Talking About 'Star Wars': Why doesn't Disney consider 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic' canon?
© 2003 BioWare and LucasArts Someone on Quora asks: Why doesn't Disney consider 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic' canon? Lucasfilm (not its parent, The Walt Disney Company) did not make Bioware/LucasArts’ 2003 video game Knights of the Old Republic or any of its sequels canon for the same reason the company never made X-Wing, TIE Fighter, or Star Wars: The Arcade Game canon: as far as canon is concerned, the movies and directly-derived materials (novelizations, comic book adaptations, and for a long time, the Radio Dramas) were the only materials accepted by franchise creator George Lucas as the “official story.” Period. This was true in 2005, when it seemed as though no more Star Wars films would ever be made, although Lucas later amended his position on canon to include Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a television series he created and assigned Catherine Winder and Dave Filoni to develop for Time-Warner owned Car...