Do you think Disney will remake the prequels? — Page 3

I didn’t say you said it’s awesome, I’m saying I don’t think a bunch of fight scenes add up to something better than the PT, flaws and all.

The thing is, they’re really focusing on the future right now. They tend to be avoiding most things prequels at the moment. I think their mentality is “its there. it’s a part of canon. let’s just leave it and move on.”

I see them remaking the originals before they remake the prequels in any capacity. They’ll continue to ride this train of new star wars content until it fizzles out and stops bringing in big money. Then they’ll probably wait a few years and announce they’re remaking SW.

Probably.

1.) There would be a very strong demand for Disney to remake the prequels due to widespread fan dissatisfaction with them.

2.) There would be so much material from which the best screenwriters in Hollywood could derive inspiration for a rewrite of the prequels. There would be the current prequel trilogy itself, the original trilogy, the sequel trilogy, the Clone Wars animated series, the Clone Wars animated film, and the Expanded Universe fan fiction.

3.) Disney would gain billions of dollars from rewriting the prequels.

GlastoEls said:

We cannot campaign for the OOT and simultaneously call for editing of the PT.

Double standards of the highest order.

I don’t agree at all because it’s not the same thing. I don’t think anyone cares whether or not Lucas made a special edition of the original Star Wars trilogy, hell make one every year in a constant stream of different versions for all I care. What we all care about are the original versions. We simply want access to them and that’s what Lucas have been denying us for so long. And the fact that he called the new versions “special editions” really says everything about that issue in my opinion. Any “special edition” should have an original otherwise they aren’t special editions.

But back to your statement regarding “double standards of the highest order”. I certainly don’t deny Lucas the right to make prequels or to view the Star Wars universe in which ever way he prefers. This is not an issue of remaking the prequels and replacing Lucas’ vision with them as cannon instead and deny the few fans of these crappy movies their right to view them as Lucas intended them to be seen. No, simply give us fans a really good Star Wars prequel trilogy telling the story of the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, made with the same energy and sense of adventure as the originals and we will all be happy campers. Disney would surely make some serious bucks from such a project and I personally wouldn’t care whether or not Disney declared the new versions official Star Wars cannon and relegated Lucas versions to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. I am capable of making up my own mind which prequel trilogy is cannon and not.

I have a hard time seeing how Disney could manage to screw up the prequels so totally that the result was worse than Lucas versions, I don’t think that’s possible, so in that case - go for it.

You assume Disney would make good prequel movies. You assume too much. I don’t think TFA is good (watchable, fun, fast paced, action packed, nicely done à la “Star Trek 2009”: ok, but “good” like “Star Wars” or “Empire Strikes Back”, hell no !). The PT era cannot really be improved (the all concept of showing prior events is dumb; we didn’t need it to watch the OT for 22 years, we still don’t need it), even by rewritting it. GL failure is seeded since RETURN OF THE JEDI, the backstory of Anakin’s fall is too complex to make a truly good movie out of it (so the guy is a gifted pilot, a great Jedi, but he is seduced by the dark side which is embodied by an old man with yellow teeth and a cliché evil look, who happens to rule the Empire; he got his ass kicked and his children were dispatched just under his nose - I mean, his son is called Skywalker ! - and the guy never had a clue about it in 20 years ? Come on !). Another adaptation could be better (we can be pretty sure it would be), but I would’nt see the point of it since RETURN OF THE JEDI should be remade as well.

That being said, I would love to see movies set in the PT era (or between both trilogies) that capture the feeling of the OT with elements of the PT (like a side-PT, with unrelated characters who live their adventures in the outer rim). In a way, REBELS is exactly trying to do that. And it’s not really a good show (it’s watchable though), that’s why I don’t think that Disney could make a PT reboot that would please the fan base (fan base which is a little bit mixed about TFA). So, I guess, it’s time to move on: the PT exists (and fanedits improve them), Disney is unlikely to reboot them : TFA contains at least 3 references to the PT era (clone troopers, the balance of the Force, McGregor’s voice); REBELS is using plot elements from the CLONE WARS tv series; a recent REBELS episode has stated that “a huge weapon” was being built near Geonosis - take a guess -; ROGUE ONE might give a few nods to the PT era as well. And don’t forget that the 2011 bluray version of the OT is canon to Disney (which means: Hayden’s ghost - who was supposed to be in TFA -, cameo appareance of Naboo, Coruscant, a Dug).

So: “DO YOU THINK DISNEY WILL REMAKE THE PREQUELS?”
No, I don’t. They will probably make spin-off movies that can fill the PT-era gaps (convenient for those who hate the PT), but Anakin’s fall will never be remade. And we are not sure at all these movies will be good.