Johnamarie Macias, writing over at Cultress, spoke with the cast of Star Wars: Resistance about the forthcoming series, which arrives on Sunday night at 10.00pm.
Before the premiere kicks off on October 7, we had the opportunity to talk with Executive Producers Athena Portillo, Justin Ridge, and Brandon Auman as well as voice actors Christopher Sean (Kazuda Xiono), Donald Faison (Hype Fazon), Bobby Moynihan (Orka), and Suzie McGrath (Tam Ryvora) during a series of roundtable interviews.
To start off, the series is set 6 months before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but we were curious to know why it wasn’t set 5, 10, or even 15 years before the 2015 feature film.
“It was always decided that it was going to be 6 months before The Force Awakens so that we could have some overlap,” said Auman, who’s also the head writer for the series. “Also, it gets a little hard for the younger fans to kind of wrap their heads around. If it was say 15 years before, then it’s a very nebulous timeline… The fact that we’ve got Poe and BB-8 from the very beginning lets kids and any fan of any age know immediately this is the new movies, this is where it’s going to take place. It’s just easier, I think, to wrap your head around this particular time period.”
To start off, the series is set 6 months before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but we were curious to know why it wasn’t set 5, 10, or even 15 years before the 2015 feature film.