Hello gentle star folk,

My friends and I did a thought experiment a while back: what if George Lucas continued after Return of the Jedi and made a new Star Wars movie every three years, meaning the prequels would have been released in 1986, 1989, and 1992. Who would have been cast? How would the different actors, available technology and, frankly, George’s sensibilities general exhaustion have changed what those movies were?

So we just did an episode of my podcast about it, and it was one of the most fun ones we’ve done. I figured if anyone else in the world would enjoy this discussion, it’d be members of this forum.

Here’s the episode link: https://www.trashcompod.com/prequels-1986-what-if-the-prequels-were-made-in-the-1980s/ (a transcript is available there as well)

But this one in particular benefits enormously from the YouTube version to put faces to actors names, so here’s a link to that directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xLMTyICc0

I’m pretty confident either Ron Howard or John Korty would have directed Episode I (1986).

What do you think of our choices?