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The producers of Star Wars: Visions say there isn’t a plan to make the show canon, but it will influence things to come.
As of now, Star Wars: Visions exists outside of the established canon, but that could always change in the future.
Visions producer Kanako Shirasaki and executive producer James Waugh spoke to CNET about the series, which dropped in its entirety on Disney+ today. One of the major marketing points of the anthology series is that the nine anime shorts are inspired by the universe of Star Wars but not explicitly tied to existing canon. But that doesn’t mean the shorts won’t serve as jumping-off points down the line.
“Not immediately, but it might influence the next generation of creators,” Shirasaki when asked if elements from the shorts will make their way into canon.
“That’s right — every piece of Star Wars influences future Star Wars storytellers in some form or the other,” Waugh added. “So are there plans to integrate Visions into the timeline saga storytelling? Not currently, but I have no doubt that we will see things that were in Visions become part of the fabric of Star Wars over the next decades.”
While the other Star Wars animated shows are firmly set in the main universe, and have crossed over to live-action movies and series, so it’s not hard to imagine concepts from Visions moving into the continuity, as Waugh teased.
“Right now you can continue the storytelling — there’s a novel [Star Wars: Visions: Ronin] coming out by Emma Mieko Candon, who’s a really talented author,” Waugh said. “Like everything Star Wars, we’ll want to build an ecosystem of storytelling around Visions and these characters. We’ll have to see what people fall in love with.”
Waugh went on to discuss why Visions is such a perfect project for the world of Star Wars, which makes it all the more likely that the characters and ideas introduced on the shows will pop up in canon media.
“I don’t think it’s a secret that anime has had a huge influence on Lucasfilm creatively,” Waugh said. “It’s an incredible cinematic form that does amazing, inspiring things. So it’s something we wanted to do for a long time. I think it was a matter of how and why — we’ve been talking to Kanako and [co-executive producer] Justin Leach for years about how we could do this.”
Star Wars: Visions is now available to stream in its entirety on Disney+.
Source: CNET
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