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Post #590409

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Star Wars Purist
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How would a Star Wars reboot do?
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17-Aug-2012, 9:15 PM

DuracellEnergizer said:

I haven't much interest in seeing the OT rebooted. Most of the flaws are minor, and correcting them wouldn't serve to make a trilogy different enough to really interest me.

And Mark Hamill is not a terrible actor. His performance as the Joker in the DCAU is definitive proof against that claim.

Exactly.  Mark played a very REAL character in the OT.  Modern expectations demand an action hero, an unrealistically "by the book" tragic figure (i.e. Anakin), or something else.  Hamill provided the real McCoy: A slightly geeky teenage farmboy suddenly struck with knowledge of magical powers and a mission to save a Princess and the Galaxy as a whole.  

As for rebooting Star Wars, I simply feel the Prequels should be rebooted and that the OT and its continuity and original theatrical presentations should be restored.  However, if Star Wars was to see a reboot, I would then like to see a remake of the original Star Wars (kind of like an "Ultimate Star Wars") with much grittier realism and which would make much more out of secondary characters (I would have Chewbacca encounter enslaved Wookies aboard the Death Star and attempt to free them from execution, but fail, thus provoking him to persuade Han to join the Battle over the Death Star at the end of the film) and would change things up quite a bit (I would NOT have Vader end up Luke's father, or have Leia be his sister, and might even have Obi-Wan as a clone).  However, this would never be true continuity in my eyes, just an alternate tale, like what they do in the comics.