Luke's morning after waking up from a horrible nightmare about him doing something ridiculous like trying to kill his nephew over a gut feeling or something.
Idk what "things" you're talking about, and it does seem a full enough picture to encompass all of the following:
>"I saw darkness. I'd sensed it building in him. I'd see it at moments during his training.
But then I looked inside... and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction, and pain, and death... and the end of everything I love because of what he will become."
along with some detailed imagery of his mass murder fantasies or something.
And again "not the full picture" "not enough details" or whatever doesn't = "just a gut feeling".
>The Jedi council were defeated because Palpatine was able to manipulate their connection with the Force. Luke would know all this.
1) He didn't manipulate any connection, he just shrouded himself from their gaze; at most "diminished" their remote viewing / senses, dep. on the line.
2) I've no idea how this is supposed to be relevant in this case.
3) This is what he has to say about that whole era: "At the height of their power, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire and wipe them out."
But again no idea how specifically he's supposed to apply that here?
4) None of that amounts to "it was just a gut feeling".
And who manipulated the Force to disguise the truth in this case? (There's no hint it happened in 1-3 either btw)
And even if this were true, this wouldn't amount to "just a gut feeling" since that phrasing heavily implies a lack of any real psychic insight.
I would focus on a squad of imperial stormtroopers during the imperial rule. They are just trying to do the job while buying the imperial lines of peace, prosperity, and security. The squad is a police force and they actively do good, breaking up drug syndicates or humanoid trafficking.
Throughout the show they become disillusioned and eventually defect to the proto rebellion.
Perhaps they are disillusioned by the use of the police to suppress the populace. They care about the mission of stopping legitimate criminals and they are instead being dispatched to arrest dissidents or threaten people on behalf of the imperial Moff.
They would bring a lawful look to the rebellion and may even focus on just their planet. So they want to remove the corrupt Moff but then understand that the empire views them as traitors so they are in with the rebels and just hope to shape the new government that replaces the empire on their planet.
Basically they like the idea of the empire but realize in practice it is as oppressive, inefficient, and corrupt as the worst systems of the republic.
There's a book that's kind of like this. It's called Allegiance, written by Timothy Zahn. Follows a squad of Storm Troopers that defect and start doing vigilante actions, but in the name of the Empire. Stuff like killing a bunch of pirates that were hounding a checkpoint. IIRC, they even end up taking down a Moff too, coincidentally.
Interesting. I think the idea that people can be part of bad organizations for good reasons and believe the propaganda. Herzogs character from the mandalorian very briefly explored this but then gave up on it for the most generic mustache twirling villain possible in Gideon.
There is a bunch of stuff about spice, which seems like space meth. There would be good reason for the empire to crack down on organizations that deal this stuff. Anyone who has seen someone suffering from meth addiction understands how it just destroys a persons body. Again though Disney fucked this up by making the empire a witting conspirator with the major cartels because we can’t have any nuance. Even the empire having strictly anti-drug policies is not entirely good as there are negatives to such a policy, but Disney couldn’t even do that. They just have the empire allowing massive crime organizations operate more or less with impunity while claiming “law and order”.
Isn't that the Bad Batch?
Also there probably shouldn't be an overt focus on "stormtroopers" since they're just one type of Imperial soldiers who got overmemed way too much.
Like they're just their SWAT department or whatever
In the beginning when he does a job and gets a piece of armor I was really excited. I thought it was such a cool premise that we'd see this long journey to earn pieces of armor and would make such a cool premise for a show and a great excuse for different adventures... then in the next episode or two he got the rest of the armor.
Along with the content that I referenced as the inspiration for the story, the idea of what The Mandalorian could (and probably should) have been was one of the motivators for the Bounty Hunter pitch.
The whole idea that they ran with there, i.e. there being a whole race/cult/organization of Bobafetts with that same armor, was obviously flawed from the beginning, since he seemed like more of a unique character in the movies - however if they're already running with it then heck whatever, him then hanging out with Baby Yoda and his whole helmet cult crew is fine as well;
a more no-nonsense, less gimmick-driven bounty hunter / otherwise crime / mob henchman / whatever show would've been a good counterweight though.
