trivia as possible into it #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Pablo: Once the storyline of #TheForceAwakens was solidified they they mapped out the story between VI & VII #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Pablo: State of galaxy between VI and VII is based on notes from GL, world building Arndt did and ideas Johnson wants to explore in VIII— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Pablo: Everything else between VI and VII is left loose to allow greatest creative freedom down the line #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka says writing the dialogue between Han and Leia was one of his favorite parts of writing Smuggler's Run #StarWars#NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka promises some "fun stuff" between Shara, Leia, and the new Queen of Naboo in issue #3 of Shattered Empire #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka says he loves that Qui-Gon is always at peace in The Phantom Menace, wanted to being that to post-ROTJ Luke #StarWars#NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Rucka says he fight anyone who bashes TPM, because of how much he loves Qui-Gon and his meditation scene in the middle of the final duel— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray says she wanted to challenge readers to think about what they would do in the situations in the book #LostStars#NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Wendig: B1 Battle Droids may be inept, but they look imposing, this led to him creating Mister Bones in Aftermath #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Wendig says he finds it interesting that droids are basically sentient but they're people's servants #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Brays says he liked writing about languages and food in #StarWars in "Absolutely Everything"#NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015E-short story called the perfect weapon which focuses on Bazeen, the woman in black in the vanity Fair aliens pic coming November/December— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Star Wars Tales: Aliens short story book announced from Landry Walker, on sale December 1st— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Claudia Gray announces she's writing a new novel: Star Wars: New Republic: Bloodline, set 6 years before TFA #StarWars#NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Pablo: Once TFA comes out future waves of publishing will deal with the big 3— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015When asked about how much info about TFA he got for writing Aftermath, Wendig says he got "enough" to lay the hints and puzzle pieces #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Gray says she didn't want to know anything about TFA she didn't absolutely need to know when writing New Republic: Bloodline #NYCC#StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015That's a wrap for the publishing panel! Thanks @ChuckWendig@claudiagray@ruckawriter Adam Bray, Michael Siglain and Pablo for a great show!— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 10, 2015Keep it here on StarWarsUnderworld.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more exclusive coverage of New York Comic Con!
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