Charles Soule Talks Light of the Jedi and Collaborating to Create The High Republic 

As a African American STAR WARS fan from the beginning,(1977) I really appreciate how a writer like Charles Soule writes black characters like Lando Calrrisan(in the comics) and Bell Zettifar in LOTJ. He gives them depth, personality, a little swagger, and humor (without coming off as a buffoon) plus he gives black characters some "KICKASS " moments. Disney/Lucasfilm and Marvel have a rare treasure of an author on their hands, with a talent like he has. I am a fan! Hey Alex please tell him I said THANK YOU, for his part in keeping me as a proud African American STAR WARS fan 4Life. 💯🔥🔥🔥MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS!!! P.S. Light of the Jedi was AWESOME!!

I could listen to Soule talk about crafting ALL DAY!! Awesome interview, Alex! 😃

"Porter Engle, who's the best." You're god damned right he is.

Best part is Charles saying the phases are planned, the ending is known. Glad they're not just winging it from phase to phase.

The real question is: When do we start getting High Republic action figures?

Light of the Jedi comes out and it’s amazing Me: MORE MORE MORE

Soule "I'm dating myself" talks about CD stores. Me : cries in 8track and vinyl

Absolutely loved the book. Can't say I was that hyped for the high republic, I was curious so read Light of the Jedi and it blew me away. So hyped for the rest now. Also, great job Alex with the interview! I'm sure you were geeking out inside

@ 10:40 Charles Soule confirms he's a Star Wars Explained viewer!

Just finished the book today.... im blown away death metal space vikings... I hope the ubisoft game takes place in this time period. And I hope you start as a youngling being trained by Yoda... thanks Charles your book was the perfect introduction to this era of SW

I never had a c- or d-list character that I really liked until now. I identify with Peeples so much

Wow! This is such a surprise gem! Soule's Light of the Jedi is amazing, he deserves all the success and praise. Between the fantastic comics and now his novel debut, he is cementing himself as one of Star Wars all time best writers.

Burryaga and Loden Greatstorm are definitely my favorite characters. Hope we see them expanded on.

Charles Soule and Claudia Gray are the Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau of the STAR WARS comics.

You have been knocking It out of the park with your Guests and Interviews lately :)

Soule is just the nicest guy

I appreciate the explanation of how the "Paths" work! I was a little confused but it's still a cool idea.

This was an AMAZING interview. I love The High Republic and am SO excited to experience what’s to come. You should substitute the “May the Force be with you” at the end of your videos with “We are all the Republic” for all your High Republic videos, Alex!

Thank you Charles Soule! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

I'm thrilled that you're able to get this interview.

i got to meet Charles Soule at Comic Con in Paris a couple of years ago and managed to get my Darth Vader 1 and Poe Dameron 1 signed, and he was so nice and interesting. His book Letter 42 was really good as well

Damn Charles knows his shit

Omg so looking forward to watching this but I haven't read the book just yet so want to avoid spoilers. Added to my watch later list for sure. It must be so exciting to work on a story colab like this

I’ve always loved Charles Soules writing. For years now. With light of the Jedi. I am sure he is what Star Wars needs. Someone who is so excited to write and make the fandom reel in amazing storytelling. He needs to write us a show or movie next

Soule: why wouldn't you want to make Jedi awesome? Karen Traviss's eye twitches

Damn. Alex and Mollie has got some serious clout with these interview gets. First Paul Sung Lee and now Charles Soule. Disney/Lucasfilm definitely pays attention to the fans on the net.😉😅 Interesting.

I personally have enjoyed soules writing and think he’s very good at character development, lord momin is a great example he has become one of my all time favorite comic characters. it’s super interesting to see what the sith consider a heretic and momins view of the darkside that could open so many possibilities.

This was a fascinating interview! 34:00 I like that they planned the whole thing, outlining the entire three phases before they began writing it. Imagine if Lucasfilm had put the same level of planning into the sequel trilogy! I'm looking forward to reading through the High Republic. It's going to be a fun ride. My goal is to read all of the content.

