Editing Star Wars (radio series) (section)

==Canonicity and continuity==
The ''Star Wars'' radio dramas were authorized adaptations of Lucas's scripts, and they were originally considered canon.{{cn|date=January 2024}} Commentators argued that while the radio dramas varied somewhat from the film scripts, they should be considered canon insofar as they did not directly contradict the films. However, in 2012, [[The Walt Disney Company]] acquired Lucasfilm and the rights to ''Star Wars''.<ref name="Brooker">{{cite book|last1=Brooker|first1=Will|title=Using the Force: Creativity, Community, and Star Wars Fans|date=2002|publisher=Continuum|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=9780826452870|pages=104–106|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80kB6JG1PVsC&dq=star%20wars%20radio%20drama%20canon&pg=PA104|access-date=26 July 2016|chapter=V. Canon}}</ref> In 1994, Lucasfilm's continuity editor,  Allan Kausch, stated that "'Gospel', or 'canon' as we refer to it, includes the screenplays, the films, the radio dramas and the novelizations."<ref name="kausch">{{cite journal|last1=Kausch|first1=Allan|title=Star Wars Publications Timeline|journal=Star Wars Insider|date=September 1994|issue=23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Eberl|first1=Jason T.|last2=Decker|first2=Kevin S.|title=The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned|date=2015|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=9781119038061|page=298|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egwlCgAAQBAJ&dq=Gospel'%2C%20or%20canon%20as%20we%20refer%20to%20it%2C%20includes%20the%20screenplays%2C%20the%20films%2C%20the%20radio%20dramas%20and%20the%20novelisations.&pg=PA298|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>  In 2014 Lucasfilm announced that previous works which were set in the [[Star Wars expanded to other media|Expanded Universe]] (including comics, novels and videogames) were to be re-branded as ''Star Wars Legends'', and only the [[Skywalker saga]] and [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)|''The Clone Wars'' film]] and [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)|television series]] were to be considered canon, in addition to new spin-off works.<ref name="newpage">{{cite web|title=The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns a New Page {{!}} StarWars.com|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page|website=StarWars.com|publisher=[[Lucasfilm]]|access-date=26 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703050831/http://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page|archive-date=3 July 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first radio drama relates the [[backstory]] which immediately precedes the narrative of the original 1977 film, and this backstory overlaps with the Legends novels ''Jedi Dawn'' and ''[[Rebel Dawn]]'' and the 2016 film ''[[Rogue One]]''. Commentators have since noted that the canon story which is introduced in ''Rogue One'' conflicts with episode 2 of the radio drama, "Points of Origin". In the radio drama, the Death Star plans are obtained after a Rebel attack on an Imperial convoy; Rebel agents then transmit the Death Star plans from the planet Toprawa to the ''Tantive IV''. In ''Rogue One'', the plans are transmitted from [[Scarif]], where they were archived, to [[Admiral Raddus]]' flagship, the ''Profundity''. The plans are then taken on board the docked ''Tantive IV'', which launches before Darth Vader can recapture them.<ref name="koch">{{cite web|last1=Koch|first1=Cameron|title=Before 'Rogue One,' This Was The Star Wars Story About How The Death Star Plans Were Stolen|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/148301/20160408/before-rogue-one-this-was-the-star-wars-story-about-how-the-death-star-plans-were-stolen.htm|website=[[Tech Times]]|access-date=26 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409120027/http://www.techtimes.com/articles/148301/20160408/before-rogue-one-this-was-the-star-wars-story-about-how-the-death-star-plans-were-stolen.htm|archive-date=April 9, 2016 |date=8 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=McMillan|first1=Graeme|title='Rogue One' and the Death Star Plans: Revisiting the 1981 Origin Story|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rogue-one-teaser-1981-origins-881733|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=13 January 2017|date=7 April 2016}}</ref>

In 2015 another adaptation of ''A New Hope'' was published, ''The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy''. The author, [[Alexandra Bracken]], stated that she was reading the Expanded Universe to try to "sneak elements in" to the canon and adapted material from the radio drama.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/sdcc-2015-star-wars-publishing-panel-liveblog|title=SDCC 2105: Star Wars Publishing Panel Liveblog|website=StarWars.com|publisher=Lucasfilm|date=July 10, 2015|access-date=January 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711175851/http://www.starwars.com/news/sdcc-2015-star-wars-publishing-panel-liveblog|archive-date=July 11, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>