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I'd watch the poo poo out of a Dark Forces movie. The rest of that list is completely awful, though. I don't think even the Thrawn Trilogy would work well as films because of how much poo poo you'd have to cut out. In other news, I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow, so I'll be out of town for the Force Unleashed 2 launch. Guess you guys will have to wait a week or so for my massive post about literally every awesome thing in the game where I conspicuously avoid any mention of the plot
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Crowetron posted:In other news, I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow, so I'll be out of town for the Force Unleashed 2 launch. Guess you guys will have to wait a week or so for my massive post about literally every awesome thing in the game where I conspicuously avoid any mention of the plot If you can force-toss Ewoks over cliffs or into the uncaring void of space, consider me sold no matter what the plot.
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Bonzo posted:40 Star Wars Stories That Should Be Movies #12 would be okay, but only if they rewrite the ending so that the Endor Holocaust is officially made canon. And by "okay" I mean unwatchable poo poo redeemed only by burning wreckage raining down on Ewoks.
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Oct 22, 2010 13:56
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Captain Splendid posted:Single best part of Star Wars EU ever.
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Oct 23, 2010 02:41
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They really need to bring back Star Wars Tales, it was a great series. So, what's this bullshit about Luke becoming "one with the Force" in the NJO and fighting the Vong off with 20 lightsabers or something? There's a blurb about it on Wookiepedia and I'm just curious as to how you can continue on with a character after that.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:04
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NeonTurtle posted:Single best part of Star Wars EU ever. Then you might not like this.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:06
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:They really need to bring back Star Wars Tales, it was a great series. Can't wait for that, I'm at the end of book 8. I know what happens but I have nothing else to listen to at work until vortex is out.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:20
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ZeeToo posted:Then you might not like this. That is the most  PDF I've ever read.If anything, there should be at least some type of junk-ring around the planet created by all the debris.
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Oct 23, 2010 03:36
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Kingtheninja posted:Can't wait for that, I'm at the end of book 8. I know what happens but I have nothing else to listen to at work until vortex is out. Let me know what the hell happens because the line of text I read was pretty short. I'm curious if this is a one time thing or something he does all the time now. It's like Superman but you can't really do a character piece because it's Luke loving Skywalker and no one has written Luke Skywalker as a complex character in 27 years. On the Endor Now comic, The end of the story is the former Stormtrooper saying that line and then the guy he's telling the story to tells him about how the Rebel Alliance took care of all the major debris. He gets all freaked out and it ends on that darkly humorous note. Star Wars Tales is a mostly fun, largely noncanon series by the way so most the stuff shown in it is just fun and nowhere near as serious as the EU books. This is also why it's a million times better than most EU material.
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Crowetron posted:In other news, I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow, so I'll be out of town for the Force Unleashed 2 launch. Guess you guys will have to wait a week or so for my massive post about literally every awesome thing in the game where I conspicuously avoid any mention of the plot Unfortunately I've heard that the ending is pretty ambiguous which doesn't help since they canceled work on the third game.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:They really need to bring back Star Wars Tales, it was a great series. This never happened.
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Oct 23, 2010 04:55
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:This never happened. Apparently he wielded his lightsaber like there were 10-20 there. It's still pretty ridiculous and the whole "oneness" thing.
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Oct 23, 2010 05:57
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Apparently he wielded his lightsaber like there were 10-20 there. It's still pretty ridiculous and the whole "oneness" thing. Is there a citation for which book it happened in in the Wiki article? I have no recollection of this. They do, later in the NJO, explore the definitions and understanding of the force and whether there even is a dark or a light side which might explain the "Oneness" thing. I wonder if you're referring to Anakin Solo, who in a heroic last stand found a higher plane of force use and used the poo poo out of it to the point that his cells burned up and he died while glowing brightly and killing everything in mega-hero-mode.
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Azzmo posted:Is there a citation for which book it happened in in the Wiki article? I have no recollection of this. They do, later in the NJO, explore the definitions and understanding of the force and whether there even is a dark or a light side which might explain the "Oneness" thing. Apparently both Jacen and Luke do that but don't get killed.
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Unsubstatiated rumor of the day: http://iesb.net/index.php?option=co...:news&Itemid=71 quote:Don't start packing up your lawn chairs and igloo coolers just yet, but there will once again be "camping out" for a Star Wars movie. IESB has learned some news about the future of the Star Wars franchise.
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quote:What has caused this sudden change of heart for Uncle George? Well, besides the obvious possible billions that a new Star Wars trilogy will take in, our source tells us that George has gotten motivated with the success the Clone Wars animated series, the video games and also with the success of Avatar. Red Letter Media sure as hell is seeming accurate at the moment.
