Star Wars and the Expanded Universe

Published on April 25, 2014 By Island Dog In Life, the Universe and Everything

Interesting news today about Star Wars and the expanded universe in regards to the future stories in Star Wars.

"In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s."

http://starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page.html

Comments

GoaFan77

on Apr 25, 2014

I pretty much assumed this to some degree, though the devil is really in the details. Episode 7 is said to be 30 some years after Endor, so I figured everything after that point was likely to be changed or discarded. The real question is what they are going to do with everything before that point.

It seems that from the picture on the article that even the Thrawn Trilogy is going to be part of this "Legends" collection that didn't really happen, but personally I think that's a mistake since it takes only a few years after Endor. They have plenty of time to set up the universe like they want for Episode 7 without changing anything until real end of the war with the Empire 15 years after Endor. Getting rid of it is just going to leave a bad taste in the mouth of the hard core fans who are already skeptical of 7, and is a continuity disaster waiting to happen if we have to wait to see something in the post Disney Star Wars to know it really exists.

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