Chris' favorite film genres include sci-fi/fantasy, crime, action, and drama. Check out, Ballantine/Del Rey (Random House): R.A. Salvatore, 'Attack of the Clones'. Felt Chewbacca's joy when his best friend married the woman he'd come to love like a sister. Still, it's nice to see that the footage wasn't completely lost and can now be enjoyed from the comfort of living rooms. No doubt, that move upset many fans who purchased a copy back in April, but it's a shrewd (yet sneaky) business decision on the part of the studio. Perhaps too good: In one sequence, he killed off Chewbacca, the beloved Wookiee partner of Han Solo. "It ended up being seven, but the sixth book just came out ("Transcendence"), so I'm at about the same place Lucas is now. A deleted scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows Chewbacca aiding Rey in her encounter with Unkar Plutt on Takodana. Salvatore, however, came out just fine. Copyright © 2020 The Direct Media Group LLC. This is surprising since Kylo Ren and Chewbacca had little to no interaction in the sequel trilogy despite Chewbacca's relationship with his parents and his presence in young Ben Solo's childhood years. "He truly loves 'Star Wars,' " he observes. But even as Salvatore sat in his house in Massachusetts and wrote drafts of the novel, 3,000 miles away the movie itself was changing. In 2013, Chris was hired to write weekly box office prediction posts in conjunction with the Screen Rant Underground podcast's Box Office Battle game and his role expanded over the next few years. I feel a sense of completeness with it, so I don't think [Lucas] will go on from [his work] if he feels the same thing.". Additionally, it would have happened right before Rey's Force vision, and the juxtaposition of a shock value laugh next to a more dramatic beat could have been jarring. Though Star Wars: The Force Awakens is nearly a year old, Lucasfilm still isn't done milking their monumental blockbuster for all it's worth. Interestingly, although he knows the plot of "Episode II" and beyond, Salvatore still hasn't seen the final version of the new movie -- and, with the book tour, probably won't until June, he says. The next day he was taken to the ranch where he viewed a slide show, with rough computer graphics, of the movie's scenes. He’s the middleman between the Resistance and a First Order spy who’s willing to risk it a While the clip fades out before the scene's resolution, several fans are already aware what happens next. "It was a living creature," Salvatore says of the evolving screenplays. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker toys with the idea of killing two beloved legacy characters, but isn't brave enough to go through with either one. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership programs. It's unlikely Plutt will factor into the sequel trilogy in any way again, so this ultimately amounts to closure on his chapter in the Star Wars legacy. Chewbacca comes to the aid of his new friend, but Plutt is not intimidated by the Wookiee. Things didn't go the way he planned, but for viewers, it proved to be amusing. The Lucas people, perhaps remembering "Vector Prime," picked him, for reasons obvious to Salvatore's fans. The move came with Lucas' blessing, but it ignited a storm of controversy from "Star Wars" partisans. Some scenes were dropped; others were added. A math major in college, he acknowledges having practically given up on reading by the time he graduated from high school. But he loved fantasy, and once he exhausted the existing canon, he believed there was little left worth reading. The film will receive a special 3D Blu-ray release in November, and as a selling point, it will include numerous bonus features that were not available on the initial home media release this spring. STAR WARS has fixed a moment from The Force Awakens with a beautiful and emotional new scene involving Laia and Chewbacca – and not Rey. 0. This video is unavailable. "What could be better than that? Salvatore, a fantasy writer best known for his DemonWars saga, is the author of the novelization of "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" (Ballantine/Del Rey). The 3D Blu-ray will hit stores November 15, 2016. "I went into Middle Earth and never came out," says Salvatore. The scavenger pulls a blaster on her former employer, but she's quickly disarmed. Recently a portion of J.J. Abrams' director commentary was posted online (detailing Kylo Ren's mindset when he killed Han Solo), and now a deleted scene taken from the heroes' visit to Maz Kanata's castle has been shared. Chewbacca almost died in The Rise of Skywalker, and some Star Wars fans think he should have. He does believe that, old rumors to the contrary, after "Episode III" Lucas will be finished with his saga. Felt Chewbacca's joy when his best friend married the woman he'd come to love like a sister. Salvatore arrived in northern California on Election Day 2000 and over dinner was given the working script to the movie. In addition to covering the latest news and hottest movie topics daily, Chris has attended numerous media events for Screen Rant, including San Diego Comic-Con, delivering content his readers care about. Besides, I got to work on 'Star Wars'; I got to pick George Lucas' brain. Salvatore, known for creating vivid battle scenes, was chosen to write the first novel in the series, "Vector Prime.". Though J.J. Abrams said he was open to taking more risks on the movie, he didn't completely go for broke at two key junctures. As people gear up for holiday shopping, a new Star Wars 7 Blu-ray could be a hot item. Salvatore is a successful fantasy author in his own right. You don't kill Chewbacca. "I had a good time with it," he says. Her idea eventually led to a manuscript that Salvatore sent to TSR, the game and publishing company behind Dungeons and Dragons. (CNN) -- R.A. Salvatore has seen the future. It doesn't add much to the story and would have raised some questions (like how Plutt tracked the Falcon to Takodana). He did not need "Star Wars," and says he actually earns more money from his other books. Per the official Force Awakens novelization, Chewie rips Unkar Plutt's arms out of their sockets, a humorous callback to Han Solo's warning to C-3PO in A New Hope. He credits Star Wars and Toy Story with launching a lifelong fascination with movies that led to his career, and now he has a wide range of cinematic tastes, enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbusters, Oscar contenders, and everything in between. "A few years ago, I planned a six-book series [DemonWars]," he says. In their encounter, Plutt is obviously angry and threatens Rey. Salvatore would seem an unlikely person to be writing the "Star Wars" books -- or any books at all. As Rey makes her way through the crowd, she unfortunately runs into Unkar Plutt, the Jakku junk dealer Rey and Finn stole the Millennium Falcon from during the movie's first act. There's no denying that would have been a comedic moment to watch, but it's easy to see why J.J. Abrams made the decision to leave this on the cutting room floor. 'Star Wars' gave me a chance to touch a half-million, a million readers," he says. And he is not telling what is in it. Through Carson's film adaptation, fans have learned Rey's father was a failed Palpatine clone, Finn is Force sensitive, and Rey and Ben's kiss was that of gratitude and not romance. 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By Stefan Kyriazis PUBLISHED: 19:53, Fri, Sep 20, 2019 Ever since Rae Carson's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novelization was released on March 17, fans have been surprised by the number of important storytelling details and plot points which were left out of the film. "Every time I glanced up we had a different president," he says. Saw the Wookiee cuddling a human toddler, teaching an older boy to fly a speeder, target practice with a young man, their blasters set on stun against a haphazard dummy made of rocks.". A deleted scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows Chewbacca aiding Rey in her encounter with Unkar Plutt on Takodana. "I had to hide my computer from my friends," Salvatore says half-jokingly in the flat New England cadences of his native Massachusetts. He changed his major to communications and started reading voraciously. He met with Lucas' books department and put together a list of questions, then was taken to meet the master himself, asking him about plot points, character motivations, and overarching themes. "He saw flashes of the Wookiee laughing with a much younger Han Solo than he himself remembers.

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