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ChainsawAsh said:

Fang Zei said:

They said in the official announcement that this won’t be Episodes X, XI, and XII.

Right, but I 100% guarantee you that Episodes X, XI, and XII are coming after Johnson’s trilogy is finished.

Aye mate. After a 10 year break or so from the Main Trilogies… I think the pull/urge to do a follow-up on an older Rey, Finn and Poe etc (& whoever survives IX) - along with introducing some newer younger characters - will be great and very tempting for Disney.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Fang Zei said:

Literally one of the first things Disney said upon acquiring Lucasfilm just over five years ago was that the Star Wars universe has “over 25,000 years of history.”

This would only lend more credence to someone’s theory upthread about Rian’s trilogy being about the origins of the Jedi, which is pretty much exactly what I’ve been wanting them to do.

Everything must be explained. Nothing can be left up to the individual’s imagination. And it’s all canon, CANON, CANON.

If this trilogy has anything to do with the origins of the Jedi/Sith, I’m out. I’m sick of this crap.

Now that I think about it, they did say it would be an “unexplored corner” of the galaxy. That implies an unfamiliar location more than it does an unfamiliar time. So maybe I’m wrong and this will be set within the timeline of I-IX.

I wonder when we’ll see the first major project from the Nu-LFL to venture outside of the main era.

Are they still making those Old Republic games? They were never explicitly carried over into the new continuity like I-VI and TCW, but I seem to recall the most recent one coming out either right before or right after the Disney deal happened.

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Old Republic MMO expansions are still coming out, but they’re all Legends (the only Legends timeline material still being produced, actually).

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“Johnson will introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.”

If this is true, then I’m in. Though I could see Lucasfilm reneging or sort of going halfway on this.

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DominicCobb said:

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Either way, pretty ridiculous to call this mundane news.

The ‘he’s creating the other two as well’ part really is that. Unless they’ll really bow down to him and let him loose completely unrestricted exactly the way you wouldn’t have done with a studio tentpole, with enough time between the installments to have him personally make the whole thing… that bit is pretty meaningless, especially this far in advance.

I am still absolutely beside myself that he’s doing a new, original Star Wars story.

I thought you meant mundane in regards to the news as a whole, not just that one bit.

Yeah, I highly doubt he’s directing or even writing the other two. But I think it would be odd for them to announce a spin-off trilogy if he didn’t have a three-part story in mind. Again, they could ultimately ditch his ideas, and whether they do or not who knows, but at this point that doesn’t really matter. It’s envisioned as a Johnson overseen trilogy, whether that remains the case doesn’t change the fact that that’s the idea now.

Yeah, it didn’t come out very clear. Announcing a trilogy is technically bigger than announcing a single movie, sure, but it’s really the same thing if you’re framing it as RJ’s project when pretty much everything after the intitial movie is subject to change the instant they hire a writer to adapt Johnson’s treatment/idea into a script - and with how LucasFilm treats directors you’ve got that hurdle to get over as well.

Unless I’m overly cynical, and the next announcement will be that he’s writing and directing all three, and that it’ll run parallel to the next sequel trilogy as well as to the rest of SW strip-mining. They wanted to up the movie count for some time now - this could be a move towards that.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Fang Zei said:

Literally one of the first things Disney said upon acquiring Lucasfilm just over five years ago was that the Star Wars universe has “over 25,000 years of history.”

This would only lend more credence to someone’s theory upthread about Rian’s trilogy being about the origins of the Jedi, which is pretty much exactly what I’ve been wanting them to do.

Everything must be explained. Nothing can be left up to the individual’s imagination. And it’s all canon, CANON, CANON.

If this trilogy has anything to do with the origins of the Jedi/Sith, I’m out. I’m sick of this crap.

good…dont let the door hit you on your way out 😃

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m_s0 said:

…it’ll run parallel to the next sequel trilogy…

Nah, no way. This is what’s going to replace the trilogy format while they take a break from the Skywalker saga to keep it a generational thing. It’ll be:

  • 2015: Episode VII
  • 2016: Rogue One
  • 2017: Episode VIII
  • 2018: Solo
  • 2019: Episode IX
  • 2020: Kenobi
  • 2021: Johnson I
  • 2022: Anthology
  • 2023: Johnson II
  • 2024: Anthology
  • 2025: Johnson III
  • 2026: Anthology
  • 2027: Episode X (just in time for the 50th anniversary)
  • 2028: Anthology
  • 2029: Episode XI
  • 2030: Anthology
  • 2031: Episode XII
  • 2032: Anthology
  • 2033: Side trilogy B-I
  • 2034: Anthology
  • 2035: Side trilogy B-II
  • 2036: Anthology
  • 2037: Side trilogy B-III
  • 2038: Anthology
  • 2039: Episode XIII

And so on until the end of time.

I’d be shocked if they break from this pattern outside of taking a year off, but I’d also be shocked if they don’t want the 50th anniversary year to kick off the second sequel trilogy (aka Episode X-XII).

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Zazeron the serpent said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Fang Zei said:

Literally one of the first things Disney said upon acquiring Lucasfilm just over five years ago was that the Star Wars universe has “over 25,000 years of history.”

This would only lend more credence to someone’s theory upthread about Rian’s trilogy being about the origins of the Jedi, which is pretty much exactly what I’ve been wanting them to do.

Everything must be explained. Nothing can be left up to the individual’s imagination. And it’s all canon, CANON, CANON.

