Hoping for George to redo 7-9?

[CorporalCaptain]

No, and I wouldn't pay money to see the Zahn trilogy brought to life. How Thrawn was handled in REB was just fine, though, and also enough; I'm far more interested in a sequel or follow-up to REB.

That said, a comic book realization of what Lucas had planned would be fine by me, and I'd buy it in a heartbeat (cf, The Star Wars).

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I'd love to see him make another trilogy as I'm a big fan of the prequels. Hell, he wouldn't even have to supplant the Sequel trilogy. Just make a sequel PREQUEL trilogy (a trilogy that's after the originals but before the sequels). It'd be super easy to do. Barely an inconvenience. Cast Sebastian Stan as Luke Skywalker and Billie Lourd as Princess Leia, set the thing five or so years after Return of the Jedi. BAM! Easy peasy! Hell, do the Thrawn trilogy combined with the Jedi Academy trilogy. Put Grogu in there, people would go apeshit.

Edit: Get someone else to write it, though!

Edit Edit: Since clones have already been established, let's bring everybody back! Mace Windu, Yoda, Palpatine, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jek Porkins, Anakin Skywalker

 

[EnderAKH]

Ugh.... would I want this?
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/george-lucas-episode-vii-episode-ix-1201974276/

“[The next three ‘Star Wars’ films] were going to get into a microbiotic world,” he told Cameron. “There’s this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force.”

In terms of his storytelling, Lucas regarded individuals as “vehicles for the Whills to travel around in…And the conduit is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones that communicate with the Whills. The Whills, in a general sense, they are the Force.”

No. No. No I would not. Negative. In no way. God no.

As for the Zahn trilogy, speaking only for myself, I personally never warmed to it. It was too sci-fi and not enough fantasy swords and sorcery for my taste.

 

[arch101]

There’s no way Disney would let Lucas loose with a film budget let alone 3 film budgets so this story is bunk.

 

[JD]

While I enjoyed the Thrawn books, I really have no desire to see them adapted.
The whole point of decanonizing the old EU was to wipe the slate and do something new, so I'd rather see them stick to that, and continue to do something new. If they want to borrow stuff from Legends, and put their own twist on it, I'm cool with that, but I don't have any desire to see direct adaptations.

 

[Reverend]

Besides, people who call for the old Thrawn books to be adapted into a movie trilogy clearly have no clue how three act movie structures work. Those books would make *terrible* movies, and a half-way decent arc for a couple seasons of a streaming show.

There's also an aspect of rose tinted vision going on there. I think people often forget those books have some daffy ideas like the whole thing with the clones' names, living things that "repel" the force (which makes as much sense as fish that repel water), and that literally everyone other than the movie characters are freakishly hype-competent. Hell, Thrawn and Karrde are very nearly the same person in terms of how they're written.

 

[fireproof78]

Wait. Are the Thrawn books flawed in some way?

 

[Saul]

Webz is full of rumours, some say that Lucas would be interested to redo episodes 7, 8 and 9.

I don't know if there's any truth in this rumour but would you like if George would come back and remake these films? It could be interesting to see what he originally had in mind after 'Return of the Jedi'. Also, I didn't like the latest films so why not? It would make sense for the creator of the entire franchise to finish the story the way he wants.

Sure. I'd put money on that NOT happening though....
How about a comic instead like 'The Star Wars' and do his version of 7,8,9.
Unfortunately Disney would most likely be against that.

 

[EnderAKH]

Wait. Are the Thrawn books flawed in some way?

One word: ysalamiri.

 

[fireproof78]

Unfortunately Disney would most likely be against that.

Why would they care?

One word: ysalamiri.

Interesting.

 

[Jax]

Webz is full of rumours, some say that Lucas would be interested to redo episodes 7, 8 and 9.

Webz is full of stupid people.

Also Webz is a horrible term.

 

[Saul]

Why would they care?

Why wouldn't they care?
They are pretty tight lipped behind the creative process of these movies. It was George who said they didn't want to do his script and outline. Disney so far hasn't released any in depth making of book because they don't want people to know they rushed these sequels out with no clear picture of the trilogy. This sequel trilogy is their, vision, their brand they are building off of. They won't taint it by saying this isn't how it always was supposed to be...

 

[fireproof78]

Why wouldn't they care?
They are pretty tight lipped behind the creative process of these movies. It was George who said they didn't want to do his script and outline. Disney so far hasn't released any in depth making of book because they don't want people to know they rushed these sequels out with no clear picture of the trilogy. This sequel trilogy is their, vision, their brand they are building off of. They won't taint it by saying this isn't how it always was supposed to be...

