Star Wars makes major canon change you probably missed

Star Wars is a complex series spanning multiple galaxies, and a dazzling long timeline and there’s almost always something new being added to the canon.

There’s a lot to unpack but that’s great news for creators as it means hardly anything is off-limits in terms of storytelling, except Yoda, don’t give us a Yoda origin story.

You might be wondering how Disney manages all of this story and lore though, as the Star Wars universe is a hell of a lot bigger than it was when George Lucas handed the keys to Mickey Mouse.

According to Tony Gilroy, the showrunner behind the critically-acclaimed Andor series, Disney has a system in balance for balancing continuities and keeping everything coherent.

Speaking in a recent interview, Gilroy said “Lucasfilm is the Vatican and there’s like a Curia. There are, I don’t know all the levels, there’s eight to ten levels of canonical material, all the way down to obscure fan-fiction. And there’s a guy, there’s Pablo Hidalgo who’s the guy who has been there, the librarian of this thing for a very long time.”

Apparently this is how the lore of the series was organised back when the original trilogy was made, but no other showrunner has brought it up since the system was put in place.

It’s a great bit of insight into how the films, shows, comics, games etc are planned, with presumably certain tiers locked off unless it’s a major project like a new trilogy.

What’s of greater interest though is there’s probably some Extended Universe stuff hidden away in there, stuff that was featured in some of the comics that was later said to be non-canon.

It could mean we’ll see some of it brought back out and adapted into canon developments, a bit like the kyber crystal bleeding we saw in The Acolyte for example.