Discussion Anthology: News and Rumors (General Discussion Welcome)

I'd think Bane is a lot more likely... primarily because there is a connection to the films (the rule of two) and I'd personally find the notion of going back that far in time, to Exar Kun, problematic (in terms of in universe logic) but that's just my opinion.

 

This is the new interview discussing the spin offs for those who missed it on the previous page:

 

"The canon is the canon, and the canon is the six films that exist." Sounds good to me

 

Don't forget Clone Wars and Rebels


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From the breakfast about a spin off

http://clubjade.net/?p=58022

 

Do not believe that. One bit. Is that all they apparently heard? Rubbish.

 

Yeah give Kinberg a call & remind him

 

I would be absolutely fine if TCW was not considered part of official canon.

 

posted this bit in a different thread anyway:

the standalone movies, I would highly encourage the filmmakers to yank at the format in several different ways, be it narrative or tone or visually, so make them distinctive from the "Episodes". We're starting to see this in Marvel, each of the "Phase 2" movies have had their own distinct vibe and you can slot Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America into different genres (Noir detective thriller, Space Odyssey, and Political Thriller, respectively) when I think you can say the "Phase 1" movies have a more uniform style across all of them. For me, I would hope that the Star Wars standalones don't try to hard to be Star Wars but be their own little genre experiments in the Star Wars world (I thought Clone Wars in it's last 4 seasons or so did a bang-up job of that, basically trying on different genres for each arc.)

 

There is only a slim chance of a spin off in DEC 2016 otherwise May / Dec 2017 leaving EP8 for May 2018.......

 

I voted for Han, Jabba, Boba, Yoda, and Other.

With Other being the ultimate Max Rebo spinoff film.

 

Oh by all the gods, yes!!!

 

Make it a trilogy.

Get on it Disney! NAOW!

 

Welcome to the boards, Doop!

 

Tell that to Pablo Hidalgo

 

Thanks, it's great to have a place where I can discuss SW with people who get my references

 

Solo, of course

 

If it's correct that the spin-offs are origin stories, that narrows it down a lot. We already know a lot about the origins of Boba Fett, Leia, and Maul. Going back to the timeframe where young Obi-Wan trains with Dooku and young Palpatine trains with Plagueis (?) gives us a lot of characters who can't be put in jeopardy. I don't really want to see Jabba or Yoda carry a whole movie.

That leaves Han and Lando, who I think make a whole lot of sense. One of the inspirations for A New Hope was Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which involves two peasants helping/guiding some VIPs without being all that aware of what's going on. Supposedly, this all helped spark the creation of Obi-Wan and Leia as the VIPs and R2-D2 and C-3PO as the peasants (I think?).

When Han and Lando are taking their first steps down the road to scoundrel-dom in the pre-Rebels era, there would still be many fugitive samurai Jedi running around the galaxy. Maybe even Obi-Wan and Yoda have yet to settle down on full-time guard duty and are busy trying to get their colleagues to safety. You could have a young, street-smart Han and Lando being used as guides, pilots or cover by the Jedi in disguise. Who could a Force user on the run trust more than someone who doesn't even believe in the Force? When the kids aren't looking, the Jedi can go off and get killed by Vader or whatever Jedi do in this time; when the Jedi aren't looking, Han and Lando help more than anyone was expecting.

 

I want to see a Solo stand alone film. In your idea does Han know they're Jedi and witness any of their feats? Cos if he does then it kind of contracdicts some of his lines in ANH:

"Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense."

 

No, no! In my mind, it totally plays into those lines. Han starts to suspect the Jedi have mystical powers, so they stage some botched sleight-of-hand to throw him off the track. The Jedi keep him thinking he's seeing "strange stuff" and "simple tricks and nonsense" so he can better cover for them without even knowing it. You would even have a blaster-defeats-lightsaber moment that plays into Han's opinions of hokey religions and ancient weapons.

 

Pablo who? Kinberg is creative consultant for Ep7 & writer of the spin offs. Pablo's the guy who gets him a coffee

 

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No, no! In my mind, it totally plays into those lines. Han starts to suspect the Jedi have mystical powers, so they stage some botched sleight-of-hand to throw him off the track. The Jedi keep him thinking he's seeing "strange stuff" and "simple tricks and nonsense" so he can better cover for them without even knowing it. You would even have a blaster-defeats-lightsaber moment that plays into Han's opinions of hokey religions and ancient weapons.​

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Sounds plausible, actually that sounds quite good. The jedi coudn't be old though :​

"Where did you dig up that old fossil"

 

If they are doing a Boba Fett origins movie, does that officially kill the Underworld TV show which was supposed to be doing the same thing?


I find it ridiculous they think it's hard to make Boba a good guy. Fett works for whoever pays him money, so if that is the Rebel Alliance that makes him a good guy until the Empire comes along. I know Boba has principles which is why he tends to work for the bad guys (legit administration, Rebels are therefore terrorists and usurpers). But he also has a sense of justice & there are some guys so bad even Jabba wants them got rid of, Fett is the go to guy in those situations.

As for PG-13, why would that be a problem? Only one of the movies even has a rating that high, a Fett movie should be any more violent than ROTS.

 

"Bad" in this case may simply mean "Has not paid Jabba money owed".

That said - in the EU - Boba's "sense of justice" is much more overt than in the movies.

 

I don't care that much for how Boba is depicted in some of the EU books, but as a mercenary he can be on whatever side you want really. So I don't see why that is a big problem.