there’s no rule that says a movie has to adhere to anything EU-related
Well, technically there is. (To a certain degree anyway).
More a guideline than actual rule.
True. All I meant is that they can’t contradict it.
Haven’t the movies already contradicted the nuEU? That’s what I’ve heard regarding TLJ and the TFA novelization.
Yes, Rey meets Poe in the TFA novelization, and then they officially met in TLJ.
However the novelizations kind of exist in their own odd category.
But I don’t think the new movies can just blatantly retcon the EU like Lucas did with Legends whenever he felt like it.