Taking the Sith: MARVEL / LUCASFILM assemble crossover…

File this under either inspired or just bizarre and wholly opportunistic marketing (we tend to think the latter)…

Marvel and Lucasfilm announced this week that they are collaborating on a comics-crossover like no other. The plan is for a 2027 launch of   Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles. Hope Assembles. Yes, you’re reading that right: this will be a story that unites Luke Skywalker and Wolverine, Han Solo and Daredevil, in what appears to be a time-bending, universe-colliding tale timed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A New Hope‘s release back in 1977.

Penned by Kevin Smith (the screen’s Silent Bob, big-time comics-fan and acclaimed writer on the likes of Daredevil and Invincible Iron Man) and illustrated by David Marquez little is known on about the actual story being told but it’s safe to say that whatever happens it’s unlikely to be accepted as canon by either ‘universe’ (though both have flexible history as to what is now ‘official’) but as a weird, one-off it could end up being either silly fun or the printed equivalent of the notorious Star Wars Holiday Special of old.

The fact that both companies are now owned by Disney certainly makes it easier to organise but the only information is that Hope Assembles crossover is due to a reality-warping spell that pulls the universes of Star Wars and Marvel together.  In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, outgoing Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski said:

“It’s an idea we’ve wanted to explore since getting the Star Wars license back over a decade ago, but we knew we’d have to wait with the patience of a Jedi to make it happen. The 50th anniversary of A New Hope has finally given us the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring these two universes together, in this incredible story being told by Kevin Smith and David Marquez.”

Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles #1 will be hitting shelves in January 2027.