Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
Discover everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.
Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition presents a unique Star Wars timeline-the full history of the amazing Star Wars phenomenon as you’ve never seen it before.
This stunning visual journey features trivia and cultural cornerstones from director George Lucas’ early life through to the iconic movie stills, comic books, novels, toys, video games, and theme parks that have spawned from five decades of seminal film making.
Fully updated and expanded, this edition encompasses all nine episodes of the original, prequel, and sequel trilogies, along with the standalone movies Rogue One and Solo, and the acclaimed television series, The Mandalorian.
Produced in full collaboration with Lucasfilm and written by renowned Star Wars experts, Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History, New Edition is ideal for Star Wars fanatics and newbies alike.
Authors: Kristin Baver, Pablo Hidalgo
Release Date: 2nd November 2021
Page Count: 384
ISBN: 9780744028645
Following in the footsteps of the August 2010 Star Wars: Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle, the first Updated Edition in October 2012 and the Updated and Expanded Edition in September 2016, this November 2021 New Edition by Kristin Baver and Pablo Hidalgo continues the Disney era expansion work started by its predecessor, layering in information and knowledge from the past half decade, a span of time that has seen the nine movie saga end, the television era profilerate and too many loved ones leave us.
When you look at the nitty gritty of the past five years, a tremendous amount has happened. You could confidently argue that the span of 2016 to 2021 has been the busiest in the 45 years since Alan Dean Fosters ghost-written adaptation of the original film hit shelves in late 1976. Four films, the conclusion of Rebels, all of Resistance, the seventh season return and finale of The Clone Wars, a first season of The Bad Batch, two seasons of The Mandalorian and even a teeny logo-only nod to The Book of Boba Fett litters the 43 pages of previously untrodden ground, to say nothing of three Celebrations and the opening of not one but two Galaxy’s Edge’s.
That’s all covered in this book, a release that’s been impressive since its first edition over a decade ago. Placing the events of the real-world saga into a chronology is hugely helpful for fans of the series, giving context to where and when key events happened and reinforcing – as if you, me or any other carbon-based being on this or any other planet needed reminding – just how all-encompasing the saga truly is. Pick a page; I randomly turned to page 349, covering 6th February 2018 to February 20th. Just in that 2 week span we had the announcement of Game of Throne showrunners Benioff and Weiss as future Star Wars movie makers, Force For Change t-shirts entering Disney Parks, Marvel’s adaptation of Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn novel arriving and the 2018 New York Toy Fair which showed off the HASLAB Khetanna and Photoreal deco on The Black Series figures. Sure, there are plenty more dynamic and historic weeks than that, but it just goes to show that there’s always something happening in the Star Wars galaxy.
As you’d expect DK present the book in glorious fashion, delivering a hefty and substantial tome that will proudly sit alongside its predecessors on shelves around the world, while authors Baver and Hidalgo package the new news into concise, effective and informational bites. Adding to the previous work of Ryder Windham and Dan Wallace, they welcome the many new arrivals into the galaxy while remembering those no longer with us, including a heartwarming double-page honouring Carrie Fisher as well as Kenny Baker, Gary Kurtz, Peter Mayhew, Dave Prowse and Jeremy Bulloch. There are even mentions for friends of the site Jez Allinson on page 343 and my X-Wing Pilot wearing Making Tracks co-host and CO of the Rebel Legion UK Mark Mulcaster on page 322 (despite the image placing him in California for Celebration Anaheim with Warwick Davis, he tells me that image was actually taken on Leicester Square in London).
Despite this minor faux pas, this is a must-buy book that really gets the brain juices running hot with magic memories of Star Wars days past, a read that only fuels the anticipation for what’s to come.
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