SPECULATION Yay a new prequel!

I agree with Max Rebo. It won't really harm the main series because it is not necessary to be part of the series itself, which is why it's considered a spin-off in the first place.

In any case, the OT will always end up looking dated if simply for the fact that, well, quite frankly the movies are decades old. It's better we not fool ourselves and face the fact that while taking design cues in order to make newer movies seem similar in style is fine, to limit themselves to mimicking the look exactly would hamper any creativity they might have had otherwise.

I also don't think they'll depart too much from the style of ANH anyways, at least in regards to where it makes sense. They've done so much with TFA to at least draw inspiration from the OT (even going so far as to implementing unused concepts from the era), and with Rebels they've mirrored the designs as much as they could. Changing it up would only anger older fans and possibly confuse/deter younger audiences who will have experienced the heavily OT-influenced TFA and Rebels as their most recent romp into the Star Wars universe.

 

I totally agree that the look/style of the film will have to sympathetic to ANH or else it would be noticeabley out of place. But isn't that whats happening now with TFA real locations & real props? That Star Warsie feel so glaringly missing from the PT? I think the zietghiest will be filled in for younger viewers by the Rebels cartoon series, and for us old timers.... well, it will simply remind us of a galaxy we loved a long time ago when things were simpler, safer and happier. Have a little faith in aunt Kathy my friend, Star wars is back, and in good hands too. Bring it on I say, cant wait to see what new tales will be told.

 

We now know the first movie focuses on the death star plans, the next movies should focus on the origins of the characters.

 

Can you expand on what you mean by "the characters"? The rogue one characters? The OT big 3?

 

Sorry @alex I meant rogue one, we already know the journey of the big three.

 

No need to apologize, I'm just a bit daft. I'm kinda hoping that the anthology films are unrelated and expand the universe as much as possible. Do we ever find out what the ROTS crawl means by "there are heroes on both sides"?

 

I never considered Grevious to be a hero. I thought it meant "good guys on each side", are you taking it to mean more like "each side has its own champions"?

 

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge on the subject, but what is Count Dooku/the Separatists deal, anyway? What are they fighting for? All I really know is that Count Dooku was a Jedi gone rogue (I think. The movies never made it really clear to me).

 

Wasn't Dooku a Sith himself? Wouldn't the fact that the Sith controlling the Senate make him happy?

 

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

 

As for the look of "Rouge One," matching the OT, I think we'l be okay.

In the OT, we never really saw "civilization." We saw a hive of scum and villainy (Tattooine), a military outpost in some ancient ruins (Yavin 4), a military outpost hidden on a glacier world (Hoth), a floating city that was working on the outskirts of society (Bespin), and a forest planet in the middle of no where (Endor). The only sign on "high society," we did really see was the Empire, who had a fairly sterile aesthetic. The Rebels were mostly using cast-off and/or second rate materials--stuff they could scrounge. There were a few rare examples of top-notch tech, but mostly they weren't the top dog. Our one glimpse of regular society was inserted after the fact--the celebration on Coruscant (which, honestly, sort of contradicts the whole "people don't know what happened" plot of "Aftermath," that is coming up).

Pretty much, OT was the "Ghetto" of the Galaxy.

The PT had Naboo: high culture and architecture, as well as technology. Coruscant (The Capitol of the Civilized Galaxy): showed a plethora of ships, technology, arcfhetecture that must be several hundred years old, and lifestyle. Kamino: A "sterile" world of high tech science. Geonosis: A world (once) part of the Republic, but with it's own unique architecture and culture, Utapau: A fairly advanced civilization, though rarely seen. Others were shown in passing, but this was during the "height" of the Republic, before it's fall.

What I am getting at here, is that the films took place in two very different parts of the Galaxy, during two distinct times. This is also true of the filming period between the OT, PT, and ST. Some things will be familiar, yet some things will be very much different to us.

 

I'm wondering if we're going to get to see our first SW ship with a cloaking device in this movie, then wait for the uninitiated in the audience to explode with rage, forgetting the line, "no ship that small has a cloaking device," from the OT.

 

I think the anthologies will have no relationship to each other other than the fact that they take place within the Star Wars universe.