{"id":54940,"date":"2014-01-08T17:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=54940"},"modified":"2014-01-08T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:20:19","slug":"star-wars-7-linked-to-expanded-universe-and-clone-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-wars-7-linked-to-expanded-universe-and-clone-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars 7 linked to Expanded Universe and Clone Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_54941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54941\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mara_Jade_TCG_Balance_of_the_Force.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54941\" alt=\"Mara Jade in the Star Wars: Balance of the Force cardgame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mara_Jade_TCG_Balance_of_the_Force-616x341.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"341\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mara Jade in the Star Wars: Balance of the Force cardgame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>George Lucas&#x2019;s traditional (ie conservative) multi-tiered system for what is and isn&#x2019;t canon in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/54738\/boba-fett-film-being-written-by-empires-lawrence-kasdan\/\"> <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is to be completely junked in the run up to JJ Abrams&#x2019; <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/52853\/star-wars-episode-vii-first-photo-with-r2-d2\/\">Star Wars: Episode VII<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holocronkeeper\">Twitter feed<\/a> of Leland Chee, who maintains continuity for Lucasfilm, &#x201C;<em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> canon is now determined by the Lucasfilm Story Group which [Pablo Hidalgo] and I are both a part of.<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;Story Group has a hand in all facets of <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> storytelling, including movies, TV, games, and publishing. More so than ever, the canon field will serve us internally simply for classification rather than setting hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;[Disposing of the hierarchy and having one cohesive canon is]&#xA0;definitely a primary goal of the Story Group.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Although <em><strong>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/strong><\/em> was previously distanced quite heavily from the Expanded Universe, and it still remains unlikely that it&#x2019;s inspired by any one particular spin-off property &#x2013; whether book, comic or TV show &#x2013; this could mean that some links will be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Could we be looking at appearances from fan-favourite characters like Mara Jane, Kyle Katarn, Baron Fel and Jaina Solo after all? Is Darth Maul still at large as he was at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/51154\/star-wars-the-clone-wars-season-6-ends-with-order-66\/\"><em><strong>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> Season 5?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/em>&#xA0;is due in cinemas&#xA0;<strong>18 December<\/strong>&#xA0;2015. You can&#xA0;<a title=\"Buy Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Star-Wars-Complete-Episodes-Blu-ray\/dp\/B005HNV2OS\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357580594&sr=8-1&tag=scifinowmag-21&link_code=as3&creative=9298&camp=2506\">buy&#xA0;<em>Star Wars: The Complete Saga<\/em>&#xA0;for &#xA3;57.99 on Blu-ray<\/a>&#xA0;from <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yxy6GA\" 112034  target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.co.uk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-54940-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5UfA_aKBGMc&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5UfA_aKBGMc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5UfA_aKBGMc<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars: Episode VII linked to the EU as Lucasfilm rewrite canon ahead of 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":54941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3391],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mara_Jade_TCG_Balance_of_the_Force.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}