A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Could Mara Jade Skywalker be incorporated into a canon Star Wars TV series or a movie? Yes, but it probably would not be done in a way that fans of the old Expanded Universe would like. As originally written in the 1990s and early 2000s, the iconic Emperor’s Hand who becomes an ally (and more) to Luke Skywalker would not be a good fit for the current canon. Why? For starters, the ship for making Mara Jade, aka Mara Jade Skywalker, into a canon character (i.e., a major supporting character in an official Lucasfilm Ltd. production) sailed a long time ago in a production company that operates in a land not very far away (California). Mara Jade is a character whose most important story arc occurs in the 1991–93  Thrawn Trilogy  ( Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising,  and  The Last Command ). She was created by Timothy Zahn, a Hugo Award-winning author whose  Star Wars  novels stand out like diamonds in a sea of zirconias in the muddled mess that i...

™ Lucasfilm Ltd. On Quora, Jason Lowman asks: Is there such a thing as Grey Jedi? Grey Jedi exist only in the minds of  Star Wars  fans who are enthralled with the idea that a Jedi Knight can use both the dark and light side of the Force without suffering the fate of Darth Vader or Assajj Ventress. Other Quora members, such as Mike Prinke and Eric Lowe, have written extensively on the topic of the  non-existence  of Grey Jedi. They’ve pointed out the same facts about the “Grey Jedi” mythos, which are: There’s no mention of “Grey Jedi” anywhere in the official  Star Wars  canon, especially in the material that most counts: the eight (soon to be nine) Skywalker Saga films, the three existing Lucasfilm Animation TV series, or any of the canonical novels, comic books, or post-2014 Lucasfilm-licensed video games None of the maverick Jedi characters seen or mentioned in the aforementioned canon are Grey Jedi. Not Qui-Gon Jinn. Not Ahso...

What do some Star Wars fans have against Gray Jedi? Grey Jedi do not exist in the  Star Wars  canon. They did not exist in the canon prior to 2012, the year that George Lucas decided to retire and sell his company, Lucasfilm Ltd., and all of its intellectual properties to The Walt Disney Company. They also do not exist in the  Star Wars  canon in the post-Lucas era. There are Force-wielders like Ahsoka Tano and Maul, former members of the Jedi and Sith Orders, respectively. There are also the fugitive Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan Ezra Bridger, plus the Bendu. And, of course, there are non-Sith Dark Siders such as Kylo Ren, the Inquisitors (which, I believe, were invented for the old Expanded Universe but made canonical by  Star Wars Rebels ), and Supreme Leader Snoke. But there are no Grey Jedi. Grey Jedi are figments of the imagination created by some  Star Wars  fans who write fan-fiction. It’s a hamfisted attempt to create her...

On Quora, Daniel Brown asks: Is  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  canon? Unlike its 2003–2005 2D animated precursor,  Star Wars: Clone Wars,  the 2008–2013 3D computer animated series  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  is included in the overall canon. Lucasfilm Ltd., the parent of Lucasfilm Animation, has stated since 2014 that the series created and executive produced by George Lucas is a key element of the  Star Wars  canon, which currently looks like this: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars: The Clone Wars Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Solo: A Star Wars Story Star Wars Rebels Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Star Wars: The Mandalorian Star Wars: Resistance Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last ...

© 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...

Prior to Disney declaring the Star Wars Expanded Universe non-canon, was 'The Force Unleashed 2' considered canon? No. Before George Lucas decided to sell Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012, the company had already stated that G-canon (that is, the Gospel of  Star Wars  according to George) only consisted of: The six  Star Wars  motion pictures that existed at the time. (There was no plan to make the Sequels until the deal with Disney was made.) The  Star Wars: The Clone Wars  movie (2008) and the TV series that was then in its fifth season. The novelizations and comic book adaptations of the films. The  Star Wars Radio Dramas  were where canonicity got tricky. Long ago, the radio series based on the original  Star Wars  Trilogy was considered canon. But sometime before 2012, Lucasfilm decreed that only the material  directly  derived from the film scripts was co-equal in canon with the films. Conseque...

If someone actually bought Star Wars from Disney, would Canon and other things change once again? Sure,  if  there was a company or individual with enough money to buy Lucasfilm Ltd. and the  Star Wars  franchise from The Walt Disney Company, and if  Bob Iger and the stockholders were willing to sell either the franchise or Lucasfilm. Whoever owned the  Star Wars  brand would then decide: What “canonicity” means under the new regime What new content would be created, in what format, and which venue (theaters, television, or Internet) Whether or not to re-release existing movies in their current form, or (in the case of the Original Trilogy) their original (as released) editions Which video game companies would get licenses to create new games Whether or not licensed printed media original works (novels, comics, anthologies) are canonical After all, that’s what ownership entails. If The Walt Di...