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Originally Posted by bmorr

i thought SOTE was official. it was a huge marketing thing. A combined book, video game, and toyline extravaganza.

It was, but I believe Lucas later retconned it into an EU-only event. Which kind of sucks because it explained how certain things came to be in VI (like Leia getting her Boushh disguise, Luke making a new lightsaber, and other bits).

It's about as close as anyone ever got without actually making a live-action film for it.

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Originally Posted by kylactus

woh woh woh, has anyone heard anything about the plot of the new films? we don't even know how much of the EU content will be eluded to yet. and a lot of it (like SOTE) wouldn't be affected much by the new movies (because the new films are further in the future than a lot of the other content) Shadows, if I remember correctly, takes place between empire and return right? So much of the EU stuff is small side stories as apposed to the main films that follow huge wars and "galaxy altering" events that I don't know that anything they do will necessarily definitively appose any of the EU content. unless they said that the solo twins, Mara Jade, and a few others aren't in the story I don't think we should jump to any conclusions biased on one comment by Lucas.

Heir to the Empire (book I of The Thrawn Trilogy) takes place 5 years after the events depicted in ROTJ and IIRC any other subsequent stories take place after that. Depending on the time frame of the new movies, the new films could take place during that 5 year gap or outright contradict events in the EU.

You're right to say we shouldn't hit the panic button just yet. But from a writer's viewpoint, it's much easier to write a fresh new sequel than to try to shoehorn something into existing continuity.

There's also the possibility that some of the characters and events from the EU may still end up in the new trilogy, but maybe not as they were originally done in the EU.