Ending credits from Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter, revealing members of the "Lucasfilm Story Team"
The Lucasfilm Story Group is a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. founded in 2013 that is responsible for determining all Star Wars canon.[1] As of May 2017, the group comprises of eleven individuals.[2]
History
From left to right:
Hosts of The Star Wars Show, Andi Gutierrez and Anthony Carboni, and members of the Lucasfilm Story Group, Matt Martin, Diana Williams, Steve Blank, Josh Rimes, Rayne Roberts and Leland Chee at Celebration Orlando.
The Lucasfilm Story Group began as an initiative from Kathleen Kennedy in 2012, whom Lucasfilm Vice President Kiri Hart helped form as its Development Lead, with the stated goal of abolishing the canon hierarchy system in favor of a single cohesive continuity.[1][3] Lucasfilm Story Group—including Rayne Roberts, Carrie Beck, Diana Williams, Leland Chee, Pablo Hidalgo and Matt Martin —participated in the making of Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter, a digital expansion to the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic, being mentioned in the ending credits.[4]
On April 25, 2014, the Lucasfilm Story Group rebooted the Star Wars universe by retiring much of the Expanded Universe storyline and rebranding it as "Star Wars Legends."[5] Besides Lucas' six films, the only previously produced material still considered canon are the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series and film, and the standalone comic arc Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir; which was based on unproduced scripts from The Clone Wars TV series.[6] All subsequent material produced in collaboration with the Story Group including the Disney XD television series Star Wars Rebels and all novels beginning with A New Dawn are considered part of the new canonical continuity.[7]
Story Group members Carrie Beck and Leland Chee were involved in the production of the 2016 non-canon Disney XD animated series LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures to ensure that the show did not contradict the new canon continuity.[8][9]
Author Jason Fry stated that one of the biggest misconceptions regarding the Story Group is that it is omniscient and should somehow be perfect. "Of course there are going to be inconsistencies and slips here and there."[10]
Members
- Rayne Roberts[4]
- Carrie Beck[4]
- Diana Williams[4]
- Leland Chee[4]
- Pablo Hidalgo[4]
- Matt Martin[4]
- Steve Blank[11]
- James Waugh[12]
- Josh Rimes[13]
- Stephen Feder[14]
- Cara Pardo[15]
Bibliography
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ForceCast #273: The Galaxy is Reading
- ↑ Cover Story: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the Definitive Preview, published by Vanity Fair on www.vanityfair.com (May 24, 2017) (backup link not verified!)
- ↑
Kiri Hart on Lucasfilm.com (backup link)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Chris Taylor, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, p. 409.
- ↑
Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) on Twitter (backup link (HolocronKeeper/status/420071186232385536) not verified!)
- ↑
Dave Filoni on Facebook
- ↑
The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is more intense than you think
- ↑ SWCE 2016: LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures Panel Liveblog on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ Jason Fry Keeps Talking To Us: Wired For The Classics, published by Eleven-ThirtyEight on eleven-thirtyeight.com (November 17, 2014) (backup link not verified!)
- ↑ Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 Live Stream – Day 3 | The Star Wars Show LIVE! on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars 31: The Screaming Citadel, Part II
- ↑ Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) on Twitter: "Josh Rimes. His focus is on animation." (backup link (HolocronKeeper/status/870138261129224192) not verified!)
- ↑ Stephen Feder (@stephenfeder) on Twitter
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
External links
- 'Star Wars' story group manages teeming galaxy, published by cnn.com on www.cnn.com (May 4, 2017) (backup link not verified!)
- How Star Wars authors work with Lucasfilm and earn creative control, published by syfy.com on www.syfy.com (November 3, 2017) (backup link not verified!)