How I'd fix Star Wars

[Imaculata]

What Star Wars needs is:

-A few new ideas that don't lean on the original trilogy.
-New characters we care about.
-Stakes we care about.

Andor was a step in the right direction. No lightsabers, no Jedi. Just a mature plot about oppression, with genuin stakes.

 

[Umbran]

What is "broken" with Star Wars is that it had too much time lying fallow during which fans' ideas of what Star Wars is "supposed to be" crystalized around an amazing trilogy of movies that, whatever their flaws, stood so far beyond anything else at the time in scope and achieved ambition within their genre that no movie as movies are today can possibly live in their shadow.

I'm going to turn this around somewhat...

What is "broken" with Star Wars is the fans who became so obsessed with what Star Wars was "supposed to be" that no movie can possibly live in the shadow of their expectations.

 

[Zardnaar]

What Star Wars needs is:

-A few new ideas that don't lean on the original trilogy.
-New characters we care about.
-Stakes we care about.

Andor was a step in the right direction. No lightsabers, no Jedi. Just a mature plot about oppression, with genuin stakes.

I'm going to turn this around somewhat...

What is "broken" with Star Wars is the fans who became so obsessed with what Star Wars was "supposed to be" that no movie can possibly live in the shadow of their expectations.

Not really they just made a couple of dud movies, screwed up the ending of the ST and made a dud show.

Their average hit ratio is reasonably good.

 

[GMMichael]

Let me preface this by saying I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I've been exposed to enough of the fandom of Star Wars and its various factions, that I've absord alot. . .

I think a new villain named Absord Alot has potential!

 

[Zardnaar]

I think a new villain named Absord Alot has potential!

Sounds more MCU tbh.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Other idea. RPG licenced to Wizards of the Coast, and this unlocks SW in DMGuild. The fandom could lots of own ideas about alternate timelines and those things.

 

[S'mon]

I'd much rather see a new Space Opera universe that draws on Star Wars tropes as well as Star Wars' own inspirations - Lensman, Hidden Fortress, Dambusters, Flash Gordon, John Carter et al. I remember how awestruck I was by the start of the TV series Andromeda - I want that kind of feeling, not endless retreads.

 

[Zardnaar]

Other idea. RPG licenced to Wizards of the Coast, and this unlocks SW in DMGuild. The fandom could lots of own ideas about alternate timelines and those things.

As I said WotC burned their bridges last time around.

Not impossible but when Mustafar freezes over....

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I'm going to turn this around somewhat...

What is "broken" with Star Wars is the fans who became so obsessed with what Star Wars was "supposed to be" that no movie can possibly live in the shadow of their expectations.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Starting from zero a new IP? Possible but hard to get the same level of popularity, at least in short term. Even other IPs haven't could. If it was so easy, then comic publishers or videogame studios had created their own space fantasy.

Who should be closest would be Starfinder by Paizo. Maybe Amazon after "Legend of Vox Machine" could dare to talk with Paizo.