Johannus said:

Mrebo said:

I'm not quite married to my version starting on Tatooine...but I have been engaged to it for awhile. Will have to consider it more. Hmmm...

I have considered many ideas of using Coruscant in a NPT, or in a new RotJ, or even in an outline for what if RotJ wasnt the end but the stepping stone for Episodes 7-9 in which Coruscant could then appear in E9.

Johannus said:

Imagine if we could completely reboot Star Wars and create the perfect 9 films as they should have been (so leave episodes 4 and 5 pretty much identical, and the parts from RotJ that would have allowed it to be more open ended to lead into the next 3 films.

For the record, RoTJ is no less perfect than 4&5!

One thing I want to try to do is wrap up my EpIII in as neat a little bow as RoTJ. To that end, I want a non-gloomy (Star Warsy) ending. Elsewhere I've raised the issue of making the Empire appear as the good guys so far as I can. The chaos in the galaxy will be so pronounced that the new control by an Empire will be welcomed.

As some of you have suggested it can be fun to not show much of Palpatine, to leave Tatooine as a developing world, etc. And we can wrap it all up in hopeful terms.

And nothing precludes jumping in media res (not a phrase I knew before) to an episode VII now, though I hope Lucas restrains himself!