Eric Geller's Blog

“We don’t reboot. We don’t start from scratch,” Leland Chee, Lucasfilm’s continuity database administrator, told Wired’s Chris Baker in a 2008 profile . “When Chewbacca died, he died.” What a difference six years  ––  and $4.05 billion  ––  makes. On Friday, April 25, Lucasfilm announced that it was restarting its tie-in literature program. The Expanded Universe of books, comics, short stories, and other material was declared an alternate universe, although EU titles will continue to be sold under the “Legends” banner. As of today, only the six films and  The Clone Wars  movie and TV series are canon. The Disney animated series  Star Wars Rebels  will be canon when it premieres, as will  the four new books  that Lucasfilm announced. Let’s get this out of the way right now: I have been a big fan of the Expanded Universe for a long time. I own hundreds of books. I write for Suvudu, the science-fiction blog run by Star Wars book publisher Random House. I’ve met and i

Last Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article describing an internal dispute between Disney CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy regarding the appropriate time to release the most eagerly anticipated movie of this decade, Star Wars Episode VII.

Lucasfilm announced today that its animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not getting a sixth season. It's not completely done and over with, because Lucasfilm Animation still plans to release "bonus content" based on the episodes they produced for Season 6. As a big fan of the series, I wanted to share my thoughts about what this means for me, for fans, and for the franchise in general.

The biggest news in Star Wars since Disney bought Lucasfilm broke early Saturday morning : J. J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 Star Trek film and this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness , will direct Star Wars : Episode VII, based on a screenplay by Michael Arndt. Predictably, several people have asked me what I think of this development (including USA Today and MTV News ), so I thought I’d write a brief blog post to explain my reaction.