Darth Krawlie Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 I've never been able to understand why any of these filmmakers would give a rats ass about any EU story at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Here's how I see the hierarchy of "who cares about EU stuff", from least to most: Filmmakers > Video game creators > Book and comic writers > Dave Filoni Basically, I don't think Gary Whitta knew anything about Jan Ors or Dark Forces or any of the other millions of stories about stealing the Death Star plans when he wrote the script. At least, he might have had a summary from the story group. (drink, Seth) Abrams and Kasdan probably had never heard the name Jacen Solo when they wrote The Force Awakens. On the other hand, Dave Filoni knows stuff about the EU and has been trolling fans about it for years. However, he only knows the most well-known stories and isn't afraid to put his own spin in things when writing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I've never been able to understand why any of these filmmakers would give a rats ass about any EU story at all.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I'm not wrapped up in expecting the movies to know any thing about the EU, especially story-wise, but I am glad that Clone Wars and Rebels have grandfathered in a lot of names of planets, companies, species, and those sorts of things. Of course, many of those pre-date the EU, really, from what I know of the old roleplaying game pre-Zahn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Yeah, Rebels has brought in a ton of stuff from West End Games, which is really cool. The big rumor is that they're bringing in Thrawn next year. We will see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest El Chalupacabra Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I'd bet that the producers and writers didn't read any EU stories. Is there any plot in existence that can't be seen as a re-imagining of another story? R1 may be Dark Forces, but it's more likely to be The Dirty Dozen - In Space! In my first post I said I think it is both. At most they hit up a Wikipedia page.At most they hit up a Wikipedia page.Well honestly besides video games, thrawn trilogy, a few darkhorse gn, and jedi cool's threads, what I know of the vast majority of the EU comes from wiki's. I am no uber fan of most EU books, but based on the preview, I see a lot of parallels with dark forces,. Too many to be a coincidence. Maybe the writers didn't read EU, but its not just one guy deciding the story. I think Disney probably has poeple sort of like their own Michael and Denise okuda (star trek historians)who help writer's with stR wrs lore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 That's the story group mara likes to mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I imagine their input receives about as much weight as those 17 page foreign policy memos Nixon used to randomly send to the Presidents who came after him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I need to write a post describing what the story group actually does, but nobody will read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I would, all jokes aside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I wouldn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Hidalgo Group: A Star Wars Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Bringing this back around to Rogue One: I really hate the "A Star Wars Story" subtitle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 "A Star Wars Adventure" would be nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 #HollywoodThinksWeAreMorons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 #HollywoodThinksWeAreMoronsThey're not wrong. I mean, you're not a moron, but there are many, many, many of them out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 #HollywoodThinksWeAreMoronsThey're not wrong. I mean, you're not a moron, but there are many, many, many of them out there.Truth. There are a lot of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Bringing this back around to Rogue One: I really hate the "A Star Wars Story" subtitle. Trying to keep the thread on topic? You really are a rogue one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I think the subtitle shouldn't be "Anthology" or "Star Wars Story", it should totally be "Star Wars The Real Expanded Universe: Rogue One" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 If that's Snoke in the bacta tank as some nerds have been squeesisting, I'm slightly less disinterested in this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 It's not. I can't say who said so or Tank will have to take another drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceheart Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Why would you deny Tank a chance to get likkered up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 That's true. PABLO OF THE STORY GROUP SAID ITTHERE DRINK TWICE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Did he say this publicly? If so, that seems really, incredibly stupid to me. Why bother squashing conjecture? Just let people wonder and let the story happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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