


On Gillen's behalf, Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo told him that he could use Cassio Tagge after checking which Imperial generals from the original film could have plausibly survived when Gillen decided to give Vader an Imperial adversary. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, this is what happened." The comic was one of the first Star Wars comics written following the Expanded Universe's rebranding into the Star Wars Legends continuity, and while he didn't consider such decision absolutely negative for the fandom due to not all Star Wars exploring the galaxy beyond the films, Gillen still got the help of the newly-formed Lucasfilm Story Group to assist him in what could happen between the first two installments of the Star Wars original trilogy and what could not, such as if Boba Fett's meeting with Darth Vader in the first issue could be their first canonical encounter to not contradict the one they had in The Empire Strikes Back, a process Gillen found interesting due to being the opposite to how he wrote for the Marvel Universe.

It's that I get to write this story of Darth Vader and it's all in canon. It's not just that I want to write Darth Vader. įurthermore, the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back was the first film he saw in the cinema, and now "I get to do the story of Darth Vader from the end of the first Star Wars film to the start of The Empire Strikes Back! It's a big story too. Gillen acknowledged out of Marvel's current stable of writers, he was the most experienced in exploring the nature of evil and villainy, and therefore a suitable choice for Darth Vader, even though he initially had concerns on whether he would be the most suitable option for the job or if he should let someone with better grasp at Star Wars should write it like how he turned down a chance interview William Gibson due to not reading some of his latest books at that time. Feeling apprehensive, Gillen almost turned it down, but decided to accept it, even dropping out of writing Iron Man to take the assignment.

White offered Kieron Gillen a chance to write a Star Wars comic. Around 2014, Marvel Comics editor Jordan D.
