随着天行者传奇迎来终结 We're finding ourselves at a very
我们处于一个 exciting moment with the Skywalker saga
非常激动人心的时刻 coming to an end.
我们要问自己, 《星球大战》接下来该怎么走? We're at a place of, what's next for "Star Wars?"
我们一直在做的事情之一 One of the things we've always done
就是利用我们的系列作品平台 is be able to use our franchise platforms
探索《星球大战》星系的 to explore the creative potential
创意潜力 of the "Star Wars" galaxy.
所以何不让出版业更多地成为孵化基地 And so what if publishing was more of an incubation place
引进才能出众的人 and bring in great talent and just let
让他们自由发散想象力呢? their imaginations run free?
我们组建了非常独特的作家团队 We put together the really unique writers room
他们用多元化的声音对《星球大战》 where we had diverse voices with very different opinions
发表不同的观点 about "Star Wars."
我们都喜欢《星球大战》, 但我们是被它的不同方面 We all love "Star Wars," but we're all coming at it
吸引过来的 from very different places.
对每个人来说, 这都是个非常自由的环境 This has been a very free environment for everybody
只要把想法表达出来就行 to just throw things out there.
我们都创作过许多故事 We've all done lots of storytelling.
但这次真的独一无二 But this is unique and really special.
这个创意已经酝酿了很久 The idea that this thing has been simmering for so long.
这是银河秘史 It's the secret history of the galaxy.
没错, 回溯《星球大战》的起源 Yep, that goes way back to the beginning of "Star Wars."
我们基本上给了他们一块白板 We gave them, essentially, a blank slate.
你想讲什么故事? What would you like to tell?
一千多代人以来 For over a thousand generations,
绝地武士一直是和平与正义的卫士 the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice.
这句台词我们从1977年开始听到现在 A line that we've been hearing since 1977
我们想的是, 你知道, 那到底是什么样的呢? and we thought, you know, what does that look like?
那是一个黄金时代 It is a golden age where there's much more
银河系要和平与平静得多 peace and calm in the galaxy.
所以我们称之为“共和国巅峰期” So we're calling it the High Republic.
我们把这一时期的绝地描述为 The description that we've used for the Jedi of this era
绝地圆桌骑士 is that they are the Jedi Knights of the Round Table.
但《星球大战》里不是只有绝地 But "Star Wars" isn't just about Jedi.
我们将讲述新走私者, 新无赖, 新赏金猎人 And we will tell stories of new smugglers, new scoundrels,
的故事 new bounty hunters.
威胁与矛盾其实来自 The threat and the tension really comes
共和国的边疆 from the Republic's borders.
因为共和国的扩张路线不是从银河系的一端 Because the Republic does not extend from one
到另一端 side of the galaxy to the other.
而更像美国西部拓荒开辟新边疆那样 It's a bit of a Wild West new frontier.
我们会看到一群不同的绝地, 在边疆巡逻 We see a different kind of Jedi that patrols the frontiers
很像德克萨斯游骑兵 and is more of a Texas Ranger.
我们汇聚概念艺术家、插画家和视觉设计师 We're now bringing in concept artists and illustrators
跟电影的制作手法 and visualists the same way that you would
一模一样 when you're making a movie.
我们甚至请来伊恩·麦凯格 We even had Iain McCaig come down
让他为我们绘制一幅又一幅草图 and just do sketch after sketch for us.
一个设计了达斯·摩尔外观的人 When you have a guy who designed the look for Darth Maul
为你画绝地 sketching Jedi for you, it doesn't
没有什么比这更酷的了 get any cooler than this.
这个新项目的规模对我们来说是前所未有的 The scale of this initiative is really new for us.
我们要为成人, 青少年和儿童创作故事 We're going to have stories for adults and teens and kids.
我们同时横跨多家出版商 We're building this out simultaneously
建立这个项目 across multiple publishers.
这让我们有能力讲述 It gives us the ability to tell fast,
快节奏、彼此关联、很快多年的故事 interconnected stories across multiple years.
会有一个核心主角团 There will be a core group of heroes
随着时间的推移而扩大 that will expand over time.
会有反派 There will be villains.
我们的主要反派是一群被称为“虚无者”的人 Our main villain are the group called the Nihil.
我们喜欢把他们称为太空维京人 We kind of like to refer to them as space vikings.
他们的座右铭是：“你们不许拿, Their motto is, "You can't take it with you.
但我们可以抢。” But we can take it from you."
我们的故事始于一场 Our story starts with what we're
所谓的“大灾难” calling the Great Disaster.
没有冒险就不是《星球大战》 It wouldn't be "Star Wars" without adventure.
肯定有一系列事件 And there's definitely a series of events
会把银河系转向一个危险的新方向 that that will spin the galaxy into a dangerous new direction.
这给了英雄们崛起的机会 And it'll give the opportunity for heroes to rise up.
酷炫之处在于这是一个献给所有 The cool thing about this that there's going to be a story
《星球大战》粉丝的故事 for every "Star Wars" fan.
让读者们保持关注确实很有意思 It's really fun to be able to keep readers on their toes.
这个时代很适合故事创作 This era is ripe for storytelling.
灵感始于一个问题, 什么东西能吓到绝地? The eureka moment was the question, what scares the Jedi?
我们都想到：“必有恶人来” And that made us all go "oh, something wicked this way comes."