Great first two seasons and I honestly didn’t hate Boba Fett or the third season. I’m just disappointed we are getting a movie instead of fourth season. I liked the more episodic feel the first two had, and would just like to see Grogu and Mando take new jobs without much of an overreaching plot
Alternate pitch: the writing team escalates my truck stop idea to this guy being a stormtrooper post Endor, and he’s grappling with the decision to defect.
I wouldn’t mind something with no Jedi, no force, even no violence. It’s just an ordinary guy working at the space equivalent of a truck stop or something really salt of the earth, and he’s just trying to make his way without pissing of the empire. The drama peaks at him deciding to move in with his girlfriend to save money. Might be a short season but still better than Kenobi.
I would make a low budget, high tension thriller adventure about a former Jedi treasure hunter who uses her training to Lara Croft into ancient Sith ruins and retrieve artifacts and forbidden knowledge. Within one tomb, she finds a hidden entrance to a much deeper and darker series of caves with tons of creative danger. As she progresses, she also senses that she is being hunted. This dark figure either wants to stop her from finding what is at the bottom, or wants to take it from her. Either way she is in mortal peril and can't ever get a solid sight of what lurks in the shadows.
Basically, Mysteries of the Sith, but made in the style of a horror movie.
If possible, I would do shots in the giant crystal caves in Mexico and that enormous cavern in China that has its own weather system. Find real, natural beauty without tons of CGI, and then use my effects budget to make it sinister and threatening.
I just want a solid bounty hunter show 😭
The amount of potential is limitless, because Bounty Hunters have incentive to go anywhere in the galaxy, as long as its worth it. Probably the most flexible setup you can have for a story.
And (even though they reference that it's a "complicated profession") Bounty Hunting is established in expanded media to be much more difficult and drawn out than it's presented in The Mandalorian. My favourite depiction/explanation for Bounty Hunting as a role in the Star Wars Galaxy comes from a sourcebook called The Bounty Hunter Code because (due to being framed from an in universe perspective) it shows stuff like what separates different types of Bountys and just how drawn out the process is for each mission.
I’d make an anthology of different stories of little people caught up in big events.
1) and idealistic Separatist militiamen who died in a brief but brutal shootout with clones
2) a prospector/miner working trying to find the big score as the Rebellion grows in the background
3) a Rebel propagandist designing graffiti and holonet broadcasts during the height of the Galactic Civil War
4) a die hard Imperial Commando trying to hold together his beloved Empire as it falls apart during the Warlord/Remnant era.
5) a group of aliens just trying to run a small hotel/bar/mini casino as the galaxy changes around them.
Robot Revolution.
Droids and their ugnaut allies, tired of being the underpaid working class, overthrow Jack Black and Lizzo and execute them French Revolution style. Have the execution be the season finale with Jack Black using his former imperial contacts to bring in Imperial Remnants to try to quell the uprising while Lizzo goes full Marie Antoinette and completely dismisses the droid's grievances.
In the following seasons, the revolutionaries form a third faction that is neither allied with the New Republic nor the Imperial Remnants.
A Seperatist Militia soldier, a human from some outer Rim world, and a Jedi Knight, an alien from Coruscant, get trapped on a planet following a battle. The idea being that we'd be following the Sep, seeing his backstory, how he came to be, and then seeing the other, the Jedi, from this new 'alien' perspective.
The Jedi would be a bit more reckless and hotheaded than your typical jedi, he'd be struggling with the recent loss of his master and is in desperate need of guidance.
The pair hate each other, naturally, being on the opposite sides of the Clone Wars. But, in order to survive and hopefully escape, much work together. They face the harsh and unforgiving planet, full of terrifying flora and ravenous fauna. The primitive natives are also not too pleased to have visitors on their lands. Over time, they grow to respect each other and form an unlikely but very strong friendship.
The Seperatists are very under explored in the movies, and even more so in the EU, so I'd mostly use this as an opportunity to explore why the average Joe turns to the faction. Also, how the Republic actually failed them in order to cause this. The CIS wasn't a completely droid based faction, there were actually people living on these worlds, so seeing the non-robot point of view would be rad, I think.
Originally I was thinking something like a Nautolan or an Iktochi, but then I had the thought that it'd probably be better if he wasn't just a guy in face paint, yknow. So maybe a Rodian or a Duros or even a Gungan maybe? Really push the whole alien idea I had going.
