What If Someone Remade Star Wars?
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Star Wars should be left to die. Fortunately I have the original trilogy DVD box set, which includes the original theatrical versions as well as the god damn shitty edits he made. Why fuck with it George? Why?
Same, storywise the prequel trilogy was a mess that made no sense and had an arch that was premature. Here's the way I would do the prequel trilogy:CkretAznMan said:
Episode 1: Anakan Skywalker is between the ages 16-20 (get those teen heartthrob markets) and is called with his mentor, Obi Wan, to deal with a situation that severely tests his service to the Jedi and introduces him to a love interest who will become the mother of Luke and Leia (it could be Padmae, it could be someone else). Skywalker passes his test and becomes a full Jedi, but is emotionally scarred by the situation posed in the the film.
Episode 2: Skywalker is slightly older (between 25-30) and is having serious callings toward the dark side. He finds the mentor of Palpatine and eventually turns to the dark side. He fights Obi Wan (in a fight that lasts something like five minutes vs. the ten or twenty minutes in Revenge of the Sith), and from there Skywalker becomes Vader.
Episode 3: Obi Wan discovers that Skywalker had two children with the love interest from the first film. He spends the movie stealthfully taking them to their respective parents to hide them from Vader. In the process, he learns about Skywalker's past on Tatooine. While this is happening, we see the details of Vader's mission to destroy the Jedi. We see his success and maybe (or maybe not) a fight between Palpatine and Yoda. There will be no fight between Vader and Obi Wan as their fight is portrayed well in Episode 4.
Obviously, the devil may lies in the details, the characters and the logic of actions made by those characters is key to any remake being better than the Lucas prequels. The major things that I would change would be to have the love story secondary to Skywalker's fall to the dark side. In fact, the potential love interest may not even make an appearance in the second part.
However, as mentioned before, I wouldn't touch the original trilogy.
Ngah... I'll try it:Aulleas123 said:
Episode 1: Two characters, a teen and an adolescent that treat each other like brothers, live in an underground village, looked after by Yoda, and pass by life in a very over-the-top fashion, constantly defying the village's rules. When a certain disastrous event happens that causes the village to be attacked by ... probably the Sith; they are found by three pre-Jedi characters, named Anakin, Obi-Wan, and a female Jedi. During this time the main character, the adolescent that's a few years younger than his "brother", finds an oddly shaped crystal that enhances his powers over the Force. The movie focuses on the "brothers'" learning the ways of the Force and the existence of the Jedi from the other three characters. Sometime early in the film, the main character would be visited by an unknown figure warning him about both the Jedi and the Sith. During the movie, the two would gain weapons, their lightsabers are red, and gain experience through their struggles, the main character's Force crystal is learned to be extremely powerful. The teen's over-the-top do-the-impossible personality was able to lead and end decisive battles against the Sith; the adolescent would be shown depending on his "elder brother's" enthusiasm and words to help himself defeat the Sith. This movie maps out what it's like being an exposition about the Jedi, and exactly how they work; there are not many Force users. It also makes remarks about the Jedi fighting for hope and the Sith fighting for despair. It ends with the two deciding that they want to become Jedi.
Episode 2: Starts with the two leads training to become Jedi, a few years after the first episode. The relationships between the five have grown stronger; Anakin Skywalker finds a love interest, though it's not very much focused upon; the female Jedi develops an interest onto the do-the-impossible character; Obi-Wan becomes a sort of mentor for the team; and the main character entering into his hormonal stage of life by feeling attracted to the female Jedi. And "exam" takes place for Anakin, Obi-Wan, and the girl, but only Anakin fails; his force powers seemed to be stronger yet more aggressive, as in more like a Sith; a subplot is created for Anakin's descent. The first half of the story focuses on their missions, the Jedis' negative affect on society, and a notice about the alarming increase of Sith. After the protagonist finds out about his "brother's" relationship with the female character, a battle that the five are fighting within goes awry as the protagonist is unable to fulfill his part of the mission. The elder brother literally knocks out the protagonist's distractedness and gives him a few inspiring words. As the elder brother returns to do his part of the mission, he is attacked and overwhelmed by a Sith (perhaps General Grevious), seemingly ending with the brother's death. Immediately learning of their friend's apparent demise, they start to struggle in the battle, with the main character being affected the most. The brother returns and urges the main character to fight alongside him for the final time; leading to a more over-the-top battle between the Sith and the brothers, ending with the Sith's death. The elder brother succumbs to his wounds and dies. After the battle, the four characters mourn and the rest of the story (half-way point here) focuses on their realization of the similarities between the Jedi and the Sith; all Jedi have limited hope and they will inevitably turn to despair which would be the Sith. Unable to accept the truth about the Force, the main character flees society and meets the unknown figure from the first episode once more. This story ends with the main character accepting the unknown figure's offer to help.
