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What B&W Can Bring to Star Wars

Discussion in 'General Movie Discussion' started by cawatrooper, Feb 9, 2018.

  1. ThisIsNoCave

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    Lots of people seem to be of the opinion that David Benioff & D.B. Weiss will address KOTOR or the Old Republic. I have seen commentary from Rian Johnson when he was asked about the possibility of taking on KOTOR. To paraphrase, his comments were that the KOTOR story had already been told, so why revisit that? I think that a similar position would likely come from the Benioff & Weiss team.

    As for their creative take on Game of Thones? They're showrunners, writers and the executive producers. They have their hands in the overall direction of the story, scripting, the creative look of the series (guiding production design), casting, working with directors, etc. The potential impact they will have on their series of Star Wars films should not be understated, whether they direct any of the movies or not.

    It also seems relevant to discuss their backgrounds prior to taking on the job of adapting Game of Thrones for HBO. Benioff's credits prior to GoT include work as a novelist and screenwriter (25th Hour, Troy, X-Men Origins - Wolverine). He's studied the classics, and some of his film work draws significantly on mythology. D.B. Weiss has a similar background in mythology and classics, also having worked as a screenwriter. That background was a major consideration for HBO and George R.R. Martin as the concept for a Game of Thrones television series was developed. They had studied the ASOIAF saga voraciously before they even pitched adapting it into a show. They had a strong grasp for the various cultures and individual characters. And they were able to answer the question of R+L=J to GRRM when they met him for the first time. Since then they've been instrumental in how the show looks and crafting the world of Westeros and beyond for the screen.

    It's that background that gives me tremendous optimism about what they might bring to the world of Star Wars. Now do I think that they'll touch on the Old Republic era? That era is HUGE. Thousands of years. But I think what they might touch on could be linked to some things that we've seen before. Notably, Ahch-To and the first Jedi Temple. I think it is entirely possible that they would touch on how people first tapped into connecting with The Force, and in turn the origins of the Jedi Order. Since it's slated to be a series of films? Perhaps they would also take on the schism that happened in the order as some Jedi left and would eventually become the Sith. Whether this era intersects with the foundation of the Galactic Republic is another matter. And considering the location of the Ahch-To shoot? Benioff and Weiss certainly have spent a lot of time in Northern Ireland working on GoT. Going to the Republic of Ireland to shoot at that location would certainly present them the opportunity to work with much of their old crew that had worked on the production of Game of Thrones.

    I think the possibility of Benioff and Weiss adapting this Star Wars mythology for the screen is playing to their strengths. Sure, there is Legends material that covered a lot of this territory. But seeing how the decks were cleared by making so much previously written Expanded Universe material "Legends", it does open up the possibility of them exploring this era in great detail.
     
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    Yea, the story has been told but it's still non-canon status according to LFM. Name dropping the character from that time frame isn't the same. That character is canon but his or her backstory isn't. Making a movie about it will make everything canon unless they just flat out say events in KOTOR 1 & 2 are canon.
     
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    The whole canon vs non-canon narrative seems to be more of a focus of fandom. Many people grew attached to a number of stories from print and video games. For me it was a lot of the Dark Horse comics run as well as the KOTOR video games. I love a lot of that material. And I am okay with those stories existing within that format and leaving it at that.

    What I take from Rian Johnson's comment about KOTOR is simply this: why go there again when a story has already been told? When you take out some of the elements of surprise and the unknown, there's the possibility that the story could be less compelling for the audience. I got the distinct impression that *SOME* of what may have left people underwhelmed about the PT was the fact that we knew the general direction of where things were going. We did not know all of the details, but you did know that Anakin Skywalker was going to become Darth Vader. A previously untold story leaves many more avenues open for the writers and creators, and to me, that means a far more fresh experience for movie goers.
     
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