the Star Wars Expanded universe
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Hopefully destroyed. The Heir to the Empire books were good, but some of the ones after that were horrid. I don't know how Kevin J. Anderson got awards for them.
I'm surprised that Harrison Ford would have any idea what had transpired in the EU. Frankly, I don't think the producers and writers of the next films will care too much about the EU unless they're serious fanboys themselves. Why should they let twenty years of in-depth backstory prevent them from telling the stories they want to tell? It all comes down to money - the films will make orders of magnitude more money than the books and comics do, so no one is going to let the EU stop them in their run to the bank.
As a Star Wars fan from near the beginning (I saw The Empire Strikes Back in the theaters during its first run as a small child), I like the films, but the EU is so much bigger than the films that they would actually turn me off the new films. There's just too much baggage attached to the EU to film it and expect general audiences to follow the story without a pamphlet and instructional video to review prior to the film.
I fully expect the EU to be trashed by the new films.
As a Star Wars fan from near the beginning (I saw The Empire Strikes Back in the theaters during its first run as a small child), I like the films, but the EU is so much bigger than the films that they would actually turn me off the new films. There's just too much baggage attached to the EU to film it and expect general audiences to follow the story without a pamphlet and instructional video to review prior to the film.
I fully expect the EU to be trashed by the new films.
I think the Expanded Universe will adapt to the new movies. Stuff set long before or after the movies--like Knights of the Old Republic and Legacy--may be unaffected, but stuff featuring Luke, Han & Leia, (and their kids) after Episode VI will definitely be rebooted, IMO.
For the most part, ignored. Perhaps some ideas will be lifted here and there. But, ignored.
The majority of pre ROTJ novels will probably be OK, but most of the later stuff will be trashed. If they're clever they could 'pull a JJ' and wrap up the last novel with an almighty reset to the death of the Emperor and soft boot the whole thing whilst leaving the dumped continuity as another timeline/loop.
Doubt they will bother though.
Doubt they will bother though.
Not going to happen.
I heard there were some stories called "Star Wars Infinities" where the original trilogy stories were altered - like, what if Luke died on Hoth and Han tried to take the Jedi training, or what if Vader survived the duel on the second Death Star and went back to the good guys (imagine Vader in stark white armor instead of black). They're not in "continuity", though, just "what if" stories.
I don't foresee the new movies being weighed down by books and comic backstories, though, and since SW is more space opera fantasy than Star Trek, I don't think there are any avenues for allowing the alternative universe type of out that ST 2009 took.
Yep, that would apply to the "not 'what ifs'" part of my post.
If the EU is totally contradicted in a way that the it can't merge around (like Boba Fett's original back story) then at least we can take all the original EU (including the original Clone Wars continuity) and separate it from the Sequel Trilogy and The Clone Wars. So at the very least we can say the Clone Wars continuity flubs are no longer an issue.
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