So I was watching New Hope on TV just now, and I got to wondering how it could be modernized/improved if they did a hypothetical remake of the film. No Jar Jar jokes 
Here's my thoughts:
--Opening Battle: more shooting between the Destroyer and the Tantive. Show Cpt Antilles in the bridge talking about their passenger and their cargo. Instead of Stormtroopers blasting a hole in the door, Vader makes his first appearance by cutting his red saber through the door then single-handedly cutting down the defenders. How bad ass would that be? And the troopers just kind of follow behind him. In fact I'd like to see Vader much faster and dangerous; I know as an injured iron lung cyborg he's supposed to be stiff, but wouldn't the robo parts make him super-humanly fast?
--New Galaxy-Level Scenes: when the Destroyer arrives in orbit of Tatooine, Jabba calls them up to protest the encroachment of his territory. Vader threatens him on the holo and Jabba relents.
We actually see Palpatine addressing the Galactic Senate, announcing their dismissal. Bail Organa protests it vehemently before high-tailing it back to Alderaan.
Palpatine orders Tarkin to destroy Alderaan first, knowing Leia and Bail are in the Rebellion. We actually see Bail on Alderaan when that horrible light fills the sky and everything goes white.
--No Luke/Leia kiss. Gross.
In fact, they should instantly sense some connection between each other, like they've met before a long time ago.
--Obi-Wan vs. Vader: Obi-Wan isn't THAT old (in fact, Obi should be recast as someone 50ish anyway). We saw how well Dooku fought. This should be an amazingly fast duel, a slightly slower version of their original fight. And again, Vader should be a faster cyborg bad ass.
--The Battle of Yavin: We see the Rebel fleet of Transports and smaller destroyers, but they say they can't hope to fight the Death Star directly so they'll just cover the evacuation of the base. We see the Death Star has an escort fleet of Star Destroyers. It's still just the fighters against the Death Star, though. Vader senses "something familiar" about Luke in his X-Wing. Luke's magic bullet does NOT destroy the entire Death Star and make him a mass murder. Instead it just disables the reactor and strikes the entire thing dead in space. In the confusion, the Rebel fleet manages to slip past the Destroyers in a spectacular but brief running battle.
This is taken from an old idea I've said before, that there's only ONE Death Star. It gets disabled in New Hope, and is fixed in Jedi. Another idea I had was that the Death Star appears at Hoth and toasts the planet, to add further crunchtime to that battle.
Here's my thoughts:--Opening Battle: more shooting between the Destroyer and the Tantive. Show Cpt Antilles in the bridge talking about their passenger and their cargo. Instead of Stormtroopers blasting a hole in the door, Vader makes his first appearance by cutting his red saber through the door then single-handedly cutting down the defenders. How bad ass would that be? And the troopers just kind of follow behind him. In fact I'd like to see Vader much faster and dangerous; I know as an injured iron lung cyborg he's supposed to be stiff, but wouldn't the robo parts make him super-humanly fast?
--New Galaxy-Level Scenes: when the Destroyer arrives in orbit of Tatooine, Jabba calls them up to protest the encroachment of his territory. Vader threatens him on the holo and Jabba relents.
We actually see Palpatine addressing the Galactic Senate, announcing their dismissal. Bail Organa protests it vehemently before high-tailing it back to Alderaan.
Palpatine orders Tarkin to destroy Alderaan first, knowing Leia and Bail are in the Rebellion. We actually see Bail on Alderaan when that horrible light fills the sky and everything goes white.
--No Luke/Leia kiss. Gross.
In fact, they should instantly sense some connection between each other, like they've met before a long time ago.--Obi-Wan vs. Vader: Obi-Wan isn't THAT old (in fact, Obi should be recast as someone 50ish anyway). We saw how well Dooku fought. This should be an amazingly fast duel, a slightly slower version of their original fight. And again, Vader should be a faster cyborg bad ass.
--The Battle of Yavin: We see the Rebel fleet of Transports and smaller destroyers, but they say they can't hope to fight the Death Star directly so they'll just cover the evacuation of the base. We see the Death Star has an escort fleet of Star Destroyers. It's still just the fighters against the Death Star, though. Vader senses "something familiar" about Luke in his X-Wing. Luke's magic bullet does NOT destroy the entire Death Star and make him a mass murder. Instead it just disables the reactor and strikes the entire thing dead in space. In the confusion, the Rebel fleet manages to slip past the Destroyers in a spectacular but brief running battle.
This is taken from an old idea I've said before, that there's only ONE Death Star. It gets disabled in New Hope, and is fixed in Jedi. Another idea I had was that the Death Star appears at Hoth and toasts the planet, to add further crunchtime to that battle.
