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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Asajj Ventress showed up on this week's episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3, but we may already know how she made her miraculous return from the dead.
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Fennec Shand knows someone with the M-Count information Clone Force 99 needs on Star Wars: The Bad Batch ... and we think we know her informant's identity.
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Omega has proven to be a sponge for information and abilities in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. But what does that mean for the future of Clone Force 99?
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This week's episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 featured some familiar Clones who played a pivotal role on Star Wars Rebels.
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This week's episode of The Bad Batch lifts elements right out of Dune and Jurassic Park to give us some first-rate Star Wars.
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The new book Star Wars - The High Republic: Defy the Storm offers a look at one of the characters from the upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte.
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This week's episode of The Bad Batch begs the question: now that Crosshair has turned against the Empire, can Clone Force 99 trust him?
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 amplifies the significance of Omega's doll Lula to deliver one hell of an emotional punch.
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The Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 premiere features slither vines, a biological weapon (devised by Dr. Hemlock) that harkens back to the High Republic era.
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Anjelica Huston previously voiced a character in Star Wars: Visions, but The Bad Batch season 3 brings her into the official canon as Lady Isa Durand.
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The premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 3 reveals ties to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Let's dig into that.
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Indiana Jones lost his virginity in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and you can thank Carrie Fisher for that.
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Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong's High Republic book Escape From Valo harkens back to the Flash Gordon serials that Star Wars owes so much of its tone to.
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Critics of the Star Wars prequels have long argued that George Lucas was enabled by 'yes men' while making those films. The truth, however, is more complicated.
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the award-winning director of the upcoming New Jedi Order movie, is at the heart of the latest nonsensical Star Wars 'controversy.'
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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.