Star Wars Episode 7

[chrisdude]

Originally Posted by sdp

The quotes from the guys in charge basically imply to me that all the EU is rebooted, they even mention it being a "soft reboot", with Marvel getting the license back and Del Rey probably losing it and EA being the exclusive game maker it definitely feels like it'll be a new EU, except that in this new EU everything will be canon, you can bet Ep.7 is going to ignore everything and we'll see Chewbacca there the same way the prequels ignored the EU. By soft reboot I'm guessing that very important novels might be re-printed and considered canon? I don't know but counting everything will be canon with everything, even with a tighter control we'll have a pretty crazy universe like the one the EU has now, because that's just what time and stories do to a universe, makes it infinitely more and more complicated.

The quotes also imply that pretty much everything besides the movies is being thrown away too. The only reason why The Clone Wars might be considered is because the people making Rebels are the same team. But good bye old Clone Wars cartoon and good bye the Ewok movies and previous shows as well like Droids and Ewoks.

Reminds me of TRON. Before TRON: Legacy, there were video game and comic tie-ins to the original film. But the second movie came with a game, comics and TV show of its own, and they completely ignored and overwrote what came before, keeping only the original movie as canon.