Lucasfilm confirms all future Star Wars content to be canon, including the games

Does that also include the Vodafone adverts featuring Yoda?

Kotor 1 and 2 as well as Jedi outcast and Jedi academy.

Makes no sense how TOR is even remotely close to the EU. That stories from 3000 years before the battle of Yavin could affect the new movies is preposterous. And if they do, you should want to include them. KotOR was a better story than any of the prequels could ever dream to be.

And are we seriously taking TCW as canon? That show is so ridiculous. What happened to that amazing cartoon Clone Wars that came before this baby show? That was some quality right there. And no weird words like Moraband. Seriously, is that some music group? Korriban just sounds better. And not just because of nostalgia goggles, the hard K sound makes it sound rougher. Ugh, it's things like this that make me happy George can't touch Star Wars anymore.

I hate Meatbags

HK47 was great. bring him back.

Please finish revans story and have him discover the sith. Kotor 3 revans story

I have never before heard the word canon used in this context.

The only future Star Wars game that we need is a sequel to this amazing franchise.

Canon? That means we can expect another X-Wing game, isn't it? (dream on...)

So also probably this is going to **** up my beloved Star Wars: Jedi Knight series

"Star Wars Episodes VII - IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe"

That is just what I was afraid of. Now I am crying. What are you doing, stop that blasphemy, pleaaaaseee

So what does it mean for existing "non official canon stuff" that is yet considered unofficial canon (I mean - all the stuff that's out there on Wookiepeida)

This scares me a bit b-cause it sounds like "we now can screw up all the canons that are not the movies & the clone wars"

For example with these new rules they can make a canon that says Darth Revan was a dark side female, or, hell, say that he didn't ever exist, and at that time a totally different events took place... Hope they won't.

I think that b-cause Star Wars got so much love from the fans and community, any company shouldn't be considered Star Wars franchise owner - instead it should be the legacy of the community...

If they 're going to make Star Wars as crappy as Bioware did Mass Effect 3, they 'd better let it rest in peace.Although I know Electronic Arts did not develop Mass Effect 3, just published it, they 'd better be careful with what they publish.

Will the force unleashed games be considered canon?

that's weird, part of the fun of stuff like games is going through the 'what if...' scenarios

I've been thinking and this worries me a bit. If going forward all new games are going to be canonical and they don't consider existing games like KOTOR cannon, then what are the chances of them making a sequel to such a game whos events in their eyes didn't happen?

So, how about Starkiller?

Ok so you've decided to include the Old Republic and the idiotic Clone Wars series so answer me one question... Is the Sith homeworld called Korriban or Moriband?!?! =,=

So lets just discount the Timothy Zahn books and the countless other really great novels. The first Zahn series was so good that it should be made into movies. I just don't like that Disney is just discounting the hard work of some great writers. I just hope they don't screw up these films like they did with the Star Trek series.

Yeeeey...

I'm actually happy for this. What I'd really appreciate is if they tried to tie some of the old stuff into the new and make everything work. It's probably too much to ask...but we'll see what happens.

Sounds like a big ol' can of worms that will be hard to keep track of... I'm just glad I won't be doing any of their story writting!

I have faith in Disney. they have had a really solid 8 years now, and they show no signs of letting up. They have taken risks, and let creative talent run the show for the most part and it is paying off. While a few stumbles here and there, Tron and John Carter (I actually really liked both movies).

My BIGGEST worry is J.J. Abrams. After he fucked up Star Trek: into Darkness with his lack of knowledge and letting Orci and Kurtzmann run wild with that bullshit script, I have zero faith he can craft a Star Wars movie I can enjoy. And I am a guy who liked the prequels so I am easily entertained.

This canon thing is a good idea. But I get the god awful feeling Abrams is going to try and give us "fanservice" by throwing in popular "reimagined" Expanded Universe characters.

The more I read stories like this, the more I lose confidence in Eps 7, 8, and 9.

Well its working for the Marvel movie/tv verse so why not for Star Wars too.

I would do one of two things if I were Disney:

1.) Make a well publicized announcement that Episodes 1, 2 and 3 are expanded Universe failures and not in any way, shape or form are they going to maintain continuity with any part of them but only use the original trilogy as a root source to be respectfully meshed into a good fit. Furthermore I would plan to follow the sequels with an all new prequel attempt, acknowledging the original trilogy as sacred, and the prequel trilogy ignored all around except for an occasional reminder of how awful it was and how trashing it is 100% the way it's gonna be.

2.) Acknowledge that Star Wars is now a dying franchise and offer it in trade to Fox for X-Men, Fantastic Four and assisted help in prying Spider-Man from Sony's control. It would make the Marvel Universe near completely restored and accessible to cross-over pursuit. Only step one above me with it's eradication of George Lucas's prequel poisons and all the dumb ideas and concepts it brought could SW be anything remotely as interesting as a fully functioning Marvel roster.

Who gives a s***. If the UE has produced the best stories so be it.

We all know that Lucas' attempt at making 3 new epic movies failed. If he or anyone else desperately wants to cling to the 6 movies and from now on forward being canon, it will enevitably mean that the canonical material will be worse than before. Since we are now subtracting a fair number of good entries way above the quality of episodes 1-3.

To me. Only episode 4-6 is canon anyway.

That's kind of wasteful, but whatever.

So Expanded Universe technically means...."take any regular mundane story and tag (Star Wars) on it and sell it for more money"?

So is Indiana Jones still considered canon...or you just gonna sh*t all over that too??