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Star Wars 1313 Director Joins Amy Hennig’s New Star Wars Game
Star Wars 1313 Director Joins Amy Hennig’s New Star Wars Game-September 2024
Sep 19, 2024 11:40 PM

  Former Star Wars 1313 director Dominic Robilliard has joined Amy Hennig's Skydance team working on a new Star Wars game. The news came from Robilliard himself, who posted the following on his LinkedIn page (via Star Wars News Net):

  I am incredibly excited to share that I will be joining Amy Hennig, Julian Beak, and the incredible team at Skydance New Media as their Game Director. To collaborate with such an amazing group of developers and to play in the iconic worlds of #Marvel and #StarWars (again!) is a dream come true. I cannot wait to get started!

  As it turns out, Robilliard may be working on both of Hennig's projects based on Star Wars and Marvel IPs. These projects were announced in six months between late 2021 and early 2022, starting with the Marvel game that we now know is centered on a team-up between Captain America and Black Panther, who will be helped by Gabriel Jones (a U.S. soldier and member of the Howling Commandos), and Nanali (leader of the fledgling Wakandan Spy Network). Described as an ensemble narrative-driven action/adventure game, it will be deeply cinematic but also have accessible controls, Hennig said.

  As for the Star Wars project, Skydance hasn't said much other than it'll be an original story. However, rumors point to a revival of Project Ragtag, the game Hennig was working on at Visceral Games before the studio closed. If that's the case, it should be set before Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

  It is doubly interesting that someone like Dominic Robilliard would join the project, as his Star Wars 1313 was also highly anticipated but prematurely canceled. Star Wars 1313 was also going to be an action/adventure game, although it would focus on a young Boba Fett busy with bounty hunting missions deep down in Coruscant's titular underground level 1313. Last year, fans saw some footage of the game canceled in 2013 when LucasArts decided to stop all its internal projects and focus on licensing.

  It's an old wound at this point, thanks to single player games like Respawn's Jedi series, the newly revealed Star Wars Outlaws, Hennig's project, and other upcoming games such as Quantic Dream's Star Wars Eclipse.

  As a final note, Robilliard was also the Studio Head of PixelOpus (and Creative Director of Concrete Genie), the Californian studio closed down by Sony a few weeks ago. Let's hope he finds more luck after 1313 and the premature closure of PixelOpus.

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