Discussion What Future Star Wars Films Would You Like To See Made?

I agree, but I'm not so concerned about it because I do think they're doing that. Solo, Rogue One, and The Mandalorian are all different from the saga films. My interest in era is because that's what I don't see them doing. They won't leave the safety of the "Movies era" nest. And the one new era they created is full of so much OT iconography and story beats that it can hardly be called "new". The promise and potential of Star Wars is the exploration of an entire galaxy and thousands of years of history, as well as future horizons. I want some of what was lost with the old EU. While heavily flawed, it wasn't afraid of exploration. I just don't know if the current LFL has either the courage or vision to take advantage of the potential.

 

I agree with this. Like it or not, LFL has been completely focused on a very short time period in what should be thousands of years of stories. In the new canon, the earliest stories (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) take place only a few years pre-TPM, and the latest are between TLJ and TROS. That's only a period of what - 60-70 years? While I don't think it's weird that they've not gone beyond TROS yet, it is starting to feel like the GFFA never had anything interesting happen outside of the "Palpatine era".
And yes, I adore the eras we've been shown so far, but I would like for them to move away from them, because that would force them to lose some of the most obvious iconography. I mean, even The Mandalorian has stormtroopers and Imperial remnants.

And on a related note - the current LFL creatives seem to want SW to only take place on similar backwater planets. How many sparsely populated desert planets have we seen in the new canon? How many frontier towns? We always come back to Tatooine-in-all-but-name, Hoth-in-all-but-name and Endor-in-all-but-name. I miss Coruscant, Naboo, Kamino, Utapau, etc.
The closest we've gotten places like that is probably Corellia and Canto-Bight. And even Canto-Bight is just a small city on a desert world for some reason.

Sorry; half-relevant ramblings over.

 

Yes, this is something I've noticed, as well. I hate to say it, but at this point, I think the claims that Disney is afraid of the PT are accurate. They don't mind an occasional reference, but they won't go deep into areas that evoke the PT, like politics, exotic alien worlds, force lore, etc, because they think too many people will reject it. I think they view the PT as what NOT to do with Star Wars, which is the wrong lesson to take from it.

 

Yes, they are new in style, while still surrounded by familiar trappings. They are, imo, the best of LFL's offerings in the Disney era, followed by Solo. But, they still rely heavily on the familiar, and I worry that LFL will never leave those familiar things behind. The PT was jarring for many, because of the scope of new things it introduced. I felt that way myself, at first. But, George understood that Star Wars couldn't become stagnate, and that new eras offered new opportunities for lore, design, world building, characters, species, and different conflict and plot types. LFL needs a new visionary, and the sense to get out of their own way. Hopefully, the future films will be based a bit more on the spirit of Star Wars, than just the familiar trappings of Star Wars.

 

What I mean is discovering new things about the force. I do agree that TLJ has done the most, in this regard, of the new films. The "force skyping" thing was new. And that's the kind of thing we need more of. The jedi temple and texts weren't fleshed out, though. We didn't learn anything about them. They were just shown to exist. Even the "force skyping" wasn't as fleshed out as it could have been. Why was it deadly to use? Why does it cause a strain when lifting large objects doesn't seem to? Can someone transport themselves this way? Mainly, it seems to exist so that RJ could have his reylo scenes, and as a way to bump off Luke.

Hopefully, future films will explore things in a little more depth.

 

I'm not talking about what we need, I'm talking about what I want to see. I enjoy lore. I enjoy world building. I enjoy a deeper, more layered and immersive experience. I'm not interested in storytellers or fans telling me what I don't "need". None of us "need" any of this. We watch it because we enjoy it, and I'm speaking about things I'd enjoy seeing in the future.

 

I didn't mean that to sound that way. I just feel that too many people talk about need, when people mention what they'd like to see. I think most people approach entertainment from the position of what they want, and need doesn't really factor into it.

 

Well, I wasn't talking about people new to Star Wars. Obviously, everything is new to new fans. I'm talking about the idea of placating those who are familiar with Star Wars with more of the familiar. That has been the strategy thus far. Keep it in the eras people know, with the factions that people know, and the stakes that people know, and the designs that people know, and even several of the characters that people know. They have experimented a bit with style and tone and music, but seem reluctant to stretch outside of the trappings. It's not that I don't enjoy some of those things. Rogue One, Solo, and The Mandalorian are excellent. I'm just hoping that they break out of the "Movies era" comfort zone sooner or later. It won't be with Obi-Wan or Cassian. Those are the only two future projects we know about for certain, and they're more of the same thing I've been talking about. Though I AM super excited to see them.

 

Again I agree with you.
While they can tell a lot of different stories with a lot of different styles within the Saga timeline, setting everything within that timeframe does still limit the kind of stories they can tell. For example, there's a reason we've seen very few Jedi since Disney took over; there simply aren't that many around. There's only so many times they can pull a Rebels and show previously unknown Jedi in a time when there shouldn't be more than at most a handful still alive. And Jedi/Sith + lightsabers are familiar things that would work just as well as stormtroopers or X-Wings to help the audience accept that any new content is, in fact, Star Wars.

 

Yes, the lack of jedi vexes me to no end. My kingdom for a film with more than one fully trained jedi and sith. Again, I suspect this may be an overreaction to the PT. It had many jedi, and 4 sith, and they seem very hesitant to do anything the PT did. I hope I'm wrong, but Disney seems to be suffering from a bit of PTphobia, to the detriment of their Star Wars slate. Maybe TCW season 7 will give them a more positive outlook about it, if it's successful.

 

Yes, unfortunately, I do think you're right.
Maybe, if JJ Abrams is honest when he says that TROS is a conclusion for all nine Saga movies, we'll see more influences from the PT.

 

I've been discussing possible PT connections in one of the threads you dare not enter. Just my own speculation, that is.

 

I'll go back and look at how wrong you were in a month.