Re: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
I say no way would they kill Chewbaca. I have two reasons why I think this. #1: Lucasfilm wants to stay away from the EU of old as much possible and killing Chewbaca would reflect to heavily on to that timeline no matter how they would depict his death. And #2 Killing Chewbaca would be like killing off the family dog, and would be some what emotionally scarring on the audience. I know as a kid when I found out that they killed off Chewbaca in the EU I was extremely upset, and I honest can't see them doing that in a film.