RoTJ original plans revealed

Mmmmm Napalm · May 04, 2016, 01:11:01 PM

Boba Fett was originally going to be the main antagonist of VI, and the rest of RoTJ was going to be split up into three movies.

This explains a lot:

Fett being implied to be awesome and then his disappointing defeat at the Pit of Carkoon.

Vader instantly going from "ultimate badass planning to overthrow the Emperor" Vader to "subservient, morose, plagued with self-doubt" Vader.

The Death Star II.

Sounds interesting. I don't think it would have been necessary to create an entirely new trilogy; I feel that as a film RoTJ could be improved while still limiting the story to one movie. Personally, here's what I would change:

Get rid of the Death Star II. Instead have the final space battle be centered around the construction of say, another Super Star Destroyer like the Executor. Empire is building something important but not as large scale as another DS, Rebels send Fleet, and a large number of Imperial ships jump out of hyperspace and ambush them. Emperor is aboard Super Star Destroyer beig constructed.

Throughout the movie Vader and the Emperor sort of compete over Luke, trying to influence him. Try and fit Vader's redemption into that framework somehow.

Go with the original plan and have wookiees instead of ewoks.

challengerX · May 04, 2016, 01:12:51 PM

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Verbatim · May 04, 2016, 01:14:03 PM

Doesn't matter. RotJ was the best of the original trilogy, exactly the way it turned out.

SecondClass · May 04, 2016, 01:14:26 PM

Death Star II gets a lot of flak, but it was neccesary to maintain the tension. We already saw what the original could do, stopping the Empire from building another WMD of that magnitude made the stakes extremely high.

Ian · May 04, 2016, 01:28:17 PM

That could've worked considering the construction of The Eclipse at Kuat was around the time of RoTJ chronologically.

Quote from: Mmmmm Napalm on May 04, 2016, 01:11:01 PM

Get rid of the Death Star II. Instead have the final space battle be centered around the construction of say, another Super Star Destroyer like the Executor. Empire is building something important but not as large scale as another DS, Rebels send Fleet, and a large number of Imperial ships jump out of hyperspace and ambush them. Emperor is aboard Super Star Destroyer beig constructed.

Traxus · May 04, 2016, 01:33:14 PM

I actually like this idea over what we got. Still, ROTJ good for what it is especially the towards the end.

Turkey · May 04, 2016, 01:39:21 PM

By "original plan" they mean one of many varying possible plotlines. I'm pretty glad that the original trilogy wasn't extended into 9 movies focusing on a character that barely had any significance to the series.

The Lord Ruler · May 04, 2016, 01:41:58 PM

That sounds like shit

maverick · May 04, 2016, 01:43:52 PM

It's amazing to me how radically different the scripts were upon each rewrite and how little of an overarching plan there was for the series and then how good the movies turned out to become.

Mmmmm Napalm · May 04, 2016, 03:16:27 PM

Quote from: HollowedTurkey on May 04, 2016, 01:39:21 PM

By "original plan" they mean one of many varying possible plotlines. I'm pretty glad that the original trilogy wasn't extended into 9 movies focusing on a character that barely had any significance to the series.

Fett wasn't going to be the focus of the hypothetical sequel trilogy; just VI. I think that we essentially would have gotten an entire film about the attempt to rescue Han Solo. Drawing a comparison to ANH, I think that Jabba would have been the Tarkin of that movie, with Boba Fett as Vader.