If this trilogy has anything to do with the origins of the Jedi/Sith, I’m out. I’m sick of this crap.

good…dont let the door hit you on your way out 😃

If it weren’t for the smiley, I’d be 100% certain you’re a sock of Lord Tobias instead of just 90%.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Zazeron the serpent said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Fang Zei said:

Literally one of the first things Disney said upon acquiring Lucasfilm just over five years ago was that the Star Wars universe has “over 25,000 years of history.”

This would only lend more credence to someone’s theory upthread about Rian’s trilogy being about the origins of the Jedi, which is pretty much exactly what I’ve been wanting them to do.

Everything must be explained. Nothing can be left up to the individual’s imagination. And it’s all canon, CANON, CANON.

If this trilogy has anything to do with the origins of the Jedi/Sith, I’m out. I’m sick of this crap.

good…dont let the door hit you on your way out 😃

If it weren’t for the smiley, I’d be 100% certain you’re a sock of Lord Tobias instead of just 90%.

I’m sure. He just doubled his temp ban. Permanent if he socks again.

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Cobra Kai said:

I just find it hard to get excited about anything Star Wars related these days, when the actual movies that started it all aren’t even available and are being ignored by the copyright owners.
And after seeing the first two Disney-SW movies I would happily trade all of the “Rogue Ones” and “TFAs” in the world for a proper restoration of the OT.

Amen. Throw in HAM YO-YO: The Movie, too.

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Fang Zei said:

Your average moviegoer will probably consider the ST J.J. Abrams’ anyway, even though someone else directed the middle chapter (kind of like how most people think Lucas directed the entire OT).

At least Rian gets to actually lay the foundations this time.

Your average moviegoer won’t know who directed any of them.

TV’s Frink said:

I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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@ChainsawAsh, I think it will be more like this:

•2015: Episode VII
•2016: Rogue One
•2017: Episode VIII
•2018: Solo
•2019: Episode IX
•2020: Kenobi
•2021: Johnson I
•2022: Anthology (Fett)
•2023: Johnson II
•2024: Anthology (Jabba)
•2025: Johnson III
•2026: Anthology (Palpatine/ Crossover/???)
•2027: Episode X (just in time for the 50th anniversary)
•2029: Episode XI
•2031: Episode XII

I mean, how many Anthology films can you really do? Every character in the Original Trilogy? That’s just ridiculous to do one EVERY other year for 12 years straight.

What are your thoughts?

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If they take a year off, it’ll be an anthology year (2026 maybe). But we’re definitely getting a SW movie a year for the foreseeable future, as a combination of trilogies and one-offs.

I could maybe see them ditching solo anthologies for a while and do two parallel trilogies, but I definitely don’t see them switching to an every-other-year schedule at this point.

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CarboniteSolo said:

@ChainsawAsh, I think it will be more like this:

•2015: Episode VII
•2016: Rogue One
•2017: Episode VIII
•2018: Solo
•2019: Episode IX
•2020: Kenobi
•2021: Johnson I
•2022: Anthology (Fett)
•2023: Johnson II
•2024: Anthology (Jabba)
•2025: Johnson III
•2026: Anthology (Palpatine/ Crossover/???)
•2027: Episode X (just in time for the 50th anniversary)
•2029: Episode XI
•2031: Episode XII

I mean, how many Anthology films can you really do? Every character in the Original Trilogy? That’s just ridiculous to do one EVERY other year for 12 years straight.

What are your thoughts?

That’s a lot of new action figures to collect.

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There’s no reason to believe every anthology film will be a solo character spin-off. We’ve only had one anthology film so far and it wasn’t that.

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DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason to believe every anthology film will be a Solo character spin-off. We’ve only had one anthology film so far and it wasn’t that.

Plus how many other Solo characters are there anyway?

😃

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Calling it now, Rian’s trilogy will recanonize and be primarily focused on Thracken Sal-Solo.

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DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason to believe every anthology film will be a solo character spin-off. We’ve only had one anthology film so far and it wasn’t that.

Yes.
My dream spin-off would take place in the SW galaxy, but feature no characters we already know and have nothing to do with the Rebels vs. Empire/Jedi vs Badguys ect.
Clerks set on Dantooine.

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ray_afraid said:

DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason to believe every anthology film will be a solo character spin-off. We’ve only had one anthology film so far and it wasn’t that.

Yes.
My dream spin-off would take place in the SW galaxy, but feature no characters we already know and have nothing to do with the Rebels vs. Empire/Jedi vs Badguys ect.
Clerks set on Dantooine.

Dantooine is too remote to make an effective Spinoff Trilogy.

You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
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NeverarGreat said:

ray_afraid said:

DominicCobb said:

There’s no reason to believe every anthology film will be a solo character spin-off. We’ve only had one anthology film so far and it wasn’t that.

Yes.
My dream spin-off would take place in the SW galaxy, but feature no characters we already know and have nothing to do with the Rebels vs. Empire/Jedi vs Badguys ect.
Clerks set on Dantooine.

Dantooine is too remote to make an effective Spinoff Trilogy.

LOL

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Hoping for a trilogy about the Galactic Republic Constitutional Convention set circa 1000 BBY.

EPI: A New Article
EPII: The Federalists Strike Back
EPIII: Ratification of the Republic

TV’s Frink said:

I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.

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Somewhere in the depths of Sith history there has to have been a Darth Darth. 😛

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At some point they’re just gonna start using the names from that one Futurama episode.

I for one can’t wait for the Darth Sploder anthology film.