DONOVAN KURTWOOD
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Joined: 6/10/2005 From: PLANET G
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ORIGINAL: DancingClown You're right, Don. quote:
ORIGINAL: DONOVAN KURTWOOD I really hope the new Star Wars movies will distance themselves from the existing stories and characters. As others have said, it's such a vast universe to explore in films, it would be a shame to keep it so intimate in terms of its characters and everyone being connected. I want to see fresh Star Wars stories and characters, the potential is amazing. Some fresh stories would be great, but I'm assuming you'd still want them to be linked to the familiar SW world (galaxy) somehow, otherwise it wouldn't be Star Wars, right? Then they might as well create a new film. But I guess you can still have the Force, the Sith, the Jedi. Depends how vast the SW galaxy is, which kinda takes me back to the point I was making earlier about what could be the 'undiscovered' realms of that galaxy, assuming it has to be thousands of light years wide and deep. Maybe the characters could discover some new worlds, some new creatures and revolve the story around that. Uncover some revelations about the origins of the SW galaxy and its civilisations. I'd be up for that. Bit like Prometheus but, ya know, with light-sabres and stuff. Yes, what you said basically. Obviously aspects like Jedi's will and could still feature prominently, that alone would cement it as typical Star wars without having to be too tied in to any of the characters we already know. Prometheus is an excellent example of how to take an existing franchise into a new direction. The prequel trilogy went overboard with tying everything together, so much so that i think a lot of us have probably had our fill of the existing stories/ characters. Of course i can't speak for everyone and i'm sure there are a lot of fans out there who would love the existing characters to be the leads in any new SW movies. Other options could be to offshoot (like Prometheus did) by taking a throaway element or character from the previous films and doing a new story with them/ that. I really think it would be bold to introduce completely new characters to allow the SW universe to expand even further (on the screen at least, i realise there have been lots of books etc that have expanded the universe probably a lot better than the prequel trilogy did).
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