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Han Solo & Chewbacca writer Marc Guggenheim credits The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian with bringing the wider Star Wars galaxy to the fore.
The Star Wars galaxy far, far away is expanding, and Han Solo & Chewbacca writer Marc Guggenheim believes that the franchise’s Disney+ series are opening the door for a greater variety of stories.
“I think what people are responding to is something that’s always been inherent in Star Wars, namely, that it’s a big galaxy,” Guggenheim said in an interview with CBR. “There is enormous room for stories that don’t involve Rebels, Stormtroopers, Skywalkers, or Jedi. The Mandolorian and The Book of Boba Fett just serve to illustrate this point.”
Guggenheim also turned to the still popular Star Wars Legends books — a large collection of novels written before Lucasfilm’s acquisition by Disney — to further his point. Although not canon, the books focused on a wide-variety of characters in the Star Wars mythos and expanded on it. “I grew up on Brian Daley’s Han Solo and L. Neil Smith’s Lando Calrissian book trilogies. So, from my (ahem) certain point of view, these corners of the franchise have always been fodder for wonderful stories.”
Disney took the Legends books (then known as the Extended Universe) and branded them non-canon so it could have a clean slate for any future Star Wars projects and stories. Some aspects of Legends have been reintroduced into canon since, such as Grand Admiral Thrawn. The blue-skinned villain first appeared in Timothy Zahn’s 1991 novel, Heir to the Empire, and returned under the Disney umbrella in the Star Wars Rebels animated show. Zahn has since written two canon trilogies about Thrawn and the character is rumored to have a large role in the upcoming Ahsoka series on Disney+.
Guggenheim will have his own chance to explore the non-Jedi side of Star Wars in his upcoming Han Solo & Chewbacca comic series from Marvel Comics. Written by Guggenheim and illustrated by David Messina, the title focuses on Han and Chewie in the years after Solo: A Star Wars Story and prior to Star Wars: A New Hope. “At its most basic, the story is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but with Han and Chewie as Butch and Sundance,” Guggenheim explained.
The first issue will see Solo and the Wookiee take on a job for Jabba the Hutt that in true Han Solo style, doesn’t go as planned. “I’ve structured the story such that each issue ends with some kind of cliffhanger,” Guggenheim said, promising something especially surprising for the end of issue one.
Star Wars: Han Solo & Chewbacca #1 is written by Guggenheim with interior art by Messina and cover art by Alex Maleev. Variant covers for the issue were contributed to by Adam Hughes, Declan Shalvey and Phil Noto. The issue goes on sale March 9 from Marvel Comics.
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