Via Starwars.com:
IN A SPECIAL GUEST EDITORIAL, AUTHOR JASON FRY DETAILS HOW HE INCORPORATED VARIOUS STAR WARS TALES INTO HIS ADAPTATION.
It’s a galaxy full of stories.
Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi screenplay picks up where The Force Awakens left off, includes a famous holographic plea from A New Hope, and shows us Luke Skywalker discussing Darth Sidious and the Jedi of the prequel era — to say nothing of sequences that take inspiration from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
The result is a story that’s rich and deep, full of connections to stories we know and love. In writing the novelization of that story, I saw a chance to further those connections by drawing on not just Star Wars movies and TV shows but also on novels written by my fellow authors. Now that the novelization’s out, I hope you enjoy this quick tour of connections you’ll find in its pages.
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