George wasn’t going to make sequels he was going to make Star Wars underworld and that never got made.
Disney’s priority was to make a commercial for a theme park. And to sell toys. Other ancillary merchandise. Storytelling was never as important as corporate planning was. They have shareholder calls and meetings, corporate boards and governance. Quarterly quotas.
Yeah, for me his ideas for Underworld sure seem a lot more intriguing than what we’ve learnt of his Sequel Trilogy outlines. 👍
A pity we never got to see that - especially given the writing talents assorted for the series (though some aspects of it have been rejigged for stories in other SW series since?).
Some of his sequel ideas have also been repurposed. If Mando and Gorgo holds to be true they will be facing warlords running the remnants of the Empire. And Dave Filoni is using George’s ideas in Darth Maul Shadow lord with Darth Talon.
Wasn’t Luke as a colonel Kurtz like character allegedly in George’s treatment. That sort of ended up in the Last Jedi if not in the way George would have handled it. The astral projection/ Luke is a legend stuff. and not a straightforward redemption arc. That does not sound like George at all. I also don’t picture Lucas making the prequel Jedi failures and Luke’s meta narrative. Chuck the lightsaber it’s time for the Jedi to end. Burn the tree with the Jedi texts, oh that is right Rey stole them.
I do like the idea that the force is bigger than the light side and the dark side and its vanity that the force dies if the jedi religion dies. The balance being bigger than the jedi and Sith conflict is interesting and then its abandoned.
Yeah, that aspect being ignored in TROS was really disappointing. Was it included in Colin Trevorrow’s original Duel of the Fates script? It’d certainly be interesting to see if it was.
I love those fan creations based on DOTF - Andrew Winegarner’s fan-made DOTF comic adaptation, Joe Kenobi’s full movie (motion comic), the ToyBox Special Edition, and dewvre’s 9-epsiode podcast read-through… I’ll have to revisit them for that.
A fan-made comic book adaptation of Trevorrow & Connolly’s Ep IX: ‘Duel of the Fates’ - with links for all 4 of the above projects.