I realize I’m in the minority here… but while the Thrawn trilogy had some good parts, it never really felt like Star Wars to me. And, more seriously, Thrawn as a character bugged the heck out of me. I mean, he can look at a sculpture made by a artist from a planet, and from that sculpture can deduce the strategic weaknesses of military leaders from that planet? Come ON. That’s just ridiculous.
There’s a lot of “Extended Universe” material out there, much of it already used as backstory for video games that are as familiar to many SW fans, perhaps more so, than the 6 canonical films.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier for them to make scripts based off of that stuff than to concoct all-new material?
I’m not super familiar with the EU stuff but I know there’s a big old storyline involving Luke and Mara Jade, a Force-sensitive and formerly fanatically loyal “personal guard” to the Emperor, plus (multiple) clones of the emperor and Luke himself (from his severed hand from Cloud City) and all sorts of wacky post-Death-Star action.
He doesn’t study A sculpture. He studies the whole body of a species art. Not that I’m going to even defend that as terribly realistic, but…IT’S SPACE OPERA! It’s not like the original trilogy had characters of infinite depth or plausible capabilities, either. The greatest danger the Star Wars universe faces is people taking its basic premises TOO seriously.
Still better than:
- Virgin birth
- Midichlorians
- “She has lost the will to live.”
But they’ve already said it will be a new story, so no Thrawn.
Well, cheaper, certainly, but I’m not sure the cost of generating new material would really even make a dent in the budget of a Star Wars film.
Nobody involved cares.
Personally if it’s recent after 6 I’d like R2 and C3PO in it.
Also all Ewoks. All the time. Complete with Jedi and Sith Ewoks.
Just look at this cute little guy.
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ETA: A Knights of the Old Republic 1 movie would totally kick ass as well. Revan lives!
I played it through twice. Once full on light and once full on dark. The story worked well for both. Pretty much only the ending fight and cinematics and your companions attitude toward you were different.
Dark was more fun though.
I really think they should bring back the original cast as much as possible. Hell, the Tron sequel and Benjamin Button proved that with enough CGI and makeup you can de-age someone miraculously if they need to.
I’d have no problem with Luke, Leia, Lando and Han being old though.
I think that would be cool. Have the movie focus on the now adult kids of the above and their adventures with some screen time for the old actors.
Have a sceen or two with Luke at his acadamy training new Jedi’s and Ben, his son, pops in for advice or something.
Story trumps sfx every time. They need a really good story.
I wouldn’t mind a cameo by Luke, Leia or Han, and by all means Artoo and Threepio can remain as links to all earlier movies, but otherwise I’d want all-new characters, in a drama set perhaps 30 or 40 years after the destruction of the second Death Star, about the struggle to reunite and improve the old Republic. A prequel in the distant past would be my next-best option.
[del]Two and a half hours[/del] Half an hour of 25-year-old Carrie Fisher putting on her Jabba’s palace bikini.
And two hours of her taking it back off.
I seriously doubt more than 0.02% of the viewing public is going to care.
Goofy communes with a Force-ghost of his remote ancestor, Jar-jar.
I think that’s a bit facile. What they should do is just use whatever method is best for each individual scene. There are scenes in movies that look amazing with practical effects, scenes that look amazing with practical effects, and lots of scenes that look amazing with a mixture of the two. But even in the 7(?) years since Revenge of the Sith, the state of the art of CGI has advanced significantly, and many of the CGI scenes in it looked absolutely fantastic.
Nonsense. Lots of people think they can always tell CGI from non-CGI, and, they’re all wrong… (and that’s ignoring the fact that so many scenes in modern movies are a mix of the two).
What make the Star Wars universe special, different compared to other alien-rich spaceshipy story frameworks?
Foremost: the characters, but aside from recasting or aged cameos that will be difficult to recapture.
Second: the Force!
So imagine a world far far away from the central planets where Force lore is absent but pockets of people are becoming aware of it. Two buddies are discovering tricks they can do and bounce ideas off each other while learning and growing stronger (perhaps in conjunction with newly formed “Force Clubs” with a cameo by Ed Norton, but I digress)
No one has yet figured out about Dark/Light side dynamics. One buddy unwittingly is seduced. Other buddy is intrigued but is exploring a technique of his own so plans to try the (unbeknownst to all) Dark side thing later.
Story develops, following the path of Dark-buddy’s rise to power/fall from goodness. This leads to the inevitable showdown and either destruction or redemption of Darth Buddy. Side plots thrown in, featuring Tie fighter fly-by and other adornments from the original.
So, if the original movies happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away from us, then these sequels would occur – hereabouts, circa the 1970s?
Maybe they could make the Star Wars equivalent of Galactica 1980
So Chronicle, but in space?
I disagree. I once started a thread about my belief that Star Wars ruined the science fiction movie genre. 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 and you had a decade of SF movies that emphasized things like stories and characters (even if they were often on a b-movie level). The Star Wars came out in 1977 and SF movies became a genre of special effects.
2001: A Space Odyssey was trumpeted as a marvel of cinematic wonder and special effects at the time of its release.
P.S. It’s one of my favourite movies of all-time.