Disney seeking COHESIVE ‘STAR WARS’ CANON. EU friends, freak out.

One of the big questions that arose from Disney continuing the Star Wars cinematic universe was, “Jesus Christ, what is going to become of Star Wars canon?” It sounds like Disney is wondering this same thing. Taking steps to address it going forward. But not yet having the answers.

The Expanded Universe as we knew it will soon be no more. Disney has created a special committee whose job it will be to figure out what is and isn’t part of a complete Star Warscanon — meaning all the EU material created over the years will be judged, and either become official or deemed invalid.

Furthermore, this means at some point all new Star Wars spin-offs will matter, because they will all be official. I don’t know how I feel about that.

The Story Group, as its called, includes Leland Chee, who has been Lucasfilm’s “Keeper of the Holocron,” the in-house database of everything Star Wars. According to The Hollywood Reporter:

We obviously don’t know what will be kept and what will be lost, but now we know that instead of separating the official Star Wars universe from the Expanded Universe, we’re going to get one consistent (hopefully) universe, where every story told is official, whether it be a movie, a comic, a book, or a videogame. I would guess that Disney would cherry pick a few things from the material that’s come before — probably big stuff like the Clone Wars cartoon, maybe some of the Knights of the Old Republic material — but I can’t imagine them burdening themselves down with too much old material, as most of it would merely inhibit the new stories they want to tell (and products they want to sell). I also can’t imagine they’d really want any of the Star Wars books set after the movies, as those will almost certainly get in their way of their sequels.

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I really like that they’re keeping the Guardian of the Lord involved in the matter. I know assuredly they’re going to have cut some corners, amend some EU. That’s going to hurt, I’ll admit it. However, at least they’re (Disney) taking this open themselves.

Question: You get to keep one piece of Expanded Universe. What is it? For me, it’s a toss-up between KOTOR and The Hand of Thrawn.