I just don't want it to over-write or fuck with canon. And it will. Sigh.

 

Blackhawk Down meets Saving Private Ryan with AT AT's, Jedi, Sith and TIE Bombers over a massive occupied futuristic city.

 

You know what I like? I like that they aren't dicking around for two years figuring out who the perfect director, screenwriter, and what actors should be in it. They've just bought the company and within a couple of months they're picking some moderately to majorly successful people and getting the job on the freaking road.

With these people so far, the movie is probably going to be on the good side of watchable, which is a far sight better than what Lucas put out for the last seven years. Namely nothing except for a cartoon and some games.

So I'm pumped for some action in one way or another. Hopefully, they won't screw it up, but anyway you look at it, I'm watching the movie.

 

Star Wars done in the style of Into Darkness. It's a good fan-made trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AhPz-Hr4nQA

 

So am I the only guy who liked RoTS and didn't hate AoTC? >_>

I wonder if he'll risk trying to screen the Yuuzhan Vong invasion or will it go the line of Luke's struggles trying to resurrect the Jedi.

 

I grew up with the prequels, so I've always enjoyed them, honestly. When I was a little kid, I thought Jar Jar Binks was stupid, but I never went on about the sanctity of the series, and the battle montage near the end of AoTC was amazing, and I would love to see a star wars movie more like that sequence.

This new movie is going to be like the rest of the movies in the original trilogy: good, reliable movies. Enjoyable. Nothing more, and nothing less.

 

No, you aren't. Although, to be honest, TPM was my favorite prequel because Liam Neeson.

I'm glad Abrams is directing VII. I liked what he did with Star Trek (though it doesn't come close to The Undiscovered Country, The Wrath of Khan, or First Contact), so I think he'll do a good job with this.

I'd love to see something with the Yuuzhan Vong, but I'd give my soul for it to be The Thrawn Trilogy. I doubt that'll happen, though.

 

lol. The film with the weird, pseudo-Indian accents from Amidala and copious amounts of Jar-Jar? Say what you want about AOTC or ROTS, but the saccharine romance in both of them would still not negate the sheer horror of TPM's Jar-Jar.

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Just... no.

Honestly, J.J. Abrams is far from the worst choice out there. Super 8 had an element of childlike curiosity which, when married to Rebooted Star Trek's action savviness, would reposition the Star Wars franchise back to the roots Lucas established in ANH.

Heather is right. Fuck all you guys who's bitching about Disney buying Star Wars or whatever. At the end of the day, you'll still watch it. Whether the film will be a pile of dung, we won't know until we watch it, but even then, admit it: you'd still watch it, even if it's only so that you can properly pay it out.

 

Nah, they were OK, but finally seeing Anakin's fall to the dark side was just one of those face palm moments. Like dude, Yoda is telling you to man up and learn some damn occlumency so you stop having visions but you just gotta be ruled by your emotions.

 

I lawled.

For my part, I don't care who owns Star Wars, as long as they don't run it into the ground.

Heck, Disney owns the Muppets and Star Wars, now, so at least all the principal actors are in the same place.

I'm going to start my list of dream cast members right now. Let's see, for something taking place directly after RoTJ... I'm thinking Matthew McConaughey as Anakin's Force Ghost, Hal Sparks as Boba Fett, Michael Cera as Nien Nunb, and Rush Limbaugh as Jabba The Hutt's bloated, strangled, smoldering corpse.

It makes as much sense as any other proposed cast list you'll be seeing on the internet, just trust me on this.

 

Then after this some Disney scmuck would propose a Star Wars/star trek crossover.

 

This has the potential to be good. I really like most of JJ Abrams stuffs. Anyway i'll watch the shit out of it.

 

Star Wars: Descent of the Lens Flares

 

Would be awesome if they had Luke pass the torch onto the Solo kids (assuming they keep the timeline roughly the same, with Jacen and Jaina being born first, then Anakin) and Ben Skywalker. Lucas had a hard on for Anakin and Luke and therefore fucked the rest of the NJO characters over.

I would squee at the chance to see an awesome Jacen ala NJO books Jacen.

