Visceral’s Star Wars Han Solo Game: 9 Things You Need To Know
7. ...As Are Todd Stashwick And Jade Raymond
An accumulative level of talent is proving to be Visceral Games' current hallmark, but things get especially exciting when you begin to wonder what exactly is drawing so many people to the project. Sure, Star Wars is more than good reason to lend your name to a title in a heartbeat, but what the studio is trying to do with the universe must be especially enticing to get people like Jade Raymond and Todd Stashwick involved. Stashwick has only really dabbled in writing recently, but has appeared in numerous television programmes in different roles - most recently in Fox's Batman prequel series, Gotham. In terms of gaming, Visceral's Star Wars project seems to be his first adventure in the medium, but given past warm receptions to the scribe's work, gaming can only be a natural fit. Raymond however is very much a mainstay of the medium, having been the executive producer on Assassin's Creed II and Splinter Cell: Blacklist among other, highly successful franchises. Raymond left Ubisoft Toronto in 2014, and having taken on the head role at EA's Motive Studios, will now be overseeing Visceral's Star Wars project in tandem with Amy Hennig. It makes for a creative tour de force that we can only hope translates well to Star Wars, but only time will tell if it does.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