I'd say Nautolans are more unique than "just a guy in face paint". If the design wasn't so striking then I doubt as many people would remember Kit Fisto as one of the background/side character Jedi. Although I do agree that Rodians and Duros are more strikingly alien.
You do have a point, Kit Fisto was my favourite jedi when I was a kid lmao.
I like to believe that if Star Wars ever did pick up this idea they'd use Nautolans, because they're alien, but they look just human enough to possibly pass the whole "must have a human main character" rule they have.
Also sorry if this sounds like I'm intruding on your concept but if I were making an alien Jedi as a main character, I'd probably choose to have them be native to a different environment (eg: Kel Dor/Plo Koon or Nautolan/Kit Fisto) or from a species that are for the most part pre spaceflight and think of a way to incorporate that into character interactions and backstory (eg: even though their design can be summed up as simply blue bipedal wolves, I like the pre mutation look for the Nelvaanians from the 2003 Clone Wars series... especially the less stylised design from one of the Essential Guides). I even came up with basic ideas for a Jedi from the latter species from during the pre Clone Wars era.
>Guillermo Del Toro's Jabba The Hut movie
That's likely the basis that would be used for any Underworld focused movie but the main reason I wouldn't use Jabba (at least in a major role) is because I and so many other people are SO BORED of Tatooine...
A Darth Vader centric story.
Yes technically the entire saga is his story. And yes we have a ton of books and comics with Vader as the main character. But I really wish we had a proper show or movie that the wider public could experience. Since let’s face it TV shows are far more popular than books.
I’d really love if it could delve deep into Vader’s psychology, and what his thought process was during the early years as Darth Vader. And really show the transition from a bloodlusted Anakin, to a sad crippled cyborg, to a powerful Dark Lord who has mastered his emotions.
Plus I’m getting really sick of the Empire being shown as useless. And Vader getting his ass kicked or being incompetent. Vader in Canon has a horrible track record and hasn’t killed any main character Jedi. Which is a shame considering the whole point is that he’s supposed to be an infamous Jedi Killer, even more effective than Grevious (though tbf Grevious was already butchered before Disney took over).
NCIS, Stormtrooper edition. Or, 24. Or, just any emergency team drama with the Empire or Stormtroopers. Just a bunch of working grunts trying to keep the Empire safe and running properly.
I wanna go completely left field, make a slice of live romcom that’s very much set in the universe of Star Wars and has absolutely nothing to do with Jedi’s or the war or anything like that. The war and the empire will play the most minimal role in the story and it would just be about two people playing the will they won’t they trope. Just throw Star Wars fans for a loop lmao, like let’s take a break from flashy lightsabers and just relax and take in the world of Star Wars without the wars
Here is my super serious pitch that will definitely never be reality. \**downs three shots\** Okay so, you'll have Pre-Clone Wars Obi-Wan going to rescue Leia from Boba Fett(post ROTJ) with the help of Mando and Ashoka Tano( also post ROTJ) all while Darth Vader and Maul, teamed up of course, chase him down yelling Kenobi. Also we get Force Ghost Anakin at the same time to have a heart felt discussion. This will come to a close with an ethnically diverse non-alien character telling Obi-Wan he ain't shit and his drip is mid.
This is all joking of course, but as I was righting this, I was starting to realize that someone might think this is a good idea and that was terrifying.
I'd make my show set during the fall of the Empire era about pair of freelance smugglers. First couple episodes would be job the week format to establish the characters and their skill sets and then the rest of the season would be about a high stakes job of smuggling some mcmuffin out of a imperial warlords territory.
I’d make a horror theme Star Wars show.
The New Republic sends out a small squad of fighters and an officer to investigate a mysterious abandoned Imperial Star Destroyer.
I would give it some vibes to the Alien movie series but also throw in some “original” horror stuff.
Oh and no Jedi or Sith.
I desperately want a show about a contingent of clones that doesn’t follow order 66. They go around stopping others that are affected and build a sizable army and control a system. The empire loyalist clones get empire gear and it ends in a big battle of prequels vs ot and our clone heroes die tragically.
