Emily Shkoukani sits down with Kelly Knox, Amy Richau, Megan Crouse and James Floyd to discuss The High Republic, how it’s evolving and how the smash hit series is changing our perception of Star Wars.
James Floyd: I was honestly not excited when they announced The High Republic. I think I’ve been through other multimedia series type things before. Shadows of the Empire, way back in the ‘90s, New Jedi Order. They also tried the Dawn of the Jedi series that was a novel and some comics and that didn’t quite take off. But then I got the books.
The first High Republic book I actually read was The Great Jedi Rescue and then I started reading A Test of Courage and realized, “Wow, they’re referencing something from this book!” The Legacy Run incident. And then I read Light of the Jedi and I’m like, “Oh, this book is also The Great Jedi Rescue,” but a lot longer, which really thrilled my daughter that we’re basically reading the same book for the first part. And I was just completely 100 percent on-board, and super excited after I read the first batch of books. There are some really, really neat things. And the way that is weaving in and out and certainly having all of these great writers working together to make it weave in and out really well, really shows. So, yeah, I pretty much did a full 180. And I like it.