Fantastic 1st effort by my fellow New Yorker Charles Soule. Absolutely loved the book from start to finish. Thank you!! Can't wait to read more from this awesome author.

I got about a third of the way through Light of the Jedi and stopped to pre-order every other book that’s been announced. I’m now about halfway through A Test of Strength, and I am loving it. The High Republic is a delight.

Great interview, Alex! Thank you!!

Awesome! Finished the book today, It was some quality star wars

Excellent interview! I really appreciated the look into his process and his motivations. Thank you!

This is so cool. I never had the privilege to listen to the author talk about the process of writing the book while the book in question is delivered to me approximately on Monday. I love nerding out on storytelling topics so this peaking behind the curtain was like the best way to start a weekend. Thank you to you both 🙌🏼

Light of the jedi is fireee🔥🔥🔥🔥

What a treat to see Charles Soule as your guest this week. Great job with the interview Alex! I loved the audiobook so much I bought the hardcopy to see how all the names were spelled. After hearing CS say it, I was surprised to find Marc Thompson had the wrong pronunciation for Marchion Ro in the audiobook.

I love all the new characters in the book! Charles Soule did an awesome job!

So insightful, I love Charles. Thanks for making this happen Alex!

Great interview Alex! You nailed it with a lot of relevant questions that fans wanted answers to. New fan of the channel here and really like the calmness and value of the channel unlike a lot of click bait and constant complain channels the add now Value. Keep up the good work. ps: Was also great to clarify that Light of the Jedi is just starting to build the world and that we are only like 10% in. I liked the versatility and can't wait for them to focus on each of them and to have their own spinoffs.

I love this book with every part of my heart. One of the best novels in star wars I have ever read....WOW!!!!!!

This was excellent, thank you!

Awesome! I really enjoyed this interview as I'm just about to dive into Light of the Jedi!

Wow!! This is an amazing channel and Charles is an great author. This absolutely is an awesome video. Congrats to Alex and Charles. We are all the republic!

Oh snap, you got him on the show! Noice.

This was the first star wars novel I read and I loved it. I hope charles does more high republic novels

Wow! This is amazing! I audibly swore when I got the notification

One of the best star wars authors!

I’m really happy for you Alex! Keep up the good work!! Greetings from Paraguay

Excellent and informative interview. Thank you.

This interview was the final decider in buy both the digital and audio book immediately.

Great interview. Love that Charles left the door open for my favorite Hutts to make an appearance.

I'm curious about his original novels now. I'm gonna buy them on my Kindle and read them over the next few weeks!

If Loden dies, I will riot. I like him so much I named my Twilek Jedi Knight in Star Wars: The Old Republic after him. Esran Greatstorm is his name.

One of the best storytellers in Star Wars

I absolutely love burryaga. Great interview!!

Nice! Thanx Alex and Mollie. This is awesomely

Good for you Alex in getting this. For LF to allow this to happen shows the caliber and maturity of your content. And that you are far from the stereotypical infantile fan.

Woah! I hope you asked him his thoughts about Grakkus the Hutt. The monster unit

Light of the Jedi is big time the best star wars book I've read since Lost Stars or Darth Plaguies

Bell Zettifar is my favorite character so far because he looks like me, plus he is not the perfect Padawan Jedi but when it's time to get down business he's a pretty good fighter with room to grow... hopefully. 😊

Fantastic interview 👏. I'm very excited to see more high republic material and see where it goes. I had no idea the huts lived a thousand years very interesting. Charles if your reading can we get a Cathar jedi main character at some point i just want to see some Cathar love back in Star Wars their my favorite species in that universe.

Soule knows what he’s doing.

This channel is awesome!

Curse Words by Charles is an amazing comic series, so much fun

Great interview!

Yooooo you get Charles Soule, awesome Alex!

Wooow started it nowww. Its amazing so far.

Great interview, keep up the great work!

Need High Republic Funko Pops asap

To the good and sensible people reading this - you're awesome, you're loved, you can do this, have a great day :)

Such a good interview

I know about Charles Soule because of this channel.