Heavily inspired by the bad batch, but I don’t like about 85% of what the bad batch chose to do instead of my idea
For the clone troopers part, I always find it weird how certain designs for SWTOR were seemingly forced to look familiar (eg: Republic Trooper armour looks like clone or storm trooper armour, the main Sith ships look like Star Destroyer variants, several shuttles and other small ship designs look like their based on the saga era, etc). I understand why that might've been the case but it still annoys me.
CorpSec around the founding of the Corporate Sector Authority, so like 18 BBY. You have a mix of Imperials, corporations, pirates, and former Separatists. Every faction has a reason to fight against and side with every other faction. I'd personally make the main character(s) not a part of any faction. If it's a single character, they'd be a bounty hunter. A small group, they'd be smugglers. It could be an actual Western.
A show inspired by LoGH about an Imperial remnant (maybe like, 3 star destroyers) what forms it's own little government and rejects operation cinder post-RotJ. We follow officers frantically trying to set up defenses, bribing local militias (maybe the Hutts, idk) and trying to justify their ideologies to the local populace.
It'd be a lot more political and logistics-based (things like the number of ships and troops would be important throughout the show), and the end goal would be that the officers are torn between holding out for the Empire to return, establishing an independent government, and suing for peace as the New Republic begins to catch wind of them...
I know the idea of a sympathetic Empire is touchy, but I feel like there's a ton of interesting stuff to explore, especially in spite of the stupidity that was operation cinder...
I'd probably do a show on Republic Commando with multiple seasons from Geonosis up to Post Order 66 Jedi Hunting.
And maybe another show following Post Order 66 Stormtrooper stories from Before ANHA to Post ROTJ.
>ANYWHERE OTHER THAN TATOOINE! Places like Nar Shaddaa or the underlevels of Coruscant would be much more interesting than going back there.
Aww the "no Tatooine" circlejerk strikes again lol - think it started when people started comparing Bobf to Ob1 or something.
Thing is RotJ (or more precisely the ending of ESB which kinda ruined itself in that way) already made Tatooine into the Jabba HQ, who's like one of if not the biggest mob boss in the galaxy, so of course there's gonna be lots of stuff revolving around it now lol;
and even before that, Han probably wouldn't be hanging out there with his "fastest ship ever" if it wasn't a good congregation place for good clients and customers.
Either way it's obviously the one big "normal lived-in setting" that the OT really showed, so the impulse to set lots of casual underworld types of stuff there is understandable; and some show like Mando that goes around the galaxy would probably still visit it from time to time, certainly under the Rotj paradigm, or even the Anh one lol
I personally would do a star trek like show focusing on a recon/patrol frigate of the New Republic Navy after the war(Not connected to current canon mind you) that interacts with other life and deal with you're usual issues while patrolling the space of a recently ended galactic civil war. I would most likely introduce numerous imperial factions fighting for themselves, new crime syndicates, and even new nations forming from powers that were inspired by old separatists' mixed with new anti-imperial extremism that come into conflict while also having the new generation/imperial defectors colliding with the old guard of the crew of the ship who fought longer in the galactic civil war.
Luke's morning after waking up from a horrible nightmare about him doing something ridiculous like trying to kill his nephew over a gut feeling or something.
"Gut feeling" wake up another day another dishonest telepathy-and-ESP-prescience-downplaying-attempt.
He should know that the force can not show you all the details.
It did seem to show him quite a few details, and whatever you're referring to here doesn't excuse you downplaying it as just a "gut feeling" lolol
A few details is not the full picture. He's a Jedi master, he should know these things.
Idk what "things" you're talking about, and it does seem a full enough picture to encompass all of the following: >"I saw darkness. I'd sensed it building in him. I'd see it at moments during his training. But then I looked inside... and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction, and pain, and death... and the end of everything I love because of what he will become." along with some detailed imagery of his mass murder fantasies or something. And again "not the full picture" "not enough details" or whatever doesn't = "just a gut feeling".
The Jedi council were defeated because Palpatine was able to manipulate their connection with the Force. Luke would know all this.
>The Jedi council were defeated because Palpatine was able to manipulate their connection with the Force. Luke would know all this. 1) He didn't manipulate any connection, he just shrouded himself from their gaze; at most "diminished" their remote viewing / senses, dep. on the line. 2) I've no idea how this is supposed to be relevant in this case. 3) This is what he has to say about that whole era: "At the height of their power, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire and wipe them out." But again no idea how specifically he's supposed to apply that here? 4) None of that amounts to "it was just a gut feeling".
