I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea, I'm just wondering if there is anyone out there who thinks it would be worth it.
First of all, if it was made in five to ten years from now, the original cast could resume their roles as voice actors because photo-realistic CG would be entirely possible by then, so none of them would be too old.
Also, people I think would like to see:
the New Jedi Order
Leia as a Jedi
the Palpatine clones
and at the end of the trilogy, the death of Luke
It could also introduce characters like:
Han and Leia's three kids
NJO Jedi
Luuke
Chewbacca's son
Mara-Jade
Another thing is that it would give the series a greater feeling of closure, because it would end at the end, not in the middle. Lucas could take the best parts of the EU and transform them into a trilogy. What do you think?
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Err, it already DOES end at the end. ROTJ was the end. There is no more.
There are no benefits at all to a sequel trilogy because the film storyline is done with. It's an even more terrible mistake to think that basing it off the EU is a good idea.
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I kind of agree, Star Wars is the fall and redemeption of Anakin/Vader. However I have no objections to a TV show on after ROTJ although if they were to do this it would have to include the OT actors.
I couldn't sit through another 3 movies and six years listnening to fan boys complain how Lucas fuked up, and critics say "well, they're okay, not as good as the originals though."
Too true. I'm sick of listening to people complain about how the PT is of less quality that the OT and that Lucas sold out, that Lucas failed, that Lucas is an idiot. Anyone would begin to have enough of that!
They weren't better than the OT, but God, after a 16 year break, I think he did OK.
No more movies, no more TV shows, just end the SW saga with a few more books at most. We're killing the story's dignity with all this EU.
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Yes, no more after Jedi - the arc of the true story, Anakin and his redemption by his children, is done.
They should wait a number of years, build up the public hunger, then go 1000 years in the past, to the Knights Of The Old Republic, the original war with their Sith brothers, and the introduction of Yoda. It doesn't have to be called Episode whatever at the beginning, it doesn't have to have the same opening scrawl, or the same music - an opportunity to start fresh. Just like if the LOTR filmmakers went to adapt ancient tales from The Simarilion.
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Dude I'm digin that shit.... Although they might wanna leave that like 50 years - there'll be alotta hunger then and GL probly be dead (although live on through the force etc., the barmy git...) so he cant mess up a new part of the franchise - i ignored the complaints and complaiiners earlier -
Yesh! The Silmarillion, im also digin that adn feelin' the vibe...
George Lucas originally intended on a 9 episode b-movie set or something, and the emperor wasn't to appear untill episode 9! There was a reason why Lucas didn't allow pre-OT literature to be published (except a few), it was of course because of his actual prequel trilogy plans, GL did allow books after episode 6 though.. So I think he just accepted the ending of episode 6, I don't think he would have any idea's anyway, and I really don't think he would just direct movies about other people's books although he did let other people write for his movies, I don't think the chance is high that he would let movies be made about some of the books. They probably wouldn't be so impressive anyway on the big screen to my opinion. The only thing that really impressed me was the first SW script draft.
AW man! I really want to see like a 5hour version of the Silmarillion, tha would be one b*tchin film in which you'd have to hold a pee.
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The events of Episode 9, became the events of Episode 6. The story was squashed, the bulk of which and pretty much all of Lucas' Premier ideas (not regarding effects, planets and ships) ended up in the Original Trilogy one way or another.
Lucas effectively condensed nine movies worth of story into three movies.
When the prequels came around, he took the back story concepts (he never had Episodes 1, 2 and 3 mapped out like everyone likes to think - he had a vague backstory when he did Episode IV, and slowly pieced together Vaders backstory as V and IV came along, but his original backstories were about a single movies worth) and threw in all the things he couldn't do with the Original Trilogy - mainly exotic planets, the sleek sliver Flash Gordon-esque ship (which is clearly the Sith ship from the earily drafts of the OT) that Padme rides in.
As far as story is concerned, the important stuff happens in the original trilogy, and Return Of The Jedi pretty much caps off the series as much as Lucas envisioned it. There can be no sequels.
yeah, but i like to see a new movie, you know? maybe one of the sith wars, or a movie of the knights of the old republic...... there´s 10000 years of history in the sw universe........
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i'm sorry but whos Luuke?
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omg
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Yeah I know, I wasn't implying that there could be some more story George Lucas has laying around, and about the episode 1, 2 and 3 I've even read that Lucas was constantly changing his mind about it, like Padme being Obi's wife.. And I can see that the prequels were kind of chaotic, because the phantom menace doesn't contribute anything to whole prequel trilogy except for two maybe three small scenes. I think George Lucas should have thought out the whole basis of the prequel trilogy, it could have been much better I think. Then again, even during the making of A New Hope he suddenly chose Obi Wan should die!
Lucas is a pretty weird guy.. But his very first SW script did freaking rock though!
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