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What changes would you make to the Sequels? — Page 3

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I guess if I had my druthers, I’d do one of the following:

  1. Recast the lead characters and film Zahn’s trilogy as the ST. (Sebastian Stan as Luke, Millie Bobbie Brown as Leia, and give Alden Ehrenreich another shot as Han.
  2. Go with Prizm’s ST story. (Available to watch on youtube)
  3. Redo ROTJ with Luke falling to the dark side, and then a ST in which a New Republic led by Leia is at odds with an Imperial Remnant ruled by Luke.

Oddly enough, given the timescales involved, 1 and 2 could be combined if you resolved the issue of Leia being pregnant with Jedi twins in Zahn’s trilogy vs. Ben Solo being an only child in Prizm’s story. You could rework Jacen / Jaina into Ben / Rey, with Rey having been lost to the dark side early in her training. (In Prizm’s story she just starts as a fully trained darksider.) Then you’d have Zahn’s trilogy as 7-9 and Prizm’s as 10-12.

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I would have cast Jessica Henwick as Rey. She would have no blood relation to Palpatine or the Skywalker clan. Through her hard work and determination and grit, leaning on her skills as a scavenger she would become a Jedi. Proving herself to Luke Skywalker.

And give Finn an actual character arc. He becomes a Jedi leads a rebellion of stormtroopers. He isn’t a janitor, he isn’t the new trilogy Jar Jar or comic relief. He doesn’t exist to just yell Rey!.

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jmarso1 said:

I guess if I had my druthers, I’d do one of the following:

  1. Recast the lead characters and film Zahn’s trilogy as the ST. (Sebastian Stan as Luke, Millie Bobbie Brown as Leia,

That’s like a 22 year age-gap between the Twins. That would be weird as hell.

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The thing I would change about the sequel trilogy is that the Rebels are in charge, nothing is happening in the galaxy and it’s kinda boring.

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No Snoke.
Ben Solo is still around but he never fell.
Rey is still important.
There is dark side stuff happening, it’s more the dark side of the force flexing it’s muscle and trying to find someone corruptible.
Han has been hiding Ben for this reason.
7 takes place almost entirely on Jakku, much more cat and mouse and more exposition to all of the characters.
Rey is accidentally found by the First Order and sets off some Dark Side alarms as she is a corruptible candidate that was hidden there. Also sets off some alarms with Leia, who dispatches her husband and son to find her and protect her.
Luke is still hiding.
Han doesn’t know what to do but figures that Luke does. They get the other part of the map and the movie ends with them heading to Achoo. When they get there Luke is already dead, he’s a force ghost and essentially a guardian of the island, the whole dark entity thing that we deal with in E8 is present and force ghost Luke basically is convinced that he’s counterbalancing this and neutralizing it, even in his present state.
E8 would clearly bring Palpy back as the dark side agent, cloning stuff abounds, they’re looking for a corruptible for him to possess. E8 would be about training Rey so that Rey and Ben could vanquish Palpy, I can go with the dyad thing.
E9 would pretty much be a mashup of ending what I posited here and elements of the Colin Treverrow treatment for E9, particularly Finn leading an insurrection.