Lucasfilm is marking the approaching Star Wars 50th anniversary with a publishing push that puts the original film back at the center. Among the books now on deck is Star Wars: A New Hope: Triple Take, a graphic novel that retells A New Hope through Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa and Han Solo.
The timing matters because the anniversary campaign is starting to come into focus now, and readers are being told what Lucasfilm wants them to remember first: the story that launched Star Wars in 1977. Triple Take is built around a simple but effective structure. Each of the three leads gets the same story from a different angle, so the familiar beats of A New Hope can be revisited without flattening them into a straight recap. That setup gives the book room to show how one event can land differently depending on who is carrying it.
The graphic novel is being written by Chas! Pangburn and Kim Shearer, siblings who are newcomers to Star Wars. Their arrival fits the larger publishing plan, which is aimed at fans of all ages and genre preferences rather than at one narrow corner of the audience. Lucasfilm is using the anniversary to lean on the original trilogy’s best-known characters while also widening the shelf with new voices and formats.
That balance is where the project gets interesting. The anniversary spotlight is clearly on the past, but the publishing slate does not stop at nostalgia. Beth Revis, who wrote Rebel Rising in 2017 and Princess and the Scoundrel in 2022, is set to return in 2027 with a story about Luke Skywalker training Leia to use the Force and become a Jedi. That story reaches into a period only hinted at in The Rise of Skywalker and the 2026 novel Star Wars: Legacy, which means the celebration is not just revisiting old ground. It is also filling in a corner of the saga that has been left mostly open.
There is a reason the Skywalker siblings keep drawing fresh attention. The coverage notes that there still have not been enough stories focused on Luke and Leia and their relationship outside the now non-canonical Expanded Universe. Revisiting them through a new 2027 story gives Lucasfilm a way to honor the franchise’s earliest emotional core while moving the timeline forward. For readers, that is the real shape of the anniversary plans: one book returns to the beginning, and another pushes into the space between what was shown and what was only implied.
What Lucasfilm is signaling now is not a single commemorative title but a long publishing run built around Star Wars’ most durable characters. The immediate draw is the A New Hope retelling. The bigger takeaway is that the 50th anniversary will be treated as both a look back and a handoff, with the original film anchoring the celebration and new stories carrying it into 2027.