Episode 3: The story begins with a memory about the brother's death, it turns out to be the main character's. The film is set a year after the previous episode. Everyone, including the Sith, are suffering. The main character returns to Yoda and he explains the truth about the Force-sensitives, no midocloreans are mentioned. Yoda also gives exposition about Palpatine and his plan about creating imperfect clones that die from their usefulness no longer being required, giving reason to the alarming increase of Sith. The rest of the story focuses on the four characters rebuilding the ideas that were so thoroughly broken in the previous episode, restoring hope to the people and themselves. The unknown figure that serves as the protagonist's mentor turns out to be another female Jedi that has balanced her hope and despair. Originally skeptical of the main character, she starts to believe in him as he stops angsting about his dead "brother" and accepting the man's legacy, inheriting the over-the-top persona. Before the climax, the four meet each other once more; Obi-Wan is the master of the other two, Anakin has yet to turn to the dark-side but uses his friends as pillars of support, and the female Jedi is much more unsociable. After a battle against the Sith, the lady gets over her lover's death after given some inspiring words and actions from the main character. She gives an exposition about how the "brother" was actually a man with a lot of fear, but only kept a do-the-impossible facade because of his belief in the protagonist's inner strength, he just needs a little push. The protagonist has also given up on his attraction to the female and connects with his good friends once more. They learn of Palpatine's whereabouts, which is a deserted planet, Tatooine, near another planet that is filled with Force crystals. At that moment, Coruscant, the home of the Jedi, is attacked by the clones. Since the rest of the Jedi are preoccupied with Coruscant, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and the female Jedi leave to confront Palpatine. The main character goes to Coruscant to help in the battle. The three are forced to separate when they find themselves attacked near the orbit of Palpatine's planet. They meet once more in a graveyard with multiple lit lightsabers stabing the ground. Palpatine reveals the planet to be a battlefield once fought by multiple Jedi and Sith, leading to the graveyard full of weapons. He is also accompanied by an apprentice (Count Dooku?). The main character confronts the cloned Force-sensitives and defeats many of them, but is overwhelmed in the process. He finds himself in a dream where he and his "brother" are alive and well, their lives have nothing to do with the Force. In the time when he starts to realize that he might be in an illusion, the main character is visited by the soul of his "brother". The elder sibling explains to the protagonist about the power of the people, not only those with the Force, but how everyone affects society in their own way. After an encouraging speech, the protagonist breaks through his illusion and returns to reality. He then gives another speech to the participants of the battle, talking about leaving their future generations with hope instead of despair; the fighting stops. Obi-Wan, Anakin, and the lady fight against Palpatine but are struggling; Palpatine has managed to use all of the lightsabers laying around to create a sort of Force typhoon. The female Jedi gets electrocuted to immobility and Obi-Wan fights against the Apprentice; leaving Anakin to fight Palpatine. Anakin, being so close to despair, winds up using more and more of the Dark Side to protect his friends. Palpatine uses his force powers to shoot a strand of light into the sky, the crystal planet starts to glow; the antagonist explains that knowing there would be some Jedi slipping through the cracks of the Coruscant seige used himself as a distraction so then the planet can absorb enough power from the Force to fire at Coruscant (think grand-scale Death Star). Anakin's final straw has been pulled and has succumbed to the Dark Side to fight against Palpatine, the two are surrounded with impenetrable terrain. At Coruscant, the Jedi notice the beam of light and clones reveal what it is. The protagonist then manages to convince the Jedi and the Sith clones to help him stop the oncoming slaughter, they combine their powers over the Force and the protagonist is fired off to the planet with a trail of light, fusing all of the colors of the spectrum together (think about Aang and Zuko learning the truth about firebending). The main character is surrounded by hundreds of lightsabers and is going towards the crystal planet, which