I find that all to be specious reasoning. If that were the case why would the comic series The Star Wars which explored one of Lucas' main drafts? Wouldn't that take away from his vision? Show that he didn't have a clear vision at first.

Fans already are claiming that Trevorrow would have been much better, sight unseen. So, whatever damage is done. So, again, why would they care? Fan opinion isn't going to change.

 

[Tuskin38]

I read Trevorrow's script, or at least the version that was leaked, and it was meh. It seemed better than TROS, but it's really hard to say from a script.

One word: ysalamiri.

Yeah.

They only show up in Rebels in Thrawn's office as statues as a nod to the books, but Filoni never actually put them in the show because their abilities went against stuff George told him about the force. Nothing can exist outside of it, everything has the force going through them, nothing can repel the force away.

And before anyone brings up Luke in TLJ, he only cut him self off from sensing the force he didn't remove it from his body or anything.

 

[The Wormhole]

Wait. Are the Thrawn books flawed in some way?

Got to admit, I always found them overrated.

 

[Campe]

Disney so far hasn't released any in depth making of book because they don't want people to know they rushed these sequels out with no clear picture of the trilogy.

Making of Solo would like to disagree with you. Yes, I know it’s not a making of the sequel trilogy book and I do hope that one day we get the full story behind the three movies. The Making of and Art of books are primarily the only physical things I collect these days for Star Wars and that missing piece is felt.

I read Trevorrow's script, or at least the version that was leaked, and it was meh. It seemed better than TROS, but it's really hard to say from a script..

I think utilizing Mortis would be very hard to translate to those who don’t know TCW well. I was not fond of TRoS but from what I read of Trevorrow’s script, it was a fan service mell of a hess. I think had they not shoehorned Palps in, TRoS could have been less rushed and more solid.

 

[fireproof78]

I think utilizing Mortis would be very hard to translate to those who don’t know TCW well. I was not fond of TRoS but from what I read of Trevorrow’s script, it was a fan service mell of a hess. I think had they not shoehorned Palps in, TRoS could have been less rushed and more solid.

I know that I have been more of the supporter of Abram' choice to bring back Palpatine, owing largely to a recent watching of Clone Wars and the whole Operation Cinder plot line in Battlefront. Palpatine just is too powerful by the invention of Lucas and Filoni. So, Palpatine's return, just like in Legends, was unavoidable. He became the literal devil in the Star Wars mythos.

That said, I do think it would be very interesting to have Snoke come back like Palpatine did. Basically a Dark Side spirit bound an old Sith artifact that allows him to pass from body to body. You could still have the Sith Eternal Cultists who are building up an army for their own purposes. I find Snoke a far more interesting villain than Palpatine.

I recently picked up the Last Jedi Visual Dictionary, some of my favorite Star Wars books. I think that Snoke had a lot of potential to play with in terms of his origin, going in to the Unknown Regions and exploring more of the idea of Dark Siders outside of just the Sith. I think the Legends had some interesting ideas with that, as did Clone Wars with the Nightsisters.

TROS is still a fun film for me, but I love exploring alternatives as well.

 

[Saul]

I find that all to be specious reasoning. If that were the case why would the comic series The Star Wars which explored one of Lucas' main drafts? Wouldn't that take away from his vision? Show that he didn't have a clear vision at first.

George isn't working for Disney.
And speaking of "The Star Wars", J.W. Rinzler who worked on that was writing a "Making of Episode 7" book until Disney cancelled it because they didn't want anyone to know they had no idea what they were doing.

 

[fireproof78]

George isn't working for Disney.
And speaking of "The Star Wars", J.W. Rinzler who worked on that was writing a "Making of Episode 7" book until Disney cancelled it because they didn't want anyone to know they had no idea what they were doing.

Is that the reason Disney said they didn't want it published?

If not, then I'll not assume such specious conspiracy theories.

 

[Imaus]

I can't stand the Sequels. I can't stand Dis. I can't stand PIC. I can't even get into TLD. Doesn't mean that they can be retconned. When was the last time that happened? With some hack series like AvP or whatever? Friday the 13th? Some slasher fic? That's where that happens.

The ST is here to stay. The best thing we can hope for is a new series with coherent writing that utilizes the universe to the fullest and has a prepared plot with good writing in ten, twenty years.