Today at New York Comic Con, Lucasfilm and Del Rey publishing hosted a special panel all about the recently released short story collection, Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View. The books was released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of A New Hope in 1977 and features 40 short stories, by 40 authors, each from the point of view of a different secondary or background character. The panel was moderated by Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group, who also wrote a story for the book, and featured 19 other authors who wrote stories for the book.
I attended the panel this morning and below are my live tweets from it,
Our moderator, Pablo Hidalgo has taken the stage! Panel will b mostly spoiler free about FACPOV but since the book is out there may be a few— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
First group is: Ben Acker, Daniel Jose Older, Elizabeth Wein, Kieron Gillen, and Adam Christopher! #FACPOV #NYCC #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Elizabeth says she chose to write her story in 2nd person because it takes away the gender of the narrator #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Her story is about the Death Star guard who escorts Leia to see Alderaan be destroyed. Says she likes the idea that even bad guys can change— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Malory Ortberg wrote her story as an HR report from Motti about Vader, says she loves the idea of some who is evil and banal #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Malory on Motti: "He's such a dirt bag, but I love him and I'm sad he's dead"— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Gillen: Aphra is an Empire apologist. It was interesting to see her struggle with the idea of the Death Star and planetary genocide #FACPOV— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Adam Christopher's story explored the idea that you could be on the Death Star and have no idea what it is or what's going on during ANH— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pablo asks the villain panel what Rebel they would like to write— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Ben: Wedge (who he wrote in upcoming Storms of Crait comic) #NYCC
Daniel says he wants to write a story about the Model Nodes.— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Malory: Mon Mothma (the challenge would be capturing her amazing voice)
Elizabeth: R2-D2— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Gillen: Whoever Luke sold the speeder to
Adam: The heroes we don't see during the Yavin celebration
Pablo reveals he wanted to write the Tarkin story because he does the temp voice for Tarkin for the early Rebels animatics #FACPOV— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Second group of authors are the light side authors: Claudia Gray, Meg Cabot, Cavan Scott, EK Johnston, Pierce Brown, and Jason Fry #FACPOV— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Claudia's story deals with Qui-Gon reaching out to Obi-Wan throught the Force when Luke rushes back to the farm #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Claudia says she had the idea to write about Qui-Gon b/c she replied to the offer to write late but most of the obvious choices were taken— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Says she always wanted to write about Qui-Gon so she came up with this idea for her story #NYCC #FACPOV #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Meg chose to write about Aunt Beru because she was the second beat character in the film (behind Leia) #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Cabot adds that she wanted to give the caregivers in SW the credit they deserve b/c they often don't in our world #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Meg Cabot also adds that Beru is where Luke got his conpassion from. Says she was always on his side. #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Cavan says he wanted to write a Ben story after having seen the "Twin Suns" episode of Rebels #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
EK says she worked with Ashley Eckstein on her story. Ashley had the idea of putting female pilots in the front row. #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
EK says writing her story helped her deal with the passing of Carrie Fisher. #FACPOV NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pierce adds that he wanted to show how Biggs' perpective on Luke changed throughout the Battle of Yavin. #NYCC #FACPOV #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pierce Brown wanted his Biggs story to be called "The Last Mustache Ride" but the publishers changed it #FACPOV #NYCC #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Jason Fry's story deals with the Rebels who stayed at the base during the assault on the Death Star #FACPOV #NYCC #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Claudia says she wanted to have Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon talk about Anakin and how the structure lf the Jedi didn't work for Anakin #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
She wanted them to admit that mistakes were made but at the end of the day it's still Anakin's fault that he fell to the dark side— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Cavan said that he wanted to explore the idea of who does Obi-Wan imagine under Vader's mask? His friend or the guy who screamed "I hate you— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pablo asks the panel which Dark side character they would like to write.— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Claudia says she's jealous of Malory getting write about Motti
Meg wants write about strontrooper who shot Aunt Beru— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Cavn: The torture droid
EK: Palpatine
Pierce: The troopers tracking the droids
And Jason Fry wants to write Kylo Ren (b/c he sees him as the inverse of the heroes journey), which he is actually doing for the TLJ novel— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Final group of authors has taken the stage, the rogue group. They are: Delilah S Dawson, Chuck Wendig, Zoraida Cordova, John Jackson Miller— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Final group of authors has taken the stage, the rogue group. They are: Delilah S Dawson, Chuck Wendig, Zoraida Cordova, John Jackson Miller— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Delilah said it was to write about an alien species since most of the time we see #StarWars from a human perspective. #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Chuck says he sees the prequels not as Darth Vader's backstory, but as the backstory for why Wuher hates droids! #FACPOV #NYCC #StarWars— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Zoraida says she has always been drawn to survivalist characters, so she wanted to explore the Tonnika Sisters backstory #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
JJM says he brought over some of his ideas from the Legends Kenobi novel which he wrote into the current canon in his Tusken Raider story— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Mur says she wanted to write about the Cantina Band because she wanted to explore how they wound up working on Tatooine #FACPOV #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Charles says he sees Lando as someone who doesn't really care about the Empire, but the events of ANH made him question it for the 1st time— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pablo says his story is about Tarkin not being able to enjoy having the Death Star b/c he can't get Krennic out of his head #NYCC— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pablo adds that Tarkin never really realized how much Krennic bugged him. And also how these two men had very different views on the DS— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Charles says he wanted to feature gambling in his Lando story because Lando sees life as one big gamble. So he invented the game Click Clack— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
JJM also invented a card game for his Canto Bight short story. Like Charles did with his game, he also figured out all the rules of his game— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Pablo asks the authors what other characte would they like to write about.— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
Delilah: The Tauntaun's wife
Chuck: The Millennium Falcon
Zoraida: Ackmena— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
JJM: Lando or the ugnaught who cleans the vents on cloud city
Mur: The Death Star officers next to laser
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017
— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) October 7, 2017Attendees of the panel also got a convention exclusive copy of the book, which was signed by several of the authors who contributed to From A Certain Point Of View. Check it out below,
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