Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015) Discussion Thread
Gave away half. Billions even to man like Lucas who has them isn't anything to sneeze at.
Plus in a way it's a way to lose the demon. He considers himself a serious filmmaker as most do but can't shake this from his pedigree as being his defining piece of work. He moves it into another set of hands and then he becomes the creator but no longer the caretaker and anything that goes wrong with it is no longer on his shoulders to bear.
Given that they've said it's an original piece and that the writer has been tapped already, there is a great chance you won't see the majority of it. Luke might have a wife named Sally who is green with three eyes and tentacles for all we know. I have a feeling that EU fans will be the most distraught once these actually come out because I have a good feeling that most of it will be "wiped" out.
Although I wonder how they'd react if they kept Mara Jade but completely changed the character, made her a blonde princess from a nearby planet who wasn't even force sensitive for example? That'd be an interesting turn of events.
.
That's the thing I guess. we don't know.
Bear in mind, I'm not asking them to do the novels as films.
HOWEVER, they need to take into account that it's the fans of those books that helped keep the spirit of SW alive untill the prequel trilogy came around.
Completely negating the vast majority of the existing fiction will serve to only alienate those fans who kept the fires burning. This generates disdain, and dislike, and can serve to drive away a fanbase.
While I don't see The novels, or the rest of the EU ever making it completely into another media format, I also don't see them completely torpedoing everything that is already "established"
Like I said. Best solution is to acknowledge it, and do their best not to COMPLETELY contradict it.
Hence why, as I as I Said, only looking to see Mara Jade ( and just call her an Ex-imperial. They don't need to go into detail), Jacen, Jaina, and anakin Solo. It would also make sense to have luke re-start the jedi Order based on what he was taught from yoda. They have that, the we're golden. EU fans are kept happy, Non eu fans either don't care, or MIGHT go buy books, and generate more money for SW, which is more money for disney.
I'm under no delusions about it. I know that the new writer could come in, have NO knowlege of the EU, and completely ruin it for those fans. In turn, this would possibly also dramatically affect the sales of those books and comics, and severely hurt those buisness deals as well as disney's long term relationship with those companies..
OR he could go off the deep end. Turn Luke into a closet homosexual in an attempt to bring in the Gay fan-base. Make it so Chewie and han studied with him in the ways of the jedi... and a little more, and have a "brokeback mountain" undertones in the luke and han relationship.
Have leia form an empire-hating a biker-gang in the intervening years, and become a mohawk wearing butch lady who curb-stomps stormtroopers.
My point is, we don't know. Good business sense says don't screw with the EU TOO MUCH. But in the end, it's their property.
