Bryan Young
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Expertise
Star Wars, Classic Film, Screenwriting
- In the world of Star Wars, Bryan Young has interviewed everyone from George Lucas and Carrie Fisher to Dave Filoni and Tony Gilroy.
- As a teenager, Bryan Young built a spaceship in his mom's back yard to shoot a film inside.
- Bryan Young's work as a writer and producer has been called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times.
Experience
Bryan Young works across many different media. He's an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. He's published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider magazine, SYFY, /Film, and was the founder and editor-in-chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot! He's also written professionally in the Star Wars universe, as well as Doctor Who, BattleTech, Robotech, and Shadowrun.
Education
Bryan Young has been teaching for years about screenwriting, creative writing, and Star Wars at conferences across the country and at the University of Utah.
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Stories By Bryan Young
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Producer Rick McCallum recalled George Lucas wasn't interested in re-releasing Star Wars in theaters, but a literal truck full of letters changed his mind
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Rian Johnson was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief while making Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and it shows.
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The expansion of the Star Wars universe required some worldbuilding, much of which came from a 1987 roleplaying game.
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Rian Johnson had many influences when he wrote and directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi. One of them was Hideo Gosha's Three Outlaw Samurai.
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The one thing you can be confident of when it comes to Star Wars is that no idea will be thrown away if it can come back later.
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Midi-chlorians were extremely controversial when they first officially appeared in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, but they've always been on George Lucas' mind.
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Star Wars: The High Republic - The Eye of Darkness kicks off the third phase of The High Republic in an impressive way. Read our review here.
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Thrawn enjoyed a hard-earned victory in the Ahsoka season 1 finale, having learned some valuable lessons from his experiences on Star Wars Rebels.
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George Lucas took flack for using Hayden Christensen as a Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi: Special Edition, but Ahsoka might change that.
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The season 1 finale of Ahsoka sets the stage for more Star Wars stories and seems to explore creator Dave Filoni's relationship with Star Wars.
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Star Wars: Crimson Climb by E.K. Johnston fills in the backstory for Emilia Clarke's Solo character Qi'ra and shows how she entered a life of crime.
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Baylan Skoll's grand plan has yet to be fully revealed, and after his lightsaber duel in Ahsoka episode 7, we're wondering exactly what's on his mind.
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Ahsoka episode 7 brings back Hayden Christensen for another cameo, this time as a hologram that was previously included in Star Wars Rebels.
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Ahsoka episode 7 has arrived, and the shadow of Anakin Skywalker looms large as our heroes deal with the impending threat of Thrawn's return.
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Episode 6 of the Star Wars show Ahsoka gave us a brilliant build-up toward the series' final conflict.
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Ahsoka episode 5 digs into a mysterious realm that creates meaningful parallels with a trio of Clone Wars episodes that echo throughout Star Wars lore.
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Ahsoka episode 5, 'Shadow Warrior,' marks a number of major 'firsts' for live-action Stars Wars, including the appearance of major Clone Wars characters.
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Star Wars: Ahsoka episode 5, Shadow Warrior, is everything a fan could want in a successor to 'Star Wars Rebels' and a show about Ahsoka Tano.
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Ahsoka episode 4, 'Fallen Jedi,' tips its hat to Akira Kurosawa's classic epic Seven Samurai on multiple occasions, and not just during the fight scenes either.
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Ahsoka episode 4, 'Fallen Jedi,' featured a moment (and two words) that Star Wars: The Clone Wars fans have been eagerly anticipating since the show began.
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Star Wars: Ahsoka episode 4, 'Fallen Jedi,' is impossible to describe without spoiling. Sorry!
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When Ahsoka trains Sabine Wren in episode 3 of the series, the name of the technique is actually a reference to a classic Japanese movie.
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Episode 3 of Ahsoka is doing for the Star Wars sequel trilogy what The Clone Wars did for the prequels.
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Ahsoka reveals recycled hyperdrive cores from Super Star Destroyers are being used for something nefarious. But what exactly does that mean? Let's dig in.
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Ahsoka uses a classic location from Return of the Jedi to set the stage for the Star Wars series and show how important the stakes are for the galaxy.
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Ahsoka reveals that Sabine Wren became the titular Jedi's apprentice for a time, but doesn't that break Star Wars canon? No, not really.
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The latest Star Wars series, Ahsoka, brings several animated characters into live-action for the first time, and it's a pleasant surprise for fans.