Collider Jedi Council: Is A Young Luke Skywalker Standalone Movie Possible?
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If young Han Solo is possible, so is young Luke. Both have very complete story arcs from young to old – and yet they still find ways to milk their fanbase 🙂
Yes, we could see him shooting at bantharats 😀
Jokes aside, if we need another stand-alone movie from one of our New Hope Trio, I would prefer Leia. Her role in the Senate and becoming one of the leaders of the rebellion and probably early conflicts with Vader and Tarkin that were teased in New Hope, could be kind of interesting.
Good point. There is a lot of political / crimi drama you could draw from and use in the SW universe.
Or Thrawn for instance. There are several very compelling characters, that we haven’t seen much of on screen.
I fear, people would not like it, though, since they did not like the implementation of Leia in Rogue One, either.
I feel people were a bit sceptical of the cgi rather than Leia herself – cast her with a good actress and a good story, and all will be fine.
Not to mention that some people didn’t enjoy the amount of politics of in the prequels either…but I would be all for it. I think a Leia spinoff would be really cool.
If done well, politics can be interesting.
I agree.
We could have had a story with a very young Leia (13-14 years, so that the could plausibly be portrayed by a young actress who doesn’t have to be a clone of adult Carrie Fisher). Jimmy Smits would be her adoptive father, and FINALLY we might have a good look at Alderaan.
This have so much potential. Love the idea!
Yeah, a Leia spinoff would make more sense than a Luke spinoff.
Agreed. Wait a few years, and Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven from Stranger Things) could be the perfect Young Leia.
If they follow this route ( a standalone potentially for Han, Luke, Lando, Leia ), I wonder if it will cumulate ultimately in a remake of EPISODE IV and the Original Trilogy?
I would honestly and sincerely hope NOT.
Anything is ‘possible’, but a Luke Skywalker stand alone flies in the face of the bored farm boy of the saga. Plus it would seem that Luke would be confined to Tattooine. Han Solo spin-off makes much more sense since by ANH, it’s established that he’s been gallivanting around the GFFA. So- NO.
I doubt we’ll see a Luke standalone movie. Stories about Luke’s earlier years are better left to the comics medium. Luke was a farmer. And aside from racing, the story suggests that Luke’s life prior to ANH was a borning farmer’s existence with little excitement.
I wasn’t crazy about the idea of a Han Solo movie when it was announced, but I’ve warmed up to the idea. The Han Solo we meet in ANH is clearly someone that’s already had their share of adventures. So, there’s a storied past there that far exceeds that of Luke.
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Exactly. A young Luke movie is called ANH. Why would anyone want to see a movie about moisture farming. It would have to be between ESB and ROTJ.
We could learn all about the garage band that teenage Luke formed at Tosche Station — Whiny Wormy and the Power Converters (featuring Herman Menderchuk).
No… Just no. Please no.
Yippee
Id rather see a Kashykk Civil War/Chewbacca origin movie. If the Apes franchise could work, an all Wookie movie could.
A young Luke Skywalker movie! We could call it… A New Hope!
That’d make them 3 of the same, counting TFA
Prior to ANH..no..but if you wanna fill in the gaps between VI and VII get Sebastian Stan to play Luke..their resemblance is freaky. Give him a beard and age him up a bit and he can be the perfect Jedi Master Luke Skywalker post Jedi. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/732df9a7ee1364ea06d29aa5ba85118f70062d3ff2fb1137c40fe6732457bd1c.jpg
And the kid from stranger things can be Ben. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ad5e16fddce8954fece4cb5546ce0fbc127646c442a1985ae48d30dfe99dfd1.jpg
This picture is obviously photoshopped to enhance the resemblance of the actors. On the left is Mark Hamill (unaltered) , the picture on the right is a morph between Sebastian Stan and Mark Hamill. Who would have thought that Mark Hamill looks similar to a Mark Hamill morph? Fascinating…
Too bad that isn’t how film making works.
