to the dismay of many fans, Disney made the bold directive to erase anything that didn't appear in the six live-action Star Wars films and Star Wars: The Clone Wars from official canon. One big factor was that Chewbacca had died in a 1999 novel.
Chee revealed to The Fandom Files, "Part of that [original decision] was Chewbacca, because he can't speak and just speaks in growls, he was a challenging character to write for in novels. Publishing had decided they needed to kill somebody, and it was Chewbacca."
The Legends comics and novels still exist and are available to purchase. They just don't exist as part of the saga's official narrative. The unaltered original films, on the other hand, are no longer considered in line with George Lucas' vision. They will seemingly never receive an official release.
The similarity between the Legends stories and original trilogy is that neither are sanctioned Lucas himself, with a variety of writers and artists interpreting the saga in whichever ways they saw fit.
"But if you have the opportunity to bring back Chewbacca into a live-action film, you're not gonna deprive fans that," Chee pointed out. "There's no way that I'd want to do an Episode VII that didn't have Chewbacca in it and have to explain that Chewbacca had a moon fall on his head. And if we were going to overturn a monumental decision like that, everything else was really just minor in comparison."
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