Marvel 'Star Wars' Writer Reveals Strange Rule In Writing Due To 'The Last Jedi' Storyline
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Before Lucasfilm became part of Disney, Star Wars canon had several layers of continuity with the films and TV shows always superseding the events of books and comics, should there be a contradiction. This offered authors a lot of creative freedom to forge their own stories and adventures, and Lucasfilm rarely stepped in to mark things as "off limits". One of these few instances was that Timothy Zahn was not allowed to dig deep into the then-mysterious Clone Wars when writing his Thrawn Trilogy in the early 90s, as this would likely interfere with Lucas's plans for the Prequel Trilogy.
With the end of the Expanded Universe and a single, uniform continuity under the Disney banner, Lucasfilm is seemingly steering a tighter ship when it comes to letting its authors add bits and pieces to their stories.
At the recent Fan Expo Canada, Jason Aaron, one of the writers who helped relaunch Marvel's main Star Wars comic book line in 2015, talked about a rather strange objection from Lucasfilm when he was developing the storylines that took place between the events of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back:
"I was told at one point, ‘Oh, Luke Skywalker can’t go fishing, because he catches a fish at one point in [The Last Jedi]."
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To which the author responded: "Is that the only time he’s ever going to go fishing? How’d he learn how to fish?"
This shows that while technically all Star Wars media share the same level of continuity, George Orwell's famous quote from Animal Farm ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others") still applies to Star Wars storytelling:
"Doing the comics, we were very much the low men on the totem pole. And it was ‘Well, you can’t do this, because they’re doing something in a movie that’s similar'. It’s frustrating stuff like that at times", recalls Aaron.
While it took until issue 33 of the 2015 Star Wars comic line for Luke Skywalker to finally do some fishing, it is clear that he had perfected this skill by the events of The Last Jedi.
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