Create a Star Wars sequel trilogy

[Matt]

Create your very own Star Wars sequel trilogy in this thread.

I'd love to hear some ideas people have.

 

[DarKush]

I really liked the New Jedi Order books, so I would probably do something along those lines, crafting a trilogy from those books.

The Yuzhaan Vong invasion would be a different type of war than the rebellions we've seen in the OT and PT. Plus, the NJO features Luke, Leia, and Han at about the real time ages of the actors who played them.

The Vong were fairly ruthless enemies and the old Jedi/Sith stuff-which I love by the way, but some might find repetitive-was avoided.

Of course, if GL or someone had the balls-or insanity?- to recast the main players then the Thrawn trilogy-which I've never read, but have heard good things about-or the Dark Empire comics might be the best way to go.

If I really had my druthers, I would do a series of movies or a TV miniseries based on the KOTOR video games or the comics Tales of the Jedi, Dark Lords of the Sith, or the Sith War. I would love to see Exar Kun, Nomi Sunrider, Dace Diath, and Ulic Qel-Droma on screen. Same with Darth Sion, Revan, Traya, Bandon, and Malak.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Create your very own Star Wars sequel trilogy in this thread.

I'd love to hear some ideas people have.

There acnnot be a sequel trilogy because the story is finished. The first and second trilogies mirror each other, and tell the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin. That's the story, that's Star Wars, and it's over now.

The spinoff novels are not Star Wars, they are stories set after Star Wars featuring the same characters.

 

[Timstuff]

How about this: Anakin un-knowingly sired an illegitimate third child after he became Darth Vader, who became evil. He'd be the main antagonist of the sequel trilogy.

I really don't think there should be a sequel trilogy though. 6 movies was the perfect number of films to tell the entire saga.

 

[cerealkiller182]

What about the fall of Luke Skywalker. Luke goes over to the dark side, and the emperor is still around because he has clones of himself. I think i saw it in a Star Wars comic book,.

 

[CConn]

There acnnot be a sequel trilogy because the story is finished. The first and second trilogies mirror each other, and tell the story of the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin. That's the story, that's Star Wars, and it's over now.

The spinoff novels are not Star Wars, they are stories set after Star Wars featuring the same characters.

You're being incredibly naive. It's the Star Wars universe. If any films were ever released using the same characters as Star Wars, or even taking place in the same universe, it would have the title Star Wars attached to it. As simple as that. Even if it's purely for marketing purposes it would be called Star Wars.

As for the topic, I'd want to see the Thrawn Trilogy series of books made into movies. Sort of a boring answer for a thread like this, I know, but I really don't think you could get any more spot on than those books. For me, at least.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

A trilogy I'd like to see would be three prequels to SW/ESB/ROTJ...in an alternate universe where Phantom Menace/AOTC/RotS never happened.

The Clone Wars would already be in progress, just like the war between the Empire and the Rebels was already in progress at the begining of Star Wars (I'm not gonna call it "A New Hope" )

The first would begin with the teen-aged Anakin Skywalker as Obi Wan's student. They would have a good relationship with hints of friction.

The second would be a full-on war film like Saving Private Ryan only in the GFFA. Obi Wan and Anakin would already be estranged and it would get worse until it built to the end where they would have the battle that would cripple and disfigure Anakin, who would be left for dead by Obi Wan. By the end the Emporer's plan would've been fulfilled, the "war" would've been "won", and the Empire would be established.

The third would be the hunt for the Jedi. It would show a "new" bad-ass, Darth Vader (named as such only after he was put into his armor/robot body) hunting down Jedi, the story of the fugitive Jedi trying to survive.
Almost all the Jedi would be defeated and somehow Yoda and Obi Wan would team up to sneak in to wherever and confront The Emporer and Darth Vader. This is where Obi Wan and Yoda would learn that Darth Vader was really a cyborg-Anakin.
The Emporer and Darth Vader would kick their asses and defeat them in such a way that they were certain that both were killed.

Then...STAR WARS.