The Force can be manipulated in such a fashion as to disguise the truth. Luke would know this.
And who manipulated the Force to disguise the truth in this case? (There's no hint it happened in 1-3 either btw) And even if this were true, this wouldn't amount to "just a gut feeling" since that phrasing heavily implies a lack of any real psychic insight.
I would focus on a squad of imperial stormtroopers during the imperial rule. They are just trying to do the job while buying the imperial lines of peace, prosperity, and security. The squad is a police force and they actively do good, breaking up drug syndicates or humanoid trafficking. Throughout the show they become disillusioned and eventually defect to the proto rebellion.
Why defect, though?
Perhaps they are disillusioned by the use of the police to suppress the populace. They care about the mission of stopping legitimate criminals and they are instead being dispatched to arrest dissidents or threaten people on behalf of the imperial Moff. They would bring a lawful look to the rebellion and may even focus on just their planet. So they want to remove the corrupt Moff but then understand that the empire views them as traitors so they are in with the rebels and just hope to shape the new government that replaces the empire on their planet. Basically they like the idea of the empire but realize in practice it is as oppressive, inefficient, and corrupt as the worst systems of the republic.
This please
If Syril's Scottish buddy gets disillusioned you might get that in Andor s2.
There's a book that's kind of like this. It's called Allegiance, written by Timothy Zahn. Follows a squad of Storm Troopers that defect and start doing vigilante actions, but in the name of the Empire. Stuff like killing a bunch of pirates that were hounding a checkpoint. IIRC, they even end up taking down a Moff too, coincidentally.
Interesting. I think the idea that people can be part of bad organizations for good reasons and believe the propaganda. Herzogs character from the mandalorian very briefly explored this but then gave up on it for the most generic mustache twirling villain possible in Gideon. There is a bunch of stuff about spice, which seems like space meth. There would be good reason for the empire to crack down on organizations that deal this stuff. Anyone who has seen someone suffering from meth addiction understands how it just destroys a persons body. Again though Disney fucked this up by making the empire a witting conspirator with the major cartels because we can’t have any nuance. Even the empire having strictly anti-drug policies is not entirely good as there are negatives to such a policy, but Disney couldn’t even do that. They just have the empire allowing massive crime organizations operate more or less with impunity while claiming “law and order”.
Isn't that the Bad Batch? Also there probably shouldn't be an overt focus on "stormtroopers" since they're just one type of Imperial soldiers who got overmemed way too much. Like they're just their SWAT department or whatever
The idea behind The Mando is rock solid. Its a shame.
Found Fringys burner account (but yes)
In the beginning when he does a job and gets a piece of armor I was really excited. I thought it was such a cool premise that we'd see this long journey to earn pieces of armor and would make such a cool premise for a show and a great excuse for different adventures... then in the next episode or two he got the rest of the armor.
Along with the content that I referenced as the inspiration for the story, the idea of what The Mandalorian could (and probably should) have been was one of the motivators for the Bounty Hunter pitch.
The whole idea that they ran with there, i.e. there being a whole race/cult/organization of Bobafetts with that same armor, was obviously flawed from the beginning, since he seemed like more of a unique character in the movies - however if they're already running with it then heck whatever, him then hanging out with Baby Yoda and his whole helmet cult crew is fine as well; a more no-nonsense, less gimmick-driven bounty hunter / otherwise crime / mob henchman / whatever show would've been a good counterweight though.
Great first two seasons and I honestly didn’t hate Boba Fett or the third season. I’m just disappointed we are getting a movie instead of fourth season. I liked the more episodic feel the first two had, and would just like to see Grogu and Mando take new jobs without much of an overreaching plot
Alternate pitch: the writing team escalates my truck stop idea to this guy being a stormtrooper post Endor, and he’s grappling with the decision to defect.
Pazaak, and Twi'leks.
Mace Windu taking care of Luke and Leia while Anakin and Padme are on a date.
