What's on the horizon for the Star Wars RPG?

[Ranger REG]

I've heard the possibility mentioned more than once that Lucas is toying with scrapping all of the expanded universe stuff after ROTJ and starting over with a new set of movies. I don't know how concrete this is, and how it could affect the Star Wars license with WOTC.

Well, there are fans that didn't like the NJO storyline. In fact, I'm still trying to come to term with Chewie's death.

Then there are people that didn't like the "Courtship of Princess Leia" nor the Kevin J. Anderson's version of the Jedi Academy Trilogy.

I know it won't sit well with dedicated Star Wars fans, but the casual ones, including myself who experience the canon and non-canon sides of Star Trek, it's really no biggie.

I know that both franchises are treated differently. Then again, it is still up the the head of the franchise. If by some stroke of luck that George Lucas is willing to make a sequel movie (or three) and decided to go with a different storyline (an original story rather than an adaptation of the Expanded Universe), I wouldn't protest.

After all, adapting books to films have been met with criticisms the majority of the time.

 

[Insight]

Well they way I heard it (and I don't recall from where) is that Lucas had all his employees sign NDAs regarding Episodes 7-9. He has also said in the past that ONLY THE MOVIES are canon. Anything else could be changed BY HIM in the future if he so chooses. And I am perfectly OK with that.

The fact is that only hardcore Star Wars fans are really all that knowledgeable on post-ROTJ stories. Lucas could easily decide to work on Episodes 7-9 and few would cry out in protest.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The NDA doesn't mean anything other than they can't talk about 7-9. IMO, it actually has to do with the TV Show(which is rumored to have a few appearances by Luke every so often, so it would be set after RotJ), and not movies at all.

As for the canon/non-canon thing. Where's that great sig quote from the head of Lucas Licensing that says everything without an Infinities label is canon?

 

[JoeGKushner]

Star Wars, like Aliens and Terminator, could be a beautiful thing if the creators of these works said, "Dark Horse, you know what you're doing. We're going to adapt your stories for the big screen. Here's a check." Compare the original Aliens series from Dark Horse to the mind numbing crap that is Aliens 3 and beyond, forcing the Aliens series to be edited to fit into continuied when it was reprinted. Ditto with Terminator. And Star Wars? Well... I wish I could say that Lucas hasn't been paid beyond his due and that he delivered modern sci-fi masterpieces but I still enjoy the comics more.

 

[Nar Dior]

There are already 'issues' with the EU and canon of Star Wars. Barris Offie get's killed by Darth Maul in the Darth Maul books but appears in Episode 3.
So I guess that Star Wars fans are already used to movie vs EU thing.

As far as the RPG goes, there are plenty of ideas in the EU to create your own stories.

 

[Ranger REG]

Star Wars, like Aliens and Terminator, could be a beautiful thing if the creators of these works said, "Dark Horse, you know what you're doing. We're going to adapt your stories for the big screen. Here's a check."

I doubt it will be like that. More than likely they will just hire the writers as part of the writing staff. That also means the writers will have to take a crash course in screenwriting, if they want to adapt something in print to motion picture.

 

[buzz]

I was under the impression that there are not and never have been any plans for movies beyond the current six.

 

[Nar Dior]

Ah but years ago there was. And I doubt that George would get any of the existing writers in to help write the scripts. He'd probably do it himself.
Otherwise the Phantom Menace might have been a good film.

But we digress. Is there any reason not to have game sources based on the current EU of books?

 

[buzz]

Ah but years ago there was.

I found this interview on a number of movie-reporting sites (Google the first sentence):

"This was never planned as a nine-episode work," Lucas said. "The media [pounced when] I made an offhand comment, 'It might be fun to come back when everyone's 80 and do another one of these.' But I never had any intention of doing that."

This is simply a fan legend that has been around since the first film came out.

But we digress.

We do. Sorry!

 

[Ranger REG]

I was under the impression that there are not and never have been any plans for movies beyond the current six.

That's the official party-line answer ... but it is not etched in stone.