Disney to Determine a New Star Wars Canon

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Disney appoints a group to determine a new, official Star Wars canon
The Expanded Universe as we knew it will soon be no more. Disney has created a special committee whose job it will be to figure out what is and isn't part of a complete Star Wars canon — meaning all the EU material created over the years will be judged, and either become official or deemed invalid.

Furthermore, this means at some point all new Star Wars spin-offs will matter, because they will all be official. I don't know how I feel about that.

The Story Group, as its called, includes Leland Chee, who has been Lucasfilm's "Keeper of the Holocron," the in-house database of everything Star Wars. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

The story group, [Chee] explained, "has a hand in all facets of Star Wars storytelling, including movies, TV, games and publishing." When asked what the change meant, he wrote that "a primary goal" was to ensure that there was no hierarchy between the movies and spinoff material, but instead one cohesive canon across the entire franchise, adding that "more so than ever, the canon field will serve us internally simply for classification rather than setting hierarchy."

We obviously don't know what will be kept and what will be lost, but now we know that instead of separating the official Star Wars universe from the Expanded Universe, we're going to get one consistent (hopefully) universe, where every story told is official, whether it be a movie, a comic, a book, or a videogame. I would guess that Disney would cherry pick a few things from the material that's come before — probably big stuff like the Clone Wars cartoon, maybe some of the Knights of the Old Republic material — but I can't imagine them burdening themselves down with too much old material, as most of it would merely inhibit the new stories they want to tell (and products they want to sell). I also can't imagine they'd really want any of the Star Wars books set after the movies, as those will almost certainly get in their way of their sequels.

But who knows? Do you guys have any votes for what should stay and what should go? What would you most hate to lose?
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Oh dear goodness. There is no way to avoid a storm with this.

I wish them luck; they will need it.
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Good. Someone needed to clean it up.
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Bah! What they say matters not to me. You can't take the YJK from me. :lol:
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And you can't take the shining summit of all that is good about Star Wars - Star by Star - from me. :P
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And I'll never give up the Star Wars Holiday Special!

Wait, what.
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Griffin wrote:And I'll never give up the Star Wars Holiday Special!

Wait, what.
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It seemed that the death blows for the EU were shot with the prequels.
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oh may the Force help them keep Zahn's work with Mara Jade Skywalker and the Solo Twins... Or the 501° would probably strike them really hard.
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Suncrusher. Yay or Nay?
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Suncrusher wasn't Zahn works... it was one of the bad ideas of the EU.
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Nothing they say can trump my headcanon for me. :P Say what they want, I'll crack open my books and read them still! :D
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DarkMoineau wrote:Suncrusher... ...one of the bad ideas of the EU.
And the "DITL Understatement of the Year Award" goes to DarkMoineau. Congrats.

Suncrusher is quite possibly the dumbest idea and most successful insertion of a fanboy wankship I've ever seen in science fiction.
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Yeah but all that Trilogy is the baddest idea of the EU. And what happend because they had to use characters of that trilogy was mostly bad.... But at least it gives us I, Jedi by Corran Horn (yeah that's the narrator, not the writer ^^) which is nice to read as the two only books wich gives us a look at Star Wars from the inside.
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I dunno. The Galaxy Gun from the DE comics was pretty bad.
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