Via Starwars.com:

THE WRITER TALKS TO STARWARS.COM ABOUT BRINGING THE LATEST FILM IN THE SAGA TO COMICS AND BREAKING A STAR WARS WRITER RECORD.

If you loved Star Wars: The Last Jedi, there’s good reason to be excited for Marvel’s comic-book adaptation. Aside from the fact that it’s penned by Rogue One scribe Gary Whitta, the series promises to be more than a mere retelling of the film’s story: Whitta and artist Michael Walsh will be adding select new scenes and perspectives into the story — a “jazz riff,” as he told StarWars.com, on the tale. (In addition, the series places Whitta in a unique category as the only person on Earth with writing credits for a Star Wars live-action movie (Rogue One), TV episode (Star Wars Rebels), book (From a Certain Point of View), and comic. To quote Supreme Leader Snoke, that’s “something truly special.”) Marking today’s arrival of issue #1, StarWars.com spoke with Whitta about his new status as a Star Wars writer record-holder, finally getting to pen Skywalkers, and paying tribute to his favorite Mon Calamari.

StarWars.com: First, how does it feel to be the only person to have written [or contributed to] a Star Wars movie, comic, book, and TV episode? What’s that like?

Gary Whitta: It’s funny. I can’t even remember how that came about in terms of realizing it. Either it occurred to me, or somebody pointed it out to me along the way, and I said, “That can’t be right, can it?” ‘Cause there’s obviously lots of writers out there who have done Star Wars in different mediums, but I’m one of the few that’s lucky enough to have done one of the movies, and once you narrow it down to just the writers who’ve done the movies, it suddenly becomes a way, way, way shorter list.

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