What happened before the opening scene of Star Wars: The Force Awakens when the resistance's best pilot ended up on Jakku for a special mission? Thanks to Marvel's Star Wars comic book series, we'll get to experience the mission of Poe Dameran, portrayed by Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac in the highest grossing film of all time, taking place before the events of the J.J. Abrams movie. This new series debuts in April of 2016, from writer Charles Soule.
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Soule has written for other Marvel's Star Wars comic series including the Lando and Obi-Wan and Anakin mini-series, but is admits that this Dameron project is "not as instinctive in some ways as writing a story about, say, Lando Calrissian was for me - I've been thinking about Lando Calrissian for 30 years, whereas Poe Dameron I've been thinking about for six months," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking with USA Today about his new comic book project and the character, Soule explained that fans reacted well to the Oscar Isaac character.
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"To see people reacting to him so strongly now just feels like we're hopefully in a great position," he said. "Sometimes it can feel like the Star Wars universe is so well trodden and so many stories have already been told. But the way the Episode VII galaxy is set up, there are opportunities for new archetypes almost, and the bad guy we're working with is going to feel fresh and cool. It's silly not to explore the idea of a guy who grew up steeped in the Rebellion and the older Republic and all of those myths and legends. If you think about it, he grew up the way we did, hearing all of these stories."
