Lucasfilm greenlit a THE NEW REPUBLIC game that was shot down by EA.
The game would’ve been a follow-up to THE OLD REPUBLIC, rather than a game set during the New Republic era.
“[Filoni] was like, ‘if you set it a couple hundred years before the fall of the Republic, we can have a tie in,” says developer James Ohlen.
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