{"id":40477,"date":"2014-01-07T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/a-unified-star-wars-universe.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:42:34","slug":"a-unified-star-wars-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/a-unified-star-wars-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"A Unified Star Wars Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Lucasfilm folks are taking a page from Marvel (which makes sense, given the overall Disney ownership) in defining canon and a common story backdrop for the new "Star Wars" content coming out. \u00a0Which makes a lot of sense. Maybe we can get midichlorians retconned out …<\/p>\n

I have to quote +<\/span>Curt Thompson<\/a><\/span>'s comment that such a get-together\u00a0of story group folks will be like "the Council of Nicaea, but with light sabers"<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Wayne Humfleet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Woohoo! A consistent story, universe rebooting time. I trust Pablo and Leland as the caretakers of this. \ufeff<\/p>\n

h\/t +<\/span>Christopher Helton<\/a><\/span>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Lucasfilm Have Convened A Star Wars Story Group And They’re Working On Defining A Single, Coherent Canon – Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors<\/a>
\n George Lucas said that the Star Wars universe exists, essentially, in two versions. There’s his one, and then there’s the one everybody else can play with. I\n <\/p>\n

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The Lucasfilm folks are taking a page from Marvel (which makes sense, given the overall Disney ownership) in defining canon and a common story backdrop for the new "Star Wars" content coming out. \u00a0Which makes a lot of sense. Maybe we can get midichlorians retconned out … I have to quote +Curt Thompson's comment that … Continue reading “A Unified Star Wars Universe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/the-new-extended-star-wars-universe.html","url_meta":{"origin":40477,"position":0},"title":"The New Extended Star Wars Universe","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jun-16 6:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lucasfilm \/ Disney are doing some clever things to tie in Star Wars material from across all the now-canonical media -- driven first, it seems, by story, but then seeing what already existing elements will fit into that.That's pretty cool. 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