has shot off it's laser. The lights collide and the main character breaks through the opposing beam, he then goes into the faux-Death Star and destroys the planet in the process; the protagonist has literally done the impossible. With this his life force is spent, he makes a final speech about believing in those with the power to believe, and he dies in space, his own lightsaber escapes his grasp. Obi-Wan, with the help of the female Jedi, defeats the apprentice. They are then visited by the main character's mentor and Yoda. They see what happens in space and they feel an immense fluctuation in the Force. The assumption is made that the Force-sensitives used all of their strength to counter Palpatine's plans, but died in the process. Obi-Wan and the lady is ordered to retreat and he reluctantly does so; the Mentor and Yoda then go to face off against Palpatine alongside Anakin, in which he finds the protagonist's lightsaber and fights with it. They broke through the terrain and engaged Palpatine, they are equal in power until Obi-Wan and the female Jedia arrive in his ship to try and help out from above. In the ensuing chaos, Palpatine faces off against the Mentor and Yoda tries to defend the ship. The ship leaves on the Mentor's urging, she then loses the battle after valiantly holding her own against the antagonist in a rather unorthodox style. After the battle, Anakin's body is recovered and Palpatine ordered the Jedi's torture until he succumbs to despair and work for Palpatine himself; he also made plans to create a smaller scale version of the crystal planet. Obi-Wan learns of Anakin's departure away from his lover, which was during the previous episode, in order to protect her from Anakin's influence of the Dark Side; Anakin turns out to be unaware of leaving his seed behind. Obi-Wan, knowing of Anakin's fate moves the woman, named Padme, and her children into hiding. He remarks that almost all of the Force-sensitives gave up their lives for two remaining hopes that they didn't even know existed, but the protagonist's leadership has given them the chance to have that hope.
Vader is important throughout the original trilogy, but he was not a central character, he was just a supporting character that was really interesting. I think that's one of the flaws that made the prequels so terrible, the understanding that Vader wasn't interesting enough to be a main character. If any of this sounds strangely familiar, you need to read more news.
I would want Michale Bay to do it. Just so i could see how he would shoehorn the American army or maybe NASA into it somehow...oh and the American flag.
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Damn ninja'ed with the Michale Bay idea.
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Damn ninja'ed with the Michale Bay idea.
I'm with you on Morgan Freeman, but I don't think Clive Owen would make a good Han Solo. He's just not smooth enough.Lacebad said:
Personally I'd like to see films in the Star Wars universe from different directors. Not remakes, I want the originals to just be left alone. But I would like to see a different take on Star Wars, it could be really good in the right hands.
And David Bowie as a singing Darth Maul:Chalacachaca said:
"You remind me of the boy!"
*What boy?*
"The boy with the power!"
*What power?*
"Power of the Force"
*The Force?*
"Of course!"
*how now?*
"Remind me of the boy."
Allow me to present to you 12 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_%28film%29]. Nope, not as good as the original, which was pretty great. It was at least kind of interesting, though, because it was adapted a bit to fit a different context, instead of just being a straight remake.emeraldrafael said:
id like to see ronald moore and his team give it a try... look at what he did to battlestar galactica.... on second thought everyone might turn out to be a secret sith... then again that would be cool.
my final answer is ronald moore based on his work on the re-imagining of battlestar galactica
my final answer is ronald moore based on his work on the re-imagining of battlestar galactica
Im generally against remakes, but redo the prequels wihtout lucas and undo a lot of the changes to the originals hes made and ull probably make a lot of fans happier
Oh and ignore and spinoffs or animated versions...
Oh and ignore and spinoffs or animated versions...
nope i feel the same way, the prequels and expanded universe belong in the same place... a very far far away and very very hot place.Clive Howlitzer said:
the expanded universe like the prequels seem determined to bring some semblance of realism to the original films which were in essence fantasy films in space.. nothing more nothing less.