Kickballjedi
I have noticed when a director is brought in to reboot a franchise, they have tended recently to use rehashed concepts from the original movies. 2 examples are:
1. Superman Returns- in Superman Returns Bryan Singer does a good job sticking with the feel of Supes 1 and 2. But the basic plot of Luthor stealing the green crystal and using it to produce more land on Earth was very silly. He took an element from the first 2 movies and expounded upon it for continuity.
2. Star Trek- JJ Abrams takes a few elements from Star Trek lore, time travel (used in many episodes as a plot device) and a foe more powerful than the Starfleet (aka the Borg). He uses these devices to create his new story/timeline, thereby removing his need for any continuity or advancing the existing storyline.
This type of story writing worries me. To relate this to Star Wars, the story might include a clone of the Emperor (since clones were used in Episode 2) or creating a new Sith Lord to appear and become a new enemy for Luke Skywalker and his new Jedi Order. Or maybe they decide to make the new enemy an army of droids, just like the ones that served the Trade Federation...
These ideas sound so lame to me, but that is the pattern I've seen these reboots/sequels take recently and it makes me very nervous. The writers want to relate to original fans, but they also want to pull in additional viewers who might want to only see a Star Wars movie if it has Boba Fett or Darth Vader in it. You could even make the point that GL did this himself for the PT- include Jabba, Boba Fett and Chewbacca just to pull in viewers who want to see familiar characters.
1. Superman Returns- in Superman Returns Bryan Singer does a good job sticking with the feel of Supes 1 and 2. But the basic plot of Luthor stealing the green crystal and using it to produce more land on Earth was very silly. He took an element from the first 2 movies and expounded upon it for continuity.
2. Star Trek- JJ Abrams takes a few elements from Star Trek lore, time travel (used in many episodes as a plot device) and a foe more powerful than the Starfleet (aka the Borg). He uses these devices to create his new story/timeline, thereby removing his need for any continuity or advancing the existing storyline.
This type of story writing worries me. To relate this to Star Wars, the story might include a clone of the Emperor (since clones were used in Episode 2) or creating a new Sith Lord to appear and become a new enemy for Luke Skywalker and his new Jedi Order. Or maybe they decide to make the new enemy an army of droids, just like the ones that served the Trade Federation...
These ideas sound so lame to me, but that is the pattern I've seen these reboots/sequels take recently and it makes me very nervous. The writers want to relate to original fans, but they also want to pull in additional viewers who might want to only see a Star Wars movie if it has Boba Fett or Darth Vader in it. You could even make the point that GL did this himself for the PT- include Jabba, Boba Fett and Chewbacca just to pull in viewers who want to see familiar characters.