No wasting time with Gungans, or "whoopee! Wizard!" little boy Anakin pod-racing or Qui Gon Jin. That way you'd have an entire 3 movies just to dwell on and develop Anakin and Obi Wan's relationship and Anakin's turn to the Darkside, so it wouldn't seem so preposterously rushed and forced.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

You're being incredibly naive. It's the Star Wars universe. If any films were ever released using the same characters as Star Wars, or even taking place in the same universe, it would have the title Star Wars attached to it. As simple as that. Even if it's purely for marketing purposes it would be called Star Wars.

You mean like the Ewoks movies, An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor? No Star Wars in the title there.

You completely misunderstanding what I'm saying anyway. I'm saying the Star Wars story has ended. I'm not saying the Star Wars brand name is defunct.

 

[Orko Is King]

A trilogy I'd like to see would be three prequels to SW/ESB/ROTJ...in an alternate universe where Phantom Menace/AOTC/RotS never happened.

The Clone Wars would already be in progress, just like the war between the Empire and the Rebels was already in progress at the begining of Star Wars (I'm not gonna call it "A New Hope" )

The first would begin with the teen-aged Anakin Skywalker as Obi Wan's student. They would have a good relationship with hints of friction.

The second would be a full-on war film like Saving Private Ryan only in the GFFA. Obi Wan and Anakin would already be estranged and it would get worse until it built to the end where they would have the battle that would cripple and disfigure Anakin, who would be left for dead by Obi Wan. By the end the Emporer's plan would've been fulfilled, the "war" would've been "won", and the Empire would be established.

The third would be the hunt for the Jedi. It would show a "new" bad-ass, Darth Vader (named as such only after he was put into his armor/robot body) hunting down Jedi, the story of the fugitive Jedi trying to survive.
Almost all the Jedi would be defeated and somehow Yoda and Obi Wan would team up to sneak in to wherever and confront The Emporer and Darth Vader. This is where Obi Wan and Yoda would learn that Darth Vader was really a cyborg-Anakin.
The Emporer and Darth Vader would kick their asses and defeat them in such a way that they were certain that both were killed.

Then...STAR WARS.


No wasting time with Gungans, or "whoopee! Wizard!" little boy Anakin pod-racing or Qui Gon Jin. That way you'd have an entire 3 movies just to dwell on and develop Anakin and Obi Wan's relationship and Anakin's turn to the Darkside, so it wouldn't seem so preposterously rushed and forced.

That would've been pretty awesome!

 

[green]

As for the topic, I'd want to see the Thrawn Trilogy series of books made into movies. Sort of a boring answer for a thread like this, I know, but I really don't think you could get any more spot on than those books. For me, at least.

What is this Thrawn Trilogy people speak so highly of?

 

[Backdrifter]

Nah, Thrawn was a boring villian.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

A trilogy I'd like to see would be three prequels to SW/ESB/ROTJ...in an alternate universe where Phantom Menace/AOTC/RotS never happened.

The Clone Wars would already be in progress, just like the war between the Empire and the Rebels was already in progress at the begining of Star Wars (I'm not gonna call it "A New Hope" )

The first would begin with the teen-aged Anakin Skywalker as Obi Wan's student. They would have a good relationship with hints of friction.

The second would be a full-on war film like Saving Private Ryan only in the GFFA. Obi Wan and Anakin would already be estranged and it would get worse until it built to the end where they would have the battle that would cripple and disfigure Anakin, who would be left for dead by Obi Wan. By the end the Emporer's plan would've been fulfilled, the "war" would've been "won", and the Empire would be established.

The third would be the hunt for the Jedi. It would show a "new" bad-ass, Darth Vader (named as such only after he was put into his armor/robot body) hunting down Jedi, the story of the fugitive Jedi trying to survive.
Almost all the Jedi would be defeated and somehow Yoda and Obi Wan would team up to sneak in to wherever and confront The Emporer and Darth Vader. This is where Obi Wan and Yoda would learn that Darth Vader was really a cyborg-Anakin.
The Emporer and Darth Vader would kick their asses and defeat them in such a way that they were certain that both were killed.

Then...STAR WARS.


No wasting time with Gungans, or "whoopee! Wizard!" little boy Anakin pod-racing or Qui Gon Jin. That way you'd have an entire 3 movies just to dwell on and develop Anakin and Obi Wan's relationship and Anakin's turn to the Darkside, so it wouldn't seem so preposterously rushed and forced.

