Just stating the way things are; heck, LucasFilm acknowledged the tie-ins far less under Lucas then the ever did under Disney; Both Rogue One and Rise of Skywalker reference events from the cartoons in some form and Solo is a treasure trove of old EU/Legends Easter eggs.
Just like how George Lucas ignored the years of materials when making the prequels (and later the Clone Wars cartoon). I really don't get why anyone's surprised that the current filmmakers have a similar approach.
I read most of the EU at one time or another; believe you me that deciding to follow Lucas's example and not be bound by them was one of the smartest decisions made by LucasFilm when restarting the film series.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
To adapt the EU would be pretty tricky considering a lot of the novels/comics take place when the main characters are still relatively young.
I think the timeline of the sequel trilogy roughly corresponds with the Swarm War trilogy, which basically had the main characters fight with or against all the insect aliens of Star Wars. It was sort of an epilogue to the NJO and set up The Legacy of the Force novels. Saga-wise it was mostly relevant for being the series where Luke and Leia discovered the full truth via R2-D2's recordings about their father's downfall (As "Revenge of the Sith" had just come out), including the identity of their mother (Luke previously had followed a false lead in the "Black Fleet crisis" trilogy).
Don't think it would've worked as a movie series though.
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Yeah and it would take a lot of exposition to have people catch up I think-even an opening crawl would probably not cover it up. "Luke has rebuilt the Jedi, Han and Leia had kids but two of them are dead, Peace with the Empire more or less, their daughter got married to Wedge's nephew, but then we got invaded by pain-loving technology-hating aliens etc....."
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One of the funniest and most ironic remarks I heard was from a friend of mine when we were playing the Star Wars roleplaying game and I mentioned that the way the Dark Side of the Force works in the game seems highly inconsistent from how it works in the movies. He blurted, "Yeah, Lucas really f****d things up with those lousy prequels". In his mind, it was the fault of the creator of the whole setting because his vision deviated from something made up for a game. Of course, in the current movies, we can't fall back on the creator of the stories being able to do what he wants.
Power with Girl is better.
When even the creator of Star Wars admits he was not read any of the other stuff and more or less rates it as equivalent to fan fiction (not canon), I feel a little better when people go into endless speeches about the EU stuff and I know nothing about it except what I hear because, to me, look, if it happened in the movies, it's canon. If it didn't, it's not- unless Lucas were to specifically say it is canon but, even then, we'd be talking about something a fraction of a percent of people know about compared to the movies. It's like people pointing out how Scotty or Uhura were never the main character in the original Star Trek compared to supporting characters in the Next Generation only to have someone inevitably say, "Well, in this Star Trek novel..." Bzzzz. All sources are not equal.
If we were talking about something that started as books like the Sherlock Holmes stories, then it would be the opposite. Do anything you want in a movie but the Doyle stories are what is canon.
From other interviews, he may have had 7, 8 and 9 mapped out but had no intention of making them largely because of the flack he got from the prequels.
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Power with Girl is better.