Fantasy - reboot Star Wars (spoilers for all released media)
Dec 30, 2019 2:21:10 GMT
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Post by Digi on Dec 30, 2019 2:21:10 GMT
I felt like I was contributing to derailing the TROS thread and didn't want to do so further, so I thought I'd start up a new thread.
So here's the premise: you're the God of Filmmaking, and have the power to reconfigure the Star Wars films in any way you see fit. How do you go about doing so? Difficulty: Feel free to draw on books/comics/video games, but no pointing at them and just saying 'make a movie of that.' Let's get creative and have some fun with this -- there's no end of abandoned and altered storylines going right back to the original 1977 film that you could play with.
Example:
The Force Awakens happens as-is, but is not a numbered Episode. It's just a 'between episodes 6 and 7' primer story.
The Last Jedi is Episode VII, the first of the sequel trilogy, though with the Canto Bight sequence significantly pruned down (having the knock-on effect of making the slow chase feel a bit less slow). At some point in the movie, Kylo Ren receives a transmission with coordinates (maybe the audience is led to believe that he's received the coordinates for Luke?). Battle of Crait, yay the Resistance escapes, etc. But end the movie on Kylo Ren following up on those coordinates and we get the reintroduction to the Emperor sequence from the start of TROS.
Episode VIII is largely drawn from the first half of TROS as we know it, but at a less breakneck speed (no ticking clock) and with a more firmly Indiana Jones quest feel. The Resistance knows the Emperor and First Order are up to something, but we don't know what until near the end, when one of the planet-busting Star Destroyers does its thing. End on Kylo turning his back on the dark side and his chucking his lightsaber into the sea.
Episode IX is an expanded second half of TROS as we know it, with a bit of the book Resistance Reborn thrown in. The Resistance, now aware of the fleet at the Sith planet, desperately searches out allies and prepares for the make-or-break attack, while a self-hating Ben tries to go into exile on Ahch-To (replacing Rey doing that in TROS), to disappear from the galaxy to atone for his sins. But Ghost Luke tells him that if he wants redemption he must go stand with Rey against Palps. He goes, and the climax at Exegol happens more or less the same as in the real TROS.
So here's the premise: you're the God of Filmmaking, and have the power to reconfigure the Star Wars films in any way you see fit. How do you go about doing so? Difficulty: Feel free to draw on books/comics/video games, but no pointing at them and just saying 'make a movie of that.' Let's get creative and have some fun with this -- there's no end of abandoned and altered storylines going right back to the original 1977 film that you could play with.
Example:
The Force Awakens happens as-is, but is not a numbered Episode. It's just a 'between episodes 6 and 7' primer story.
The Last Jedi is Episode VII, the first of the sequel trilogy, though with the Canto Bight sequence significantly pruned down (having the knock-on effect of making the slow chase feel a bit less slow). At some point in the movie, Kylo Ren receives a transmission with coordinates (maybe the audience is led to believe that he's received the coordinates for Luke?). Battle of Crait, yay the Resistance escapes, etc. But end the movie on Kylo Ren following up on those coordinates and we get the reintroduction to the Emperor sequence from the start of TROS.
Episode VIII is largely drawn from the first half of TROS as we know it, but at a less breakneck speed (no ticking clock) and with a more firmly Indiana Jones quest feel. The Resistance knows the Emperor and First Order are up to something, but we don't know what until near the end, when one of the planet-busting Star Destroyers does its thing. End on Kylo turning his back on the dark side and his chucking his lightsaber into the sea.
Episode IX is an expanded second half of TROS as we know it, with a bit of the book Resistance Reborn thrown in. The Resistance, now aware of the fleet at the Sith planet, desperately searches out allies and prepares for the make-or-break attack, while a self-hating Ben tries to go into exile on Ahch-To (replacing Rey doing that in TROS), to disappear from the galaxy to atone for his sins. But Ghost Luke tells him that if he wants redemption he must go stand with Rey against Palps. He goes, and the climax at Exegol happens more or less the same as in the real TROS.