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THE WRITER OF MARVEL’S NEW MINISERIES DISCUSSES THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF BRINGING THE HIT FILM TO COMIC FORM.

It’s time to go back to Jakku. But we aren’t only returning to the desert-planet home of Rey, we’re revisiting every locale in The Force Awakens in the new Marvel comic Star Wars: The Force Awakens. On shelves today, the six-issue adaptation by writer Chuck Wendig (also author of the Aftermath trilogy) and artist Luke Ross will take the newest film from the screen to sequential art. Adapting the script wasn’t the easiest of tasks. StarWars.com talked with Wendig about capturing the big beats of the film while still adding something fresh to the familiar story.

StarWars.com: With a novelization, more thoughts and depth can be added because we can get inside characters’ heads. But with a comic, it seems challenging because you don’t have nearly as much space. What were the biggest challenges of adapting the story?

Chuck Wendig: It’s tricky because it’s not page for page. And things like dialogue in a film take up a lot more room in a comic. Certainly, you want to have these certain action beats, these certain really huge moments from the film, and you want to give them their due. You can’t just kind of hastily run past them and hope everyone’s seen it. I mean, I think it’s a safe assumption to say people have probably seen the film, but at the same time, I want the comic to stand on its own. You don’t have a lot of extra oxygen to do different things with it, to take the adaptation in a new direction exactly, so the goal is to refine down the purity of what you get on the screen and utilize the resource and the advantages that the comic format provides, and to really tell a kickin’ version of that.

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