As Fan Expo Canada continues over the weekend, we had the possibility to speak with visitor Timothy Zahn who is understood all through Star Wars fandom because the creator of the villainous Grand Admiral Thrawn…
Zahn started writing Star Wars novels in 1991 with the publication of Star Wars: Inheritor to the Empire, a continuation of the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo set a number of years after their victory over the Empire in Return of the Jedi. In that e book, they need to face towards a resurgent Empire led by its new chief Grand Admiral Thrawn, a very smart and harmful adversary who is among the best army tacticians the galaxy had ever seen.
Inheritor to the Empire grew to become a success on the bookshelves, serving to launch Star Wars again into recognition within the early Nineteen Nineties adopted by the sequels Darkish Pressure Rising and The Final Command. It additionally helped popularize the Expanded Universe of Star Wars with tales set years after the Authentic Trilogy, however Thrawn was its breakout character and has been a beloved fan-favourite for over 30 years.
After Disney purchased Lucasfilm and turned the EU into Legends continuity, Thrawn was introduced into the official canon starting with the third season of Star Wars Rebels voiced by Lars Mikkelsen. Zahn then started writing a brand new sequence of Thrawn novels, detailing his backstory as he joined the Empire and rose by way of its ranks in Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances and Thrawn: Treason. He later went again even additional into his backstory with the Thrawn Ascendency trilogy, exploring his army coaching on his homeworld Csilla. Throughout that point, Thrawn made the leap from animation to live-action with Mikkelsen reprising the position within the first season of Ahsoka and can return for its second.
In our dialog, Zahn talked about Thrawn’s recognition, how he approached writing his backstory in a means that might not battle with the unique Thrawn Trilogy, new characters reminiscent of Eli Vanto and his confidence in Lucasfilm CCO Dave Filoni in bringing Thrawn to life. Watch our interview under…
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