'Stand-alone' Star Wars films planned

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

'Star Wars Origins: Yoda'? Hmm...not sure how I feel about this. Bobba Fett's one will be worth a watch I guess.

Films built around existing characters from the Star Wars universe are being developed alongside the new trilogy of films, the Disney studio has revealed.
"We are working on a few stand-alone films... derived from great Star Wars characters," Disney CEO Bob Iger told the CNBC channel on Tuesday.
The films, written by Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg, will be released between 2015 and 2021, he continued.
The seventh Star Wars film, directed by JJ Abrams, is due out in 2015.
Disney bought George Lucas's Lucasfilm company for $4.05 billion (£2.58 billion) last year, saying it was committed to at least three new films.
The first of these, Star Wars: Episode VII, will be scripted by Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning writer of Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine.
Mr Iger outlined the studio's plans with CNBC ahead of a call with analysts to discuss the Disney company's latest financial results.
Despite seeing a slight dip in its quarterly earnings, the CEO said the studio was "confident about the year ahead, as well as our ability to create continued long-term growth".
While speaking to CNBC, Mr Iger admitted there had been "speculation" about "some stand-alone films" that would not form "part of the overall saga".
"We still plan to make Star Wars 7, 8 and 9 roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015," he went on.
"But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time too."
Kasdan has a long association with Lucasfilm, having worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy.
Kinberg's own screenwriting credits include comic book sequel X-Men: The Last Stand, Mr & Mrs Smith and Guy Ritchie's 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.
Tuesday's announcement was preceded by a report on the Ain't It Cool News site that the first stand-alone film would focus on the diminutive Jedi master Yoda.
"Word is Yoda is first," wrote website founder Harry Knowles in a posting that also mentioned such other Star Wars staples as bounty hunter Boba Fett and slug-like gangster Jabba the Hutt.

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[KurtFF8]

I doubt this will be a good thing. One of the major attractions to Yoda is his mysterious background. It's always quite risky to explore the mysterious backgrounds of characters in such well known stories like Star Wars.

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I doubt this will be a good thing. One of the major attractions to Yoda is his mysterious background. It's always quite risky to explore the mysterious backgrounds of characters in such well known stories like Star Wars.

especially if wolverine origins is any indicator.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

When they were planning the live action tv series, I was under the impression that they planned to focus somewhat on Boba Fett between the two trilogies so perhaps they are going ahead with some of the ideas from that.

[enlightened_ape2112]

I they a Yoda origin story will turn out worse than the Phantom Menace. Well, maybe not THAT bad.

[Winkers Fons]

I don't want a Yoda origin story, but I definitely would watch any movies focusing on Boba Fett. I would also like to see something involving Han Solo's past with Chewbacca and Lando but I don't think new actors in those roles would go over too well.

[Turinbaar]

The prequels were an origin story that ruined the story of star wars as a whole. Now these new ones are more focused at destroying each character, one at a time.

Good news is that Red Letter Media has a bunch a material guaranteed to them now.

[Geiseric]

When they were planning the live action tv series, I was under the impression that they planned to focus somewhat on Boba Fett between the two trilogies so perhaps they are going ahead with some of the ideas from that.

A movie about Boba Fett, or any mandalorian, would be wayyy too brutal for under 13 audiences. They will never do that, the guy is simply too bad ass. They made a video game about Jango which I thought was kinda fun. However they'd probably cast fucking Tom Hardy or Mel Gibson or some other shithead to play him.

[TomHPMc]

I doubt this will be a good thing. One of the major attractions to Yoda is his mysterious background. It's always quite risky to explore the mysterious backgrounds of characters in such well known stories like Star Wars.

True that. I would go as far as saying that his characterisation in Empire was probably hindered by having him play such a major role in the prequels.

The Boba Fett idea appeals to me, but only because in my mind it is a violent, Tarantino-esque, Western/Sci-fi genre mashup (that wouldn't look out of place in a 2000ad comic).

Buuuuuuut, that just isn't going to happen. Oh well, I don't bother watching movies anymore, the ones my imagination conjures are so much better. :grin: