What Would YOU Do With The Star Wars Franchise?

Xander Vos · What Would YOU Do With The Star Wars Franchise?

It's been asked in a few threads now so I thought I'd bring it together here. We all acknowledge that the powers that be seem to be constantly mucking around with SW, so much so that we feel that we could honestly do better. What would YOU see done to improve it?

Sephiroth

Sell it and live off the profits for the rest of my life.

Sirak Sazen

Make a movie out of KotOR.

Sephiroth

But what if they messed it up? I beat Malak with a lightsaber, but the idiot movie maker had him beat with a blaster. Confused

Sirak Sazen

I'd be the movie maker. Wink

Rive Caedo

I'd actually probably be doing something fairly similar to what they are now. Doing easily made quick stories with a focus on "fun" via animation (although I'd probably be doing 2D, not 3D - and I'd be doing stories set shortly after Episode VI, not II).

And then creating a series with a more adult theme along the lines of Battlestar Galactica and Lost set during the Rise of the Empire... which is what we'll supposedly be getting out of the live action series in a couple of years.

As for books: I'd move back to a focus on a shorter stories. Not necessarily one-shots - but mostly 2-4 book series, not the 9 book series they've done with Legacy of the Force and now Fate of the Jedi.... and certainly not the 20+ New Jedi Order Razz

As you said, they might be shifting this way. Since we're seeing a lot of one-shots coming down the pipeline and the Coruscant Nights trilogy.

I'd also do a (third) update to the Original Trilogy and release it in theaters for a limited run just before the Live Action TV series started.

Specifically I'd:

Make Han shoot first.

Fix the lightsabers across the board (the 1997 SE releases made some progress and then the 2004 DVD release completely messed them up worse than they were even in the originals).

Make a new version of the song in Jabba's palace using the original song. Use CGI that looks better than the muppets but retains the original tone... instead of the really over the top and cheesy 1997 "Jedi Rocks."

Update the TIE fighter attack on the Millenium Falcon with CGI similar to how large portions of the Battle of Yavin were redone.

Fix remaining errors in effects sequences that don't need to be redone (there's some problems with matte boxes) and consider redoing the astroid chase in Episode V.

Update the shot of the Millennium Falcon leaving the astroid "cave" - I've always thought the space worm could use slightly sharper teeth.

Clean up and reinsert the scene with Biggs talking to Luke near the beginning of the movie.

Change Vader's line after Luke escapes in Episode V back to "Bring my shuttle!" - Vader's too calm in the new one.

Change Luke's line after R2 escapes the swamp creature back to "You're lucky you don't taste very good." (the new line isn't worse really, I just prefer the old one).

Use CGI to replace all the Ewoks with Wookiees (kidding... maybe Wink

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Obi-Tyler

hm, I'd take the the books, especialy the Clone Wars series, and completely turn them all into anime. sure it'd be probably a good 500+ episode series but honestly, who doesn't like anime? ^_^

Konichiwa! =D

Scion

Make KOTOR 3 exist

Ditch Clone Wars, just not interesting.

Make KOTOR era show or book series.

Darth Samuel

Fix it so that Han shoots first.

Take out Jar Jar Binks.

Take out Midichlorians.

Then, I'd do the thing I've been talking about quite a bit.

The whole NJO series made into movies. I know you guys hate the books for some reason(yeah, it didn't change much of anything, but you gotta admit it would make a great movie series.) Hire the original actors to play the original roles, as they are at the perfect ages to do it. Stunt doubles for action scenes.

Then... A Videogame set in the New Sith Wars. Preferably a series of 4 games, each spanning 250 years.

As for books: Put out the James Luceno Darth Plagueis novel. Then, two other standalone novels, one taking palce in the hundred year darkness, and the other in the First Great Schism. A Sith encyclopedia containing updated information about every known sith lord. Update Tulak Hord's history and more about him. Same with the Dark Underlord.

Then I'd let someone else do the picking.

Darth Splinter

Sirak Sazen

I didn't think Hayden did horrible, but he left some things to be desired. I loved Ewan McGregor (sp?). "Hello there!"

Xander Vos

Focussing primarily on the books, I'd probably like:

- An X-Wing series set during the NJO, DN and LotF, so we can see what they were doing when Allston WASN'T writing the books.
- A few new trilogies in the NR era, just to liven it up and erase some of the negative thoughts of that era.
- If you're going to do a 9-book series, for the love of God, put it in the KOTOR era where there is NOTHING.
- Enough of the Clone Wars, write a one-shot in between TPM and AOTC that is of a better quality than the two we already have.
- Write some books leading up to TPM on someone like Yoda, or the Council in general.

That's potentially about 30 books (9-book X-Wing series, two 3-book trilogies in the NR era, 9-book series in KOTOR, 1 book between TPM and AOTC and five books before TPM), which could easily last for quite a while.

