Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins is Directing a Rogue Squadron Movie

[fireproof78]

If you don't want the Jedi elements, you just don't include them- Corran was obviously Force sensitive early on, but his Jedi heritage didn't come into real play until later in the series.

No Corran Horn. I agree using Stackpole, but Horn is a difficult character that I find very unenjoyable.

I think experienced pilots, under the leadership of someone like Wedge or someone named drop from the battle of Endor, and going after Imperial Remnant forces.

 

[Set Harth]

Thanks to the Obi-Wan show, Corran is officially recanonized!

 

[Jedi Marso]

I agree that Horn often comes off as a self-righteous twat, but he doesn't have to be written that way for a movie. And let's face it- if this movie were to get made, the lead would be gender flipped to a girl anyway.

Thanks to the Obi-Wan show, Corran is officially recanonized!

How so? I totally missed that.

 

[Campe]

Apparently Corran was a kid with the rebel sect.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Apparently Corran was a kid with the rebel sect.

Hmm. Which implies a different character with the same name, since Corran Horn from RS was raised on Corellia and was a member of the Corellian Security Force (basically a police detective) before joining the New Republic.

 

[Ithekro]

The kid and mother were being sent to Corellia by the Path.

 

[fireproof78]

I agree that Horn often comes off as a self-righteous twat, but he doesn't have to be written that way for a movie. And let's face it- if this movie were to get made, the lead would be gender flipped to a girl anyway.

Or, just for kicks and giggles, how about a new character?

 

[Set Harth]

Also, the name of Valin Halcyon ( aka Hal Horn ) was inscribed in Aurebesh on the tunnel wall at Mapuzo.

 

[Tuskin38]

Those names (other than Vos) were just easter eggs thrown in by the story group. No one has to follow them up.

I'm sure someone will eventually, but still.

 

[Reverend]

Yeah I really don't think this was a concerted effort to set up the character for something later down the line. Most likely the script had a force sensitive kid and and his mum seeking shelter and passage from The Path, and someone along the line somewhere said "he's about the right age, so why not make him Corran Horn?" and just worked backwards from there with all the other little references.

Of course the benefit here is that if someone *does* want to adapt the character down the road, he's set up enough that it looks deliberate, but not so much that they've painted themselves into a corner. So the best of both worlds.

Or, just for kicks and giggles, how about a new character?

Must these be mutually exclusive options?

 

[fireproof78]

Must these be mutually exclusive options?

Oh...

 

[Jedi Marso]

Or, just for kicks and giggles, how about a new character?

I'm down if they went with the rest of Stackpole on this. Small sacrifice, given what a dick Corran comes off as. Not sure Stackpole would bite, thougn. If you've ever read any of his other non-SW stuff, you quickly realize Corran is his Mary-Sue.

 

[Reverend]

Admittedly it's been at least a decade if not more since I last read the X-Wing novels, but I don't recall Corran coming off the way people are describing him. I don't really have a clear memory of him much at all, besides being a fairly neutral empty vessel, of a kind typical of audience POV protagonists. Not saying he was devoid of distinguishable character traits or personality by any means, just that I don't recall him standing out all that much.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm down if they went with the rest of Stackpole on this. Small sacrifice, given what a dick Corran comes off as. Not sure Stackpole would bite, thougn. If you've ever read any of his other non-SW stuff, you quickly realize Corran is his Mary-Sue.

I could tell without reading any other works.

 

[Gaith]

The couple of years after Endor and before the Mandalorian is ripe territory, especially now that the shows have established that the Imperial Remnant is a thing.

I don't doubt that, but wouldn't it make sense to start before Endor, when the Empire is still the dominant galactic force, and the Rebels are constantly on the run? Will we ever get more Star Wars screen media set during the war??

 

[fireproof78]

Will we ever get more Star Wars screen media set during the war??

Yes.

 

[Reverend]

I don't doubt that, but wouldn't it make sense to start before Endor, when the Empire is still the dominant galactic force, and the Rebels are constantly on the run? Will we ever get more Star Wars screen media set during the war??

Well the whole thing with the Rogue Squadron books is that they were about forming a new unit for what was supposed to be mop-up operations. Tracking down war criminals, liberating worlds from splintered warlord factions. That kind of thing.

The war itself didn't really become a war in that sense until after Endor when the balance shifted onto more even footing and large scale fleet actions were actually feasible. In the interim between Yavin and Endor the rebellion was scattered, which means every thing was small scale strikes, raids and ambushes, which is a whole other kind of story. It's a lot of spy shit, interspersed with a lot of running away from the overwhelming Imperial forces.

If they want to address that period with a military drama, then I'd say a better frame would be a commando/recon unit rather than a starfighter squadron. In the latter most of the drama in in-between the actual missions, whereas the former allows for the missions themselves to drive the character arcs. Plus if one is so inclined, one can have Temuera Morrison as the grizzled old warhorse officer type (I reckon Rex should at least have been a Major by Hoth.)

 

[Gaith]

The war itself didn't really become a war in that sense until after Endor when the balance shifted onto more even footing and large scale fleet actions were actually feasible. In the interim between Yavin and Endor the rebellion was scattered, which means every thing was small scale strikes, raids and ambushes, which is a whole other kind of story.

I dunno, maybe different from the novels' stories, but it seems to me one could easily get a movie or two out of raids and small-scale strikes between Yavin and Endor.

 

[Reverend]

I dunno, maybe different from the novels' stories, but it seems to me one could easily get a movie or two out of raids and small-scale strikes between Yavin and Endor.

It's more about the implied tone of these scenarios than anything else. In my mind anything during the war proper is going to have a slightly more desperate edge to it. Less 'Top Gun' and more NuBSG.

Add to that the inevitable YA angle to it (because rookie pilots kind of have to be in that age bracket) and you'll end up with something a little too angsty to work well in SW. It's for a similar reason why you don't get a lot of WWII combat movies set prior to D-Day (unless it's being explicitly grim on purpose.) Easier to tell a more optimistic story after the conflict gains real momentum and there's actual light at the end of the tunnel instead of a years long struggle just to keep heads above water.

I guess you could do a sort of Memphis Belle type story in the lead-up to Endor, but someone would have to have a specific pitch that they really believe and and a story they really want to tell to make it work.

 

[Dee1891]

Can't they come up with something outside of the Clone Wars, the Rebellion Against the Empire or the Resistance-First Order conflict? Come up with something entirely new?