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The2ndQuest
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Outside of a recast (which I think could work if done with care- we could luck out and get a Michael Shanks type situation where the Tv portrayal surpasses the originla film one), it would seem EU adaptation miniseries would be most feasible at this point in animation form.
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Tyi-Maet_Nefer
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Do you know how good Mara Jade would look in animation form? Hell yeah.
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The2ndQuest posted:
Outside of a recast (which I think could work if done with care- we could luck out and get a Michael Shanks type situation where the Tv portrayal surpasses the originla film one), it would seem EU adaptation miniseries would be most feasible at this point in animation form.
I'm inclined to agree to a certain extent. The thought that I had was that you could do what HBO is doing with A Song of Fire and Ice and have one book per season as animated series. In terms of recasting the characters, the cast of the radio dramas would work well. The return of Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels as Luke and Threepio would add an air of legitimacy and would satisfy the purists. If the show, which we'll call Star Wars: New Republic, proved to be popular,then you could start production on New Jedi Order and eventually Legacy of the Force.
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The2ndQuest
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You don't need a whole season to do a single book- 3 or 4 hour-long episodes would be sufficient (except for ginormous ones like Star By Star & The Unifying Force), and I'm sure you could fit an abridged version into 2 if need be.
If you're gonna make it a whole season's worth of content (a series of miniseries and standalones), instead of separate miniseries, the real trick is both grouping the content into a set of similar themed titles to give you a sense of arc to the overall season so it feels like a whole and not just an unending series of random stories, AND fit said-content into the boundaries of how many episodes per-season you have to work with.
I'll point out my old project over in Lit, Quest's Star Wars EU TV Show Layout! (the most recent update is on the last page), where I explored this concept as an exercise.
There are places that are much trickier than others, but you can see how the first is mostly themed around the Rebellion and the Classic-era Galactic Civil War conflicts, as well as setting up and introducing characters that will play a large role in things to come, all culiminating in a large arc encomapssing the events of ESB & SOTE, through the rescue from jabba's Palace.
Meanwhile the second season focuses on the X-Wing saga, giving us a transition from the movie characters to newer characters, and giving us a logical seasonal break with the apparent defeat of Isaard.
The third season picks up with that notion, and gives us a gradual return to the movie characters/merged cast with the Thrawn trilogy.
The fourth focuses primarily on the Dark Empire saga and Luke establishing the Jedi Academy, so you get that Jedi-heavy seaosn to balance out the last couple seasons being Jedi-light.
The next season gives us a season of content centered around the internal struggles of the New Republic, and ending with the NR/Empire treaty and Luke's wedding. So if the show ends there, you have your happy ending.
if the show keeps going, you get a couple seasons for the NJO, then anotehr for Dark Nest & Legacy of the Force, etc.
The point being that they feel grouped and feel like a season, despite the wide range if content, release dates, etc that the original material being adapted initially came out in.
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That's actually not bad. The only thing I would change is to place Dark Empire and Empire's End before the Thrawn episodes, as the Thrawn trilogy occurs immediately after the Dark Empire comics.
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You're incorrect- Thrawn trilogy is set 5 years after Endor, Dark Empire is 6- the intro scroll to Dark Empire specifically mentions the defeat of Thrawn, in fact.
Originally, during development, Dark Empire was going to be shortly after Return of the Jedi, but Zahn refused to integrate the events of the comic into TTT, so they rewrote DE to be set after TTT.
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Well, as someone who has read very,very little EU, I would be more interested in a show between Episodes IV and V. I would also like to see SotE, perhaps as the beginning to a second season of this Original Trilogy show?
While I am not disinterested with Post-RotJ, I think there is far too much going on already. Making certain books into episodes would be unique and exciting, and would give people like me a chance to see what the stories of the EU are all about, as I've not the time nor patience for the books as they stand.
As for a KotOR-themed show...I would love it, though my vote would be on a live-action show rather than animated, as I think OT-era shows should be (due to the fact that most of the original cast are old and probably aren't keen on taking part in Star Wars).
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The Old Republic is an awesome idea. There is so much time to write stories you can be worry free continuity wise. Plus some of the old Sith Lords were bad a$$!
I like the idea of the a show between IV and V. I always wondered about that "Bounty Hunter on Ord Mandell". I have to assume Luke and Han did more than the Death Star job to get promoted to Commander and General. Help a brother out, besides Allegiance, what else has been set in this time line?
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I would love to see a show or movie devoted to the story of Darth Bane.
I'm in the middle of 'Rule of Two' and its amazing. But it wouldn't be popular enough, only the true SW fans who read the EU would be interested..
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EwoksRTinyWookiees posted:
I always wondered about that "Bounty Hunter on Ord Mandell". I have to assume Luke and Han did more than the Death Star job to get promoted to Commander and General. Help a brother out, besides Allegiance, what else has been set in this time line?
Marvel comics series, Classic SW comics, Empire & Rebellion comic series, Star Wars Missions scholastic series, Galaxy of Fear series, Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell audio drama, Splinter of the Mind's Eye novel, Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine novel, SW Holiday Special, Rebel Assault game series, Rogue Squadron game series (partially), X-Wing game, Vader's Quest comic, Dark Forces game, River of Chaos comic, & numerous short stories and young reader books.
It's certainly the most convoluted portion of the timeline (particularly in the first 6 months after Yavin)- though there are still stretches of time that are relatively open (such as the timeframe currently being used by the Empire & Rebellion comics).
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WOW!!!! Thanks dude. Besides Splinters of the Minds Eye, I have read nothing on that list. Gotta open the ol' wallet and find those Classic SW Comics.
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Sweet bearded Jesus, you know a lot about...a lot. I don't have the attention span for much EU...George should just pull a traditional move and wipe out existing EU during that time period to tell his story. 
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I don't think he would- especially since he was involved with the plotting of the early Marvel and (I think) Classic SW material (and though I detest the Marvel series myself, the Classic SW strips had some good stuff in them- debut of the Executer, evacuation of Yavin base, etc).
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The2ndQuest posted:
Galaxy of Fear series
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GOF was essentially a SW Goosebumps series, focusing on two kids. Lot of cameos in it though- Dash Rendar and Thrawn pop up in it, IIRC, for example.
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