[Star Wars] Rumor: Sequel Trilogy to be Remade as Series for Disney+, Lucas to take over as Pres.

IMO, the last 2 movies were almost Game of Thrones level bad in how much they f**ked up. Not only were the movies incoherent messes, they actively f**ked over the legacy of beloved characters.

I'm pretty much ready to move away from the skywalkers, but man I really want an alternate version that doesn't completely s**t all over the original trilogy.

 

can we cut out the part where Leia goes full Mary Poppins and does a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious float through space?

 

So.... ignore this whole story?

 

Pretty much.

 

I feel the same way about the sequel trilogies that Lucas wanted fans to feel about the prequel trilogies- they’re for kids.

I’ve watched each one once or twice with my 7 year old and really don’t see what the big deal is or see them as a complete atrocity or do I feel betrayed or anything like that.

he just loves all things Star Wars and isn’t asking about plot holes or character redemption.

I guess my only question would be after watching 2 seasons of Mandalorian, then binging all of Rebels, and now halfway through Clone Wars- why didn’t they get Dave Filoni involved in the sequel trilogies in the first place?

 

Does 2nd season of Mando suck?

 

We're already in fool me 6 times shame on me territory. It would be 7 but I've refused to this point to watch IX.

 

I watch Doomcock videos on YouTube as he's pretty funny and vicious towards the sequel trilogy. He claims to pass along information from insiders. I can't think of any time when his inside information was correct.

 

The Rise of Skywalker retroactively raised my opinion of The Last Jedi.

Abrams tried to undo what wasn't his vision, but what a pile of dog s*** it was. Episode IX Rise of the Undead Emperor?

 

What if....

Instead....

Just make new movies...

 

I wish they would reboot the sequels but not with Lucas at the helm. How quickly we forget the prequels.

 

I like Disney Plus - so whatever they do is fine by me....I fell asleep during last few movies....never during Firefl....errr....the Mandalorian.

DD

 

It could work as long as Lucas is just the ideas guy with hands off on the day-to-day, and Favreau and Filoni are doing the heavy lifting.

 

George Lucas is already heavily involved in the new Star Wars stuff. He's been extremely involved with Filoni and Favreau. It is also true that Kathleen Kennedy's role has been greatly reduced on the creative side of Star Wars and she's basically in charge of marketing at this point.

I do not, however, see Lucas becoming the head of the studio. They should keep him right where he is...big time consultant and creative designer. Don't make him a Director...let him come up with creative stuff, let him be a sounding board, etc.

It is also an open secret that Filoni and Favreau have been given full authority to retcon the sequel trilogy as much as possible, but up until now, they were not allowed to actually reboot or erase the films. I highly doubt they will be able to reboot the films via Disney+...but again, they have a lot of authority to make new stories that minimize the sequels without deleting them.

A much better cut of Rise of Skywalker WAS in the works. It was entirely supposed to be a Ben Solo redemption story with him taking on the mantle of Skywalker (since...you know...he actually is Skywalker blood). I am not sure I buy that it was a Lucas cut. Perhaps it was the creative direction he recommended, but the rumor are that it was all JJ Abrams. Whether or not the original cut still focused on the idiotic story line of using a Sith knife (which would have had to have been made AFTER the death star was destroyed, but before Rey's parents were killed) to find Sith holocrons to find the way to the big baddy (when literally 10s of thousands of soldiers, suppliers, workers, ship builders, etc. would know the way) is up for debate...however... Allegedly a full 30 minutes of screen time for Adam Driver was cut and reshot to refocus on Mary Sue Rey. This was fully Kathleen Kennedy and one of the major reasons her contribution on the creative side has been basically taken away.

 

The answer is hell eff no!

 

I don't think it'll actually happen, but I'd fully support retconning the entire sequel trilogy. Just start from scratch with all new characters. You can even write off Han and Leia by having their off screen deaths be the catalyst for the first movie.

Again though, it'll never happen because they'd first have to admit that they completely screwed everything up.