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.
