Disney does not care and did not expect this to be hugely successful. This is obvious by the almost total lack of advertising compared to the other films.
I'm a lifelong Star Wars fan but I've always defended this decision. It was a completely understandable and rational thing for them to do. They couldn't have the creative freedom of the new film writers being restricted by the EU. Anyone who is still mad about this is not being reasonable.
@locke90 U mad bro? But like i said to another user the retcon had to happen for them to make more films. I'd rather them do what they did and have more films than not make more just to keep the EU intact. A lot of the old EU was garbage anyway.
@MJ12-Conspiracy I bet you haven't even read it. Anyway the retcon was completely necessary in order to make more films. You cant have writers creative freedom restricted to fit in with the old cannon, they would be awful and nearly impossible to make.
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