Absolutely awesome story. Go and read this book. However, did anyone notice when the navidroids starting dropping from the array, the numbers of remaining droids were completely off? Lol. Starting with 57,817. Then a few pages later we lose over 300 droids but he says there are 57,816. Numbers pulled from my memory but point still shown lol.

I cannot wait for Charles next star wars book

Nice work Alex!

This guy have written some of my favourite Star Wars projects I now realize. I wish you could have asked him about the few things in his book that seems a little strange like "a few hundred years ago when the galaxy was only pulling itself together" when its clear the star wars galaxy is kind of ancient,

charles rlly knows his stuff 👏👏👏

I love how with each era of the literary EU we can clearly identify which ones clearly are the masters in their field, the authors that many will look on fondly despite whatever stories will come out. Pre-prequels EU, we can name Brian Daley, Timothy Zhan, Michael A Stackpole, Aaron Allston. Post-prequels EU, we can name James Luceno, Drew Karpyshyn, John Jackson Miller, Michael Reaves. And for current EU, we can name Charles Soule as one of the standouts. I’ve yet to see any outright bad story from him. Any others we can add from the different eras?

So I have a question for your weekly Q & A: We see Yularen as an admiral in The Clone Wars, but then in Rebels and A New Hope he's a colonel. Did he get demoted?

This is epic !!!

The book was awesome

25:02 the good chancellor lmao. First I've heard of it bc pretty much every other chancellor's been a dickhead. Looking at you Saresh.

2 or so years later.. imagine that group chat...

Does Charles know the audio book seems to mispronounce a few character names compared to how he's pronoucing it?

Oh, cool, a Youtini shirt!

An older Galactic drift perhaps. Peaceful co-exisistance = Disorder This is interesting . Beacons and Human relativity, keep them coming. Very interesting insight like a mind walk. Thankfully planets take over two hundred years and any known life to form, it's interesting how they are destroyed or vanish. The cardi vscular excercise run, not quite Corellian but pathways explain everything like what Grid sector is Hetzal i,m still not sure, assume it's shifted in the galactic shelves somewhere.

Cool vid! Can’t wait for the High Republic. My channel makes Star Wars content too!

I am actually reading the book as I am listening to the interview

the nihil are ruthless and wreckless and yes it is terrifying

Star Wars Explained, please answer this question in your Q/A video of January 16th 2021 and my question is: What is Adywan's Star Wars Episode IV (2008) fan film version of Star Wars Episode IV (1977) film?

rock... ROCK... ROCK...

Having him talk about the freedom to determine these new characters fate and then using Burryaga as an example. A being that can live for hundreds of years and isnt around for the prequels....Bruh...please dont do this I beg of you...he has a lightsaber and goes “grrrrrr” hes too cool

Hello there

On the paths: I get what he's trying to say. But the thing is, most of the important core places you are worried about them appearing are places that you CAN show up without warning. I mean, with regular hyperlanes, you don't know if a ship is coming or about to pop out of hyperspace right? So I'm still not sure what the real difference is. Maybe it's that long hyperlanes are not contiguous. There are systems along the way, where you have to come out, fly across the system, and then re-enter the lane because that's the point it was charted from. That would create road blocks where you could monitor who is coming or going along a major hyperlane (other than interdiction, which they don't normally do). IF hyperlanes have points in them like that, then the danger of the paths would be more apparent. Do they? (I think they do). Or, maybe there is a way to monitor/scan ships passing by inside a hyperlane? If so, that would create a notable difference in threat level too.

Very Nice Video

Does this video mention heavy spoilers? I want to watch but I am only about halfway through the book and don't want to ruin it for myself.

The audiobook says "mar-shan" but Charles say mar-kee-on" for Marchion Ro :|

Any questions about what Mandalorians were doing around the High Republic era?

Not gonna watch this yet because of spoilers but I just want to say I read the first three chapters of Light of the Jedi today and my god it’s already up there in my list. Charles Soule is amazing.

Another great interview Alex, @starwarsexplained is crushing it lately. Thank you for facilitating these long form discussions with creators and performers.