(Rumor) Disney Stars Wars Could Be Removed from Canon (or simply ignored)

[Plageman]

Do an "Ultimate Skywalker Saga" with more focus on the fall of Anakin and the conclusion of the Saga after Luke with more fresh ideas and more love for the old characters and storyarcs.

Anakin's story has already been expanded greatly through the Clone Wars tv series. Heck you could even roll in Rebels with its Darth Vader arcs. Luke and Leia could still be part of a "cinematic" universe through the same sort of initiative; TV Series, comics and novels can fill that gap.

However...

With where we find these characters in the Force Awakens makes it complicated to create something interesting since they are set for a "failure" narrative with no greater story to tell (there is nothing akin to the clone wars in the time gap).

Still what I noticed with The Mandalorian, Star Wars Rebels, and even with Resistance, it's that these days SW stories are more interesting when not seen through the eyes of the "movie" protagonists. Since we have no idea of what their arcs are going to be you can genuinely be intrigued by their journeys...

 

[Umbran]

I liked Episodes 7-9. I am not a fan of 1-3. I don't think "erasing from canon" is a step they'd take with anything that's actually hit the screen (big or small). I think setting aside the Expanded Universe was actually a good idea. Not that there weren't good stories in there, but having so much canon that the overall mass market isn't familiar with is problematic for storytelling.

If we take for granted for a moment that they are making decisions about what period of Star Wars continuity is going to get more attention, I am by no means convinced that reception of the most recent movies is (or should be) the main driver.

I think the main driver is that the new trilogy (while I liked it) doesn't do much to set up future story. It is simply easier to find interesting story hooks in the gaps between the trilogies.

 

[Eilathen]

Anakin's story has already been expanded greatly through the Clone Wars tv series. Heck you could even roll in Rebels with its Darth Vader arcs. Luke and Leia could still be part of a "cinematic" universe through the same sort of initiative; TV Series, comics and novels can fill that gap.

Agreed. But what I'm saying is just wish full thinking anyway. But i still like to dream And when i dream, I'm not satisfied with even the Clone Wars development (although i admit that imo, the two animated series Clone Wars and Rebels, is some of the best SW we have seen so far, period!) and its depth. Because the main focal point and most interesting part of Anakin's journey was not done in CW, unfortuantely. It was canceled too early. I always wonder what could have been if Disney hadn't shown up and we had seen a "natural" conclusion to the CW instead of the stunted one we got now.
But as said, my dream would be for a real life tv series done for the Anakin arc and then a continuation of the Skywalker story after that is done.

 

[Istbor]

I am not sure I would ever take information from a person with such a dumb name as sound.

Even if I did, I think that opens a box of really terrible precedent. I don't really want time travel in Star Wars. I REALLY don't want them to be able to just hand-wave some force option to invalidate any of the cannon they are building.

And personally if there were to be a whole trilogy blotted out by Force-time stuff... it would be the Prequels. Dear god, get rid of the prequels, but then that invalidates everything that came after. So it is dumb, and will probably just end up making more people disheartened.

They put out some movies people didn't universally enjoy. Deal with it. I dealt with it too when they three I thought were rubbish came out, and I still remained a pretty staunch fan.

 

[Cadence]

Can we go back to the original versions of 4-5, add something like the ewoks cooking up stormtroopers at the end in 6, keep Rogue 1, and then nuke the rest? (Not a fan of 1-3 or 7, 8 was ok, didn't see 9).

In general, as an Avengers fan since 1981, I'm used to treating stories I don't like as apocryphal. If nothing else, I'll continue to do that with these.

 

[Cadence]

Ooops.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Can we go back to the original versions of 4-5, add something like the ewoks cooking up stormtroopers at the end in 6, keep Rogue 1, and then nuke the rest? (Not a fan of 1-3 or 7, 8 was ok, didn't see 9).

In general, as an Avengers fan since 1981, I'm used to treating stories I don't like as apocryphal. If nothing else, I'll continue to do that with these.

If you think about it, the entire Star Wars movie canon is pretty much just an odd-numbered Star Trek movie.

 

[Undrave]

I think it's very likely they won't touch the era. Declaring the movies 'non-canon' would be a waste of time, because only nerds care about canon.

Canon is overrated anyway.

Doomcocks not the most reliable FYI.

Only time he was somewhat accurate he was reporting after spoilers on Reddit

He usually pretty upfront about rumours being unsubstantiated, at least. He's just trying to get views for his Youtube channel.

The Skywalker Saga could have been such a great Saga.

Instead it's now the Palpatine Saga.

I mean, sure, this makes perfect sense ....

assuming that Disney already hadn't spent all that money building attractions at theme parks based on the movies, and selling merchandise, and that these movies made billions, and everything else.

But sure.

Apparently it was Kathleen Kennedy's idea to build Galaxy's Edge in the Sequel era. Business wise it wasn't a bad plan, since you'd imagine getting tons of new fans. And for what its worth, the place itself is pretty era-agnostic, you just need to change out the First Order Storm Troopers and maybe the satellite dish on the Falcon and boom! You can be in a different era. Heck, they started to parade Darth Vader there. The rides themselves are actually pretty popular, regardless of the popularity or not of the movie (Rise of the Resistance is an incredible piece of dark ride technology and I want to ride it one day!). Galaxy's Edge had a rough start but it's actually a success, probably the best thing to come out of the sequel trilogy really.

The movies made money but we don't know how much PROFIT they made, since we don't know how much the reshoots for Rise of Skywalker cost.

And the merchandise? Yeah it's not selling that well. There's barely any demand for Sequel Merch.

 

[Undrave]

In general, as an Avengers fan since 1981, I'm used to treating stories I don't like as apocryphal. If nothing else, I'll continue to do that with these.

Agreed. Canon is overrated.

 

[Eilathen]

Agreed. Canon is overrated.

If that's really your opinion, what are you even doing on a forum like this....