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Disney ignoring Expanded Universe for new Star Wars trilogy

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chewie is dead?



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JEDI said:
isn't that what I said?

he died because something heavy fell on him?
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ROFL that was pretty funny to peruse over: "The Wookiee stood in the moon's trajectory, howling defiantly, and was crushed to death with those Sernpidalians who could not escape..."


At least the movie won't be directed by M. Night Shamamaylanearmlen
 
I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy right now. It's pretty good so far. Strange that they would throw away such excellent preexisting source material.

Also, the whole argument about something not being "canon" rendering it worthless is stupid. If it's a good story, just read it and be glad someone wrote a good story. Forget whether the idiots at some studio consider it to be the "real" Star Wars.
 
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Well, Lucas already killed it for me with his shit ass revamps of the OT and then those godforsaken prequels. As someone else said, surrounding yourself with yes men is the path to failure.

There was quite a bit of good stuff in the EU. I never got through the whole Vong bs, they were really trying too hard I thought and trying to make some epic-y nonsense instead of just fun space adventures. The Thrawn stuff, X-Wing (Rogue/Wraith) stand out in my mind as some really good reads.

Need to finish getting fan preservation edits of the OT downloaded.
 
The confirmation is being met with a mixed reaction from fans over on Star Wars uber-site TheForce.net. "Thank you for wasting 20 years of my life," said one poster. "I honestly may be done with Star Wars at this point."
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hahahahahahahahaha It takes a lot for me, a fellow Star Wars fan, to think another SW fan is a total freakin loser, but this dude has done it. I don't even judge the people who show up at cons dressing their kids as Jawas and try to speak the Sand People language. This guy though...what a loser. The expanded universe is still fiction.
 
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Isn't this done on a constant basis with superhero comics? Just about every superhero has died multiple times and they put a new, slightly different origin story every time a new series of comics or a new movie comes out. It's completely impossible to reconcile all storylines across every comic book and movie that comes out.

It doesn't take anything away from the existing material to release a newly reimagined version of events. It's dumb to pretend that books can coexist with movies and all agree with each other. Besides, the prequels already messed with a whole bunch of expanded universe stuff, like Boba Fett's origin.

There were even Star Wars books (Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Han Solo at Star's End, probably some others) coming out between A New Home and Empire Strikes Back, and you can't imagine that Lucas or anyone else even considered the events in those books when writing the sequels.

The fact that anyone ever considered the Expanded Universe to be canon (even "lesser canon") is silly. The best you can do is try to agree with the other books.
 
AstroManLuca said:
The fact that anyone ever considered the Expanded Universe to be canon (even "lesser canon") is silly. The best you can do is try to agree with the other books.
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they should keep the thrawn trilogy

i have never read it but i have read a lot of the stuff on wookiepedia
 
norseamd said:
they should keep the thrawn trilogy

i have never read it but i have read a lot of the stuff on wookiepedia
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It was the third or fourth Star Wars book series I read. And the best one. Memory is foggy since I was in jr. high at the time, but it was well written with very interesting characters - no wonder so many of those characters became central to future books. They're the closest thing the EU has to an "original trilogy."

I was sort of hoping the new sequels would center around the Thrawn trilogy, but it's okay that they don't. The problem is it takes place only a few years after Return of the Jedi and involves all the main characters from the movies, so they'd have to recast them. Of course, JJ Abrams is no stranger to that, look at the new Star Trek movies. But it sounds like they're just going to create a new story that takes place ~30 years after the original trilogy so they can have the original actors make cameo appearances and then pass the torch to a new group of heroes.

Honestly at this point, post-prequels, Star Wars is such a dumpster fire that my expectations are zero, and if the new movies are even mildly entertaining it'll be a win in my book.
 
