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        <title><![CDATA[‘Star Wars’ fans attack Lucasfilm exec who dubs franchise ‘fake’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bet he wishes he were in a galaxy, far far away right about now.</p><p>A Lucasfilm executive is feeling the heat after calling &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; &#8220;fake&#8221; on social media, which has prompted the space opera&#8217;s devout fans to dub him a charlatan and a sellout.</p><p>The triggering moment occurred Saturday while Matt Martin, the story group creative executive for the Disney-owned franchise, was answering <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkLangston10/status/1258977013974683650" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a Twitter thread</a> about whether non-Disney-sanctioned spinoffs should be regarded as canon.</p><p>Martin concluded that fans could accept whatever version they wanted as gospel, but couldn&#8217;t hold new creators accountable for not following suit. In 2014, Lucasfilm controversially announced that it would be&nbsp;<strong>removing all elements</strong> from the expanded universe of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;&nbsp; — such as video games, fan fiction books and comics — from the official film mythos moving forward.</p><p>However, the Lucasfilm bigwig then <a href="https://twitter.com/missingwords/status/1258990922387214336" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blundered by Tweeting,</a> &#8220;It’s all fake anyway so you can choose to accept whatever you want as part of the story.&#8221;</p><div class="embed-wrapper twitter"><div class="embed-twitter"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s all fake anyway so you can choose to accept whatever you want as part of the story.</p><p>&mdash; Matt Martin (@missingwords) <a href="https://twitter.com/missingwords/status/1258990922387214336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p>His heretical statement landed him in the social-media Sarlacc pit.</p><p>&#8220;Yet another sign that Lucasfilm in its current incarnation sees profit as top priority, storytelling be damned!&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/devilofeire/status/1260368373428490240" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted one</a> defender of the Force.</p><figure id="attachment_15660115"  class="wp-caption alignleft"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/star-wars-cannon-32.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/star-wars-cannon-32.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/star-wars-cannon-32.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>&#8220;Star Wars: Episode IV&#8221;</span><span class="credit">LucasFilm</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;NOTHING in Star Wars is FAKE,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/MageSentron/status/1260221503364313089" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fumed another</a> of Martin&#8217;s flippant fourth-wall breaking. &#8220;It&#8217;s the creative product of hundreds, sometimes thousands of people and it deserves to be treated with respect, not dismissed as &#8216;fake.&#8217; Respect your work, dude.&#8221;</p><p>Another superfan <a href="https://twitter.com/0Unbreakable2/status/1260350197009395712" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">deemed the exec&#8217;s argument to be just plain lazy</a>: &#8220;Why is this guy allowed near Star Wars oh really it’s all fake Jesus thanks,&#8221; they wondered. &#8220;We care about the stories and the cannon because we like structured stories and interesting lore that shows consistance. I’m not interested in a Story with no structure.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/nyarlathotep108/status/1259540707934691331" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">One aghast Star Warrior</a> even called for his firing in a Tweet addressed to the franchise&#8217;s top brass. &#8220;Hey folks, @HamillHimself @starwars @JoinTheForce @Disney @lucasfilm_ltd, when your &#8216;Creative Exec&#8217; says that your whole franchise &#8216;is all fake&#8217;, it&#8217;s probably the time to look for a new person for the role, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;</p><p>Martin hasn&#8217;t yet responded to his social-media torching.</p><p>However, he&#8217;s not the first &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; muckety-muck to be eviscerated online by the franchise&#8217;s <strong>impossible-to-please fans.</strong></p><p>&#8220;The Rise of Skywalker&#8221; director J.J. Abrams was <strong>torched on Star Wars Twitter</strong> in December after dispelling a popular fan theory about the final film installment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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