EU in Star Wars VII?

[Perotis]

I know that the EU is officially non-cannon, but do you think they might have borrowed some of the more popular elements to use in the movie? I would love to see Talon Karrde or Admiral Thrawn.

 

[modelcitizen]

extremely unlikely.
i'd hazard an educated guess the chances of seeing an admiral thrawn in the movie is less than .01%....
sorry

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

There may be nods to the EU as far as locations, vehicles, etc., but no major characters. Thrawn was too high profile to put in a movie. If they want to reboot him, it would have to be in a book, comic, or game. He was in the TIE Fighter game, so it's possible they could wipe all post ROTJ stuff and start over.

 

[NormanF]

I saw the title of the thread and thought, "Why would the European Union be in a Star Wars movie?"

 

[cboath]

Don't see it happening, opens up too big a box of worms.

Why is this guy in and this one isn't?
I thought they tossed the EU out? If he's here, then the rest must be too, etc....

It'd just make it way too confusing.

 

[ecl]

Yea the EU is fine in books and other mediums. I'd much rather they started from scratch.

 

[Jeyl]

I'd much rather they started from scratch.

Than shouldn't this movie be Episode One?

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I saw the title of the thread and thought, "Why would the European Union be in a Star Wars movie?"

Didn't you see that pic in the funny picture thread showing the Metric system and Imperial system?

 

[Buzz]

Would be neat but unlikely...metric system...I mean expanded uni

 

[mistymills]

Didn't they already say that they weren't touching any of the EU stuff in 7?

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Well it's wishy washy. Absolutely none of the post ROTJ stories are canon now. They did say everything else (tech, characters, locations, etc.) is available for use in the future. I assumed that meant for everything SW, but it could have just meant the new EU. Now whether they use any of that stuff is anyone's guess.

 

[Solo4114]

I think the point was there is no "new EU" unless you mean "stuff that isn't the films." There's no longer a distinction between EU and the films for canon purposes, though. If they put it out, it's supposed to be official and binding on all future projects.

 

[BDK]

Concepts might show up, species even characters as one off mentions. I doubt anything from EU though would have a large role. You could have a Chiss for Thrawn walking around. Or a one off line like they did for Vos in EPIII.