Work like what?
The image is clearly heavily photo shopped. Stan wouldn’t even look close to that in the movie.
Yeah that’s what I said.
no please no thanks ,there are already too much origins stories
Yes, because pointless gap-filling prequels about existing characters and events are the only thing our limited imaginations can come up with for the anthology movies apparently.
The only way to do a Luke anthology movie is between ESB and ROTJ with a younger actor (NONONONONO) or have Hamil and a younger Ben set in between ROTJ and TFA. I think this would be better for an animated series TBH. So please no Luke movie.
I’m just saying this on behalf of the Bantha guy, but what about a movie about a Wacky Bantha while we’re at it?
Luke Movie: 2 hours of Luke rolling out across barren desert to fix broken vaporators then hanging out at Tosche station drinking blue milk with his friends, threading the needle with Biggs, taking pot shots at Womp Rats*, counting sand grains all the while wishing he were somewhere else.
Sounds like the boring crap movie critics love. With subtitles it’d be the perfect art-house flick akin to the boring duff they made us watch at art-college back in the day.
*Womp Rats – I’d like to see these on film to be honest!
hopefully le noir, to really make it artistic.
Even black-and-white movie with handheld camera? We’re talking REAL ART!
I´d pay for a movie of Luke Skywalker post-ROTJ triying to rebuild the jedi academy, searching for pupils
I don’t know it could cost > $80,000,000 plus change. Nobody would blame you if you chose not to.
Hamill too commented on the morphed picture if I remember correctly.
i thought before a new hope the only things he used to do was working on a farm, watching the skies and jerking off
Oh I’d love to see a story of Luke training new Jedi that we know are going to be completely wiped out.
Just another failure of TFA, creating an environment where every story told prior to it will almost invariably infused with the impending tragedy to follow. What should be time of hope and light is now suffused with sadness. Han and Leia split up, their son turns to the Darkside, all of the new Jedi are wiped out, the Empire rises unchecked, the Republic fails.
The post-RotJ period is tainted all because JJ Abrams doesn’t know how to do anything other than nostalgia.
The time of hope and light was the years immediately following Jedi. TFA is a whole 35 years after. Obviously not everything is going to stay perfect and happy over the course of that time span. But the sequel trilogy is not about Luke, anyway. It’s about Rey, and a new generation of characters. TFA serves as her introduction, and the new conflicts established are the basis for her starting her journey. So nothing about the setup of TFA is a failure.
I think the guys at Lucas Films underestimate the ability and willingness of us fans to open up to new scenarios and stories outside of the skywalker family. But we probably brought this upon ourselves when we attacked George Lucas visciously after he had dared to deviate from the OT Star Wars formula. The “feedback” he got for the PT is one of the main reasons why TFA felt so similar to ANH. If we want some new ideas and designs in our favourite movie franchise we better be ready to approach the new movies open-mindedly or we might really get a movie in the future about a farmboy shooting Womp rats.
The prequels were savaged because they were horribly written, horribly acted films with boring politics, embarrassingly cliched romance, unlikable characters, and stupid cartoonish attempts at comic relief. It wasn’t because they tried to be different, it was because those movies failed on the very fundamentals of what makes an enjoyable film experience.
The short answer if it’s possible is no. It would then became a saga film instead of a spin off.
I’m getting a little board of Jedi Council,I don’t know if it’s because the movie news has been a little thin on the ground with regards TLJ or it needs freshening up or it’s on to often,bi-monthly would be better in times of a news drought.
Shooting womp rats in his T-16 with his buddies, racing through Beggars Canyon, add some jawas & sandpeople, some bad guys, cameo from Ben sneaking around spying on Luke. Might work, if well thought out and executed. How many times will the general audience flock to the theater to see a Tatooine tale is the question.
The only Luke standalone I would like to see is Post ROTJ, not pre ANH