Made the following story sketch a while back ago in early May of last year. It is from an idea that came to me; does anyone want to help with this? It would be greatly appreciated, as you have undoubtedly guessed it would be. I need all the help I can get. Please prove to me that my trust can go to the people on this forum. You are all good, moral people, as can easily be seen by the general threads/postings on this forum. Thought I would bring this project here, in order to present it to all of you. You are all undoubtedly worthy.
How does a remake of Return of the Jedi sound? Is anyone interested in hearing about the plan? Mainly, it is an idea that if we take certain scenes from Return of the Jedi, and mesh them together with remakes of the plot, we can all really get pretty far in making Star Wars the way we want it. The following story sketch outlines the main points in the new plot:
SWIU Version of
REVENGE OF THE JEDI
Here are the basic alternations I have made to ROTJ:
-Han dies in the carbonite.
-Lando is dragged into the Sarlacc pit.
-Luke and Leia begin their relationship together.
-Wookies on Endor, with Chewy as the peacemaker, help the Rebel Alliance.
-Leena, Luke’s sister, is found on Endor, on a human settlement.
-Yoda did not die in ROTJ. He lived long enough afterwards, even to train Luke’s children in the ways of the Jedi.
Now, here are some things that are of an ‘Expanded Universe’. I will add on to them if I get enough replies to this thread.
-Leia sneaks away at night, while Luke is sleeping. She boards the Millenium Falcon, on the Rebel ship that was seen at the end of ESB (forgot name), and takes Lando and Chewy with her, who were taking room in the Falcon.
-They agree to try to save Han Solo, from Jabba, on the planet Geonosh. There, he has a hidden hideout that few know of. Lando knows of the hideout.
-Imperial ships follow the Falcon from a great distance. Leia, Lando, Chewy break into the hideout. There is a small battle. Leia quickly goes and unmelts Han, and finds out that he died while frozen. Jabba’s henchman capture them, locking Lando and Chewy in the dungeons below the hideout. Leia is left to be the slave of Jabba.
-Luke sees these images in a dream, and gets aboard his X-Wing. The Imperial ships track him down, and follow him to the hideout. When he gets there, Lando and Chewy are about to be thrown into the Sarlacc pit, and Leia is chained to Jabba.
-Imperial Stormtroopers come. There is a large battle. During the battle, Lando falls into pit, tries to get back out, but a tentacle grabs him and drags him down, where he undoubtedly dies.
-During the fight, Leia chokes Jabba with the chain tide to her.
-Luke, Leia, Chewy, escape barely.
-They go the a Rebel spaceship, and attend the meeting on the new plans to destroy the Death Star.
-That night, Luke and Leia begin a relationship.
-They travel to Endor, etc. Epic (and classic) speeder battle in the forests of the moon.
- They meet up with Wookies, and Chewy serves as a translator of sorts, and gets them to join.
-Luke feels the force drawing him towards a nearby village of humans.
-Finds Leena, and tells her of who she truly is, after hearing the voice of Obi-Wan telling him that he is right indeed, and that she is his sister.
-Battle of Endor.
-Luke goes to Death Star, etc.
-Leena, Chewy, and Ackbar lead X-Wings against Death Star, and destroy it.
Ending: Large celebration in Leena’s village, and Wookies are present. Luke, Leia, Leena, Chewy, 3PO, and Artoo, are grouped together, watching the celebration.
NOTE: Everything I didn’t explain in further detail, followed closely enough to the normal ROTJ (Return of the Jedi), that it was unnecessary to ramble on. I wanted to give a general idea about the major differences. I will be adding more things, and putting new twists in.
If best comes to best, or otherwise, we could always simply make a novel-sized story with images to support the theme. Mainly, we want to redo Return of the Jedi to better accomodate logic. The movie of ROTJ was half-assed… we want to go back and complete it, if not redo it as you have seen an example of in the above article.
So what do you friends think?