 

Honestly I'd like it more if they ignored the previous movies and all the characters they introduced. Meaning, I don't want to follow the adventures of Luke Skywalker's son, grandson or whatever. Same thing for Han.

The Star Wars universe has an incredible potential I'd be glad if they introduced new elements.

 

I think one of the things good about the episode IV-VI is the role of the Jedi and Sith. There was a sense of mystery surrounding them. Many people (like Han) didn't even really believe they were anything more than an ancient cult.

It was a set of movies about a war in space between two factions, with the main character having an extra something that made him stand out. There was something epic about Like being the only Jedi.

The problem with stuff set before or after the Galactic Empire is that it kinda does away with that. There's lots of Jedi, and they have clear roles in society. It's no longer that special thing for the main character, but something normal that most of the characters have. My favorite EU books were always those set directly after RotJ because of that. I'd prefer a movie not so focused on a story purely focused on Jedi vs Sith.

 

There is quite a lot of universe from there to pull from, but I think we can safely assume the movie producers will want some tieback to the original trilogy.

What is yet to be decided, I think, is the extent of that callback or maybe even, god forbid, recasting of immediate ROTJ+.

This project could be fucked up, but I think they'd have to try to do so. The prequels were always doomed with Lucas pissing about. The sequels seem to be free of him and to go where they may.

I'm excited.

 

For those saying the Yuuzhan Vong should be included... no. Just no. The Vong were basically 40k's Tyranids, minus everything that made the 'nids truly alien and terrifying, and with a gigantic idiot ball (in the form of their stupidly self-destructive religious fanatacism) thrown in.

The characters from that series were terrible, too. For the whole first half of the NJO, Luke was a pacifist moron who would rather stand back and let millions die to avoid dealing with a retardedly stupid philosophical conundrum, Leia and Jaina were boring and Jacen was completely fucking useless. The only interesting characters during that time period were Han, when he went off on his own on a grief filled quest/rampage for a few books after Chewbacca died, and Anakin, for being the only member of that whole family that had both a brain, and a spine.

Then they killed Anakin, and decided that Jacen should be the interesting one after that, but botched it with some philosophical BS that, while plausible enough, completely wrecked the entire underlying theme of the whole goddamn franchise.

Then, when they finally finished that atrocity by saying the galaxy was so damaged it would probably never be the same, by the next series (set 5-6 years later) it was treated like the whole fucking genocidal galactic war that supposedly changed everything never even happened, with only passing references to it and next to no evidence shown of any real changes wrought by the conflict. Basically, they made the whole twenty-something book series more-or-less pointless, except as a foundation for some truly god-awful characterization later.

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Anyway, for what they'll really wind up doing, you have to consider just who the entire movie franchise has focused on: The Skywalker family. Since Lucas established Anakin Skywalker as Whiny Space Jesus with that virgin birth bullshit in TPM, there's not much they can do with the Skywalker clan before that time frame, meaning it will definitely be set after RotJ. My personal guess is that it will focus on the next generation Skywalkers, since they might be a little hesitant to go around re-casting all the classic characters for fear of near-universal fan backlash.

If they're smart, they'll ignore all but a select few parts of the EU, with even those parts used only for inspiration rather than a direct plot-copy. They should play with the universe some. Shake things up and give those poor bastards in charge of retconning the EU to make sense the migraine of the century. I want to see something new and exciting that brings back that 'oh wow!' feeling Star Wars used to give me, not a re-hash of all the stupid jumbled nonsense the EU has shat out over the last thirty years.

 

The EU has generated plenty of absolutely amazing stuff over the past thirty years.
My personal hope is that VII consists of Karen Traviss getting shot in the head a lot? And that's the whole thing? Does that seem a touch extreme?

 

Fair enough. But the good stuff seems heavily outweighed by the bad most of the time.

Not very extreme. While I do genuinely like how she gave the Mandalorians a real culture and their own viewpoint, rather than being "generic background proud sci-fi warrior race #1145682457", her writing was always dickishly preachy. She shits all over every fandom that gives her a book deal, and after the horror that was Halo: Glasslands, I think some severe bodily harm would be most entertaining.