Entertainment News: Meet Leland Chee, The Star Wars Franchise ‘Continuity Cop’

To Star Wars fans he is arguably the leading expert on everything that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. His official title is “continuity database administrator” for the Licensing arm of Lucasfilm. He keeps meticulous track of the live-action movies, cartoons, TV specials, games, reference books & hundreds of novels and comics.

To Star Wars fans he is arguably the leading expert on everything that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. His official title is “continuity database administrator” for the Licensing arm of Lucasfilm. He keeps meticulous track of the live-action movies, cartoons, TV specials, games, reference books & hundreds of novels and comics.

If you’ve followed the other parts of the universe at all (particularly the books), the sheer effort made to maintain continuity has been, to be honest, fabulous. The books ALL work within the same universe as the first three movies, and with each other.