Expanded movie universes. Marvel started it, and just about everyone else is copying them. There’s a lot of potential money in creating one big movie that has various spin-offs, with everybody from Superman to King Arthur getting in on the act now. But Paramount also wants some of that pie. Especially a pie that is more than meets the eye. …
So you may have heard: The Star Wars Expanded Universe is coming back soon. Well, not the Expanded Universe you used to know, but a new series of books that will be filling in the gap between Return of the Jedi and the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But as Lucasfilm said when they scrapped the original EU, the …
When it was made official last year that the existing Star Wars Expanded Universe was essentially being scrapped, millions of fans around the world – including me – did their best impersonation of a Special Edition Darth Vader and howled out a woeful “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”. For decades, before the EU was relegated to the non-canon Star Wars Legends banner i.e. glorified …
Over the last year I’ve written a lot about the Star Wars Expanded Universe – the collection of books, TV shows, games, comics, etc that elaborate on the story before, between and beyond the six feature films – and most of it was lamenting at the ever more clear fact that Lucasfilm would be axing the EU as non-canon and …
There’s very little we’ve been able to confirm about Star Wars: Episode VII, but two things have been sort of clear: the original trilogy leads of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) would be involved in some small, supporting way and that this new trilogy would be led by the next generation of youngsters, …
No, I did not make a mistake in that headline and you’re not reading it wrong. Remember how Disney CEO Bob Iger said that after Episode VII in 2015 that they wanted to follow up with sequels every 2-3 years? Well, it turns out that their plans are a bit more ambitious than that. Way more ambitious. Last Updated: November …
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