The only problem with that is no Qui Gon Jin, who was, undoubtedly, the best part of the prequal trilogy.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The only problem with that is no Qui Gon Jin, who was, undoubtedly, the best part of the prequal trilogy.

It's not a problem in this alternate reality.
In the first one Obi Wan did nothing. It was a whole wasted movie where the great, tragic friendship between Obi Wan and Anakin was reduced to him being introduced to a little boy and that's it.

Then, we just skip to way older Anakin in AOTC so we just have to take everyone's word for it that they have affection for eachother, however, since it's already the second movie, Anakin has to start being a b****, so really all we see is them bickering, mocking eachother, fighting and Anakin resenting him. What many fans really wanted to see was exactly what George didn't show us, what happened between the movies he made...Anakin as the young student of Obi Wan and them being like "brothers" and sort of "Father and Son"...and then them fighting side by side in the (supposedly) epic "Clone Wars", and then Darth Vader (not VINO) in his prime as a bad-ass destroying the Jedi.

It would've been a much smoother and natural fall to the Darkside if they had followed one of the HUGE rules of story-telling...."Show don't Tell".

If it had started with Anakin already being Obi Wan's student, then they would've had a whole movie of good-times together with a hint of the bad that's to come...then, a whole movie where Anakin's older and they've grown apart which would then come to the point of no return by the end, and then, a whole movie where the fanboy dream of millions of kids from the 70's and 80's would've come true...seeing a black, armored, bad-ass Darth Vader hunting down and killing the Jedi.

It would also leave it less vague as to how Obi Wan knew Darth Vader was Anakin.
I say that "the Darkside clouds everything". The freaking Sith Lord Darth Sidious was hanging out with the Jedi for years and they couldn't ever tell that he was a Sith until the end.
I say it would be the same with Darth Vader. But in my movie, much like the shocking revelation that DV was Luke's father...Obi Wan would actually find out that DV was Anakin by his own mouth and get all shocked and dismayed.

It would also make it more believable that Obi Wan and Yoda were never found for 20 years if the Emperor and Darth Vader felt that they had watched them die themselves.

In closing,
1. Qui Gon was one of the coolest characters in the prequels, but that's not saying much.

2. If he had to exist, it should've just been in EU stuff, or he could've easily been another soldier in the Clone Wars, fighting alongside Obi Wan and Anakin, because by completely ignoring the base of the story, Anakin and his Darkside-fueled betrayal of Obi Wan and the Jedi...for an entire movie, they had to cram it all into only TWO movies which was ridiculous.
There was no reason to have Qui Gon or Anakin as a little boy pod-racing or Gungan politics when Anakin deserved a THREE movie arc, such as the one Luke Skywalker had...1)Promising but naive force-sensitive older teen. 2) older guy struggling to learn more and find his place, feeling torn between what he knows he should do and what he wants to do. 3) A mature, wiser man who has made his choice and acts on it.


p.s. I also believe Qui Gon's presence in the movies makes it stupid that he didn't appear with Anakin, Obi Wan and Yoda at the end of Jedi since supposedly he was the one that led them to the ability to retain their consciousness after death.
It just makes more sense that it's the story of the master Yoda(the best guy), Anakin(the worst guy) and Obi Wan(the guy inbetween), and that's who we see for the happy ending.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I wouldnt mind seeing the Han Solo trilogy

 

[Matt]

My Star Wars sequel trilogy takes place 1,000 years after the fall of the empire. The Republic is long dead and and a civil war has engulfed the galaxy for nearly 100 years. The two factions involved is The Federation, is a faux-Republic, kind of like Communist Russia and the Monarchy, a group led by a young "queen" who claims to be the descendant of a ruler of the galaxy from thousands of years before the Old Republic. The Jedi, are no longer the protectors of the galaxy but simply monks who live within a space station-esque temple...However, there is a much darker side to them, A side that is manipulating both sides of the war (they are responsible for finding the queen of the monarchy, they are responsible for helping to build the federation, they are aiding both) in order to regain their past prominence. The war is helping no one, simply bringing about suffering and the only hope the galaxy has, is in the hands of a young space pirate who is the last descendant of Anakin Skywalker.

 

[CConn]

What is this Thrawn Trilogy people speak so highly of?

