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Q&A's About 'Star Wars': Prior to Disney declaring the Star Wars Expanded Universe non-canon, was 'The Force Unleashed 2' considered canon?

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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...