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Post by boot on Aug 7, 2018 18:44:38 GMT -6
Star Wars news:
Disney is gearing up for its steaming service. They're going to have a 10-part show, live action, and they're spending $10 Million an episode on this sucker. $100 Million for the series.
But the theatrically released films may not be on the site! At least not at first. A couple of years ago, Disney sold the rights to show the films to TNT for a quarter billion bucks. They're negotiating again.
And, in comics, the old Dark Horse series, Rogue Squadron (also a series of books) becomes canon, and the name of the squadron is officially linked to the movie, Rogue One.
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Post by finarvyn on Aug 7, 2018 20:17:02 GMT -6
Star Wars news:
And, in comics, the old Dark Horse series, Rogue Squadron (also a series of books) becomes canon, and the name of the squadron is officially linked to the movie, Rogue One. Wait … so some of the old EU that was made unofficial has become official again?  Or is this just new stuff? |
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Post by Yora on Aug 8, 2018 6:41:33 GMT -6
Well, Thrawn is used while Heir to the Empire is made impossible. No reason to not have Rogue Squadron and the characters without using any of the events.
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Post by boot on Aug 8, 2018 8:08:59 GMT -6
Star Wars news:
And, in comics, the old Dark Horse series, Rogue Squadron (also a series of books) becomes canon, and the name of the squadron is officially linked to the movie, Rogue One. Wait … so some of the old EU that was made unofficial has become official again? Or is this just new stuff? I haven't read the comic yet. Like Thrawn, I think that the squadron is becoming canon, but their Dark Horse adventures are not canon. Something like that. |
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Post by Falconer on Aug 8, 2018 9:14:47 GMT -6
Seems like a no-brainer.
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Post by Starbeard on Aug 8, 2018 22:32:39 GMT -6
Yeah, why recanonize some comics you've already been selling in anthologies when you can make new comics that nobody has yet?
Considering the timing of the news with the streaming service, I wonder if they're intending to make Rogue Squadron into a Rebels-style TV show.
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Post by Falconer on Aug 9, 2018 13:40:23 GMT -6
Or a live-action TV show!
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Post by Starbeard on Aug 9, 2018 14:01:42 GMT -6
If that's what they're planning to spend $10 million an episode on, then they could certainly pull it off!
Edit: If so, my guess is it will be tied to the Rebellion era squadron rather than during the New Republic era of the books & comics (is that even a thing anymore?). Maybe even an origin story. However, if they went that route then I imagine they'd have to write Luke's role out of it.
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Post by Falconer on Aug 9, 2018 14:06:24 GMT -6
Star Wars is like the comic book franchises, in a way. The further away you get from the original premise of a thing, the more you alienate all but your most hardcore audience. So, to a large degree I think reboots and reimaginings and remixes were inevitable. The OT will always be at the heart of Star Wars. I just think WEG and Bantam did the best job of a OT-derived expansion. (The original Marvel comics did the best job of a SW77 expansion… until ESB topped them.)
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Post by finarvyn on Aug 10, 2018 7:21:17 GMT -6
The further away you get from the original premise of a thing, the more you alienate all but your most hardcore audience. Falconer is wise. I'd say that Rogue Squadron is a great example of this for me, in that I knew it was out there and had some friends who read it but it was far enough on the fringes of Star Wars that I never got around to reading the books myself. I prefer to stick to the OT and the main characters therein, and the farther we go from there the less "Star Wars-ey" it feels to me. |
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Post by boot on Aug 10, 2018 9:34:12 GMT -6
The further away you get from the original premise of a thing, the more you alienate all but your most hardcore audience. Falconer is wise. I'd say that Rogue Squadron is a great example of this for me, in that I knew it was out there and had some friends who read it but it was far enough on the fringes of Star Wars that I never got around to reading the books myself. I prefer to stick to the OT and the main characters therein, and the farther we go from there the less "Star Wars-ey" it feels to me. Same here, at the time. I started reading the first novel, though, and Rogue Squadron is pretty good. I did not like the comic. |
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Post by Falconer on Aug 10, 2018 10:03:31 GMT -6
I love the X-Wing books, and while they are on the “fringe” of the Luke-Han-Leia stories, they get into a side of the OT that I really love—the starfighter battles. For me, the books really start getting good with the 4th one, and the 5th book (Aaron Allston’s Wraith Squadron) is GREAT and super RPGey.
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