Chee on the Clone Wars Movie Novelization

While we know from Lucas that the Clone Wars CGI movie and the series are his babies and a part of his Star Wars universe, there was some question remaining. Whereas the novelizations of the two film trilogies were all overseen by Lucas (he even had his name put on one that someone else wrote), I'd heard nothing about how the novelization for the Clone Wars CGI flick was being handled, other than the fact that Karen Traviss was writing it.

It appears, however, that Traviss is not getting the sort of direct access and notes and editing from Lucas that the film novelization authors enjoyed. In other words, this novelization appears to be strictly an EU piece based on the scripts.

This information comes from Leland Chee, who recently stated:

Regarding The Clone Wars movie novelization, these were done a bit differently than our prequel trilogy novels (I'm not exactly sure how it was handled in the OT novels). For the prequel trilogy novels, each of the authors met directly with George Lucas to discuss story points and character motivations. The Clone Wars is more of an interpretation of the movie script (actually more like a hybrid of the individual episodic scripts which make up the movie including scenes that were done for the episodes but were cut from the movie as well as scenes that were created specifically for the movie that weren't in the individual episodes). There also wasn't any direct contact this time around between the novelization author and George Lucas or the writers and director.

Given that, it seems rather unlikely that the Traviss materials will count in the Lucas universe.

( ... Which is a damn shame, really, 'cause several of the really crazy EU Completists I've dealt with also loathe Traviss, and I would've derived secret, evil pleasure from watching the coronary events her work's elevation would've produced.)

(Oh crap, did I say that out loud? :) )