Discussion UPDATED: Game of Thrones Creators NOT to Write/Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films

same.

I'm trying to remember what I meant by that but I can't.

 

Prediction! The protagonist will be the Force tree from ahch-to and the big bad will be fire.

 

Did you have some Confederates - Star Wars mashup brewing in your head?

 

Which Sith order and timeline? There where multiple sith empires at different and same time periods within thousands of years in the old republic. Hell I would love to Sith empires fight other Sith empires full scale galatic war.

 

I played KOTR once, worst game ever, I hope it has nothing to do with it.

 

If you know nothing about KOTOR, then why would you think that Benioff&Weiss would be the right choice for it or that this would be right in their wheelhouse?

 

They are connected, but not really the same.

KOTOR was a single-player game from Bioware that played a few thousand years before the movies (the looks isn't ancient though, it is still modern). It was followed up by a sequel made by Obsidian that gave a slight twist to the background of the original story, but mostly dealt with something else. A third game was in early development but got cancelled. Years later, Bioware made The Old Republic, which is an online multiplayer game that plays a few hundred years after the events of the two KOTORs, and builds upon one piece of the story from those two games, though probably not in the way the second KOTOR had intended. TOR is basically a huge war between the Republic and the Sith, and a player can play for both sides, with different character-types offering different stories.

In other words, KOTOR I & II are quite different games from TOR, but they are connected through the story, and characters from the KOTOR game - or their ancestors - play a sizeable part in TOR as well.

The two KOTORs were awesome, but I'm not really a fan of what they have done to the story with TOR. There are some cool elements in there, but also parts that didn't really fit to what happened in KOTOR. It's one thing to have a character turn into something different in the future, but having newer stories go back and changing the background of older stories (e.g. turning the villains of the original into pawns of an even bigger villain) is not something I'm fond of.

 

I thought it was a good game, but I'm not sure how well it would translate to a movie, simply because it relied too much on trying to replicate things from the OT. It had its own version of the Falcon, its own Chewie, its own Yoda, etc. And everything looked remarkably similar to the OT aesthetics, despite the fact that it was supposed to take place 4,000 years earlier. Which, again, was fine for a game because it was just an opportunity for players to play in the familiar SW universe with a new story. But for a movie, I think making it look and feel so much like the OT, despite taking place so far in the past, would be more problematic. If this series of films is about the Old Republic, then take advantage of it being so old, and make it look different from what we know. This is a chance to really reinvent SW with totally new ships, architecture, technology, etc. Sure, it's risky, but they can still make other films that have the more familiar setting for people who want the comfort of that.

 

The prequels were meant to fill in the blanks for what led up to the OT while the ST is obviously about filling us in on what happened after the OT.

With that in mind do you all think the B&W series will somehow inform the PT, OT, and ST or will it be it's own thing? If it informs the other movies than I guess we're talking about movies about the first Jedi and Sith users and the formation of the Republic?

Does anybody want them to go in another direction? Maybe tell some sort of first contact story? Maybe a story about the first space travelers?

 

I’ve never played the game, but the thought of a Live action film based on this, is very exciting.

 

Really? Why?

 

Firstly, I don't think it has to be filmed in Black and White to indicate it was a long time before the current Saga

But seriously, I don't think they should go too far back in time. Without FTL travel and an existing set of known worlds then they would be really limiting themselves.

 

I never heard anything Official; but I am betting that Disney have jettisoned KOTOR from Canon, just like the old EU novels. And like the old EU novels, they may cherry pick certain Characters/situations from the KOTOR games, but go in a different direction in the overall design; if they end up exploring the golden age of the Jedi/Sith Era that is. And I think they definitely will at some point, sooner than later. Seeing a complete Sith Order for the first time, as well as the Jedi in their Prime? It is too fertile of an Era to pass up.

 

I only want Revan, Nihilus and Kreia and i will die happy

 

Play KOTOR II its better game than the first one

 

I'm down for some ancient Jedi/Sith origins type story but the technology should be a lot more primitive than what you see in KOTOR which seemed like it could have been the week before TPM, not 4000 years earlier.

 

I'd be down for something really old, where there was interstellar travel, but repulsorlifts had not yet been invented, so there are wheeled cars and motorcycles and prop-driven airplanes. Or maybe that's going too far back.

 

I did suggest many times in the past that some of the star wars movies and tv shows should be made based in the pre Republic like 35,000 or further back before TPM and Thousands of years taking place after the sequel trilogy. If they want to pull something bold and new.

 

I agree that a TV Series set in the Sith era should be a little more primitive than what we see in the Saga movies, to make a distinction. Though I don't think they should devolve the technology too far back. Technology in the Star Wars Galaxy isn't necessarily going to change near as much in a 1000 years, as it would in our real world, since the tech in the Saga is extremely more advanced than our own. The Jedi and Sith already have lightsabers, more than a 1000 years before the existing movies, for example.

 

I would love for the films to be old republic and to show inferior tech compared to the Saga.

However it has to be done carefully because "old republic" is term for various eras because of how long it lasted. Basically anything that is 1000+ yrs before TPM Is old republic. But what needs to take into account is that the technology shown in say the last war between Jedi vs Sith (Banes era), shouldn't be in same progress as an earlier time period/conflict (such as 100yr darkness or early days of the old republic). Then of course their was a time even pre-republic.

Though technological progress doesn't always have to go upwards. You could have periods during the Old republic where people are using inferior tech compared to earlier times because long lasting wars has hurt industry/civilizations.

So when (since I'm sure it will happen) old republic films become a thing, they have to make sure its old.....but not to old technology wise. Leaving the door open to show an even older world before said films.

Then again, if they do make old republic films, they could all have them set during the same generation, allowing a unified ancient tech look. Instead of having each trilogy separated by long spans of time.

 

Now I'm envisioning the next announcement of SW movies from LFL:
"Lucasfilm is pleased to announce the next exciting series of films in the Star Wars universe. The ghost of Charlie Chaplin will be directing a series of black and white silent films surrounding previously unseen events and adventures in the galaxy far, far away. Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm president, said, 'we're very excited to be working with Charlie's ghost on these groundbreaking new silent films!'."