DBWI: Disney continues Star Wars instead of rebooting it

Lets be honest, who from the original trilogy are they going to have? Ford hated playing Solo and wouldn't come back if they put a gun to his head. Fisher had that whole blowout with Disney back in 2016 (please don't start that debate back up again here, I'm just using it to demonstrate a point), so she's obviously not going to be interested.

Hamill demonstrably was willing to work with Disney. But lets be honest: yes, casting him as Tarkin was a stroke of genius, I know that was a fan-favorite performance and I'm not dissing it, obviously he's still on his game. But do we really think he's still fit enough to pull off Luke again? Christopher Lee was straining himself to play Dooku, and Dooku wasn't the bloody hero. And frankly, Mark Hamill is no Christopher Lee. Sure, Luke would probably be in a more Obi-wan style role anyway, but we already saw in their remake that Disney's not willing to let actual Obi-wan sit around and rest his bones, so forget Skywalker himself.

If there were gonna be sequels, the original character's fates would probably make for uneasy viewing.. I know Disney doesn't really "do dark", but it's hard to avoid given the casting dominoes that start with Harrison Ford.

If Harrison flat-out said "no", Han would need to be killed off in the title-crawl for episode 7 (or killed off on-screen pretty promptly if he appears).. heck, best case scenario he makes an inconsequential cameo right, probably at the end. I suppose he could have just deserted the rebellion, but that's as bad as being dead for the other main leads.

So Han is absent or killed-off.. well then Leia is probably either distraught & disillusioned (a shell of her old self? ), or nihilistic and reckless.. either way, it's glum.

As for Luke, maybe he's still optimistic.. training a new Jedi Order, trying to get things back to how it was in the old republic - but in the messy aftermath/power vacuum of defeating the Emperor, there's gonna be a lot of chaos, a lot of little fires to dampen down - wouldn't that wear him down over time?
 
can we all agree that the most ridiculous decision was to put Patrick Stewart as obi wan? as soon it came out the star trek fan base declared a net-war to disney

On the other hand, all the fan fringe theory about how Picard was actually Obi-Wan's reincarnation all along, and how Q is actually personifications of The Force.

He also pulled Obi-Wan death scene much better than the original, with his dialogue between him and Vader-bieber being repeated but with different implications.
No. Ian MacKellen plays him ITTL.
 
In a new hope we got the great line from Luke Skywalker when C3PO explained to him R2D2's computer interface and data analyzing capabilities. "THAT'S ILLEGAL!!" That line really captured Luke Skywalker's innocence.
We also got to see what happened on the surface of Alderaan when the Death Star's beam struck.
They had to cut most of the scene to get the PG rating the special edition Blu-ray had the PG-13 and the full R rated version of the death of Alderaan
 
We also got to see what happened on the surface of Alderaan when the Death Star's beam struck.
They had to cut most of the scene to get the PG rating the special edition Blu-ray had the PG-13 and the full R rated version of the death of Alderaan

Oh, gees.. I don't think I'll ever need to see the R-rated cut again.

I went in without reading any spoilers, and it completely surprised me that they went right down to the surface to show the civilians obliterated by the attack. Yeah, we were spared the worst in the theatrical cut, but still.. the original 'A New Hope' quote from Obi-wan ("as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.") said it all, but THIS was gutsy for a sci-fi action movie that parents were taking their kids to see.
 
An interesting thing I've read about the proposed sequel trilogy is that it was going to star a female lead. That would have been interesting.

Another thing if Disney continued the old canon is that it may have bought 20th Century Fox later. Many have suggested the sole reason it bought it out in late 2017 was so that it could have the rights to both trilogies.

(OOC Note: The early Marvel Cinematic Universe jumped from Paramount to Fox when Disney bought Marvel Comics, and so the X-Men universe and MCU were mixed together for the better or worse)
 
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Honestly, when I think about if Disney carried on with a sequel trilogy given how they handled the reboot, I have the hunch that it would be doomed to fail either not living up to fan's standards, hatred of reboots in general, Disney adding something stupid like 'agenda polices', uninteresting new characters and giving all the older characters the elbow in favour of the new or maybe all the above. Either way, I get the feeling that Disney's handling with the Star Wars brand was always going to rub people up the wrong way no matter how hard they tried, maybe if they had carried on with a sequel trilogy things might've been 20% better but not by much.
 
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