2016 Star Wars Movie Inspired by Great Books

Late last week, the Internet got what it can never get enough of: more Star Wars movie news. But this time the revelations weren’t about this year’s impending Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, but instead, about the first “stand alone” Star Wars film. Supposedly, these self-contained movies will be totally watchable even if you don’t know crap about Star Wars, making them tonally the opposite of all the Star Wars movies released after 1980. The first of these is the 2016 release titled Star Wars: Rogue One, which seems to indicate it’s probably going to focus on the exploits of a gaggle of outer space fighter pilots called Rogue Squadron. Though briefly mentioned in the existing Star Wars movies, Rogue Squadron easily achieved their greatest popularity off-screen through a series of 1990’s novels and comic books, primarily written by Michael Stackpole. And those books are actually pretty great.