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Re: A Musing Or Two About That Star Wars Movie

Posted By: Grishny, on host 207.90.103.115
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 11:59:58
In Reply To: Re: A Musing Or Two About That Star Wars Movie posted by wintermute on Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 05:43:48:

> Lucas took the books out of canon when production started on The Phantom Menace. This allowed him to ignore all the books set before A New Hope and rewrite history as he saw fit. This would also apply to those books set after the films, too.

Well that sucks donkey. But I thought there weren't any novels allowed to be written about events before A New Hope. The closest I thought they were allowed to get was that one novel that took place between Empire Strikes Back and RotJ.

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