Lit Who will write The Last Jedi Novelization? Alan Dean Foster again?

I certainly hope it's not ADF. The man has yet to write a good Star Wars book.

 

My fingers are crossed for Matthew Stover. The ROTS novelization is my favorite Star Wars book. If not, James Luceno or Alexander Freed would probably be really solid choices.

 

Oh, that would certainly work too.

 

The thing is, I think James Luceno is the best Star Wars author but I don't think he should write the films novelization. My reason is because he is very good at writing unique tie-in stories and based on certain characters (e.g. Catalyst, Tarkin, Darth Plageuis) and him writing the novelization based on someone else's story would be a waste of his talent.

 

I know this won't happen but I wish they would just skip the movie novelizations. Seems like a wasted opportunity to tell a different story to me.

 

Thing is, I'd rather want Freed to give the aborted Star Wars Uprising storyline a proper closure (because the Lando interlude in Empire's End wasn't enough).

Stover would be a dream. Or James Kahn. How come they never asked James Kahn to write another one? His novalization of ROTJ had some very poignant passages.

 

Kahn is doing the Episode IX novel.

 

Is he?

 

Of course. Why would I just lie on the internet like that?

 

Matt Stover should do the Episode IX novel since he wanted to do the final adventure of the Big 3. Ep.IX could be the final adventure of Luke.

 

It is honestly not all that different from how we choose authors for "regular" books. The criteria doesn't really change all that much though there is some consideration for adapting a screenplay. And some authors aren't interested in that. But that's about it.

 

"NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"

 

I will read this regardless but hope it is someone other than ADF. TFA had a couple good parts not in the movie but the movie was superior. I'm game for pretty much anyone else.

 

Freed would be my choice even if I didn't like the novel for RO but I don't blame him for someone else' script being... faulty, to put it diplomatically.

 

James Kahn's ROTJ novelization is massively underrated. I wonder whatever happened to him.

 

Jimmy's written a few novelizations in his day --- The Shadow, The Mask of Zorro, a junior novelization of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and twelve Robotech novels with Brian Daley that adapted the TV show. He talks about the process and the challenges of writing novelizations in the opening minutes of this interview --- sometimes producers just want you to put the script onto the page, but sometimes they ask you to go more in-depth and add new stuff to it. The process can be easy or it can be as difficult as any other project. He closes by saying that he would probably step out of a project if he were asked to simply put the script onto the page, though.

 

I know this is far fetched but since the fourth SW trilogy are almost guaranteed to be made sometime after Episode IX. Who should write the fourth trilogy novelizations? An older Chuck Wendig or an older Claudia Gray?

Also will Del Rey do adult bridge novels between the ST films? One good thing about the prequels is that there were bridge novels leading into at least two of the prequel films. I didn't like The Approaching Storm by Alan Dean Foster that much but I liked James Luceno's Labryinth of Evil leading into ROTS with some cool space battles involving Obi-Wan and Anakin. Will DR do a lead in novel to Episode IX in early 2019?

 

I wouldn't be surprised if we got a lead-in novel for Episode IX. It wasn't really possible with The Force Awakens due to all of the secrecy surrounding it, and Episode VIII already has a lead-in (it's called The Force Awakens). But Catalyst is proof enough that lead-ins are still a thing, so yeah, an Ep IX lead-in seems possible if not probable.

 

I can get that. As a reader, I have very little interest in a novelization that doesn't take advantage of the textual format to add new elements.

 

WORD. I want Stover to return to the Star Wars universe. As of right now, due to James Luceno's two disappointments and Timothy Zahn's Thrawn, he may be the best Star Wars author around. If he writes it, I may actually consider reading it and I didn't read The Force Awakens novelization or the Rogue One one.

 

Why? Splinter of the Minds Eye was great!

 

Wouldn't the author chosen depend on the subject/tone of the movie? It's hard to say which author I'd choose without seeing the movie. But if I'm speculating, we'll be seeing a lot of Force stuff, and the middle chapter of a trilogy is generally the darkest. No idea where Finn's and Poe's stories will go, or if Leia's role will have anything to do with politics. So an author familiar with darker tones and mysticism in their writing, who'd also be up for a novelization? Maybe give R.A. Salvatore another shot (I'm not a big fan, but others like him)? A newcomer to SW? Stover would be a good fit too.

Or just to irritate the Lit fans here, wouldn't this be a perfect project for Troy Denning to enter the new SW universe?

 

Careful, you're playing with heresy 'round these parts.

No, honestly, I think Troy gets worse of a rap as an author than he deserves. His creative decisions are what dragged down LOTF and FOTJ, yes, but when he's given a road map, he's just fine (Star by Star and Tatooine Ghost were both good). It's his own ideas of what fits the SW universe that...don't actually seem to fit the SW universe. A novelization might actually be a good way to reintroduce him to SW writing.

 

Stole mine...

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