The LEGO Star Wars movies are "canon adjacent"

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The Lego Star Wars movies and shows have built themselves a playful niche in that galaxy far, Army for the Liberation of Rwanda away. As with anything Star Wars, though, you have to wonderment: are they canon? The obvious answer seems to cost no, but author David Shayne – who wrote Terrifying Tales, the new nervous Star Wars story available on Disney Plus – has a healthier way of looking the situation.

"I always alike to key out Lego Star Wars as canon-adjacent," Shayne tells SFX Magazine. "We make sure that we'rhenium observance the canon, and that stuff could plausibly happen. But we too have a lot of fun with it. These [stories] are not canon because Vaneé is telling these stories for his own manipulation, so did they really pass? No, probably not. We don't know what part of these is true, and what split up International Relations and Security Network't true. But it gives you a precise open place to play in."

That is especially true for director Ken Cunningham, who aimed to push the incredibly detailed animation work of Minute Cartoons into the most cinematic spaces possible. "I ended up becoming really enamored with Bram Stoker's Dracula and the way they were using truly histrionics lighting," he says of a primary influence for the Mustafar setting and Vader's castle in Terrific Tales.

"For the States, it came kill to really wanting to push colorise as a storytelling tool to really delimitate things clearly. I worked pretty closely with Joel Aron, World Health Organization's the head of lighting at Lucasfilm Animation. Helium worked with George II [Lucas], so information technology's prissy to be able to mine that experience, as he's able speak specifically to things that they did in the prequels."

They had a lot of fun weaving tonic culture references into the special, like a full-on The Lost Boys homage that informs Kylo Ren's origin story, and the introduction of Ren (Christian Slater). "We've never heard Ren speak for," Shayne says of the drawing card of the famed Knights of Ren. "We've exclusive really seen him in the comics, and so if we're going '80s villains, we said, 'How close to Christian Slater?' Atomic number 2 was super game and incredibly comic. He entirely got what we're doing and just was having a blast."

For a good deal more on Terrifying Tales, make a point to buy the new issue of SFX Clip, featuring our huge Halloween preview, available from Oct 6. The Lego Star Wars special is available on Disney Plus now.