DominicCobb said:

Think of how cool a Boba Fett movie would be if it was more or less like an intergalactic version of last year's Dredd (without the blood obviously/unfortunately).

I'm kind of dreading the inevitable Boba Fett film.  They already ruined him in the PT.  If George wanted Boba Fett in the prequels, then he should have just used Boba Fett - no need to ever unmask him and ruin his mystique. 

But if they absolutely have to make a BF film, then a "Dredd-ish" type movie could actually end up being decent.  But I doubt we will get anything like that.  I'm sure it will be an origin story.

ray_afraid said:

I'd prefer if the one-offs were just that- One-off stories about characters and places we haven't seen and not prequels or origin stories about characters we already know.

Ah, a Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina sort of job?

Or the Star Wars Tales comics?

That could be pretty good.  There are some decent stories in those books.

But then again, we could be treated to the saga of how IG-88 became DSII.

Or R5-D4- the Jedi Astromech droid who saved the galaxy- by shorting out his perfectly fine motivator.

xhonzi said:

Ah, a Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina sort of job?

That'd be cool.

I'd also like an entire 3-hour-long movie devoted to IG-88.

:-D

xhonzi said:

Ah, a Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina sort of job?

I was thinking the same thing.  I would love to see a feature-length film of Hammertong. Great characters, Shada and Karoly.  A wonderful introduction to just how well Zahn handles Star Wars. 

One of the things I found really great was just how little some of those stories intersected that one scene from 1977. For a few of the stories in that book, that brief moment where they are in the cantina could be really interesting to see. They could be character cameos or even peripheral, in-the-background shots.

In Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes there are a few scenes like that.  Calling back to the first film, yet so subtle they could be missed.

Anchorhead said:

For a few of the stories in that book, that brief moment where they are in the cantina could be really interesting to see.

Agreed.

Cobra Kai said:

DominicCobb said:

Think of how cool a Boba Fett movie would be if it was more or less like an intergalactic version of last year's Dredd (without the blood obviously/unfortunately).

 

I'm kind of dreading the inevitable Boba Fett film.  They already ruined him in the PT.  If George wanted Boba Fett in the prequels, then he should have just used Boba Fett - no need to ever unmask him and ruin his mystique. 

But if they absolutely have to make a BF film, then a "Dredd-ish" type movie could actually end up being decent.  But I doubt we will get anything like that.  I'm sure it will be an origin story.

All of this.

TMBTM said:

I'm waiting for Papatine's origine story, where we'll learn how a funny and smart little boy he was, before a Jedi accidentally killed his father during a fight against a Sith Lord.

Poor little Palpy will then learn the way of the Force to destroy the Jedi. "All of them!!!". So it will rhyme when he says that in TPM. It'll be like poetry.

He will learn his powers from Darth Plagueis who, at one point, will see that Palpy is getting stronger than him. So he'll ask the help of the Jedi. A union between a Sith Lord and the Jedi against young Palpy. But Palpy found out about this betrayal and killed his master during his sleep. (poetry again!)

But then Palpy is killed at the end. But wait, no! It created a clone of himself before. So the Palpatine we see in the OT is actulay already a clone of the REAL Palpatine that we finaly see in this origine story. So that movie really brings some new perspective to the overall story....

Or not.

Robot Chicken covered most of this already. ;)

ray_afraid said:

I'd prefer if the one-offs were just that- One-off stories about characters and places we haven't seen and not prequels or origin stories about characters we already know.

This. Period.