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Instead of the Vong, have the threat in ROTJ be a secret Separatist fleet where each ship has a mini Death Star led by Viceroy Gunray whose spirit survived ROTS and was reanimated into a cloned body and Vader is searching for this secret fleet in order to control the galaxy after the Emperor died and left him all his Imperial ships which already control the galaxy and Yoda dies but Luke has found a secret holocron which tells of the location of this Separatist fleet and he learns how he’s actually the cloned son of Gunray which means he’s destined to become the leader of the Final Trade Federation and he must resist this temptation in order to use two lightsabers he didn’t build to beat the clone of Gunray while dying in the process but luckily Vader tuns good and brings Luke back from the dead leading to a romantic kiss and then the Separatist fleet blows up conveniently and the galaxy rises up against the Empire off screen and Yoda’s body finally disappears and Chewie gets a medal for winning the Clone Wars and Luke goes back to Naboo and buries some lightsabers in the sand and tries to guess the names of the birds singing.

ChainsawAsh said:

Some of the Empire pictures that have been coming out look a lot more atmospheric and pseudo-medieval, not nearly as “clean” as the earlier photos.

I’m attributing a lot of the “too clean” to the fact that most of these stills are set photos or publicity photos and not actual frames from the film itself.

I hope you’re right.

I’m fine with accepting that Luke’s face remaining in shadow is a stylistic choice rather than a practical one.

I have a real soft spot for the intricate and often suffocating set design in the Lynch version. It felt appropriate to a baroque feudal universe in a state of decay. This feels a bit too futuristic and clean.

Although, I’ve loved every other Villeneuve film so I hope to eat my words.

“I’m surprised you had the verbiage to write the order yourself.”

Sure. At least it would have given him something different to do than just ‘Gotta rule the galaxy’.

Palpatine should have been a ravening spirit bent on revenge, wishing only the destruction of the Skywalkers. If the galaxy should fall in the process, so be it.

“Ahh, JJ Abrams. I recognized your empty mystery box when you were brought back on board.”

Hal 9000 said:

Having just finished re-reading Splinter

able to just picture Harrison Ford in my mind’s eye

Eye see what you did there.

It’s okay, I’m never coming back to this thread again.

This little film’s not worth the effort.

All of the TLJ concepts I’ve come up with are still just concepts, though TFA is nearing something I can live with. At the moment, my plan is to finish TFA and maybe do a less extreme version of TLJ to match up with the ending of TFA. I know there’s a thread for TROS but right now I wouldn’t put any money on it being done. Most of my remaining Star Wars energy right now is being put into an alternate Ep 9 script because that’s the only way I can think to do these characters justice.

I think the method is that his spirit can be coaxed back into a clone body through a Sith Cultist ritual or something.

Of course, this leaves open the possibility that some new cultists could just clone him again, which rather ruins the finality of the whole exercise even if they say ‘no really, he’s defeated forever this time!’

Make the Resistance win at the end of TROS because Pryde pressed the ‘all ships explode’ button.

JEDIT: Actually, this makes more sense than the movie.

I’m not planning anything on that angle, mostly because TROS isn’t canon for me 😉

If anyone wants to make their own inclusions later they are certainly welcome to, though.

https://i.imgur.com/3ZZNqwL.mp4

Even the text on the bottom would work better in a different order:

FORETOLD BY A WIZARD. FORGED BY A GOD. FOUND BY A MAN.

Yeah, I’m still unsure about the division between the sections. Adding more seems unnecessary.

I saw this movie for the first time recently, super charming.

It’s a crime that it was lost.

Ah, they must have used shorter Luke for the Ewok scenes, that’s why Warwick looks so big.

It makes sense. By the third part of any trilogy, people tend to have strong and differing feelings about the fate of the characters.

Most photoshop jobs just show the actor when he was older, but I’d actually love to see a young Guinness deepfake. It would have the benefit of more closely matching McGregor’s appearance as well.

JEDIT: Here’s my attempt:

Agreed. This movie is only so-bad-it’s-good on the first watch. After that it’s just bad.

This is the first time that it feels seamless to me.