Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD** — Page 73

No more Jedi from PT era it has to start out with new charectors as Jedi and if there is a wookie in this it can't be chewbacca because didn't he die in the EU saving others and being crushed alive (poor Han).

Odds are the EU is going to be ignored in the new films. It's simply too much backstory for the non hardcore fan audience to deal with. Therefore, Chewie lives.

ImperialFighter said:

KilroyMcFadden said:

Chewie didn't die in the movies.  Everything that isn't in a movie is fair game for change.

J.J. better not go giving him a medal and messing up adywan's continuity, or I'll be pissed.

Hell, he could make Chewie a girl for all we know so far!

Is Chewie not a girl? Hard to tell through all that fur

On one hand, it would be a breath of fresh air to dispense with the EU. On the other hand, it would be admitting to the fans that a vast swath of the Star Wars universe simply doesn't exist anymore. I find that to be a less than creative solution. In my opinion, the most important, most sacred duty of writers is to their created universes. If the creators and stewards of a fictional universe treat it with contempt, why should anyone else do otherwise?

Why on Earth should the script be chained down to twenty years worth of novels? Believe it or not, there are casual fans who have never read them, and average moviegoers who just like the original films. Disney would like them to buy a ticket. Having to explain why Chewie's not around is going to be a distraction and a downer.

Saying the novels were canon when there weren't going to be any new movies might have made sense at the time, but it's just going to cause problems now.

Isn't there already a minor continuity issue with where the Clone Wars micro series fits in with the CGI show?

You don't have this issue with Trek. The shows and the movies are continuity king.

Well if Disney decides to still have a story take place with the EU then they should make a story about Chewbacca being resurrected like in Star Trek III The Search For Spock.

I don't care too much about EU books and some of them should most definitely be ignored (like Dark Empire for example). But on the other hand, I couldn't care less if Chewie is not in the new films.

Some of us were those kids buying vulgar amounts of SW merchandise back in the day. I think once you bought enough  Kenner product, and sent in those proof of purchase seals, they issued you stock in the company. ;)

imperialscum said:

Technically, Coruscant was there before PT.

Well I don't mind seeing some stuff introduced in the prequels (planets, double-bladed lightsabre etc.) but I don't want to see crap like "midichlorians" or "chosen one" and certainly don't want to see any characters from the prequels (for example using Hayden as Anakin's ghost is the stupidest thing I can think of atm).

No one in the ST timeframe should know any more about midichlorians or anything else that's only in the PT than they did in the OT.  Luke is the last Jedi after RotJ- where is he going to pick up terms like 'padawan' or 'younglings' if they weren't used around him when he went through his training? 

Fang Zei said:

They can (and should) "ignore" what's happened in the EU over the 40 or so in-universe years since RotJ. By this I mean they don't need to bring any of it up.

I think this is best.  A good writer can work within this space and not outright contradict the EU while not making a lot of references to it either.

I assume that in the history of the Cinematic Marvel universe that the American Desert Storm events still happened... but I don't think it's ever come up.  Still- nothing has occured in the films that would contradict it having happened. 

Everyone said:

Chewie is dead in the EU.

This is the biggest problem as far as I can tell.  However, Mr. Baca is sort of a problem no matter how you slice it.  Let's assume that in the new continuity that Han and Leia did in fact get married (after he lost her to Space Fabio, kidnapped her, gave her a planet, told her that he was a king, and...  ) and had kids.  They're all settled down, and perhaps grandparents by the time the ST rolls around.

So... Han's roommate from his bachelor years is still hanging around?  Doesn't he have his own wife and kids (grandkids)?  I mean, it's cool that he and Han are awesome smuggling partners when they're young... but Han gets to settle down and Chewie doesn't? 

That and Leia definitely makes Han sell the Falcon after they get married.  She doesn't say anything about it right away, but she keeps pointing out how often it breaks down and how costly the repairs are, and oh! aren't those new family cruisers so nice! and Lando bought a new ship, let's go see it, and... well... it's what happened to me anyways.

Bingowings said:

Anchorhead said:

DominicCobb said:

It'll be fantastic to have some truly NEW Star Wars movies. That's what I'm most excited for.

Bingo.  

As someone who fully lives in the Personal Canon universe; An interesting, adult, cerebral film is all I'm interested in.  The last five films are of no interest to me, so one more isn't something I'm going to lose sleep over. If it's as good as Star Trek09, great.  If it isn't, it's just one more of six.

Zahn is my Star Wars universe. Not Lucas, not Continuity, not the kids who will buy the vulgar amount of merchandising tie-ins, and sure as hell not the PT and it's twirling cartoon light sabers or high school level script reading.

If this weren't an Abrams-helmed, non-Lucas film, I wouldn't be giving it a moment of thought.

 

It's nice to get a personal open letter from you.

lol

Well the marvel Star Wars comics are really just a blur now but what if some of the continuity in these new movies could be based after the events in those comics from 1977 to 1985.

imperialscum said:

I don't care too much about EU books and some of them should most definitely be ignored (like Dark Empire for example). But on the other hand, I couldn't care less if Chewie is not in the new films.