Amy Hennig’s Skydance New Media Working On New Star Wars Game

I know I’ve typed a similar headline before, but whereas the last project didn’t quite make it, I have even more faith this time around that Amy Hennig will get to bring her Star Wars game dreams to life. In a collaboration between Lucasfilm Games and Skydance New Media, Amy Hennig is developing a, “…narrative-driven, action-adventure game featuring an original story.” Hennig has some unforgettable and successful games under her belt, from the Legacy of Kain series and of course my favorite, the Uncharted series, and I’ve been hoping we’d get a Star Wars game from her for quite some time. When she was working on the previous game Project Ragtag, alongside actor/writer and frequent collaborator Todd Stashwick, her comments at the Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016 panel (you can see some concept art at the link) about underdogs and team of people relying on one another really stood out to me, though overall you could tell she understood the narrative underpinnings of what makes something Star Wars. With Project Ragtag, decisions by EA higher-ups, the game’s ambitions, and the dwindling team at Visceral Games led to its cancellation (I’ve summed up a complex series of events), but rather than sit back and let the dream get away from her, Hennig went and found someplace else to make it happen, joining and starting her own division at Skydance: Skydance New Media, hence my belief we’ll actually get to see this game. UPDATE: and if the rumors are to be believed, she’s finishing what she started! I don’t expect it for a few more years, as she’s got Forspoken coming out and a Marvel game at her division, so I’m betting maybe 2024-2025ish, but we’ll see and you can bet we’ll have new updates as they come. My biggest hope is the next gaming update is actually addressing the Star Wars Eclipse controversy, but the longer this goes on, the less likely this seems. Anyways, head below before some photos I took with Amy, and later Amy and Todd, at Star Wars Celebrations past!

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