The Standalone Star Wars Films — Page 4

I am wondering what kind of visual freedom Lucasfilm and Disney are giving to the guys who'll make those standalone movies. I mean: do those movies really NEED to look and feel like the "EPISODES" or can they be just set in the Star Wars world but having each different directors own touch?

I would not suggest that a horror movie in the Star Wars world will be allowed of course (and I don't think I would like that sort of things), but how far those standalone can go from the classic way of filming that the "EPISODES" have? And should they detached themselves visualy from the trilogies, or should they keep a "classic "Star Wars look?

I think keeping an overall Star Wars "way of filming" is a must but that's just me. Let the faneditors makes the Tarantino cuts! 

I'd love to see horror films set in the SW Universe. The TOTJ and Alan Moore comics often had horror visuals in them, and to see similar visuals in live-action films would be awesome.

The first Standalone Star Wars film to be filmed in UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27789638

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Disney has pinewood virtually fully booked for years.

Here's a report on Kasdan's writing the proposed Fett movie.

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/rumor-lawrence-kasdan-to-write-boba-fett-stand-alone-star-wars-spin-off/

Not sure how reliable the site is, but if it's true I hope he goes with his "man with no name" idea, making the character cool again and washing away the bitter taste of the prequels.

If Kasdan is writing the Fett movie then it won't be the 2016 film right? Because that one already has a writer. But the other one (the Josh Tank one) does not have a writer, so it could be that.

This will surely end in tears. Fett is popular because he is mysterious.

I love that picture of Boba. It reminds me of why I used to be a fan of his.

Johnny Ringo said:

This will surely end in tears. Fett is popular because he is mysterious.

 But that's what Kasdan's wants to do. His idea is that at the start of the film someone who Boba Fett is hunting kills him and takes his armour. You never see his face, there by doing away with the whole prequels thing and any knowledge of the character.

It would be a great way to start the film.

^It'd also probably help to make me a fan of the character again.

That would indeed by amazing. It would also be fantastic if they canonized the OOT and re-designated the SE to be what its name implies. They'll have to do that if they want Boba in the OT to be different than Boba in the PT.

You cannot have a protagonist that wears a stationary mask the whole time.

It would be UN-watchable.

I disagree. It greatly depends on how they do the movie. Heck, he doesn't have to even be the protagonist to be the focus of the movie. If they did it right, they could easily get away with it.

I doubt they go against PT Boba.  I'd imagine they'll pick up his story in the years after ROTS. 

mfastx said:

I doubt they go against PT Boba.  I'd imagine they'll pick up his story in the years after ROTS. 

 I hope the entire movie is just a Lemmiwinks (South Park) type tale of his journey through the digestive tract of the Sarlacc.

Darth Id said:

You cannot have a protagonist that wears a stationary mask the whole time.

It would be UN-watchable.

 Didn't they do that with the last Judge Dredd film? I didn't see it so I might be wrong.

Anyhow, I think it would work. Imagine a whole film where he hardly speaks and you learn about the character purely through his actions. Basically follow him on a really difficult mission - it would be great.

If they were to make a film focussing on Darth Vader's purge of the Jedi,....would you be expecting him to show some facial expressions?

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