"The company for the first time ever has formed a story group to oversee and coordinate all Star Wars creative development,” the press release explains. “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."
Lucasfilm isn’t completely ignoring the various characters, vehicles, planets, and concepts established in the Expanded Universe. “Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe,” the studio explains. “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.” So it’s entirely possible that the new canon will utilize the old canon the same way that the Avengers movies utilize Marvel comic books — sometimes as direct inspiration, sometimes as purposeful misdirection
However! The Expanded Universe will still exist under a new “Legends” banner, which I guess could mean that, within the continuity of the actual canon, the Expanded Universe stories were actually just “legends” about Luke Skywalker and Co., conceived by people in the Star Wars galaxy many centuries later — which is the kind of completely insane explanation that all conversations about fictional continuity eventually dissolve into. The studio posted a nice clip to honor the Expanded Universe, including a Timothy Zahn sighting!
Full story http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/25/star-wars-movies-expanded-universe-lucasfilm/
Lucasfilm isn’t completely ignoring the various characters, vehicles, planets, and concepts established in the Expanded Universe. “Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe,” the studio explains. “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.” So it’s entirely possible that the new canon will utilize the old canon the same way that the Avengers movies utilize Marvel comic books — sometimes as direct inspiration, sometimes as purposeful misdirection
However! The Expanded Universe will still exist under a new “Legends” banner, which I guess could mean that, within the continuity of the actual canon, the Expanded Universe stories were actually just “legends” about Luke Skywalker and Co., conceived by people in the Star Wars galaxy many centuries later — which is the kind of completely insane explanation that all conversations about fictional continuity eventually dissolve into. The studio posted a nice clip to honor the Expanded Universe, including a Timothy Zahn sighting!
Full story http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/04/25/star-wars-movies-expanded-universe-lucasfilm/
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