When he created Star Wars, George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination and inspired others to create. 'For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure beyond what is seen on the screen. Abrams and team would make their own story up.īut there's more appropriate information for me in the fuller explanation: 'Star Wars Episodes 7-9 will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe,' was the headline snub. In the lead-up to the new film trilogy Lucasfilm made this stance explicitly clear.

Decades of books and comics and games - including KOTOR - explored all corners of the Star Wars universe but were unified and ruled by the sacrosanct stories of the films - which paid little, if any, heed in return. It's because the Star Wars films always stood aloofly apart from the myriad Expanded Universe stories. I'll get to the link after I explain why being canonical in film terms is a big deal. If the link holds true it would seem to cement those games in Star Wars film canon. A possible link between Kylo Ren's Lightsaber in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the decade-old Knights of the Old Republic video games, has been found.