A series of books by Timothy Zahn. Heir To The Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command are their titles.

You mean like the Ewoks movies, An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor? No Star Wars in the title there.

You completely misunderstanding what I'm saying anyway. I'm saying the Star Wars story has ended. I'm not saying the Star Wars brand name is defunct.

No, I understand what you're saying. It's just that's a rather useless point. Alright, Episodes 1-6 were about Anakin, that story is over, okay, I get it. But even you admit the story could continue in the same universe and with the same characters. And that's what we're talking about here. A trilogy featuring the charaacters from Star Wars, using the brand name Star Wars.

 

[green]

A series of books by Timothy Zahn. Heir To The Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command are their titles.

Hmmm...thanks CConn

 

[DarKush]

If I had my druthers, I would've combined the characters of Obi Wan and Qui Gonn together in TPM.

I do like the idea of starting TPM with a teenaged Anakin. That would've been sweet.

My alternate take on the PT:

I think it would've been nice to have Anakin be a reverse Luke in a sense. Start him out as a Jedi already, and he grows increasingly bored and frustrated with the Jedi's slow, deliberate approach to dispensing justice as well as the plodding politics and bureaucracy of the Republic.

Growing up in the Temple, never seeing or knowing his parents, or given a chance at a normal life, Anakin comes to resent the Jedi. Even though he loves lightsaber combat, his powers, and feels some sense of responsibility for others. Anakin also feels guilt for his selfish desires, but that doesn't stop him from having them.

I would've made Padme a Padawan as well. She is a constrast to Anakin, and she sees all the good that the Jedi do, while Anakin is more of a gray figure.

I would also have the Separatists in the first movie, and center the action on Alderaan. I think it would've been tragically poetic to have Palpatine be from Alderaan and to show in the PT a world that was so easily destroyed in Ep. IV. The audience would get to see what was lost.

Bail Organa would be a Prince. Palpatine is a Senator. Count Dooku, isn't a Jedi in this version, but he is a disaffected Alderaan royal-Bail's uncle-who has joined enlisted the aid of the Separatists to help him claim the Alderaan throne.

Qui Gonn Jinn would be a defiant Jedi Council Member who decides to infiltrate the Separatist movement after Obi reports back that Darth Maul, a suspected Sith Lord, is in league with them.

In AOTC, Jinn becomes joins forces with the Separatists. He becomes a dark Jedi, not necessarily a Sith. He believes that Sidious actually is in control of the Republic and that's his reason for joining. He doesn't realize that Sidious is in control of the Separatists too until it's too late.

I would probably still kill off Maul in TPM. But his role would be greatly increased. Instead of Gen. Grevious, I would bring in Asajj Ventress as the Separatist general.

TPM-cover the fall of Alderaan and the cohesion of the Separatists into a Confederacy of Independent Systems. Dooku would be their Premier. Palpatine still snakes his way into the Chancellor's office. Padme's master is killed by Maul, and she is hurt. Anakin also loses an arm to Maul protecting Padme. The Jedi Council is shaken by the suspected return of the Sith.

AOTC-Takes place about 2-3 years later. Republic is relying on Mandalorian mercenaries to fight against Separatist cloned soldiers. The Separatist cloned soldiers might be more bestial, something like Saruman's troops from LOTR. Or the Chazrach from the SW EU.

The Republic is having a hard time mustering up their own forces. Their droids are no match for the Separatist clones. Bail, now the Senator of Alderaan in exile, proposes creating a clone army. This would cut into the Mandalorian profits, plus Bail wants to honor the great & dead Mandalorian general Jango Fett by using his genetic material as the blueprint for the Republic's clone army. (Jango died early in the war. Boba would not be his clone, though he would be one of Jango's sons)

Disgruntled Mandalorian elements try to kill Bail for his blasphemy, and for taking money away from them. The Jedi had been sitting on the fence for the most part while the Republic crumbles. Some Jedi have joined the fight. Padme and her new Master are two who have joined the fight. Obi is torn over the issue. Anakin eventually bails for Coruscant after he hears an inaccurate report that Padme has been killed.

Eventually, the Mandalorians turn on the Republic once the Republic no longer can afford to pay them. Palpatine has secretly been diverting funds to the build a clone army. That's why the treasury is low.

