Telltale Games uses Star Wars alias for upcoming title
In the fallout of the recent US voice actors strike, several upcoming games leaked.
One of those titles is Telltale Games’ 2017 Marvel game, which is listed as “Guardians of the Galaxy – The Video Game aka. Blue Harvest”, as leaked by ComicBookMovie.com. However, what’s most interesting and–perhaps–amusing is the fact that the game is using the Star Wars alias of “Blue Harvest” for a potentially fake working title.
Meant to disguise production crew from fans and media, Blue Harvest was Return of the Jedi’s working title. Producer Howard Kazanjian is credited with coming up with the title, which, according to Wookiepedia, was referenced on camera slates, invoices, hotel reservations, call sheets, production reports, and crew hats and T-shirts throughout production.
The title Blue Harvest has also worked its way into other media. The 12th episode of the first season of Star Wars: Ewoks is titled Blue Harvest, while the TV show Family Guy’s Star Wars special also goes by that name.
Camera slate for “Blue Harvest” aka Return of the Jedi.
Of course, Blue Harvest with regards to Telltale’s upcoming game is probably mostly meaningless. However, the name definitely got me thinking how cool a Telltale game set in the Star Wars universe would be. Telltale’s classic episodic narrative style would be very fitting for Star Wars.
While the fact that the developer is working with Disney for the Marvel license, EA owns the Star Wars license, so a partnership is probably unlikely.
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(H/T Eurogamer)
