Star Wars expanded to other media
Although the "Star Wars" film series itself has never been rebooted, a decision was made, due to works set after the original trilogy that contradict and deviate from Lucas' own view of the "Star Wars" story, to discard the "EU" works from the franchise canon. Lucas decided to cease creative involvement after selling, in October 2012, the "Star Wars" franchise as well as Lucasfilm (the production company of "Star Wars") to The Walt Disney Company. When Disney began development of a sequel trilogy of films and other works, and needed its films to have full creative freedom unbound by the "EU", nearly all "EU" works were removed from "Star Wars" franchise canon and rebranded as "Star Wars Legends". (The two 2008 "EU" works which remained in canon were and its .)
List of Star Wars films and television series
After Disney's acquisition of the "Star Wars" franchise, "The Clone Wars" was abruptly cancelled in 2014, before its intended final episodes were completed. A final season was released on Netflix, while and animatics of others were released online. The film and series were included in the new canon established in 2014. An additional final season will be released in 2019 on the Disney+ streaming service.