“The Bantam editors got together, and made up a short list of authors they thought could handle Star Wars,” Zahn says. Zahn speaks about how he was selected to write the book that would become Heir to the Empire. It took a year of conversations, discussions, and whatever at Lucasfilm for them to decide to go ahead with that.” “He suggested Lucasfilm do a continuation of the saga since George didn't seem to be doing anything more with it. “Lou Aronica had set this in motion from Bantam Spectra,” Zahn recalls.
As we begin to see a resurgence of Thrawn in the Star Wars universe, it's the perfect time to take a look a this 2022 interview with Thrawn's creator, Zahn about the role that he had in launching the Star Wars Expanded Universe and a new type of Star Wars villain who still resonates today. Now, Thrawn is making another comeback, this time in the live action Ahsoka series (Thrawn will be played by Lars Mikkelsen).
Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy is credited with kickstarting the reemergence of Star Wars as a pop culture force. This led to a Star Wars renaissance in the '90s, with comic books, video games, and a new line of toys soon following. The success of the Thrawn Trilogy led to more Star Wars novels being commissioned. Together, these three books are commonly referred to as the Thrawn Trilogy. Heir to the Empire was followed by Dark Force Rising and the Last Command. The book was written by Hugo Award winning author Timothy Zahn, and it quickly shot to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list. In addition to bringing back familiar faces, the novel introduced new threats, like the calculating villain Grand Admiral Thrawn. The book was set five years after Return of the Jedi, and continued the adventures of Luke Skywalker and his allies. In 1991 Bantam Spectra published a novel called Heir to the Empire.
With no movie to promote, the Star Wars universe was dormant. Although George Lucas spoke about returning to the franchise to produce a prequel trilogy, there were no firm plans. By the end of the decade the ongoing Marvel Comic had been cancelled, and animated shows like Droids and Ewoks had ended production. It’s hard to imagine a time when Star Wars wasn’t ruling pop culture, but in 1991 things were different.Īfter the release of Return of the Jedi in 1983, the Star Wars universe quietly died down. If someone were to consume every Star Wars project released in the past 12 months, they might be surprised to learn just how long that would take.
There is no shortage of new Star Wars content, thanks to multiple Disney+ television productions, novels, comics, video games and more.
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