How would a reboot even go? If you were going to start over, you may as well smooth over the incredibly rocky continuity to the point that the plot would be quite different. And if you’re going to boil it down to its archetypal elements, why not just tell a new story using them?
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
They’ll keep doing soft reboots (I count TFA as a soft reboot), but I highly doubt a hard reboot or official multiverse will ever happen. They’ll just play around with different parts of the timeline. The traditional story structure and tropes will mostly remain the same, though. Some “new” Sith or offbrand Sith will emerge and the Jedi will be sparse or almost extinct, being still regarded as mythical figures of the past.
I’ve wondered if they will eventually retell the entire story in animation.
I really think that they should loosen up on canon, or have multiple different continuities or something like that. Not in the same way as Marvel or DC, though. Maybe they should have no official canon, but a few continuity projects. I don’t know.
But with a fandom so big and so diverse as the Star Wars fandom, having one official continuity is an awful idea. I mean, for one, there might not have been such a poor reaction to the prequels or TLJ if they weren’t the only backstory for Darth Vader, or the only continuation of Luke’s story. If other people could try their hands at those stories, people wouldn’t care if this one particular one wasn’t right for them.
Especially if Lucasfilm wants to treat Star Wars like a modern mythology. There is technically a Sherlock Holmes canon, and a Robin Hood canon, and a King Arthur canon, but they don’t behave the same way that Star Wars’s canon does. They’re a central group of ideas and stories from which other stories radiate out from.
I really think that they should loosen up on canon, or have multiple different continuities or something like that. Not in the same way as Marvel or DC, though. Maybe they should have no official canon, but a few continuity projects. I don’t know.
But with a fandom so big and so diverse as the Star Wars fandom, having one official continuity is an awful idea. I mean, for one, there might not have been such a poor reaction to the prequels or TLJ if they weren’t the only backstory for Darth Vader, or the only continuation of Luke’s story. If other people could try their hands at those stories, people wouldn’t care if this one particular one wasn’t right for them.
Especially if Lucasfilm wants to treat Star Wars like a modern mythology. There is technically a Sherlock Holmes canon, and a Robin Hood canon, and a King Arthur canon, but they don’t behave the same way that Star Wars’s canon does. They’re a central group of ideas and stories from which other stories radiate out from.
I like what you’re thinking. Really, what we have right now is the worst of both worlds. We have a bunch of content that’s all considered hard canon, yet is rife with contradictions. Either Star Wars should have an airtight canon, and if it can’t accomplish that (which it can’t), then it should open itself up fully to alternate interpretations and retellings, like actual myths and legends. That looser approach might even help bring some of that old fantasy element back to the franchise.
I can’t prove it, but my feeling is that there is a silent majority of Star Wars fans that are desperately waiting for Disney to reboot the damn PT!
Certainly a lot of Boomers or GenXers probably feel this way. Maybe the older millennials too.
“It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you.”
-Kreia, Jedi Master and Sith Lord
I can’t prove it, but my feeling is that there is a silent majority of Star Wars fans that are desperately waiting for Disney to reboot the damn PT!
Certainly a lot of Boomers or GenXers probably feel this way. Maybe the older millennials too.
Back in 2012, I would have been fully on board with that idea. Now, though, I don’t trust Disney and Lucasfilm to fare any better than George did.
Also, the zoomers would revolt.
Screw the actual quality of the prequels or their hypothetical reboot, the angry zoomers alone would be worth it.
They should reboot the whole saga but then write them in a way that TLJ means is still part VIII.
I guess we do our part of mythmaking with our heterodox apocryphal altered versions of the stories.
I never had the nerve to make the final cut.
Screw the actual quality of the prequels or their hypothetical reboot, the angry zoomers alone would be worth it.
What the hell is a zoomer?
“It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you.”
-Kreia, Jedi Master and Sith Lord
Screw the actual quality of the prequels or their hypothetical reboot, the angry zoomers alone would be worth it.
What the hell is a zoomer?
Gen Z. The one after millennials.
I don’t think they should or would change the canon. It would be much more easy two have 2 different canons if the old EU was continued in a different adjacent timeline. The could even adapt some of the comics, and novels into animation under the Legends imprint.
