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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 6627739" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>George Lucas said repeatedly after the Prequels he was done forever with Star Wars movies, in 2009 he even publicly said he had put it in his will that there would be no new SW movies, ever and his heirs would be prohibited by the terms they were being willed Star Wars from making more movies with it. George Lucas didn't say one word about doing another movie series set after RotJ after the early 1980's, until after the Disney deal was closed, and even then he said that even if he wanted to, he wouldn't because he was too old to do another trilogy.</p><p></p><p>Lucasfilm went out of their way to minimize contradictions between the EU and the prequels, like how EU authors were prohibited from writing anything about the rise of the Emperor and the Clone Wars and how the Jedi Order fell, and the most they could do was vague references, because Lucas said he wanted to tell those stories himself one day and didn't want to contradict them, and he didn't mind people writing stories set after RotJ, because he wasn't going to make films there (and even then, he still exercised oversight of those stories).</p><p></p><p>Also, there was plenty of room in the EU for new adventures in movies. Take where the current edge of the main Expanded Universe timeline in 45 ABY. Jump the timeline ahead a few years, you can have Ben Skywalker as a protagonist, there's room for Jaina Solo to play the Leia/Padme-esque role, we could see the rise of the Fel Dynasty, we could deal with surviving members of the Lost Tribe of Sith, or someone from the One Sith who was lurking around messing things up. There were a lot of ways the story could easily go from there.</p><p></p><p>The canon of the EU didn't constrain things, it enabled them. It added a lot of verisimilitude, it made Star Wars feel like a real "lived in" universe and not just a series of movies. </p><p></p><p>I would have even accepted Disney keeping the EU, what they now call "Legends" as an alternate continuity, but instead they cancelled EU works that were in progress like Sword of the Jedi and Star Wars: 1313, and made press releases about how there was only one Star Wars canon and it was their new canon they were releasing. </p><p></p><p>Me? I'm keeping the entire EU, ignoring the The Clone Wars TV series and The Force Unleashed II, and totally ignoring everything Disney is making now. I'm actively refusing to go see their movies when they come in theaters as a protest about how they've treated the Expanded Universe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 6627739, member: 14159"] George Lucas said repeatedly after the Prequels he was done forever with Star Wars movies, in 2009 he even publicly said he had put it in his will that there would be no new SW movies, ever and his heirs would be prohibited by the terms they were being willed Star Wars from making more movies with it. George Lucas didn't say one word about doing another movie series set after RotJ after the early 1980's, until after the Disney deal was closed, and even then he said that even if he wanted to, he wouldn't because he was too old to do another trilogy. Lucasfilm went out of their way to minimize contradictions between the EU and the prequels, like how EU authors were prohibited from writing anything about the rise of the Emperor and the Clone Wars and how the Jedi Order fell, and the most they could do was vague references, because Lucas said he wanted to tell those stories himself one day and didn't want to contradict them, and he didn't mind people writing stories set after RotJ, because he wasn't going to make films there (and even then, he still exercised oversight of those stories). Also, there was plenty of room in the EU for new adventures in movies. Take where the current edge of the main Expanded Universe timeline in 45 ABY. Jump the timeline ahead a few years, you can have Ben Skywalker as a protagonist, there's room for Jaina Solo to play the Leia/Padme-esque role, we could see the rise of the Fel Dynasty, we could deal with surviving members of the Lost Tribe of Sith, or someone from the One Sith who was lurking around messing things up. There were a lot of ways the story could easily go from there. The canon of the EU didn't constrain things, it enabled them. It added a lot of verisimilitude, it made Star Wars feel like a real "lived in" universe and not just a series of movies. I would have even accepted Disney keeping the EU, what they now call "Legends" as an alternate continuity, but instead they cancelled EU works that were in progress like Sword of the Jedi and Star Wars: 1313, and made press releases about how there was only one Star Wars canon and it was their new canon they were releasing. Me? I'm keeping the entire EU, ignoring the The Clone Wars TV series and The Force Unleashed II, and totally ignoring everything Disney is making now. I'm actively refusing to go see their movies when they come in theaters as a protest about how they've treated the Expanded Universe. [/QUOTE]
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