Lit A/V The Force Awakens and the EU [TAGGED spoilers.]

Does this mean the EU is all gone? Disney will be publishin FOUR books to bridge the OT with the Episode VII

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan[....]y-publishing-4-new-s_b_5170149.html

 

How would OT storybooks destroy the EU? They're about Episodes IV-VI. Anything publicity-related would mention the new movies, even if it had no real connection to them.

 

They're kids books set during the OT using McQuarrie's original artwork for pictures, I doubt they're going to be exactly ground breaking in terms of story content..

 

My idea is for the Romulan ship, Narada, to have cause the change of events in the Star Wars Universe. It does this by going though the Star Wars universe for a second or two while it's on its way to change the Star Trek universe.

 

So wait is Supershadow dead? When did this happen?

 

I disagree. I don't think you can conclude that because one group didn't do it well, another also wouldn't. That doesn't make much sense.

Alternatively, though, perhaps you could make Episode III about the formation of the Rebellion?

The idea is more to demonstrate and provide more context for how you get from the declaration of the Empire to the events in ANH. That's all.

 

I wish the movies had completely nonsensical episode titles, since it's never a direct continuation but more of a "you missed ten episodes" deal. But nobody would understand why the movies were Episodes 3, 7, 13, 17, 22 and 24, so yeah.

The important thing here is to get from Luke being born/Vader ending up on the dark side to a point where Luke - "The Hero" - is actually doing something interesting. Seeing how the Empire built new star destroyers, finished the Death Star and created new trooper armour is just about anything the Empire did which we need to know in order for Luke to do his rebellious youth "kill the father" thing. TFU showing Vader being involved in the rebellion's origins is just about the most interesting story you can get out of the era of "nothing changing", but it's not a step in a hero's journey. Well, it might have been if the OT had also been about Vader's story, detailing his redemption instead of making it partial to Luke's story arc, and truly making the SW saga the saga of Anakin Skywalker (while it is actually the saga of the Skywalker family).

 

Seconded. All you see is the Narada emerging from the red matter black hole and you can hear Nero yelling "SPPOCCCKKKKKKK!!!" from literally outside the vacuum of space which happens at the exact moment Han and Leia are about to be married thereby ruining the ceremony and altering the course of history.

 

So that's how Jedi Prince 7 would have started.

 

Interesting Video

http://starwars.com/news/announcing-an-exciting-new-array-of-star-wars-childrens-books.html

 

I would hardly call that "interesting". It seems that they are implying that the prequels aren't a good enough introduction to Star Wars and that there is a need to introduce kids to the OT through books (as if the movies couldn't do a better job) with concept art based on early scripts (as good as they are, of course).

 

I'm just having a hard time with this idea that, because stories were done poorly once, it proves that every single idea could not work.

 

No, but it's probably confirmation that Del Rey's SW contract is all gone.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have the "new EU"'s Thrawn Trilogy.

 

Hopefully it's by a competent author(s). (or are they YA?)

 

1. I don't see how these four books are "new EU". These four books are picture book adaptations. EU means that the material in question has information that's not in the movies.

2. Before the sale to Disney, Scholastic, not Del Rey, published the "children's books". These four books mean that scholastic's contract has expired, not del rey's.

 

"Kids books" implies YA to me, so we might get that Jedi Prince #7 after all.

 

I can't be seen in public reading YA. What would people think?

 

They'd think that you're a Star Wars fan.

 

Pleased that you were reading Harry Potter and not any of that Star Wars Expanded Universe trash?

 

That was the old EU. The Story Group will ensure that "information that's not in the movies" won't be problem in the new EU.

No, it's a big freaking sign that Disney is going full-tilt "in-house" with All Things Star Wars, if the CWAS and DHC endings weren't obvious enough. Del Rey's days are numbered. Thankfully, Disney doesn't own an RPG company or FFG would be sunk too.

 

Wow, everyone's freaking out 'cause of children's books. Didn't see that one coming.

 

The idea that Disney would move Star Wars novels to under it's own umbrella as opposed to licensing it out to another publishing company is actually really, really, really likely considering they literally just did the exact same thing with putting Star Wars comics under Marvel, which they also own. I'm fine with Del Rey losing the novel license if it happens, they broke my EU fandom heart by publishing Vector Prime anyway.

 

Disney only has a YA publishing company. I HOPE THEY DESTROY THE NON-YA LITERARY EU BECAUSE TROY DENNING

 

I like Del Rey's prequel-era novels, but that's it.