Would the original cuts of the OT also count as Legends? Since the Maclunky edit is the official canon along with Han shooting second.
I don’t think they should or would change the canon. It would be much more easy two have 2 different canons if the old EU was continued in a different adjacent timeline. The could even adapt some of the comics, and novels into animation under the Legends imprint.
Would the original cuts of the OT also count as Legends? Since the Maclunky edit is the official canon along with Han shooting second.
Yeah, I personally consider the original versions as the “Legends cuts” of the movies (at least pre-PT Legends). The Thrawn trilogy books are sequels to those versions of the films.
I don’t think Episodes X-XII should ever happen, but my marketing instinct tells me the Postquel Trilogy is inevitable.
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my marketing instinct tells me the Postquel Trilogy is inevitable.
My family already calls the ST “the Postquels,” so I’ve gotten used to calling them that out loud. So I guess the next ones will be the Post-Postquels lol
But yeah, I think you’re right.
Actually, I used to think Episodes 10-12 were inevitable, but now I don’t. Lucasfilm is definitely going to be putting more time into Disney+ shows from here on out, and while both spinoff movies were outperformed by all three ST movies, I don’t think that has anything to do with them being spinoffs. It just doesn’t look like they have a reason to make an Episode 10.
Actually, I used to think Episodes 10-12 were inevitable, but now I don’t. Lucasfilm is definitely going to be putting more time into Disney+ shows from here on out, and while both spinoff movies were outperformed by all three ST movies, I don’t think that has anything to do with them being spinoffs. It just doesn’t look like they have a reason to make an Episode 10.
Just give it time, it is inevitable. Like there was no interest in the Matrix after the trilogy and 20 years later there will be a fourth one. I’m surprised if there is no Episode X in the next 50 years. At the same time I really don’t want it to happen.
And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.
I agree with LexX. While Sparky does have a point, it’s seeing things in the real short term.
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Nah, I’m thinking long term. The film industry is not heading in a direction where a fourth Star Wars trilogy would be as profitable as the prequels and sequels were. Lucasfilm would make just as much profit, if not more, from spinoff movies and streaming shows.
I hope you’re right.
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They are going ahead with Episode X, Simon Kinberg to write the script.
they will most likely be a somewhat reboots for the disney star wars universe
earth 1 nowadays kinda reminds me of the star wars multiverse
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Do we get an actual functioning Jedi Order and Democracy this time. Or do they rinse and repeat rebellion Vs Empire again, and Jedi Vs Sith again? create another superweapon. Just to have conflict.
Is Rey the new Jake Skywalker, a mere cameo to be replaced by these younger and more important to Disney characters.
Does she keep the same failed teachings that lead Luke to recycle the prequel Jedi failures.
Rise of Palpatine says she becomes a Jedi and doubles down and changes nothing, doesn’t find a third path between the dark side and the light, or the Sith and the Jedi. She takes over Luke’s story purpose. What’s to stop what Luke talked about in episode 8 to happen again?
If rebuilding the order is what created a new Sith and Vader, why didn’t Luke leave the order go back to Tatooine and live as Luke Lars. Raise a family get married. Let the Jedi rot. Be a simple moisture farmer. He gives decades of his life for what? because his father was Vader. How much does he have to give and live the life of a celibate monk, how much is enough? Well he’s dead.
I think this new male lead could be Luke’s son, keeping a Skywalker throughout this new trilogy a secret, much like, “No, I am your father.” moment in this new trilogy. I think it will be Mara Jade and Luke’s son, perhaps they took the DNA from his severed hand or Luke had no recollection of being with Mara Jade, and hid him from his father, either by serving the Emperor or some other betrayal.
It would make this new male lead very strong in the Force, he would have a connection with Anakin, his grandfather. Episodes 10-12 would continue the Skywalker Legacy, not just a name change, like Rey. You could bring in Hayden, Ewan McGregor and Mark Hamill to fill in gaps and give clues to Mara Jade’s whereabouts.
I’m not saying that’s what this is, but it’s just an idea I thought at this very moment.