Pitch a Star Wars Anthology Movie!

[RogueCorona 1,043]

Yeah probably.  I see nothing wrong with the Imperial characters or at least some of them being something other then mustache twirling escapees from a B movie villain cast and would aim for that but remaking Enemy Mine in Star Wars, as great a movie as that was, is not what I want.

[ParadigmPainting 70]

I would love a movie following the crews of two small capital ships from opposing sides through a number of battles. (Maybe one of the Razor class Frigates mentioned in Weapon of a Jedi for the Imperials and a Nebulon-B for the Rebels.) going through a number of engagements where both are present but they don't engage each other directly until the final battle.

Sounds very much like the excellent film Master And Commander; exactly the same premise, but with a British and Spanish ship in the Napoleonic wars. So yeah, I'd be totally up for watching something like that. And, I'd also really like to see any film that protrays the Empire as something other than incompetent clowns led by nefarious, metaphorically-cape-swirling villains. Yes, as its upper levels the Empire is Evil/led by the Dark Side, but to a lot of Imperial Officers and Stormrtroopers, it's just a job, or they're defending their home and family against a terrorist faction ect. For the trilogy films, that obvious good/bad divide works, but I think the Anthology movies can really play in that grey area between the two. 

Edited January 16, 2016 by ParadigmPainting

[Robin Graves 6,054]

 

I would love a movie following the crews of two small capital ships from opposing sides through a number of battles. (Maybe one of the Razor class Frigates mentioned in Weapon of a Jedi for the Imperials and a Nebulon-B for the Rebels.) going through a number of engagements where both are present but they don't engage each other directly until the final battle.

 

This would be really, really cool. 

 

But you know as soon as this script gets to Hollywood, by the time it comes out, it's Enemy Mine.

 

 

There are worse movies than enemy mine. And Disney would love Enemy mine, what with that line where the alien thinks Mickey Mouse is our god.

[Biophysical 15,761]

It is, but from the sound of it, focused on a small elite group with a very specific mission. It's almost a heist/war film rather than one or the other. So I imagine it'll definitely have that darker, grittier, more 'real' feel to it and that's something I'm very much looking forward to, but it still leaves live action Star Wars with very little actual warring in the stars going on.

God I would love a Star Wars soldier/spy movie in the same vein as 1964's Where Eagles Dare. That would be awesome.

 

The same vein. Not a remake with a Star Wars skin on it.

That is exactly the movie I was thinking of too. I love that movie.

In addition to that idea, and the Das Boot/Master and Commander style movies suggested otherwise, I would love an "A Bridge Too Far" style movie, following a few different units that are all part of the same operation. No real main characters, no real heroes, just a bunch of professionals trying to do their best from the staff planners to the grunts. So far Star Wars has shown us climactic battles and tiny skirmishes, but no sense of the overall operation of how campaigns are fought and won. Post episode 6 would be a great time for this. "The Empire will be beaten by Life Day."

[ParadigmPainting 70]

 

 

It is, but from the sound of it, focused on a small elite group with a very specific mission. It's almost a heist/war film rather than one or the other. So I imagine it'll definitely have that darker, grittier, more 'real' feel to it and that's something I'm very much looking forward to, but it still leaves live action Star Wars with very little actual warring in the stars going on.

God I would love a Star Wars soldier/spy movie in the same vein as 1964's Where Eagles Dare. That would be awesome.

 

The same vein. Not a remake with a Star Wars skin on it.

That is exactly the movie I was thinking of too. I love that movie.

In addition to that idea, and the Das Boot/Master and Commander style movies suggested otherwise, I would love an "A Bridge Too Far" style movie, following a few different units that are all part of the same operation. No real main characters, no real heroes, just a bunch of professionals trying to do their best from the staff planners to the grunts. So far Star Wars has shown us climactic battles and tiny skirmishes, but no sense of the overall operation of how campaigns are fought and won. Post episode 6 would be a great time for this. "The Empire will be beaten by Life Day."

 

Clone Wars dipped into that a few times. There were a couple of longer arcs about specific campaigns that were linked by location rather than any overriding character threads. For example, the first series has a 3-parter about the Siege of Ryloth; part 1 has Anakin and Ashoka leading fighter squadrons against the Separatist blockade, part 2 has Obi-wan and Commander Cody airdrop in and establish a beachhead (think the D-day episode of Band of Brothers, but with Clones) and the third part has Mace Windu lead the ground assault while attempting to negotiate support for the Twi'lek resistance from the Senate. There's a similar setup for the siege of Geonosis in the third series, again following multiple units and missions in one area (which now I think about it, has more than a few passing resemblances to A Bride Too Far...)

 

Honestly, there's so much in Clone Wars that you could just straight up translate into film scripts! 

[Biophysical 15,761]

That's true, there were some really great arcs like that. I guess I'd like it in live action, expanded, and without so many Jedi, or at least in a war where both sides weren't run by the same guy.

[WokeUpDead 868]

.."The Bucket List"

 

featuring Palpatine and Yoda.

[Robin Graves 6,054]

Fear and loathing in Mos Eisley.

 

[Trevor Goodchild 378]

Fear and loathing in Mos Eisley.

 

Wow! Did you do that?! Or where did you find that madness?!

Surely it should be "...and then all of a sudden I looked up in the sky and saw what looked like banthas."

[Robin Graves 6,054]

 

Fear and loathing in Mos Eisley.

 

 

Wow! Did you do that?! Or where did you find that madness?!

Surely it should be "...and then all of a sudden I looked up in the sky and saw what looked like banthas."

 

 

"We can't stop here this is bantha country!" 

 

LoL! Sadly not mine. I wish I could paint that well... If it were mine it would have been Mynocks.

 

I was thinking, what other movie can we spilce into star wars, and my mind jumped to (one of my favorites) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, change that to Mos Eisley, and then I figured I can't be the first guy to come up with that, so I googled "fear and loathing in mos eisley" and presto; This beauty popped up.

 

There are quite a few on these theme:

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2016 by Robin Graves

[Trevor Goodchild 378]

Ah the wonders of the Internet never cease to amaze. So much drivel masking rays of awesomeness like this!

[WokeUpDead 868]

[Robin Graves 6,054]