Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace
A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
Topic
8 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
A bestselling fantasy novelist adapts the most scrutinised film of the decade.
The novelization that tries to make the romance work, and very nearly does.
Master and apprentice become something the Order has no word for.
The novelization that is better than the film it novelizes.
Who is involved
The apprentice who quit — the only major Jedi who leaves the Order and is proved right.
Two characters in one suit, and the publishing programme has spent fifty years arguing about the seam.
From the database
Obi-Wan Kenobi and a teenage Anakin Skywalker on a training mission, in the gap the films skip over entirely.
A distress call strands master and apprentice on a ruined world in the years between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, while Anakin is…