Discussion Best Spinoff Ideas

Two words...

Prune Face, PRUNE FACE!

 

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A movie about Darth Vader in the immediate aftermath of ROTS. This would be the best idea in the history of mankind.

 

I would be so down for that

 

A "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" type flick with Hando, Ventress and Cad Bane!

 

Pulp Fiction type movie with Mace and Yoda.

 

Yoda: And, know you what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese on Naboo?

Mace: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?

Yoda: No man, the metric system they got . wouldn't know they what the duce a Quarter Pounder is.

Mace: Then what do they call it?

Yoda: a Royale with cheese they call it.

Mace: A Royale with cheese. What do they call a Big Mac?

Yoda: Well, a Big Mac's a Big Mac, but 'le Big-Mac' they call it.

Mace: Le Big-Mac. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call a Whopper?

Yoda: I dunno, go into Burger King, I didn't.

 

I know. All I wanted to say that apparently there are people with completely opposite oppinions. I would have preffered to see Anakin only as the ultimate noble Jedi Knight like how Obi-Wan remembers him(something that is absent from the prequels in my opinion). And after that a spinoff could have shown Anakin as a young little brat for those who want to see him that way but could be potentially ignored by those who don't want to see one of the most iconic fictional villains before his teenage years.

Perhaps the same would be applicable to the new trilogy and the spinoffs.

 

Guys, wouldn't it be awesome to finally see a movie about Kyle Katarn?
Come on, could be awesome stuff!!!

 

Would make sense. He is awesome. He stole the death star plans so he is quite relevant to the OT, he made star wars games popular and he is likely to be in the ST. Oh and if we adapt the dark forces novels he might bump into old thrawn as well. Oh and if we want to talk about the origin of the valley of the jedi: darth bane+darth revan. All kinds of awesome. Kyle Katarn would probably be the perfect choise for a spinoff

 

Without getting into an EU-centric discussion here (there's a thread for that), I think the issue with that is that the average SW fan or at least the average moviegoer would say "Kyle who?". Disney/LFL would probably want more marketable character recognition than that.

 

That question can be answered in 5 minutes of screen time. It can also be answered in any of the five million interviews, previews, teasers, articles, web diaries and other kinds of promo material that would be there before the movie is released. That goes for any character. If they want to, they can market the ever living crap out of Ice Cream Maker guy and have a trilogy about him.

Going by the logic that they should make spin offs only about characters "the average moviegoer" knows - we'd be seeing movies about same 5 people for the rest of our days.

Any character can easily be introduced and it is absolutely not necessary for anyone to have beforehand knowledge about him. Just take any movie as an example, literally any. You don't go in expecting to know the characters, you are introduced to them and then follow their adventures or misadventures. Even the characters everyone knows about gets some introduction in his first movie these days. Spiderman was introduced twice just these past 10 years and everyone knows who that guy is.

I think that "people would not know who that is" argument really makes no sense at all when speaking of new, stand alone movies.

 

I don't disagree with you... I'm just thinking about what marketing execs might think when discussing possible SW movies. But yeah, if they are open to spending some energy before the movie comes out educating people via ads, etc., then it could work.

 

They are going to go with the big name characters. I think that is a given. Maybe after they get a few off the ground and if they do well they will start to branch out. But they are going to want to cast as big a net as possible, and that means guys like Yoda, not obscure characters.

 

Also, everyone seems to kind of neglect the idea that they might very well create original characters as the main focus, which has the advantage of giving you a totally clean slate to start with.

 

Regarding Iger's statement about the spin-offs being about "characters that are not part of the overall saga"... it's a vague statement that kind of makes me wonder how he thinks "the saga" is defined. He might be taking a more restrictive or narrow view of what that means... like he might be thinking "the Skywalker Saga". But if we're talking about the existing SW Saga, every character from the six existing films is in it. So that would have to mean new, original characters in that case.

 

Kyle who? Well you seem to assume that we will not get acquainted with Kyle Katarn in the movies. I think the logical way would be the following:
Episode VII - Why is Kyle Katarn a big deal?
Kyle Katarn spinoff - Okay it's cool that Kyle saved the Valley of th Jedi but what is it?(And who is this Thrawn guy on Jerec's ship? - Outbound Flight or other kind of Thrawn spinoff)
Darth Bane spinoff - The Holocron of Darth Who?
Darth Revan/Mando Wars/KotOR spinoff

And after that, Episode VIII can come.

I know this is potentially 4 spinoffs for a single movie but hey, I think it would work well.

 

If Kyle Katarn gets a spin-off and Obi-Wan doesn't...

 

Look, they are going to give movies to the most recognizable characters first. Now I don't think they'll make a Young Han Solo movie until after Episode IX. So that means Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie are out (especially because 3 of them are main characters). So who does that leave?

Vader
Yoda
Obi-Wan
Droids (really Artoo, 3PO is lower on the list)
Boba Fett
Darth Maul (which I'm sure Palpatine would feature heavily so I won't include him in this list)
Lando
Qui-Gon Jinn
Jabba
Mace Windu
Wedge Antilles

I can't see the first two spin-offs being about anyone who isn't in the top 5.

 

Okay and who is unknown enough for you. Apparently you would hate a Kyle Katarn spinoff. You want a spinoff about a character that is unknown even by EU standards? Well okay, but I'd wager you are part of a minority group. I honestly, sincerely wish that the spinoffs satisfy you, but don't get your hopes up?