When the combined Separatist forces launch an attack on Coruscant, the Jedi finally get into the fight in total. Plus, there is some great Mandalorian/Jedi action. But it is the surprise appearance of the Clones which wins the battle. The Jedi are disturbed by how Palpatine sneakily handled the situation and subverted the democratic process, but keep it to themselves.

The Chancellor is considered a hero, and he graciously shares the title with the Jedi, calling them the true champions of the Republic and crediting them, not his clone army, for keeping Coruscant from fallling. But then he implores the Jedis to take command of the clone army and teach them to be humane warriors, not mindless savages like the Separatist forces. Caught in a bind, the Jedi reluctantly take command of the Grand Army of the Republic.

ROTS-takes place about 5 years later. The galaxy is in shambles. The war has cost billions of lives. But by this time the Republic has turned the tide. Anakin and Obi help free Alderaan.

While the war has been going on, Padme and Anakin get closer. They make love in AOTC. And when Padme winds up pregnant, Anakin convinces her to leave the order. They both quit. There is a brief scene where they discuss names for their child-Deak or Luke for a boy, Leia for a girl.

Anakin takes a 'desk' job as Palpatine's security director. He caught Palpatine's eye during the defense of Coruscant. With the war coming to an end, many are calling on Palpatine to ease restrictions and give up power. Palpatine fears that there is a growing plot to continue the war indefinitely.

Palpatine even takes Anakin under his wing, and gives him a 'captured' holocron on Sith teachings. Anakin, who's never ascribed to the manichean nature of the Jedi and Sith, begins becoming engrossed in their teachings.

Anakin, sick of war and wanting to build his family and raise his child in peace, begins to root out suspected traitors. There is a peace movement that is seeking to forge a peace deal with the Separatists without Palpatine's authorization. He has casts them as traitors, trying to undermine the war effort.

He eventually finds out that the Jedi, with Padme among them, are part of the 'seditious plot'. He goes to arrest them. Stuff happens, and Padme choses the Jedi and the other traitors over Anakin.

He goes back to Coruscant just in time to witness an attack on Palpatine's office, which leaves the Chancellor scarred. Determined now to bring the criminals to justice for the 'assassination' attempt, Anakin organizes that they be hunted down and arrested.

But Palpatine initializes Order 66 behind Anakin's back. When he lands at a Jedi hideout, seeking Padme and the Council, the Clones go wild and the Jedi attack. Anakin unloads into some of them with an eruption of force lightning.

Padme is hurt in the crossfire, and fearing her dead-perhaps by his hand, Anakin loses it. He finally takes up arms against the Jedi. While the Jedi escape, Obi buys time fighting Anakin in their climatic battle.

He only is crowned Darth Vader after his lava bath. Palpatine finds him and 'takes care' of him, just like Anakin did when he found Palpatine among the ruins of the Senate building.

Somewhere along the way before Qui Gonn dies he tells either Obi or Yoda the truth that he has found out about the Sith. Yoda is able to put it together and goes after Palpatine, but loses.

After Anakin becomes Vader, his rage, hatred, and darkness blocks him from sensing Padme's love through the Force. He believes that she is dead. So, he honors her memory, avenges her death by massacring the Jedi whom he blames for it. Padme's injuries are so severe that she dies.

Additional changes:

I would probably use the second movie to have Anakin go off to find his family on Coruscant. He wants to quit the Jedi then. He might be angry over the Jedi not joining in the battle. He hacks into Jedi archives and finds his parents or home planet.

But Obi Wan comes to him and convinces him to come back. Obi takes Luke with him and gives him to Owen and Beru. While Bail takes Leia just like in the movie.

Who would not be in the prequels:

1. Jar Jar Binks or the Gungans
2. C3PO or R2D2

I'm iffy about Chewbacca. There might be a battle of Kashyyk in the second movie more than likely.

Locations
TPM-Alderaan, Coruscant
AOTC-this one would show various battle fields-Mon Calamari, Kashyyk, etc. It would culminate with the battle of Coruscant. Anakin would also spend time on Tatoonine.
ROTS-Second battle of Alderaan, Utapau, Mustafar. There would be various battle scenes, esp. when Order 66 is carried out.