I have been an regualr reader of the post RotJ book series and have had mixed reviews as to the quality. Yet, some of these books I have found interesting and very well written.
I would like a discussion of which book or trilogy of books would be the best setting for movies 7,8 and 9.
Yes I know this could be IMHO material, yet I find the subject more attuned to the Cafe Forum. Mods use your Judgement as to where it goes if I am in error.
As a single book turned into a movie, I believe “Shadows of the empire.” Is the one
Pros: Has a new interesting and complex bad guy (leader of the Black Sun Organization). I found he (cant remember his name) had a I am evil but so very cool aura to a much greater effect than Boba Fett in RotJ or Darth Maul in PM. Of course he is a major character instead of a supporting one.
The book gives insight to the political power plays in the emperial court without dragging.
The book reads well and could be transfered to the big screen without a great deal of story loss.
Even though the book took place between ESB and RotJ. I still think it would make an excellent movie.
As, a Trilogy series I have to say hands down The Thrawn trilogy
Thrawn is the most compelling and interesting bad guy in any of the books yet. He is highly intellegent, a tactical genius and has a personality and flair that makes him interesting.
The Thrawn series takes place 9 years after ROTJ. We are shown in the series that even with the Evil Empire dead the heros still have to fight the good fight to protect the goverment they have established.
If others have better suggestions or nit picks about how and why about any of the books I would like to hear them.
And I agree with you that it would make the best movie trilogy. And so does Lucas, actually (although he wouldn’t actually do it).
Beyond that, I always felt that The Black Fleet Crisis would be a good movie trilogy… if you cut out the parts about the Fallanassi and (to a lesser extent) the Teljkon Vagabond. Those parts were very extraneous and seemed only to serve the purpose of giving Lando and Luke something to do.
The X-wing Series would also make good movies (hey, Michael Stackpole has a cinematic imagination), although it’d have to be more than a mere trilogy.
I would love to see the X-Wing series adapted to a TV-show/serial. Sort of a SW-version of Babylon 5 or Star Trek with a lot of episodes under 1 hour in length.
I always thought that Lucas and co had tried to promote Shadows as a movie without actually having the film. After all, they had the book, a video game, action figures, etc. all debuting at the same time. I don’t recall all that huzzah happening over any other book.
Another vote for the Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy here.
(Maybe if someone put together an adaptation of Tales from the Cantina and gave it a “22 short films” quality to it…)
The good thing about doing something based on the X-wing series is that you do not really need the main characters from the films that much (Luke, Han, Leia etc), whose actors have all aged a bit too much since the last film.
So, are any of you doing any Star Wars reading right now? I am in the middle of a re-read of Specter of the past (another good Zahn book).
