That all started long before George Lucas had ever announced anything approaching the prequels. If you haven’t read those books, I’d recommend you go back, and you read them. So when the expanded Universe came along with the Thrawn trilogy, that was our Star Wars sequel.Īnd it is still an amazing story. Grand Admiral Thrawn in Ashoka (CC: Lucasfilm)īut if you were around during the very early nineties, like a lot of us, you’ll probably remember that we did not think that there were ever going to be more Star Wars movies after Return of the Jedi. All this expanded universe stuff, we’re going to skip over and do completely new stuff”. Because when Disney bought Star Wars, they just turned everything into legends and said, “No, no, that’s not canon anymore. In that original Thrawn trilogy, The Heir to the Empire trilogy, basically. Like Star Wars “Heir to the Empire”.ĭave Filoni is explaining that they’re mining a lot of the expanded universe that they set up in the nineties. So my bet and early theory are that they’ll call that Thrawn movie “Heir to the Empire”. They referenced “Heir to the Empire”, the original Thrawn trilogy, during the Ahsoka trailer. The first big movie that they announced, and it’s a really big deal, is Dave Filoni directing the Mandalorian Thrawn movie that will tie together all the overarching heir to the Empire Grand Admiral Thrawn plots during this part of the Mando verse timeline. Star Wars Thrawn Movie Will Be Called “Heir To The Empire” What Happened In The Dawn Of The Jedi Timeline?.

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