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The original Dark Forces could definitely work as a sort of Bond-in-Space movie set in the SW universe. The movie could open with Katarn stealing the Death Star plans and shooting his way out of the secret base. As he flies away from the planets, the title credits roll. After the title credit, Mon Mothma debriefs Katarn about the attack on the rebel base and tells him that he has to rescue Crix Madine from the imperials for more intelligence on the Imperial's new weapon. We also meet Jan Orrs, the Bond girl. Madine points them to Nar Shadaa/Imperial City, where Katarn can discover the location of the Ark Hammer (I think Nar Shadaa would be a richer environment to explore). There he encounters the evil Bond girl - maybe it's Mara Jade? - and gets the ship's location. Then maybe he gets captured and escapes from Jabba's ship if it doesn't gently caress up the pacing, before he finally gets to the Ark Hammer. He infiltrates and destroys the ship, with a climactic battle against the big bad and his Dark Trooper. I figure you could probably throw in maybe one more set piece - possibly a combination of the three mining facilities, as well as a couple of character building exposition scenes. I don't think it would be a classic, but it could definitely be a fun pulpy action movie.
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I want more prequels! Give me an Old Republic-era movie.
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Why doesn't he just give the guys who do the Old Republic cinematic trailers, and the crew that did the trailers for The Force Unleashed 2 a decent budget, and just let them make 3 cgi movies? Heck, the 5-minute trailer for TFU2 and the first ToR trailer are both better than anything he did for Ep. 1 ~ 3...
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clueless posted:Why doesn't he just give the guys who do the Old Republic cinematic trailers, and the crew that did the trailers for The Force Unleashed 2 a decent budget, and just let them make 3 cgi movies? That doesn't mean they were good. Five minutes just isn't long enough to fit both generic over the top action AND a terrible story.
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Oct 23, 2010 19:14
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I've suddenly got a bad feeling for the entire comic and book post ROTJ EU.
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ImpAtom posted:Red Letter Media sure as hell is seeming accurate at the moment. I love Avatar, but if through it Lucas is inspired to do more Star Wars stuff I may have to go murder James Cameron. Seriously, Lucas better not loving touch my post ROTJ EU, I'm way to invested in it. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 23, 2010 |
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I'm hoping they do more Old Republic stuff because of The Old Republic coming out and there's not much to gently caress up.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I love Avatar, but if through it Lucas is inspired to do more Star Wars stuff I may have to go murder James Cameron. Don't murder him until he gets around to making that Battle Angel Alita movie he's been talking about.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Seriously, Lucas better not loving touch my post ROTJ EU, I'm way to invested in it. Hahahahaha
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Seriously, Lucas better not loving touch my post ROTJ EU, I'm way to invested in it.  You going to storm Skywalker Ranch or something?
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Oct 24, 2010 00:19
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Can we beg Zahn to email Lucas and offer to write some of this new stuff?
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George Lucas is 66 years old. He's not actually obese as far as I can tell, but he doesn't look like he's exactly in peak physical condition. I'm not sure he has another trilogy of healthy life expectancy left.
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Mister Roboto posted:
I make an exaggeration that I will murder James Cameron over all this and that is what you pull out of my post? Anyway, is it to hard to believe that I might be more than a little resentful toward Lucas if he takes a complete poo poo over all the Star Wars stuff I've liked and enjoyed for the better part of a decade?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Seriously, Lucas better not loving touch my post ROTJ EU, I'm way to invested in it. I can imagine the scroll now: STAR WARS Episode IX DARKSABER
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:DARKSABER If nothing else, it'll make for some fearsome Madine meme material.
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Nah. Darksaber would be too good. Episodes 7,8, and 9 will be co-written by his new squeeze, Karen Traviss.
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Darksaber, while terrible, was better than anything Lucas can do. Kevin J Anderson is a master of modern literature compared to the last 15 years of Lucas.
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Der Luftwaffle posted:If nothing else, it'll make for some fearsome Madine meme material. Eh, it would probably still be more entertaining than Attack of the Clones.
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Darksaber, for being totally awful, was amazingly amusing. If you're actually looking for really bizarre choices to make into movies, how about Crystal Star?
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ZeeToo posted:Darksaber, for being totally awful, was amazingly amusing. The Jedi Prince is finally coming to the big screen baby, start throwing out those nerd chosen cast choices. Lucas would make a lovely Zorba.
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ZeeToo posted:Darksaber, for being totally awful, was amazingly amusing. The Crystal Star was the 4th Star Wars EU book I ever read. The first 3 was the Jedi Academy trilogy Yeah
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Darksaber, while terrible, was better than anything Lucas can do. Lucas already did Darksaber, remember? 
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They could cover that span of time that takes place between Legacy and Karen Traviss fanfiction. I don't think Lucas would really touch the EU because of all the merchandising that goes into it already. He's literally getting checks for doing nothing and he's shown in the past that this is not something he wishes to end. EDIT: Look at how Paramount, and Roddenberry in the past, runs things with Star Trek. That is the model that people who hate money follow. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Oct 24, 2010 |
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