Star Wars Version of The Bourne Identity - HELP

so I was sitting in my room last night, flipping through a star wars comic, The Bourne Identity was playing in the background. and suddenly I got inspired. If anyone has any ideas for this project, please reply.

what I have so far


I'm creating a new Emperor's Hand and naming him Joslin Scorn, this will be the Protagonist of the film. He will be an Emperor's Hand who loses his memory and is found in the ocean on Mon Calamari with the number of an Intergalactic Banking Clan reserve embedded in his hip.

That's how far I've gotten in the overview. any information will be most helpful.

 

It sounds cool so far. Unfortunatly I havn't seen any of the Bournes, so I'm not really much help .

I'd love to see it if you ever get it done though.

 

Try not to just make it Bourne set in the GFFA. Try to think of stuff Bourne would have done differently if he had been in the GFFA and throw those in. Just my 2 cents.

 

Try and be a bit more original, don't just copy Bourne Identity and put it in the star wars universe. I mean from the sounds of it you don't need help, just add in a girl and a bunch of guys trying to kill him, and voila. But I can do that with any movie. I'll take a rich human from Coruscant who likes to dress up like a cave moth from some random planet. He uses cool gadgets and vehicles to take down other baddies because his parents were killed... He's called, cave moth man.

If you want it like the bourne identity, take the elements of the bourne identity and use those, rather than the storyline. An unstoppable force, martial arts, realism, assassins and spies, and lots of shaky cam.

 

I absolutely agree with everything that NitroBlade said.

Literally word for word. While reading that I fell in love with the guy

I really like star wars, and i really liked all of the bourne movies. For my advise, refer to the post above me

Can't wait to see the finished product

 

A little bit awkward...

 

It's a great starting point, try and work the characters as more than just rewritting the Bourne characters, give them their own goals and objectives so when the plot kicks in they will have other places to take the story.

 

If you want a Bourne-style story...maybe he was sent by the Emperor, or someone close to him, to assassinate Admiral Ackbar or some Mon Calamari politician to prevent them from joining the growing rebellion. While on an air speeder headed towards the Capital City, he is shot and thrown overboard by rebel operatives, and that's the background that he learns throughout the movie while on the run from Imperial assassins, who have been sent by the Emperor to kill him, because the Emperor thinks he has betrayed him by not carrying out his mission, and when the rebel operatives who shot him learn that he has survived, they begin tracking him as well, looking to finish the job.

So he's got agents of the Alliance and Empire hunting him, he has no memory of who he is and all he has to go on is a tattoo on his hip that contains the location of a bank run by the Banking Clan and an account number for a safety deposit box (or whatever the GFFA version is).

 

Now that sounds really good. ^^^

 

wow. those are some cool ideas. I had no intention of just ripping the Bourne Identity into a star wars form, just as a starting point. I had to do loads of research into the Muunilist banking clan and the Government and Politics of the Empire. I'm still working on the synopsis as a starting point, just to see what it will look like altogether. And from that point I'll take the key elements of the Jason Bourne films and convert it accordingly. Here is an update on the synopsis. Remember, this is just for now and does copy the Bourne Identity synopsis basically word-for-word until I convert it.

A Mon Calamarian fishing trawler finds a man floating in the sea, with two blaster wounds in his back and a device with the number of an Intergalactic Banking Clan reserve embedded in his hip. Suffering from retrograde amnesia, he finds he is versed in several planetary languages and can perform basic tasks such as writing and tying knots, but he cannot remember anything about himself or how he got there. When the ship docks, he sets off for Muunilist to investigate the account. At the Imperial Security Bureau on Coruscant, Deputy Procurator of Justice, Hethrir, finds out about a failed assassination attempt on deposed Geonosian dictator Poggle. Jedgar, A high prophet of the Prophets of the Dark Side cult, assures that he will destroy any evidence connecting them to the Emperor's Hand responsible for the operation. He activates three operatives to take down the agent: Cronal, Maarek, and an IG unit. In the meantime, the mysterious man finds out he is very proficient in hand-to-hand combat and has a strong knowledge of blasters and The Force when he subdues two Imperial Officers effortlessly. At the bank in Harnaidan, Muunilist, the man opens his safe deposit box to find several passports with his picture, large amounts of credits, and a blaster. With still no idea what his name is, he assumes the one from the first Coruscant passport. Joslin Scorn. When Coruscant and Muunilist authorities attempt to capture him at the Coruscant consulate, he gives a woman (come up with names if you'd like) 20,000 credits to take him to Sah'c Town, a district of Coruscant on his Joslin Scorn passport.


what do you guys think thus far? feedback is helpful. What I would totally apperciate are planets and cities that will take the place of countries and city's. Places in the star wars universe that draw parallels to the places that Jason Bourne has been?

Thanks for all the positive feedback.