AstroManLuca said:
It was the third or fourth Star Wars book series I read. And the best one. Memory is foggy since I was in jr. high at the time, but it was well written with very interesting characters - no wonder so many of those characters became central to future books. They're the closest thing the EU has to an "original trilogy." I was sort of hoping the new sequels would center around the Thrawn trilogy, but it's okay that they don't. The problem is it takes place only a few years after Return of the Jedi and involves all the main characters from the movies, so they'd have to recast them. Of course, JJ Abrams is no stranger to that, look at the new Star Trek movies. But it sounds like they're just going to create a new story that takes place ~30 years after the original trilogy so they can have the original actors make cameo appearances and then pass the torch to a new group of heroes. Honestly at this point, post-prequels, Star Wars is such a dumpster fire that my expectations are zero, and if the new movies are even mildly entertaining it'll be a win in my book.
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the great thing about this is that fans will eventually more or less rewrite everything and that it will become a legend like lucas has dreamed of

ever heard about the original 'the star wars"

https://www.google.com/search?q=the...vid=1598803562&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
 
come on now, let's be honest; its not like the Thrawn triliogy is particularly brilliant on its own, it just seems so compared with the rest of the expanded universe garbage

would I mind if they borrowed elements from it? certainly not, there were some great things from that series, however I am thrilled that they're not trying to shoehorn anything together here

sure, it could very well end up being crap regardless, however at least there is some hope this way rather than being guaranteed mediocrity in a best case scenario if they just adapt the novels
 
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bunnyfubbles said:
come on now, let's be honest; its not like the Thrawn triliogy is particularly brilliant on its own, it just seems so compared with the rest of the expanded universe garbage

would I mind if they borrowed elements from it? certainly not, there were some great things from that series, however I am thrilled that they're not trying to shoehorn anything together here

sure, it could very well end up being crap regardless, however at least there is some hope this way rather than being guaranteed mediocrity in a best case scenario if they just adapt the novels
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If the original trilogy was made in book form it wouldn't be any better than the Thrawn trilogy though. The Star Wars plot in general was never really that genius. The cool thing I've noticed about the Thrawn trilogy is not that it's brilliant, but how well it fits in the Star Wars universe. The villains are predictably evil in a very corny Star Wars way. The heroes say and do the things I would expect them to do. At times I really believe that I'm reading the continued adventures of Luke Skywalker and company as the Lucas who wrote the original three movies would have envisioned it. The author nailed the "feel" of Star Wars so well that you'd be hard pressed to do any better with an original script. Unless, that is, they want to reimagine the universe completely, "feel" and all.
 
SlitheryDee said:
If the original trilogy was made in book form it wouldn't be any better than the Thrawn trilogy though. The Star Wars plot in general was never really that genius. The cool thing I've noticed about the Thrawn trilogy is not that it's brilliant, but how well it fits in the Star Wars universe. The villains are predictably evil in a very corny Star Wars way. The heroes say and do the things I would expect them to do. At times I really believe that I'm reading the continued adventures of Luke Skywalker and company as the Lucas who wrote the original three movies would have envisioned it. The author nailed the "feel" of Star Wars so well that you'd be hard pressed to do any better with an original script. Unless, that is, they want to reimagine the universe completely, "feel" and all.
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exactly

the original trilogy plots have their own problems
 
Seeing as how the 'official' Star Wars canon consists of 2 good movies, 1 meh movie, 3 shit piles, and a fairly decent animated Clone Wars series, scrapping the vehicle that contains 90% of the good Star Wars material seems pretty stupid. People would line up around the block to see some of those books put to the big screen.
 
Bateluer said:
Seeing as how the 'official' Star Wars canon consists of 2 good movies, 1 meh movie, 3 shit piles, and a fairly decent animated Clone Wars series, scrapping the vehicle that contains 90% of the good Star Wars material seems pretty stupid. People would line up around the block to see some of those books put to the big screen.
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not sure about the books themselves but i liked the expanded universe material

what was the meh movie
 
I'm guessing "Return of the Jedi." I'm not too big on the newer ones either but I thought "Revenge of the Sith" was quite good.
 
clamum said:
I'm guessing "Return of the Jedi." I'm not too big on the newer ones either but I thought "Revenge of the Sith" was quite good.
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yah that would probably seem like the one

wondering if a phantom menace made star wars fans completely hate all the other prequels in advance
 
norseamd said:
not sure about the books themselves but i liked the expanded universe material

what was the meh movie
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Return of the Jedi.

Revenge of the Sith being the better of the three prequels doesn't say much.


ElFenix said:
most of the books were terrible bullshit anyway. it pretty much peaked with thrawn.
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There's a lot of Star Wars EU books, but a lot of them were damn good. Really good. Disney should be looking at some of them for VII/VIII/IX.
 
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