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Okay, I’ve been having this idea in my head forever, but ultimately I figure I probably just don’t like the two movies enough to actually give it a try, so here’s the idea, just to preserve it: Combine the two movies into a single story, rearranging all elements that are available. It may not be 100% coherent, but as long as it has enough “flow” I think it might work.
The following is a rough outline of how I imagine it. Depending on how well that works out, some parts may (will) need to be rearranged to make it better.
In detail, here’s how I imagine the flow to go:
- Intro crawl “Resistance pilots Rey and Finn are tasked by Han Solo to bring back the stolen Falcon”.
- Starts out with Rey and Finn stealing back the Falcon. Rey is not a scavenger, but a resistance pilot, explaining why she can fly the Falcon. Finn too.
- Kylo Ren pursues them (not sure there is enough footage but who nose).
- They get sucked into that space station where they meet Han (who already knows them). Through some trickery, this is also the place where Ben Solo appears and kills Han, which is how he gets introduced. At this place, Rey also finds Luke’s lightsaber and the visions coming from that coincide with Han’s & Ben’s confrontation.
- They go to that beautiful-nature-y planet where they normally meet Maz (but here they don’t). They are just here to meet Leia and the resistance. (we assume this is the resistance planet as well). Rey mentions some lightsaber-found blah blah. They find R2 and figure he has the map to Luke, so Rey decides to give Luke a visit. Finding Luke is never a major story arc, it’s just Rey’s personal thing, similar to Luke’s arc of finding Yoda in the OT.
- Rey goes to Luke and starts training.
- “5 years later”
- The village scene with Kylo Ren and the hidden data thingy that Poe tries to hide from Kylo. Turns out, this is the map revealing the existence and weaknesses of Not-Deathstar. (not the map to Luke Skywalker, as in the original). Making the importance that much more grave.
- The resistance mounts a plan to destroy Not-Deathstar.
- Not-Deathstar destroys Republic.
- Rey, who at this point is a somewhat trained Jedi, senses da disturbance in da force, decides to go help.
- Resistance is on its way to Not-Deathstar, but gets suddenly pursued by Snoke’s ship. 😉 A race against time ensues.
- Rey decides to help out and goes to Snoke’s ship, as in TLJ.
- Throne room confrontation now makes more sense, including Rey’s fighting skills.
- At the end of throne room fight, Rey gets knocked out by Kylo Ren through some force.
- Rey wakes up strapped to that thingy, manipulates guard into letting her go.
- Rey goes to Not-deathstar to help blow it up.
- There, final fight with against Kylo Ren that she wins. Tada.
- Not-deathstar blows up. Everyone’s happy.
Lots of scenes still missing that can hopefully be spliced in here and there. The main aim of this whole thing is A) to get rid of the ridiculous and boring chase plotline in TLJ. and B) to explain Rey’s proficiency with the force through her training with Luke. and C) to try something insane.
Not sure if this would remotely work, but it just might be a cool experiment.