Star Wars Anthology Series

Lots of spin off trek lacks a monologue. The best one for example, DS9, lacks one too.

Yeah, definitely want to have the crawl.

*Although*, if they're not going to use the Star Wars theme, I'd rather they skip it. It's an all-or-nothing type deal for me.

Who cares?

Christ, all that mocking you did over GB and now you're upset about this??

It's a spin off. Not a Saga movie. I see no need for a crawl at all. In fact, if crawls are limited to the Saga, it makes the Saga stand apart as the "core" movies, if you will. I think it's actually a good idea.

Can I recommend a strongly worded letter to Ms. Kennedy?

How about a nerd petition?

I can deal, other SW stuff has been without a crawl, and the world didn't end, I just think it's a wrong decision.

I see where people are coming from.

The crawl was the best part of the prequel trilogy. It allowed people to have enough information to give informed consent before watching their childhood be raped for two hours. The crawl likely saved countless lives in the early 2000s.

There may be multiple Han Solo movies.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/3...ultiple-han-solo-movies-with-alden-ehrenreich

STAR WARS
EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE

IT IS A PRETTY UNINTERESTING TIME IN THE
REPUBLIC: THE TAXATION OF TRADE ROUTES
IS IN--WHAT THE FUCK? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO
BE A SPACE OPERA NOT WASHINGTON WEEK
IN REVIEW IN SPACE. FAIR WARNING: THERE'S
A BUNCH OF DRY, POLITICAL B.S. COMING UP,
AND LITTLE OF IT WILL MAKE ANY SENSE, LET
ALONE BE INTERESTING.

ON THE PLUS SIDE, THERE'S A COUPLE OF
JEDI KNIGHTS, AND YOU'LL SEE YODA ABOUT
AN HOUR IN, AND DARTH MAUL'S PRETTY COOL.
BUT GET READY FOR THE FORCE TO BE REDUCED
TO A BLOOD TEST AND FOR YOUNG DARTH VADER
TO HAVE BEEN THE PRODUCT OF A VIRGIN BIRTH.

SO, OTHER THAN A POD RACE IN THE MIDDLE AND
A FAIRLY GOOD LIGHTSABER DUEL NEAR THE END,
MOST OF THIS IS GOING TO BE UNENGAGING AND
DULL. ALSO, JUST SO YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING
TO BE A REALLY ANNOYING CGI CHARACTER
CALLED JAR-JAR BINKS THAT YOU'RE ALL GOING
TO ABSOLUTELY HATE...

Good lord. The first one hasn't even came out yet.

He's signed for three, but maybe some of them will not be just about him. He could easily have a role in the Boba Fett movie, just as an example.

There could be a crossover where he and Captain America go back in time using the Enterprise to punch Darth Hitler in the face.

FTFY

What'd be cool is if the third movie ends in the Mos Eisley cantina where Han is down on his luck, having lost both the girl and a load of spice on his last mission. Things are looking bad: Jabba is sending bounty hunters after him. He sits down at a table across from an old man in Jedi robes and a young moisture farmer and says: "Han Solo. I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells me you're lookin' for passage to the Alderaan system?"

That's pretty much how AC Crispin's Han Solo trilogy ended.

I dunno. That would kinda be tampering with Harrison Ford's portrayal. Not too keen on the recasting as it is, but I can stomach it if it's a decade or so apart a la Young Indy. Actually being the same age Han? Not for me.

Best example of the worst version of this, Jai Courtney re-enacting Michael Biehn's 1984 Terminator scenes.

Generally, Jai Courtney is the best example of a bad example of a lot of things.

He does actually seem to have a character in Suicide Squad. We'll see.

I did not know that. (I haven't read a Star Wars book since all the way back in the 6th grade when I read "Han Solo at Stars End," which I have absolutely no memory of.)

Yeah, I didn't think you were plagiarizing, just saying that others have had the same idea for a Han Solo back story (and a good idea in my opinion).

The Brian Daley books were de-canonized in the post-Disney-deal cull, so they can do Han's origins any way they want so long as it meshes to ANH.

Oh, I didn't think you were accusing me. I invent great ideas all the time that I'm shocked to discover someone has precognitively plagiarized from me decades earlier.

And this is one of those ideas that's "so good everybody has it." It's actually a pretty obvious way to end a prequel: right back to where the original story (for that character) began.

But still, it'd be great.

FTFY

Lucas and ABC reportedly considering a live action TV series.

I just read that. I hope they revise the underworld concept.

I'm a bit ambivalent on a live action TV show. I think the event quality is part of Star Wars features. You don't want to undermine that with oversaturation. It is not endlessly episodic like Trek.

I think Disney wants to milk this as much as they can. I'm sure they'll make it happen.

This...and they will do it to their detriment unless the quality is the very best (and frankly the Han Solo movie is already a mistake).

Aren't there already SW shows that nobody watches?

I actually do watch them -- they're pretty good -- but they're animated, at the margins of the main story, and marketed as a kind of (even more obviously) children's show, all of which maintains the special quality of the few live action features.

Well, excluding the two Ewok movies, of course.

Clone Wars and Rebels are pretty good and makes sense out of the prequels.