Last night I finished a reread of the original expanded universe Thrawn Trilogy. As I've mentioned before, I cancelled Disney Plus and when I'm asked if I am a Star Wars fan I specify I'm a pre-Disney fan. I heard that Disney Plus is going to do an Heir to the Empire movie (obviously bastardized) and it made me want to read that trilogy again since I hadn't read it in years. Heir to the Empire will always be special to me because I got it for my 12th birthday in 92 and I had no idea there were books that continued the story. Since then I have amassed a lot of EU books/comic books and still have many to go. My only regret is that I couldn't find the original covers so I had to buy the disney re-releases. I know there are some who say that shows Disney that there is interest in the EU but I doubt they care.
I would like your opinion on the following:
I always thought that it was a dumb move to totally get rid of the EU. I think Disney could've had their own canon while continuing the EU canon since there was a ready fan base. Another thing they could've done would've been to do animated adaptations of some of the EU stories like Old Republic, Solo Trilogy, Thrawn Trilogy, etc.
I've heard that if Disney had done that knowing what we know now about how crappy the sequels were it would've made them look very bad to have an adaptation for something like New Jedi Order showing a Luke that fans wanted or the Thrawn Trilogy showing Mara Jade and the rest of them. Maybe even Darth Bane or Revan. It would've been more money for Disney although I do remember Heart of the Jedi being taken off of Amazon after all the buzz it got (currently reading that now).
Do you think that would've made Disney look bad? Especially considering what we got.
I will say this was my first exposure to the shill media because when the EU got discontinued a lot of nerd sites I used to frequent were crapping all over the EU and saying it was a wonderful idea which confused me because those same sites used to praise it. Then after Ghostbusters 2016 came out and they were saying the original Ghostbusters was never that good, I understood what was happening.
Precisely, Luke has already been desecrated in TLJ so no need to retread that again although metaphorically I'm sure many would want to were they behind the wheel and saw Luke still twitching in the rear view mirror after being run over.
"A book would have been a great template for a show"
Sums up modern day live action adaptations however even when this is the case it still gets fucked up. Star Wars, Wheel of Time, The Witcher, Game of Thrones for the most part and definitely Dance of Dragons, even games get the same treatment like with Halo.
They all had material, good and bad, that could have been used but a combination of greed and woke ego means nobody wanted to pay any of the original creators of the expanded material and that "the message" was far more important than faithfully adapting any source material. Witcher heads have said they care more about the chance to do spinoffs than adapt the actual books for another example there and s2 was pretty much there anyway since the only episode that followed any book material was the first and coincidentally that's the only episode most actual fans liked.
Wheel of Time was never going to work simply due to the fact only 3 years occur across the 14 books. That's far too much material for even the somewhat common standard of 7 seasons many shows go for unless it's a CW show that just doesn't die.
I guess I’m being naive but I’m still shocked that the showrunner for wheel of time seems to be so clueless
"Clueless".
Once is an accident, twice is happenstance, thrice is enemy action.
Agreed. I was being kind.