In an interview with SFX Journal (snag your copy right here), James Waugh, Lucasfilm’s Vice President of Franchise Content material & Technique, revealed that the sequence will happen 200 years earlier than the daybreak of the Skywalker Saga. “Discovering a means to try this with a preschool type was all the time the problem,” he stated. “However we felt prefer it was price exploring.”
It is a bummer, however comprehensible. Lucasfilm has to deliver new followers into the fold, and one of the best ways to do that is to get them hooked early with an innocuous present that is perky, brilliant, and bereft of great battle. As Waugh informed SFX:
“The purpose of that new period was a hopeful time, again when the Jedi had been the guardians of peace and justice within the galaxy. So younglings weren’t wrought with the burden of a Jedi Order in the direction of the tip of its lifecycle and about to be in an enormous civil warfare. The worldbuilding framework of the timeline allowed for brilliant expressions that may inform the storytelling.”
200 years is a protracted stretch of time, lengthy sufficient to make sure that “Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures” won’t ever should depict the pureeing of wildly overmatched younglings at Anakin’s arms. Maybe that is for the perfect. It is like Tobe Hooper leaving Leatherface’s carving up of Kirk to our vivid imaginations in “The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath.” However I might be mendacity if I stated I did not need to see this darkish chapter in “Star Wars” lore rendered by way of kid-friendly animation.
“Star Wars: Younger Jedi Adventures” hits Disney+ on Could 4, 2023.