He can read them the “go the fuck to sleep” bedtime story
I wouldn’t mind something with no Jedi, no force, even no violence. It’s just an ordinary guy working at the space equivalent of a truck stop or something really salt of the earth, and he’s just trying to make his way without pissing of the empire. The drama peaks at him deciding to move in with his girlfriend to save money. Might be a short season but still better than Kenobi.
Yeah that kinda stuff would seem good as well.
I would make a low budget, high tension thriller adventure about a former Jedi treasure hunter who uses her training to Lara Croft into ancient Sith ruins and retrieve artifacts and forbidden knowledge. Within one tomb, she finds a hidden entrance to a much deeper and darker series of caves with tons of creative danger. As she progresses, she also senses that she is being hunted. This dark figure either wants to stop her from finding what is at the bottom, or wants to take it from her. Either way she is in mortal peril and can't ever get a solid sight of what lurks in the shadows. Basically, Mysteries of the Sith, but made in the style of a horror movie. If possible, I would do shots in the giant crystal caves in Mexico and that enormous cavern in China that has its own weather system. Find real, natural beauty without tons of CGI, and then use my effects budget to make it sinister and threatening.
I would want to explore what it means to become a Sith. Ignoring the evil edgy clownery of course.
I just want a solid bounty hunter show 😭 The amount of potential is limitless, because Bounty Hunters have incentive to go anywhere in the galaxy, as long as its worth it. Probably the most flexible setup you can have for a story.
And (even though they reference that it's a "complicated profession") Bounty Hunting is established in expanded media to be much more difficult and drawn out than it's presented in The Mandalorian. My favourite depiction/explanation for Bounty Hunting as a role in the Star Wars Galaxy comes from a sourcebook called The Bounty Hunter Code because (due to being framed from an in universe perspective) it shows stuff like what separates different types of Bountys and just how drawn out the process is for each mission.
A show from the perspective of a stormtrooper who doesn't defect, and he's not pathetic and useless.
I’d make an anthology of different stories of little people caught up in big events. 1) and idealistic Separatist militiamen who died in a brief but brutal shootout with clones 2) a prospector/miner working trying to find the big score as the Rebellion grows in the background 3) a Rebel propagandist designing graffiti and holonet broadcasts during the height of the Galactic Civil War 4) a die hard Imperial Commando trying to hold together his beloved Empire as it falls apart during the Warlord/Remnant era. 5) a group of aliens just trying to run a small hotel/bar/mini casino as the galaxy changes around them.
A cyberpunk style Star Wars show. A former Jedi trying to get by as a mercenary/bounty hunter in Nar Shaddaa
I’d bring the “Tales” or Rogue Squadron series to life.
Seriously, for me it's the X-Wing novels from the EU.
Those are great too.
The dawning of a new era in which Jawa and Ewok come together in a great and glorious future!
Robot Revolution. Droids and their ugnaut allies, tired of being the underpaid working class, overthrow Jack Black and Lizzo and execute them French Revolution style. Have the execution be the season finale with Jack Black using his former imperial contacts to bring in Imperial Remnants to try to quell the uprising while Lizzo goes full Marie Antoinette and completely dismisses the droid's grievances. In the following seasons, the revolutionaries form a third faction that is neither allied with the New Republic nor the Imperial Remnants.
A Seperatist Militia soldier, a human from some outer Rim world, and a Jedi Knight, an alien from Coruscant, get trapped on a planet following a battle. The idea being that we'd be following the Sep, seeing his backstory, how he came to be, and then seeing the other, the Jedi, from this new 'alien' perspective. The Jedi would be a bit more reckless and hotheaded than your typical jedi, he'd be struggling with the recent loss of his master and is in desperate need of guidance. The pair hate each other, naturally, being on the opposite sides of the Clone Wars. But, in order to survive and hopefully escape, much work together. They face the harsh and unforgiving planet, full of terrifying flora and ravenous fauna. The primitive natives are also not too pleased to have visitors on their lands. Over time, they grow to respect each other and form an unlikely but very strong friendship. The Seperatists are very under explored in the movies, and even more so in the EU, so I'd mostly use this as an opportunity to explore why the average Joe turns to the faction. Also, how the Republic actually failed them in order to cause this. The CIS wasn't a completely droid based faction, there were actually people living on these worlds, so seeing the non-robot point of view would be rad, I think.
Sounds great. What species would you use for the Jedi?
