10 Star Wars characters who should appear in live-action Thu Apr 15, 2021 at 3:48pm ET Mara Jade in Star Wars Pic credit: Lucasfilm Modern Star Wars fans don’t realize there was once a “dark ages” when there was almost no fresh material coming out after the original movies. That changed in 1991 when Timothy Zahn’s novels created the Expanded Universe. This led to scores of books, comics, and video games, which fleshed out the post-movies era. It was added on by the Clone Wars animated series. When the new trilogy began in 2015, the EU was transformed into the non-canon “Legends.” However, several of its characters have made the jump into live-action.