Chris asked me why I was so excited about this movie and all I could manage was "because Star Wars."
Because we really love Star Wars, but we've been burned by terrible Star Wars media, and the prospect of good Star Wars media rekindles the hope that George Lucas killed all those years ago.
Take TIE Fighter. Take Horatio Hornblower. Just fucking bang them together and portray some young officer in the Empire just like Horatio. Just tell those stories.
I mean, Horatio is ostensibly fighting for the bad guys depending on your point of view. He even acknowledges this several times throughout the books. It's too perfect.
Start him as just a TIE pilot who gets promoted through the ranks. Get him in charge of a small squardron doing whatever somewhere. A couple mutinies. Captured and escapes. Eventually he's a Commodore or whatever and is at the helm of a Star Destroyer.
Take TIE Fighter. Take Horatio Hornblower. Just fucking bang them together and portray some young officer in the Empire just like Horatio. Just tell those stories.
I mean, Horatio is ostensibly fighting for the bad guys depending on your point of view. He even acknowledges this several times throughout the books. It's too perfect.
Start him as just a TIE pilot who gets promoted through the ranks. Get him in charge of a small squardron doing whatever somewhere. A couple mutinies. Captured and escapes. Eventually he's a Commodore or whatever and is at the helm of a Star Destroyer.
No. I'm tired of reading stories about some measly 3-lifepath characters growing up. Give me the epic level shit. Manatheren style. Here's the main character of my Star Wars movie.
For better or worse, I don't think Disney is every going to create a movie or TV show that follows a member of the Empire, or shows the Empire in a sympathetic light.
For better or worse, I don't think Disney is every going to create a movie or TV show that follows a member of the Empire, or shows the Empire in a sympathetic light.
I kiiiinnnda wish they would stray a little more from the original moves but whatever. Like having all these tie ins to the Death Star and whatnot isn't really doing it for me. I'm sure Disney is like nah your shit needs to be iconic and can't go off in the deep end, but I'd like some video game Star Wars type shit where they mostly disregard events that happened in the movies.
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I fully expect a SWCU just like we have the MCU.
I was a huge Extended Universe fan back when I was 13, and I'm totally down for "EU, but not written for 13 year olds".
Take TIE Fighter. Take Horatio Hornblower. Just fucking bang them together and portray some young officer in the Empire just like Horatio. Just tell those stories.
I mean, Horatio is ostensibly fighting for the bad guys depending on your point of view. He even acknowledges this several times throughout the books. It's too perfect.
Start him as just a TIE pilot who gets promoted through the ranks. Get him in charge of a small squardron doing whatever somewhere. A couple mutinies. Captured and escapes. Eventually he's a Commodore or whatever and is at the helm of a Star Destroyer.
1. Ioan Gruffudd plays our intrepid Imperial Officer.
2. It takes place on a Star Destroyer named the Indefatigable.
In fact if they were to literally reskin the Hornblower stories in the Star Wars Zone, I would be overly eager for it.
I also agree with Scott that a story about those guards would be epic shit.
I could also stand for a Maz miniseries to be honest.
And of course a drama set in Cloud City would not be outside my interest levels.
Agreed.
Right?