The series was created when Chronicle Books asked the Wang brothers what they would like to do next and they decided to "shoot for the moon and go for what we were the biggest fans of when we were kids, and that was Star Wars." The titles were developed with the aid of Leland Chee, who explained such things as that "cold" would not be appropriate word choice for the Han Solo carbon-freezing scene, as the carbon-freezing is actually a hot process. The scenes in the books were shot in locations such as the Mt. Seymour Forest and the Lynn Valley Headwaters. Digital techniques were used only to create the lightsabers and Darth Sidious's Force lightning.