Would ROTJ have been cooler with Kashyyyk/Wookiees?

I've heard that it was originally planned for the Battle of Endor to be the Battle of Kashyyyk, with Wookiees instead of Ewoks. I think it would have been better that way. What do you think?


(forgive me if this is redundant, I don't come here often)

 

This has been discussed frequently and I think I can safely say that everyone here absolutely loves ewoks and wouldn't want to change a thing about ROTJ.

Uh, right everybody?

 

Wookies rather than Ewoks? Yes.

 

i think the ewoks sorta ruin that movie in a way. although, you wouldnt have the ewok adventures or the animated series after.

 

I don't necessarily think it had to be on Kashyyyk, but it DEFINITELY should have been wookiees.

And if I may be so bold, it's EU accepted that the Death Star(s) were built using Wookiee slave labor -- I think it'd have been particularly cool if Chewie led a slave revolt against their Imperial masters and had that be the ground battle in the RotJ finale.

Just my two cents.

 

Yeah, would've been much cooler to have loads of wookies. It would probably be more believable too, huge strong wookies would be better suited to fighting StormTroopers than cuddly little teddybears

 

Wookies certainly would've been cool. But Its porbably tough to find around 30 7 foot tall exras. It would've been neat, but I still think the Ewoks would be better.

 

Its good as it is (i.e Ewoks), but then it would also have been good as it could have been (i.e Wookies)

I say leave it as it is.

 

Anyone who thinks it should have been wookies in ROTJ must have never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special...

 

I like it with the Ewoks but the Wookies would have been cool too.

 

I would've preferred to see Wookiees instead of Ewoks.

 

I say neither. Ugnaughts, yeah, definitely ugnaughts.

 

Larry_Dallas: I have in fact seen the Holiday Special a number of times and despite its short comings (I'm being kind) I still think wookiees in RotJ could have really brought something to the trilogy.

 

It would probably be more believable too, huge strong wookies would be better suited to fighting StormTroopers than cuddly little teddybears

And therein lies the point, IMO. The Empire is over-confident, yes, but not quite that foolish! You can imagine the uproar if there had been Wookiees, "Bah! What was Palpatine thinking? Building that over a planet of intelligent bigfoots/bigfeet!"

So I say yes, Wookiees would have been cooler, but would have made less sense, IMO.

 

Hmmmm, if we got Wookies in RotJ, then would we be getting Ewoks in Ep3? If that's the case, then I'm glad RotJ worked out the way it did.

 

I think placing the Ewoks vs. the Storm troopers was a bit absurd in ROTJ.

They certainly made the storm troopers to look like retards who couldn't kill creatures no taller than their knees.

Wookiees in place of Ewoks?

What do you think?

ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS.... WHO'S COMING WITH ME? -Jim Breuer (Half Baked)

 

I think that the Ewoks show that no matter what the circumstances are (and the odds), it is always posible to succed.

SBC

 

The Wookie idea was originally conceived in the early development stages by GL (way back in the mid-70s), and it evolved over the years into the Ewoks. If he made ROTJ nowadays, CGI would make it easy to keep that idea, but as has already been stated, it would have been hard to find all those giants to play the Wookies.

Too bad. Wookies vs Stormtroopers would have been cool. I'm still okay with how the Ewoks worked out though.

And please, for the love of God, don't judge any movie decisions based on the Holiday Special.

 

I'm personally glad it was the Ewoks. If you get past the fact that the Ewoks are teddy bears, then the battle scene really is pretty good. I've never had a problem accepting that they could win, because booby traps have a history of working against numerically and technologically superior opponents in Earth history, (Vietnam, Korea, the Phillipines). Never underestimate large numbers of beings willing to fight to the death to defend their homelands when they're on their homelands.

Now, can you imagine if it was Wookies? I don't know about you, but I don't give "an entire legion" of the Empire's best five minutes against a moon's worth of ticked off Wookies. The fight'd be over as quick as it started, and then the space battle would've been radically different. Plus, I have a hunch that, in order to make the battle last longer, Lucas would probably, instead of pumping up the Imps, would've merely spread the incompetency amongst both groups. And then we'd all be complaining about how Lucas made the Wookies too weak.

 

I agree with the-dork-knight.

A battle between Wookies and Stormtroopers wouldn't last for 3 minutes since it'll basically be a huge massacre. Think of the scene in Beastmaster where Dar is surrounded by an army of goons and these winged monsters show up out of nowhere, wrap their wings around the goons, and proceeds to eat them alive.

Lucas knew this which is why we have the Ewoks.

 

lol, even though the Ewoks vs. Stormies is at first glance a funny sight

Wookies vs. Stormies would be hilarious

i say Chewie alone can take on 10 Jang...Stormies by himself, and to be honest - that's being generous to the Stormies

even if the Storms had their weapons & the wooks didn't, they wouldn't last 2 parsecs

UNLESS, they ALL came with AT-AT's Hoth-style

 

Wookies certainly would've been cool. But Its porbably tough to find around 30 7 foot tall exras. It would've been neat, but I still think the Ewoks would be better

I think I read somewhere that when James Cameron made "Aliens" he only had six alien costumes and filmed them in such a way that audiences were convinced there was hundreds of them. It would have been possible to make it seem like there was a planetful of wookies with just a few actors.

I would have loved watching Wookies take on Imperial Troops.

 

And therein lies the point, IMO. The Empire is over-confident, yes, but not quite that foolish! You can imagine the uproar if there had been Wookiees, "Bah! What was Palpatine thinking? Building that over a planet of intelligent bigfoots/bigfeet!"

Thats a really good point

 

It would have been a more fitting end to a civil war, slaves rising up against a tyrant. Wow, it would have been awesome to see hundreds of wookies ripping apart stormtroopers. The sheer power of the scene would have been worthwhile.

 

Will there be an extra-special edition of ROTJ where the ewoks are replaced with CG wookiees?