Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit Talk LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy [Video]

One would think that two well-known screenwriters who are loud and proud about their decades-long love affair with Star Wars would have, at some point, been asked, “What do you love about Star Wars?” But it turns out AWN was the first to pose the question in our interview with the showrunners about their new series, LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy.

“It’s funny that we’ve never been asked that considering how much we talk about it,” says Dan Hernandez, showrunner, co-creator and executive producer, along with Benji Samit, of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. “Star Warsis deceptively sophisticated in a lot of ways, and I think you have a different relationship to it as you get older. When you’re a kid, you maybe don’t realize there are really complex ideas about oneness with life and death, what it means to be a luminous being, what it means to be connected to everyone and …