This new ‘Star Wars’ series is going to be a big departure for the franchise, and that’s awesome.
Headland revealed the title and gave a fairly detailed description of the series’ setting and premise in a new Lucasfilm profile in
. The article describes the show a “a mystery thriller set in a prosperous and seemingly peaceful era, when the galaxy is still sleek and glistening.”Headland said the drive of the show is to explore how the galaxy arrived at the place it’s at in , when the Sith are poised to destroy the Jedi and the Empire makes its swift ascent. She explained:
A lot of those characters [from The Phantom Menace] haven’t even been born yet. We’re taking a look at the political and personal and spiritual things that came up in a time period that we don’t know much about.
The article didn’t have much to say on the show’s casting , but that premise sounds intriguing — and, thankfully, something very different from the world of
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