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\u201cA couple of times I was like, \u2018Really? Really, no Mara Jade?\u2019 And they were like, \u2018Nope.’\u201d<\/p>\n
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Zahn also chipped in, saying he had asked a few times as well, to no avail. Mara Jade has a particularly interesting history in the Star Wars franchise, being one of the first female protagonists introduced outside of Princess Leia to be featured repeatedly across multimedia storylines and the first to receive her own action figure from Hasbro. George Lucas was famously not a fan of the character<\/a>, and particularly took issue with her marriage to Luke Skywalker years after her introduction \u2014 to the point where he made it clear that in his treatments for sequels, Luke did not get married<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Mara Jade\u2019s lack of appearances hasn\u2019t stopped fans from speculating about her possibility of integration into the Disney-produced canon \u2013 as far back as the days of The Force Awakens, fans tried connecting the dots for some kind of appearance<\/a>. With The Rise of Skywalker, a character listing for the role of Zorii Bliss was given the codename of \u201cMara\u201d<\/a>. Most recently, character details for Amy Adams in Star Wars: Starfighter led some to believe that she might just be an analogue for Jade. The first two cases failed to materialize, and the last seems highly unlikely given Lucasfilm\u2019s insistence not to use the character (who would have to be heavily reimagined to suit the overall story of the canon).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Furthermore<\/a>, it also appears that Lucasfilm is holding up potential stories set in the Old Republic era of the franchise, which they claim to have plans for<\/a>. Gray explained that she\u2019s interested in the backstories of two characters from Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR for short), among other stories, but none have been greenlit:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, for me, I\u2019m like, when are you going to start writing KOTOR novels? I want to do a bunch of those! I already explained that if there is a book that is the backstory of [core KOTOR characters] Mission and Zaalbar, and I didn\u2019t write it, there will be blood.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Former Marvel Star Wars editor and current IDW editor, Heather Antos, also explained that she wants in, but hasn\u2019t heard anything:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I started at Marvel, there were two things I pitched every day, and it was let me do Thrawn comics \u2013 which I eventually got to do \u2013 and then KOTOR, which I\u2019m still waiting [to do].\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This most likely has to do with a lack of progress on the remake of Knights of the Old Republic (at least until recently, supposedly<\/a>) and the fact that a spiritual successor, Fate of the Old Republic, is also a while away (but will hopefully release this decade<\/a>), and which may or may not be a part of Star Wars canon. It\u2019s always easier to do tie-in literature when there\u2019s material to help bolster its sales.\u00a0KOTOR will likely have its time in the sun, but that time is sadly somewhere toward the horizon and not here.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Grant has been a fan of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he\u2019s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net<\/a>. 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