Last Skywalker
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*Laughs* How in the hell is Mara Jade a "selling point" for anyone other than the hardcore? Nobody general-audience-wise knows who she is.
Few outside the hardcore knew who Dr. Strange was either.
How about the Guardians of the Galaxy? Particularly Rocket Raccoon? The idea of bringing a freaking talking Raccoon to the screen was ridiculous in 2013. Now its old hat. Its what they do.
If you can't take your core IP and turn it into a sellable product, particularly when that IP is STAR WARS, you don't belong in Hollywood. Its what they do.
If they aren't going to use stuff from the EU, what was the point of punting it from the canon? The art of taking material from funny books or books and formatting new movies and TV out of it, is not a hard one. The best part is, you have provenance against copyright claims.
Spider-man: Far From Home is rumored to use some funnybook villain named Mysterio? Who is that? I haven't the first clue. I'm sure they'll make it work.
But you go making stuff up and a) the audience won't recognize it, and b) you tend to open yourself to frivolous lawsuits from people who claim you stole their scripts... even if you didn't.
Why worry about that when you have quite a few characters you can draw on over 40 years from the deprecated canon? Seriously... i'm not sure if you guys actually want Star Wars. Look at the reaction when it was announced Thrawn was getting used. It wasn't... OMG FANSERVICE OMG?!. It was... TAKE MY MONEY.
You seem to be caught up in this idea(same as Kennedy), that you can just peel out some new story or character like you're a sensitive arteest and boom.. its salesworthy because it has the words STAR WARS on it. Doesn't work that way. It didn't work that way years ago either as they threw a lot of stuff at the wall, and some of it.. like MARA JADE.. stuck.
So make something good and take our money already. Or don't and go broke trying to miracle up some masterpiece... I really don't care.