Lucasfilm Teaming Up With Skydance New Media For New ‘Star Wars’ Motion-Journey Recreation

Lucasfilm Video games and Skydance New Media are working collectively to convey a brand new Star Wars action-adventure sport to life.

Skydance New Media was based by Skydance Media in 2019 as a brand new online game improvement studio. The corporate is headed by award-winning author and director, Amy Hennig, whose earlier online game credit embody the Jak and Daxter, Legacy of Kain and Uncharted collection. The Star Wars challenge will mark the studio’s second main collaboration, following an announcement final 12 months that Skydance New Media can be working with Marvel Leisure to ship an authentic imaginative and prescient of the Marvel universe.

Talking in regards to the new challenge, Hennig referred to the affect Star Wars has had on her artistic profession, saying:

“I’ve typically described how seeing Star Wars in 1977 primarily rewired my 12-year-old mind, shaping my artistic life and future indelibly … I’m elated to be working with Lucasfilm Video games once more to inform interactive tales on this galaxy that I like.”

Whereas no particulars in regards to the plot of the brand new sport have been introduced, it’s being described as “a narrative-driven, action-adventure sport that includes an authentic story within the Star Wars galaxy.” The sport marks Lucasfilm Video games’ first collaboration with Skydance New Media, however is the newest of a number of Star Wars video games introduced to be in improvement underneath Disney’s revitalized Lucasfilm Video games banner. Different Star Wars tasks presently within the works underneath Lucasfilm Video games, in collaboration with different sport improvement studios, embody a Knights of the Previous Republic remake, Star Wars Eclipse and a sequel to 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order.

Talking in regards to the new challenge, Lucasfilm Video games’ Vice President Douglas Reilly mentioned:

“We couldn’t be extra thrilled to be working once more with Amy. She and the Skydance New Media staff have the expertise and ambition to create a novel Star Wars journey … Their imaginative and prescient for making narrative pushed and interesting interactive leisure makes this collaboration very thrilling. We’re working onerous with their staff of skilled and proficient builders, and we’re trying ahead to sharing extra with Star Wars followers when the time is correct.”

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