Amy Hennig’s Skydance team is doing a Star Wars game
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Skydance New Media, a new studio helmed by award-winning writer and director Amy Hennig, will team up with Lucasfilm Games to make an action-adventure game with an original story in the Star Wars galaxy.
Hennig, the co-creator of the first three Uncharted games at Sony’s Naughty Dog studio, has a knack for making story-driven single-player adventure games with interesting characters. In addition to the Star Wars game, Hennig’s studio is also working on a Marvel-based game.
The move shows that Disney’s Lucas division is spreading out its bets on PC and console games beyond Electronic Arts, where Hennig previously presided over a Star Wars game that was canceled in 2017. After that project ended, Hennig joined the gaming division of Hollywood studio Skydance Media, maker of the Mission Impossible and Terminator movies. She started the Bay Area and Santa Monica, California-based studio along with longtime collaborator Julian Beak.
“I’ve often described how seeing Star Wars in 1977 essentially rewired my 12-year-old brain, shaping my creative life and future indelibly,” said Hennig, president of Skydance New Media, in a statement. “I’m elated to be working with Lucasfilm Games again to tell interactive stories in this galaxy that I love.”
Hennig was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at 2019’s Game Developers Choice Awards and was presented with the 2016 BAFTA Special Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the video game industry.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working again with Amy. She and the Skydance New Media team have the talent and ambition to create a unique Star Wars
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