Lord Invictus

Okay, first, kill anyone who worked in the original trilogy except for Ford due to them being crappy actors.

Kill Christensen like you said too.

I would buy the US government, make it communist (Oh wait! All I have to do is vote Barack Very Happy

lol, lighthearted, no offense), then wipe memory of previous Star Wars but implant a new love for starwars.

In realistic terms, stop producing Star Wars old movies and completely redo them with COMPUTER GRAPHICS and "GOODER" actors. Lot of Christopher Lee time, too.

Original movies:

Less Padme-kissing-"Ani". More action than "Oh Ani!" then sobs.

Episode 1: Create episode one with a good child actor- make him slightly older canonically and as an actor- then make the movie just.... well, less SILLY. Jar Jar would become a semi-serious character as well, but light hearted compared to the rest.

It would be longer with a larger and more epic battle than slingshots and laser sheilds. The Gungans should get laser BOWS.

Episode 2: MORE ACTION, MORE DOOKU TIME. Same actors but Hayden. Lots of Fett time too.

Clone Wars: ACTUAL movies. It'll consist of perhaps five shorter movies about an hour and a half long each. They will have ACTUAL ACTORS and will be DARKER, MORE SERIOUS AND GENERALLY MORE EPIC THAN NORMAL (caps ftw!). Grievious won't have a gay voice either, and Durge will be a character of importance instead of a random ball of veins that eats Jedi.

Episode III: Longest of all Star Wars Episodes at four hours long. Epic, longer duels, less crappy dialogue. Grievious NEARLY CRUSHES Obi Wan in the duel. Order 66 has some miniature battles with Jedi as well. And Yoda takes his lightsaber and fights Sideous longer instead of wimping out once he loses the blade.

Episode IV: Obi Wan is replaced by SEAN CONNERY! BAM! The rest of the guys are replaced except for Ford and Darth Vader. No more Stormtrooper effect. People get shot and must be treated.

Episode V: Generally the same except Luke acts better when his arm gets chopped off. Also, longer battle at Hoth that gets up close and personal with stormtroopers and rebels fighting it out at close quarters.

Episode VI: Admiral Ackbar screams "IT"S A TRAP" and is shot for the most stupid line in all of Star Wars. In reality, he doesn't say the line and his command centre is bombed, killing him. Darth Vader vs. Luke is an Epic fight instead of mechanical and roboting movements. Embeion.... er... Sideous doesn't die in a stupid "I PICK U UP!" way, he's instead stabbed and shoved off the side.

Games:

KOTOR 3 becomes an actual game and the man who came up with an RPG is shot.

The man who made up the lightsabers expanding is also shot.

BFIII comes out as an UBBER game with GOOD graphics. There are four campaigns for the main factions, a criminal campaign, a GOOD galactic conquest, and epic lightsaber fights.

Force Unleashed is declared the model for future Star Wars games of the hack and slash genre.

Medieval II Total War Kingdoms is used as a base from which to develop a solid strategy game of an era with primitive blasters. Jedi and Sith fight it out in massive numbers in a medieval combat style with blasters as more of bows and crossbows. Cannons are developed later.

Darth Splinter

(If I had all the money and time in the world, I would do this)

I'd like to see the Mass Effect engine, a little modified, for gameplay in my personal version of KOTOR 3. The character physical design would be greatly expansive. You could pick a variety of species. If human, you can pick from a small range of voices(I would have several actors of my choice voice over all the lines)so if you make your character black, asian, or whatever, he/she doesn't have the same white voice. Wink

You could buy/sell ships, droids, weapons(well, the last you can already do). Name your ship, recruit a crew.

You could be a Jedi, Mando, or Sith. If a Jedi, you could try to restore order to the galaxy, or as a Sith you could take the galaxy as your own and grow an empire.

*drools*

Oh...that would be my little slice of heaven right there!

Lord Vexen

Darth Samuel

God I'm glad Mortypoo isn't in charge.
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Xander Vos

It's a saying. Razz

Rive Caedo

Jiub

I don't think that Shawn Connery really fits the part. That was a joke, right? But they need someone new, because OT Obi is dead (what's his name?).

I haven't read many of the books recently, and you can't really redo the movies to much once they are already done, so except for making KOTR a game but with a better combat system, there isn't a lot that I would do. I would make sure that the games kept coming out (and nothing cheap).

Rive Caedo

Lord Invictus

Darth Splinter

Sirak Sazen

First order of buisness with me as Star Wars Overlord: KILL LUKE SKYWALKER!!!

Lord Invictus

Xander Vos

Oh definately. What they don't seem to realise is you can keep writing Luke-centric stories (a la Shadows of Mindor) without him being alive in the 'current' series.

Jiub