Episode VII in 2015 [spoiler thread]

I'd read in the paper yesterday that Ford is demanding a clause in his contract (should he come back) ensuring that Han die in action. I'd not heard this before, so it might just be standard paper rumour reporting.
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I think he's confusing the script for episode VI.
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Why? I mean from a movie standpoint it's not really necessary. That's why SW has a scroller! a convenient plot devise to shoehorn in exposition.

I made the case against a NJO movie and no one wants to see LOTF, which you can't do without NJO. FOTJ can stand on it's own, all you have to establish is that luke reformed the Jedi, Han and Leia had a kid and the empire is defeated. You can jump right into Daala as HOS as a former Imperial, without establishing her character or anything else that came before. That works as a transition between ep. VI. Moviegoers will get that.
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NJO by Whedon could be pretty awesome, but I just don't think it works as a movie. Maybe as a TV series that waits forever after the pilot and ends mid season to return to a Thursday nine o clock time slot and cancelled. That's the ABC scifi formula.
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I'm curious as to how they'd split the series into three movies, if they did make the NJO the next trilogy (though, as has been said on here before, they're going to have original stories). First movie comprised of events up to and including Anakin's death? May be a tad too dark for the first film, though.
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Sorry for the double post, guys. Another video, part two of the Kennedy/Lucas interview is up:

http://clubjade.net/?p=44197
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Well, if that ain't strong indication that the story will be original rather than fit with the EU, I don't know what is. And insofar as Lucas stays true to his earlier claims that there is nothing besides the story of Anakin Skywalker, something beyond early Luke is much to hope for.

This is pretty much all I need to get really pessimistic about the future of the EU.
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@Caedus, Dog: It has been confirmed that Episode VII will be an original story, so while it might draw on the EU like TCW, it won't be an adaptation. I didn't mean "I wonder if Vestara, Darth Krayt etc. will be in the movie", I was wondering if the Sith in general would be in the movie. When I watch the movies, I get the impression that the Sith were destroyed for good at the end of RotJ. Of course, the terms "bringing balance to the Force" and "the Chosen One" seem to have changed in the last few years.
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