Could the sequel trilogy be remade?

Two words as to why this could never happen: Carrie Fisher.

But, I wouldn't be opposed to seeing GL's story treatments in another form, like how Dark Horse Comics adapted an early-draft screenplay of The Star Wars as an eight-issue miniseries.

 

What good would it do if he already KNEW fans would've hated it?

 

If he really and truly wanted his vision made he shouldn't have sold it. Seriously.

 

Yeah if you're okay not having the original 3 involved since 1 of them is dead. Honestly, we're just 30 years too late for a proper ST. It was missed opportunity with the PT instead. Honestly, PT would get remade before the ST since the 10+ years of hate of he PT is the reason why they went with the safe route with the ST.

With that said, I wouldn't mind a book or something that went into deep details about GL vision for the ST.

 

Two words

Umm no

 

Remade? Never. I would love to see it adapted as a "What If" comicbook or something, but I can't imagine Disney condoning that. Too much fire there.

 

This was neither surprising or a revelation.

To answer the thread question though. This is never going to happen.

 

I'm sure whatever Lucas's ideas are, they probably don't have to be tied to the characters of the OT. So GL's concepts could be incorporated into a later trilogy with completely new characters. So the sequel trilogy itself doesn't have to be 'remade' to explore GL's story ideas. They could in theory at least still happen, but in a future story. Possibly even set something like 50 or 100 years after the ST.

I suspect GL's ideas would have been fairly conclusive with his 'bigger picture' revelations about the Force and the Whills. Once his sequel trilogy was finished then Star Wars would probably be 'finished'. It would be complete as a trilogy of trilogies, and there would be no more Star Wars.

Disney on the other-hand want to keep on telling more new stories beyond the nine-part saga, so they're creating a ST which plays out more like a 'micro' story. Sort of just more episodes with a three part an arc, more like something from the expanded universe. As much as they talk about wrapping up the saga, I doubt it's going to be quite so revelatory and as conclusive in the way GL envisioned.

Aside from that, and as other have already been suggesting while I was slowly writing this, what is more likely at best I think is something like a graphic novel or just a book about his ideas being published some time in the future.

But as I say, Luke, Leia, Han and even their children are probably not needed to tell George's idea for the story. So in theory it could still be told. But I wouldn't cling to the hope that it will.

 

George has already created Episodes 1-3 based on the original ideas he had. Look how that turned out.

 

There is no reason to be remade if they can explore different and original stories from now on. RJ trilogy for example.

 

Well, if that's what you were after, you buried your intentions in the fourth paragraph, under a misleading subject title. In that case, perhaps the thread title might have been something like "Could Lucas repurpose his ST story treatments for an unrelated film series?" And I'd still have to answer no because Disney bought those story treatments from GL, so they are no longer his to produce.

However, like I said in my initial response, I still wouldn't mind seeing those story treatments resurface in another medium, such as a comic book adaptation.

 

This is an interesting idea. They could publish them as a novel and put it under the "Legends" banner. They won't, but I know I would love to read it.

 

^ No one outside of LFL/Disney knows exactly what is in those story treatments, so it's hard to say. But how successfully they could be transferred to an all-new, unrelated franchise I guess would hinge on their dependence on the SW backstory, if that makes sense...

 

I wonder if we'll discover that TLJ was the true course correction and that it was TFA that didn't follow the plan!

I mean, there was that moment in the documentary on the TLJ Blu-ray where Rian takes a call from George early in pre-production. I would love to get a transcript of that call!

 

Also, Ford would not come back again as he got death scene he wanted since 1983. I don’t even know if Hamill would come back as he was reluctant in 2012 as he thought the ROTJ was a perfect ending for those characters.