ST Official Sequel Trilogy / Legends / Expanded Universe discussion thread

Even if this isn't true, I'd imagine most of the EU would shift around or be overwritten at this point, regardless of the ages.

I'm not expecting them to "de-age" the OT cast at all, really... no more than they were in the OT, anyway (Mark playing 23-year-old Luke in ROTJ, Ford playing a 33-year-old Han), so they'd probably be about 57 for the twins, 67 for Han. Not too far off the mark. Or, they'd say they're even OLDER and they still look so 'young' because of medical advances, whatever. I don't see 'em dropping down to 50/50/60.

Also, another big sign that this is utter BS: it gives away Jacen falling to the dark side & becoming Darth Caedus in a casting sheet for EPISODE VII. No way they'd blow that 'surprise' in VII, let alone before it even starts filming. VII would be about Jacen training, VIII would have him fall & declare himself a Darth (and he'd need someone to have guided him to that point, another big villain), and IX would likely be them trying to redeem him. Maybe they'd try for redemption in VIII, I suppose, and IX would be dealing with the one who got him to become Sith...

...but there's no way they'd put out a sheet of any kind of character info claiming the kid's gonna turn into a Sith Lord in the first movie.

 

They might if it was a document mental for internal use, but that is definitely a strike against it. At the same time, considering how much Lucas has said against Dark Empire's clones of Palpatine, I could easily see them choosing to ignore or try to write Anakin Solo out of existence as that's the character's first appearance and he really only acts as a macguffin from that point until the NJO (which would be totally wiped out by this plot line) anyway.

Plus, there's another thing bugging me about it... Two Protagonists instead of the normal Three (Padme, Anakin, and Obi-wan in the PT; Han, Luke, and Leia in the OT). Who is number three? I could definitely see some truth in this rumor but I just don't know. As for those who are saying it LoTF remade... come on, it's not... because LoTF is so dependent on other EU it's not even funny.

 

If you're an EU fan\, read this article, and be terrified. It means we have to say by to everything post ROTJ
http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captur...wars-episode-vii-rumors-are-complete-nonsense

 

*Locks away his copy of The Thrawn Trilogy, Hand of Thrawn Duology, and Survivor's Quest* You can destroy everything else, for all I care, but do not destroy those stories.

I had a feeling anyway that the new stories would ignore the Solos kids anyway, except maybe as background figures. They're just not useable as a protagonist with the massive amount of stuff they've had dumped on them in the EU. I also figure a kid with the name Skywalker is sort of required... Ben might have been useable, but I always figured that it seemed more likely for them to make someone new for that role, and if they use Ben at all, for him to be more a secondary figure. So, not surprised, not really.

Still putting money on a 'Nomi Skywalker'.

Could the rumored plot line work? Sure... it's just not what I think we'll actually see.

 

He knew, his partner suprevised the NuTrek EU. He had to know.

 

Whoa, it just occurred to me that this might be a real leak of a casting call... that's fake. You remember all the shenanigans they went through to keep 'No, I am your father!' out of the press with fake lines and scripts and so forth? I mean, imagine they get these people for the cast, lock the door behind them and say.

"Now, you're not playing Jacen and Jaina, we've got two thirty-year-old people lined up for that and they'll just be sitting in the background most of the time. These are your roles."

 

It's already been previously stated that EVII is an original story not based on any pre-existing EU material, which makes me seriously question the validity of this rumor.

 

I hope LOTF isn't adapted. I love parts of it but it is a major PT rip-off. No thank you.

 

As an addendum to what I said above: when I said 'seriously question the validity of this rumor', what I meant was this: I will be shocked if it's not a complete fabrication pulled out of someone's hind-end.

 

I'm not putting much stock in the Solo rumor, and until I see something more concrete, I'm not believing the Hitflix rumor at all.

 

And just think....that EU rumor is just the first of no doubt MANY EU related BS rumors to come. I can't wait till we get our first "ressurection/return" rumor that ISNT related to the OT3 *or 7 if you include chewie, R2, C3po and Lando*. Its going to be soo much fun here. I just hope Eu fans hearts aren't broken too much

 

Even though I knew almost certainly it was a fake, a had a little spark of anxiety that they might actually go down that path.
Glad they're not.

 

Yep, I found this new article very reassuring. It’s also a website with a very good track record, not like the original site that first broke the “news”. Just another website that’s taken the opportunity of new Star Wars films to get some much needed traffic. I'm sure there's much more where that came from.

 

Here's an idea: have Jacen Solo look into some force-based device that is responsible for creating countless alternate universes and he sees an alternate version of himself turn to the dark side. That way it allows for the new trilogy to be looked at just as valuable in cannon as the EU books, the old Marvel comics, the old novelizations and so on while still allowing for them all to branch out in their own directions without confusing movie goers and upsetting hardcore fans.

Abrams used a time-travel plot device in his Star Trek reboot to give his new Trek films flexibility and not confuse movie goers while at the same time not upsetting the hardcore Trekkies. So why can't he do something similar with Star Wars?

 

Which has had time travel and alternate universes established as part of the setting for over 40 years, I might add. Does Star Wars even have time travel (outside of maybe a few weird minor things like old Marvel comics)?

Edit: I guess there's "flow-walking", but I never really saw that as the same thing.

 

This article warms my heart. Dream big, my friends. Dream big.

 

On a separate note, I'm genuinely saddened by the people taking that first article as fact. Even if you completely throw out the "original story" stuff (and, I'll admit, that's not a straight-up adaptation of LOTF), as somebody has already pointed out, casting sheets do not work that way.

In the immortal words of Senator Vreenak, it's a faaaaaaaaaaaake.