The Sequel Trilogy we wanted... — Page 2

theprequelsrule said:

…can never happen. In an ideal world, George Lucas would have kept directing and writing films, keeping his craft sharp. He has Maria by his side, complementing his strengths, compensating for his weaknesses. Around 1990, George realizes that he does not need any more advanced special effects to make more Star Wars films; he just needs good stories. He makes the ST focusing on Luke’s efforts to rebuild the Jedi and Leia’s efforts to rebuild the Republic. The films are released in 1993, 1995, and 1997.

On top of that, Gary Kurtz’s poignant Revenge of the Jedi would’ve been the concluding chapter of the OT instead of the namby pamby twincestual teddy bear picnic.

theprequelsrule said:
Have you never run through alternatives to the Alien 3 film we got and said, “Man, that would have been so much better!”?

Yes. I daydream in this manner frequently regarding movies that did not quite do it for me. In my version of Alien 3, Ripley would have birthed the xenomorph about a third of the way through the film and the Alien would turn out to be a benevolent protector of Newt and Hicks. It might be too “out there” for a lot of people, but at least it would be something new: a heroic Alien.

As for an ST “we” would have wanted (“we” being a very nebulous term), it would revolve around Luke’s training of a new generation of Jedi being interrupted by an extra-galactic threat, maybe the Vong or maybe something else. Then at some point in the trilogy, Luke becomes enraged and destroys an entire planet infested with these extragalactic invaders, like he uses the Dark Side to physically annihilate an entire world. This prompts his self-exile, perhaps to be re-discovered and brought back into the fight for Episode IX where he finally dies.

*The Sequel Trilogy you wanted.

AveKender said:
In my version of Alien 3, Ripley would have birthed the xenomorph about a third of the way through the film and the Alien would turn out to be a benevolent protector of Newt and Hicks.

Well that’s probably the only idea that would have been worse than what we got.

There have been a lot of weird posts in the past 2 weeks but this one takes the biscuit.

Difficult topic to discuss really, as our opinions are subjective. I know a good deal of people who are Star Wars fans, and none of us agree with each other on topics like this.

But in general I sympathies with the idea and often lament that the sequel trilogy didn’t appear 20 years ago. Also I don’t know anyone who doesn’t imagine what might have been in such a scenario, I thought everyone did it.

Shadows of the Empire could have been made a film in 95/96. Loved Zahn’s survivor’s quest, hand of thrawn and outbound flight.

For the record, loved Rouge One, can’t stand the PT (would watch the two Ewok movies over these), don’t care for the current ST (i.e not what I personally imagined or wanted), and loved Alien 3, (director’s cut over the cinema release).

Basically, there’s no accounting for taste!

theprequelsrule said:

yhwx said:

theprequelsrule said:

In an ideal world, George Lucas would have kept directing and writing films, keeping his craft sharp.

Yeah… that didn’t really work out.

I know one thing for sure: George Lucas can make really, really bad Star Wars films.

I suspect something else: without him, there will be no more great Star Wars films.

George only directed ONE great SW film and three mediocre to terrible ones. TFA was better than any of the prequels.
So I will settle for very good or good SW films rather than mediocre and terrible ones.

shanep2 said:

TFA was better than any of the prequels.

It’s amazing to me how many people here can’t accept this.