 

That sounds really good.

 

I'm sorry, but again, it's just the Bourne Identity in a different world. Doesn't sound like you came up with anything, just threw in the force, some different locations, etc... It's because the details are too much like the Bourne series. If you want to copy the Bourne series, then just take the idea of a super assasin that loses his memory. Aside from that, do it different, don't have a bank account in his hip, don't have him floating in a sea and picked up by a fishing boat, don't have three men after him, don't have 3 passports (do they even use passports?) and his first being his name (which sounds a lot like Jason Bourne)... Try something else, try to have him found by authorities and he's thrown into jail and has no memory. He runs and he's accused of murdering a man he didn't know he killed, etc...

The more you tell of the story, the more it sounds like you're just telling us the Bourne Identity story, even the tiny details.

 

yes, but re-read what I wrote before that:

" I'm still working on the synopsis as a starting point, just to see what it will look like altogether. And from that point I'll take the key elements of the Jason Bourne films and convert it accordingly. Here is an update on the synopsis. Remember, this is just for now and does copy the Bourne Identity synopsis basically word-for-word until I convert it. "

Meaning, I'm using the synopsis as a base to put all of my ideas and collect information before reorganizing everything into a completely unique storyline.

 

If you have a chance check out Reciprocity for the style... just... try to make the fight better.

 

I suppose you could do that. Just IMO, it's better to find the elements and work from the ground up. If you copy it then change it accordingly, it'll still be very similar to the story and limit your freedom.

Anyways, to each their own.

 

I won't be copying accordingly. I will be creating my own unique story with important elements of the Jason Bourne films thrown in for interesting parodic intentions. The synopsis is used for my research and to see how something like this would appeal to fans of both film sagas. At this point I'm actually already kicking around idea's on how to make it different, perhaps it will involve a bounty hunter, Boba Fett is always an interesting choice..not sure if that would work for everyone..perhaps an alternate star wars universe where Boba loses his memory and joins the rebellion? not too sure at this point.

 

This sort of reminds me of KotOR.

-Matt

 

This is a fantastic idea.
I can't believe I never thought of it...

I love the Bourne films, but combining them with Star Wars?
That's pretty hot.
There's so many ideas you can play around with.
I think this could work tremendously well if the amnesiac was a Sith Lord.
But you will most definitely have to create some of your own ideas, other than those that are presented in the Bourne films.
You could basically emulate any story, but the only difference being that there are a few lightsabers in your version and a couple of blasts of Sith lightning.
It's about creating your own ideas.
So you should definitely work on that, first and foremost.

 

Now that sounds like KOTOR. If there are really so many original ideas to play around with, why choose one that's already been done?

 

Ah, I forgot about KOTOR.

That's a stumbling block...

 

Hmmm, I might be channeling RG here, but I wouldn't even make your 'Bourne' a Sith Lord. I suppose I'm hoping that you would film this thing in the style of the Bourne movies, and I can't really see that happening with lightsabers.

There's plenty of assassins and the like in the EU. Dengar comes to mind, oddly. You could make up something entirely new, and it bears a lot of potential, really.
While keeping with your two source elements, I'd try and make this original as possible. It could be really interesting.

[image=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/f/f0/Dengar_NEGTC.jpg]
In the 3rd paragraph of his biography in Wookiepedia, it states "As it was, Dengar was forced to become part cyborg through Imperial experimentation". Sounds close enough, considering the lines you're tying together. Something to look at, maybe.

-Vaportrail

 

As an aside I find it interesting how the Magnaguards evoke Dengar subtly:

[image=http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/5/5d/MagnaGuard.jpg]

We were going to establish a subtle link in SW: Lost Soul but never got around to it.

 

I believe they were retconned into being earlier models of IG-88, actually. A related predecessor, at least.
Gotta love the EU.

-Vaportrail

 

I just saw the trailer for a Serbian film Èetvrti Èovek aka Fourth Man. It's about a spy/cleaner guy who waking up from a two-month coma and suffering from amnesia after some event that killed his family. One bit I liked about the article was "On one level, Major?s amnesia is representative of Serbian society?s collective amnesia and struggle to return to a normal life after the turbulent 90?s", ostebsibly after the Iron Curtain fell.

That might work for the film. Say an Agent gets amnesia but only for a block of time, like a decade, thanks to a Jedi mind-wipe gone wrong. Last he rememebrs the Republic was still strong but when he 'wakes up' the Empire is established. Not only does he not know what side he's on he has no idea what sides exist, per se. Maybe he's been working for the Rebellion, maybe he's ultra-deep cover, maybe he's a stooge, maybe he's playing a complex game. That'd be a kicker, finding out your arch-enemy was yourself all along. Shame it's been done in Total Recall.

 

Not to mention Knights of The Old Republic...I think it was two...was it two?