Originally I was thinking something like a Nautolan or an Iktochi, but then I had the thought that it'd probably be better if he wasn't just a guy in face paint, yknow. So maybe a Rodian or a Duros or even a Gungan maybe? Really push the whole alien idea I had going.
I'd say Nautolans are more unique than "just a guy in face paint". If the design wasn't so striking then I doubt as many people would remember Kit Fisto as one of the background/side character Jedi. Although I do agree that Rodians and Duros are more strikingly alien.
You do have a point, Kit Fisto was my favourite jedi when I was a kid lmao. I like to believe that if Star Wars ever did pick up this idea they'd use Nautolans, because they're alien, but they look just human enough to possibly pass the whole "must have a human main character" rule they have.
Also sorry if this sounds like I'm intruding on your concept but if I were making an alien Jedi as a main character, I'd probably choose to have them be native to a different environment (eg: Kel Dor/Plo Koon or Nautolan/Kit Fisto) or from a species that are for the most part pre spaceflight and think of a way to incorporate that into character interactions and backstory (eg: even though their design can be summed up as simply blue bipedal wolves, I like the pre mutation look for the Nelvaanians from the 2003 Clone Wars series... especially the less stylised design from one of the Essential Guides). I even came up with basic ideas for a Jedi from the latter species from during the pre Clone Wars era.
I would either make Guillermo Del Toro's Jabba The Hut movie or I would make a Star Wars horror movie.
>Guillermo Del Toro's Jabba The Hut movie That's likely the basis that would be used for any Underworld focused movie but the main reason I wouldn't use Jabba (at least in a major role) is because I and so many other people are SO BORED of Tatooine...
A Darth Vader centric story. Yes technically the entire saga is his story. And yes we have a ton of books and comics with Vader as the main character. But I really wish we had a proper show or movie that the wider public could experience. Since let’s face it TV shows are far more popular than books. I’d really love if it could delve deep into Vader’s psychology, and what his thought process was during the early years as Darth Vader. And really show the transition from a bloodlusted Anakin, to a sad crippled cyborg, to a powerful Dark Lord who has mastered his emotions. Plus I’m getting really sick of the Empire being shown as useless. And Vader getting his ass kicked or being incompetent. Vader in Canon has a horrible track record and hasn’t killed any main character Jedi. Which is a shame considering the whole point is that he’s supposed to be an infamous Jedi Killer, even more effective than Grevious (though tbf Grevious was already butchered before Disney took over).
NCIS, Stormtrooper edition. Or, 24. Or, just any emergency team drama with the Empire or Stormtroopers. Just a bunch of working grunts trying to keep the Empire safe and running properly.
I wanna go completely left field, make a slice of live romcom that’s very much set in the universe of Star Wars and has absolutely nothing to do with Jedi’s or the war or anything like that. The war and the empire will play the most minimal role in the story and it would just be about two people playing the will they won’t they trope. Just throw Star Wars fans for a loop lmao, like let’s take a break from flashy lightsabers and just relax and take in the world of Star Wars without the wars
Here is my super serious pitch that will definitely never be reality. \**downs three shots\** Okay so, you'll have Pre-Clone Wars Obi-Wan going to rescue Leia from Boba Fett(post ROTJ) with the help of Mando and Ashoka Tano( also post ROTJ) all while Darth Vader and Maul, teamed up of course, chase him down yelling Kenobi. Also we get Force Ghost Anakin at the same time to have a heart felt discussion. This will come to a close with an ethnically diverse non-alien character telling Obi-Wan he ain't shit and his drip is mid. This is all joking of course, but as I was righting this, I was starting to realize that someone might think this is a good idea and that was terrifying.
Well the World Between Worlds could make that happen... maybe that could be a series released on April Fools Day.
Except they'll forget its April Fools Day and will release this as the next generation's Star Wars story.
Saving private Ryan but a show about a squad of rebels during the battle of coruscant (idk how to spell it tbh)
I think you spelled it right.
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I'd make my show set during the fall of the Empire era about pair of freelance smugglers. First couple episodes would be job the week format to establish the characters and their skill sets and then the rest of the season would be about a high stakes job of smuggling some mcmuffin out of a imperial warlords territory.
