That goes back to the Ewok movies and animated series, though.
And you don’t want ghosts? What, likethese guys?
So, torturing a man by strangling him, then breaking his neck, using a torture droid to interrogate his daughter, compliant in the destruction of an entire planet to prove a point, force choke a few subordinates to death because they were incompetent, torturing a few more people just to piss off someone off screen, freezing a guy as a guinea pig, and you think Disney could make a movie out of that?
Do we know that though? All we really know is that he was willing to destroy Alderaan, but beyond that, we’re just assuming that bad guy = some kind of Force-sensitive Hitler.
Personally, I’d find it extremely compelling if they exposed more of Vader’s backstory after Anakin, but pre-“Star Wars”, and possibly made him a bad guy, but a bad guy who operates within some kind of Sith code that makes him both more and less evil than the sort of all-encompassing evil character that everyone assumes he is.
I mean, the Jedi had a sort of code that governed their actions, so why wouldn’t the Sith? I’d think there should be some deeper philosophy guiding their actions and behaviors beyond ‘Get power; be evil’.
Exploring that code and how it transformed Anakin into Vader post-Mustafar would be really interesting. There’s a big difference between angry Anakin in “Revenge of the Sith” and later Vader.
I would not be upset if Star Wars decided to shy away from the Skywalker family storyline. KOTOR and KOTOR 2 showed that there can be interesting stories without OFFU.
Prequels are idiotic. The character’s trajectories have already been plotted, so where’s the suspense? Not to mention the annoying plot contortions to have everyone’s history intertwined. It’s an entire galaxy – how come everyone keeps running into everyone else?
Well… they are Force users and if my memory of the prequels is correct, it’s a talent that didn’t even exist until Qui-Gon figured it out.
But I’m also happy to blame the Ewok series. Stupid! Almost all new Star Wars feels the urge to add new somethings and it’s not necessary.
I don’t mind and would welcome either, as long as it’s high-quality.
I’d like to see them dig in to the way past. As in, the origins of the Jedi type thing.
If anyone knows of any good books, I’d be interested.
I would be happy to see more standalone stories set in the Star Wars universe without a deathstar, or deathstar like device, featured in them. Starting with “A New Hope” and moving to “Rogue One” (not including the prequels) we have four our of five movies with a deathstar. Time to move on.
I don’t see why not. Don’t forget that Disney owns Buena Vista distribution and they brought us movies like Die Hard. They’re currently bringing us all of the Marvel movies. I’m not saying this is equivalent to these things being “Disney movies” but Disney-the-soulless-entertainment-megacorp has ways to distribute blood, violence and torture when they want to.
Besides all that, The Force Awakens was not exactly bunnies playing in a meadow. Kylo Ren tortures/interrogates two of our main characters and kills his own father. Yes, I think Disney could do Vader justice in a midquel if they wanted to.
I’m not saying you can’t show those things in a Disney movie. I’m saying you can’t have the hero of the movie do those things in a Disney movie. And you can’t make a true Darth Vader movie without him doing those things. He can’t go 15 minutes without force choking someone. He force choked his wife because he though she was banging Obi Wan! How do you make a movie with him as the hero?