Highly-Anticipated Star Wars Movie Becomes Disney+ Show — Report

GreyLord said:

It would not be a BAD thing if they conflicted directly with the Sequel Trilogy. In fact, enough people have disliked them, and they have caused enough division, that out and out ignoring them would not necessarily be a bad thing.

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Ruin Explorer said:

It would though, from Disney's perspective, and from an IP perspective. As soon as you do that, you have to start making major decisions about canon revisions and whether canon even still exists, and if it doesn't, that will actually piss off a lot of SW fans more than the ST ever did.

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The solution is clear and obvious. They can "Kelvin it" (ala Star Trek). What is the inciting event that caused this splitting of universes, you ask? My suggestion: Luke drinking blue milk. That irrevocably ruptured reality into two worlds: One, the silly Star Wars in which Luke drinks blue milk, and the other the less-silly (but still a bit silly) in which he doesn't.

They can retcon further by assuming that Luke drank blue milk years before The Last Jedi (creating the initial force disturbance), and therefore wipe out all three sequels.

Yes, like Ruin Explorer, I assume this is basically Ahsoka S2 plus some other characters assuming the actors are available. The question is, who does Mara Jade fall in love with in this version? Probably Ahsoka.

(Is the Hound Joruus C’baoth in this version? Who knows.)

I really doubt they’ll try and bring in versions of the heroes from the books (Leia, Luke, Han etc) because they’re quite superfluous when you have Ahsoka, Ezra, and Sabine. I wouldn’t mind seeing Ehrenreich and Glover drop in, but it’s not necessary.

I really doubt they’ll do alternate realities or time travel. There’s no point and getting actors to play the original heroes is just a lot to ask.

Reynard said:

You know what I really want, tho? A remastered Obi Wan Series. I could not believe how small the budget was. I thought both MCGregor and Christensen were great in it and it had lots of potential. I enjoyed it but it was still less than it could have been.

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There's always the unofficial recut.

It would be great if they actually did an Heir to the Empire series...a Jedi Academy series...and a few of the other early novels. Those were fantastic.

They're never just going to straight adapt some Star Wars novel from the 90s.

First off because of continuity issues with the sequel trilogy.

Secondly because the novels basically all revolve around the cast of the original trilogy and there are serious practical limitations on that. It's also one of the fundamental weaknesses of these novels, they could never let these characters have much character growth except very occasionally after agreement by committee, and so they all feel static and boring having endless adventures that they always survive basically unscathed and unchanged by.

Thirdly because showrunners want to tell their own stories, not those of some franchise novelist from 30-some years ago. I understand the the Zahn novels are much more highly regarded than basically any of the other Star Wars novels, and having not read them since I was 12 I can't say if this is deserved or a function of them being the first major new stories and expansion of lore in the Star Wars universe in a long while when they were released, but still at the end of the day Disney and the people working for it aren't going to care enough about an old trilogy of franchise novels to directly adapt it. And I doubt Heir to the Empire really has diehard fans that would make that pay off (as opposed to people who have a positive impression from the 90s but don't particularly remember the books).

Fourthly if they just did a direct adaptation of the books they're probably have a complicated rights relationship with Bantam for adapting a book they published, or with author Timothy Zahn. I certainly don't know what rights contractual agreements arranged back in the day, but most likely Lucasfilm has much clearer rights to use elements from the novels (which they already have done) than to fully adapt them. Nothing some money couldn't solve in any case, but Disney would probably rather invest in IP they own lock, stock, and barrel.

Finally, when one of these rather expensive series is being released they want people to be online guessing what's going to happen next and getting hyped for the next episode to drop, not just saying "yeah, I read the book, X happens".

So yeah, maybe some more Heir to the Empire elements filter into Ahsoka season 2, or some sort of other series that continues the story from Ahsoka season 1, but I wouldn't expect much more than that.