timdiggerm said:
Don't forget though: You remake the "first" three.... someone's gonna remake the "next" three.
(where "first" and "next" are in reference to in-universe chronology)
To be honest I'm all for that. I don't mean to just be sounding contraversial but as it stands we have the OT, which I think is great, but I think E6 has big problems and could have been massively better, so I think there is room for improvement there. And we have the PT which (personally) I think should be largley disregarded and only the very best ideas, and a few cool names or designed, should remain (though I admit this isn't everyone's view).
But we have two trilogies with quite different styles, different actors playing characters, and so on. We are going to get a new trilogy, which could in theory be just as different in style and quality again.
If they remade them, they could all (1-9) be made in the same style, using the same actors for characters that carry through the different films. And most importantly, they could try to make episodes 1, 2, 3, and 6 a lot better (again only my personal opinion here). If E4 and E5 weren't seen as being as good as the OT was then its still improved two thirds of the films, and they could open the end of RotJ to lead into E7 better than I think they really could at the moment. As it stands the bad guys are dead and the good guys have won. Bringing back a bad guy or making a good guy bad or something like that would deminish the rebel's victory a little, or introducing a new bad guy will just seem random because there was no precedent for it in the films we have. If they just remade copies of the OT with new actors and changed nothing but a couple of small references to Thrawn then right away the Sequel Trilogy would have a better foundation (if they wanted to take it in that direction).
Another way of looking at it is the more they release new films the more snippets of footage there might be for fan edits of the films we already have, thats always a bonus.