Vortigern99 posted:Master_Starwalker posted:I think a reimagining is interesting, though I'd rather see it in a medium other than film, partially because making a new version of the OT and/or PT on film would likely cause yet another division in the fan base. However in a comic, novel, animated feature, etc. would be less likely to cause that same divide. Of course, the OT films already have comics versions: Including the Manga epics, there are three versions of 'ANH' alone and two versions each of the other two -- as well as a single text novel apiece, and, lest we forget, the photo-heavy 'Story of...' young-adult picture-books. An animated version of the Manga STAR WARS comics would be interesting, certainly, but it would also be obnoxious and over-the-top. After all, you can always simply read the comic itself without appeal to some putatively superior movie version.
Master_Starwalker posted:I think a reimagining is interesting, though I'd rather see it in a medium other than film, partially because making a new version of the OT and/or PT on film would likely cause yet another division in the fan base. However in a comic, novel, animated feature, etc. would be less likely to cause that same divide.
TaunTaunHerder posted: I have sometimes thought about ANH being remade as a Western. And not made by GL, but another director, studio, producer, etc. Han's clothes wouldn't need to be changed, just the type of gun he has. The scene where Luke returns to his house and see his dead Aunt and Uncle was taken from The Searchers. The cantina sequence is like a rowdy bar from a Western movie. Luke's landspeeder would have to be an old horse. You know, an Appaloosa horse with spots and such to represent paint scrapes and rust. Princess Leia could be a princess from some European country visiting America. Chewbacca could be just a really hairy guy. Or maybe a guy who wears a full-length buffalo robe coat with the hair on the outside, who likes to moan or growl randonmly and at inappropriate times for no apparent reason. That sort of thing. I think it would work. In fact, I just might go to work on the synopsis for this movie today.
TaunTaunHerder posted: How about ANH remade with live-action talking animals like those in the Homeward Bound movies? That would be tight. Darth Vader could be a really big Rottweiler. Or a black Great Dane. Chewbacca could be a , well,.. he could be a bear. Tarkin could be a Greyhound because he's all skinny and everything. Why did Tarkin use hairspray? That was weird. His hair had a nice little feather in the back of his head and it never moved. Check it out next time you watch ANH. Princess Leia would be a show cat. As far as story goes, I have no inkling of even the remotest clue about what the actual story would be. Anyone else feeling this? Maybe we could collaborate.
r8hitman posted:I dont post over here too much so if this has been discussed go ahead and lock. Instead of Lucas going through these movies and adding new scenes/music/special features do you think he should just leave the OT alone and remake the OT with new actors and better technology...etc.? I mean all he has to do is find new actors, he already has the story written. (imagine what the duel in ANH could look like if it was remade.)
TK-421- posted:r8hitman posted:I dont post over here too much so if this has been discussed go ahead and lock. Instead of Lucas going through these movies and adding new scenes/music/special features do you think he should just leave the OT alone and remake the OT with new actors and better technology...etc.? I mean all he has to do is find new actors, he already has the story written. (imagine what the duel in ANH could look like if it was remade.) Yes, 1)So the OT is left alone 2)If the movies are to be viewed 1-6 like GL says then he needs to remake the OT so the movies actually flow together.The OT doesn't flow with itself and PT doesn't flow with the OT.