

Planets like Coruscant and characters like Aayla Secura and Quinlan Vos being some of the many elements that he added to the films. Lucas treated the Legends-era tie-ins inconsistently, and their canon relationship to the George Lucas movies was debatable.

Related: Every Star Wars Movie, Ranked Worst To Best Mary Jo Duffy, Timothy Zahn, Tom Veitch, Haden Blackman, and countless others enriched the Star Wars timeline in the original and prequel trilogies. Creatively, it also became more than the vision of Lucas alone. Starting with the seventh issue of Marvel’s Star Wars comics and Alan Dean Foster’s novel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the Expanded Universe turned the franchise into more than just a film series. Flash Gordon, Dune, and the films of Akira Kurosawa are well-known influences on the movie, along with Marvel’s Fantastic Four and DC Comics’ New Gods helping to shape the franchise. 1977’s Star Wars was a labor of love for George Lucas, inspired by the countless stimuli from the media that Lucas devoured as both a child and adult.