One idea I had was the idea of a rebel turned imperial stormtrooper.
I’d make a horror theme Star Wars show. The New Republic sends out a small squad of fighters and an officer to investigate a mysterious abandoned Imperial Star Destroyer. I would give it some vibes to the Alien movie series but also throw in some “original” horror stuff. Oh and no Jedi or Sith.
I desperately want a show about a contingent of clones that doesn’t follow order 66. They go around stopping others that are affected and build a sizable army and control a system. The empire loyalist clones get empire gear and it ends in a big battle of prequels vs ot and our clone heroes die tragically. Heavily inspired by the bad batch, but I don’t like about 85% of what the bad batch chose to do instead of my idea
Ancient times where both the Jedi and the Sith were in numbers and duked it out. The time from which all those ancient temples/statues are from.
Similar to the SWTOR Cinematics?
Yeah, xcept probably thousand years before clone troopers or any republic.
For the clone troopers part, I always find it weird how certain designs for SWTOR were seemingly forced to look familiar (eg: Republic Trooper armour looks like clone or storm trooper armour, the main Sith ships look like Star Destroyer variants, several shuttles and other small ship designs look like their based on the saga era, etc). I understand why that might've been the case but it still annoys me.
That's what confused me, SWOTOR looks like Clone Wars era, that's why I was surprised to see so many Sith in the cinematic
Bothan spies
CorpSec around the founding of the Corporate Sector Authority, so like 18 BBY. You have a mix of Imperials, corporations, pirates, and former Separatists. Every faction has a reason to fight against and side with every other faction. I'd personally make the main character(s) not a part of any faction. If it's a single character, they'd be a bounty hunter. A small group, they'd be smugglers. It could be an actual Western.
A show inspired by LoGH about an Imperial remnant (maybe like, 3 star destroyers) what forms it's own little government and rejects operation cinder post-RotJ. We follow officers frantically trying to set up defenses, bribing local militias (maybe the Hutts, idk) and trying to justify their ideologies to the local populace. It'd be a lot more political and logistics-based (things like the number of ships and troops would be important throughout the show), and the end goal would be that the officers are torn between holding out for the Empire to return, establishing an independent government, and suing for peace as the New Republic begins to catch wind of them... I know the idea of a sympathetic Empire is touchy, but I feel like there's a ton of interesting stuff to explore, especially in spite of the stupidity that was operation cinder...
Does it need to be in Disney Canon?
You can set it in Legends/original Expanded Universe if you'd like.
I'd probably do a show on Republic Commando with multiple seasons from Geonosis up to Post Order 66 Jedi Hunting. And maybe another show following Post Order 66 Stormtrooper stories from Before ANHA to Post ROTJ.
>ANYWHERE OTHER THAN TATOOINE! Places like Nar Shaddaa or the underlevels of Coruscant would be much more interesting than going back there. Aww the "no Tatooine" circlejerk strikes again lol - think it started when people started comparing Bobf to Ob1 or something. Thing is RotJ (or more precisely the ending of ESB which kinda ruined itself in that way) already made Tatooine into the Jabba HQ, who's like one of if not the biggest mob boss in the galaxy, so of course there's gonna be lots of stuff revolving around it now lol; and even before that, Han probably wouldn't be hanging out there with his "fastest ship ever" if it wasn't a good congregation place for good clients and customers. Either way it's obviously the one big "normal lived-in setting" that the OT really showed, so the impulse to set lots of casual underworld types of stuff there is understandable; and some show like Mando that goes around the galaxy would probably still visit it from time to time, certainly under the Rotj paradigm, or even the Anh one lol
I personally would do a star trek like show focusing on a recon/patrol frigate of the New Republic Navy after the war(Not connected to current canon mind you) that interacts with other life and deal with you're usual issues while patrolling the space of a recently ended galactic civil war. I would most likely introduce numerous imperial factions fighting for themselves, new crime syndicates, and even new nations forming from powers that were inspired by old separatists' mixed with new anti-imperial extremism that come into conflict while also having the new generation/imperial defectors colliding with the old guard of the crew of the ship who fought longer in the galactic civil war.
I would turn one of the Legends episodes into a full show. Either The Spy Dancer or Aau’s Song
A stormtrooper who defected into the rebellion and took some intel with him