R2-D2 confirmed!

Not much but it's news.

Ep VII Script Complete

Well I'm an avid EU reader. Love the comics, most arcs and even some seasons of the CW.
I was done with SW since they killed Mara. Now I still loved that series. But for me it was too much to lose Mara and Jason.
Then I forced myself to read the Abeloth series and hated it. Very poor writing and very uninteresting plot exept for the Solo stories and the last fight on Coruscant . But to each his own.
As someone else commented I have very good memories of star wars and no one will take that away from me.
I suppose I was just waiting for the Solos and Luke to die. But Chances are Disney is now going to decide that for us. What Disney comes up with will never be canon to me. I don't give them a chance. Hey, come on its Disney...
Think about it for a moment. Anyway my family and I had a very good run with Star Wars and it will always part of our lives. But Star Wars belongs to Disneys now and they can do to it whatever they like. So be it.
In the meantime I have the SWM to extend and relieve some great stories and characters.

Cheers


(Btw loved Darth Plagueis great story, very well done)

Game Informer issue 250 has an article on the decline of LucasArts. One sentence caught my eye as it could be a clue to a title, working title or villains of the next movie.

"Other scrapped Star Wars (video game) titles included... most surprisingly, Star Wars: Episode VII - Shadows of the Sith, which was believed to be a spin-off of the upcoming motion picture now helmed by J.J. Abrams."

http://www.starwars7news.com/2014/02/rumor-star-wars-spin-off-movies-wont-be.html?m=1

All done :( Sad times

Frankly, all of the continuity needs reboot. Do New Hope but instead of Alderaan blowing up, it becomes Tatooine.

Kiss it all goodbye, folks.

Jar-Jar lives! Thrawn doesn't!

Mara will be in Rebels so that's something. I'm glad that they aren't changing the Boba Fett origin either. I think the OR is safe due to the release of TOR and it doesn't really fit into the movies anyway.

yeah

That's the problem. Lucas, and now Disney, know they can do anything, and they already have our money. Honestly, how bad would EP 7 have to be for us to not go see #8? After the debacle that was episode 1, the fact that we all still went out to episode 2 showed the industry that the film makers can do whatever they want to the franchise, and it will sell simply because of the Star Wars logo.

Seriously, if Jar Jar Binks was the grand master of the jedi temple in episode 7, people would uproar and talk about how they hate that, but they'd still watch it, still buy all the movie merchandise which made Lucas a billion dollar company in the first place, and they'd still line up at midnight the following year.

I feel like that's the world we live in. I'm a long time fan of the Hobbit, and absolutely despised Unexpected Journey, but I still went to see Desolation of Smaug (which I actually hated even more than the first film), and despite that, I already know I'll see the final Hobbit film (knowing full well I'm going to have an aneurism halfway through).

Certain franchise are just too big to fail. Bit wish the film makers would consider what they do to people when they make these changes. We've invested a lot of time into these characters. The fact that some peoples favorite star wars characters may simply not exist over night after reading potentially thousands of dollars worth of comics and novels about them... that's sort of tragic. You can say that those characters still exist, its not like they're going door to door and having a book burning, but I do think that there validation comes from in-universe canon.