Lucasfilm executives and the Star Wars brain-trust are said to be meeting next month to discuss what they should do next. The topic of conversation will be the second wave of releases or their version of Phase Two. It’s expected they’ll be continuing the main saga by launching development on Star Wars: Episode X, Star Wars: Episode XI and Star Wars: Episode XII.
New standalone anthology films are most likely going to be on the table too. While Boba Fett and Kenobi films seem like no-brainers at the moment. There are a couple of potential standalone concepts that could finally see the studio branch-off from the original trilogy nostalgia.
One of the biggest things fans have been championing are movies that focus specifically on new/original characters. An attempt to distance future films from recycling more bits-and-bobs from the original trilogy.
Then again, because Darth Vader used his lightsaber in Rogue One there’s a segment of fandom now determined we should get a Vader standalone. This seems extremely counter-intuitive all things considering if fans really want to start moving in the direction of new stories. Plus, we’ve had many films with Vader and plenty of other material in video games, cartoons, books and comics exploring his exploits. We don’t really need another Vader movie.
To me it just sounds like they are hungry for the Sith to have a larger presence in the franchise, as the rule-of-two has hindered any kind of full scale battles with the Jedi.
There is a happy medium. That is a film or series of films set in The Old Republic era. This would kind of solve all these nagging issues and still gives fans that mindless lightsaber stuff they whined about missing in Rogue One (so much for fans letting Lucasfilm try something slightly different).
Blur’s cinematic trailers for Star Wars: The Old Republic reiterates that these stories could be compelling and return the franchise back to the strong fantasy mythology that originally influenced it.
The great thing about The Old Republic, it allows Lucasfilm a blank canvas to sort of make up for the prequels and tell another epic fantasy tale of Sith versus Jedi with actual characters. Unlike the CGI canon-fodder like comical droids and faceless clones from the prequels. Taking more character cues from Game of Thrones, which at the very core spends the time to develop as many characters in it’s massive universe as possible.
The Sith Empire gives us what we’ve kind of wanted all along. To finally see what an army made-up of Sith would look like and what that dynamic might have been like before the rule-of-two.
We’ve collected a bunch of artwork to help support our vision of a Star Wars film littered with unique Sith forces. Rather than just throwing a bunch of canon-fodder into tensionless battle sequences like we had in the prequels. Old Republic also had multiple full-scale wars that could be told over multiple film installments.
A lot of the material from the novels and comics have been thrown out of official cannon. Allowing for a lot of reworking and blending of different stories/characters to happen for future adaptations.
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