Should Disney REBOOT Star Wars？!？!？ - Error Code Show

0:00 So, obviously, Andor just ended and it's getting rave reviews and there's been some great things lately. Skeleton Clue is really, really good. Again, Andor, great. There's been some good stuff that comes out of Star Wars. But most Star Wars fans would generally agree that the sequel trilogy of 7, 8, and 9 are not, shall we say, the best thing that has come out of Star Wars in the history of Star Wars. The question that has been posed right is If they were is there a case to be made for Disney to White this great clean say seven eight nine are no longer canon and let's start over on seven eight nine or Should they just accept that look we made this movies are not the best but they're canon It is what it is and we're just gonna make better stuff going forward.

1:01 So that's the question on the table is Should Disney retcon the sequel trilogy and just erase it from our collective Star Wars canon Jay, what's your immediate gut reaction? Oh my gosh, what was this like tonight? You're just like, let's see how many people we can make mad. Oh my gosh. There we go. So seven, eight, nine. We're specifically talking about Ray, right? We're talking about the Ray trilogy. Yeah, we'll call it that. If they could, should they wipe those from the the existence of Star Wars Canon? Oh God, I'm gonna say no Okay, I'm gonna say no So this is the argument that I've had with this particular viewer many times No, they shouldn't Okay now Can we say look we're not gonna go back and rewatch a rise in a Skywalker a whole bunch of times No, we're not. I haven't watched it in years because it's trash Force Awakens was pretty good last Jedi was what had its very good parts, right?

2:32 Wasn't exactly perfectly executed in the rise of Skywalker was trash but but Trying to go back and retcon him is not the solution for Star Wars as a Genre as a is a is sorry as a franchise It just gets too complicated for them, right? One, you basically have to wipe in front of existence and you don't want to do that, right? Two, you confuse the crap out of the general audience, right? And I'm not talking about those of us deep in the fandom with our cool Star Wars hoodies, right? I'm talking about the general audience, right? I just don't think that there's a benefit for Disney to do so. I think the benefit would be to move forward. Go forward in time. No more prequels. No more middle of the empire shit.

3:38 Let's, let's... That way. Right? Or worst -case scenario do like that old Republic thing They've been planning for a long time and go so far back in time that the the current timeline doesn't matter That's I mean, that's actually what I want to see personally Absolutely 100 % I Will ask you this question because this has been posted now opposed a different way in the chat Do you reboot the so and I will use Harry Potter as our example, right? So we made the Harry Potter movies, right they exist Warner Brothers has opted to start over Right. We're rebooting it completely We're gonna start it again book one as a TV show this time, but we're starting it again Total 100 % reboot, recast everything.

4:45 They're doing that right now. Time will tell us whether it be successful. Do you think Disney should do the same thing with Star Wars? I think Harry Potter is different. I think. Like to its core, it's very different. And I say that because one, you're going from a movie to now a TV series. You're not trying to like redo. The movie trying to like make them not canon. Also, like the the thing about like if you were just going to wipe away Ray's storyline, I think you might take away like a very powerful role model for little girls. I don't really know. I don't have children.

5:32 I do. Out there. But I could imagine like little girls are looking up to Ray like, wow, she's so cool. And I don't want to take that away from anyone. Harry Potter, though. Harry Potter is. Different because they are, from my understanding, the TV series that they're making, they're trying to make it as accurate to the books as possible, which the movies cut out a lot. They had to. Yeah, there is so much stuff going on. 100%. So I feel like this is like two different arguments here. Because now you're going back and you're making something that's very. True to the books and with Star Wars, you don't really have. I don't know, you don't really have that. So I mean, they do have a ton of books, but. The not not they weren't originally a series of books that you're adapting off of. This was an original series. I'm going to say. If you were going to do something like reboot Star Wars, you need like a 25 year gap. Right. You would basically have to stop making Star Wars content for 25 years and then start over. Right. I guess the only way it would work. Right. And it may not even work then. Right. I'm saying I don't think you can redo Star Wars without a significant

7:04 gap between we have ended this we have started it over right again because you're going to confuse the crap out of the general audience right i also don't think that you can recapture the magic of the original trilogy four five and six right those things were about as good as you can get right I don't know how you and this is actually the the uphill battle that I think the Harry Potter series has. And I'll explain when they casted the Harry Potter movies, the original ones, right? They struck gold with Harry, Ron and Hermione. OK, Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, that crew had a chemistry. and a style and a way that they work together in those films. That is going to be exceedingly difficult for Warner Brothers to recreate in the television show. And I think if anything is going to kill that TV show, it's going to be that it's going to be they just can't. You caught lightning in a bottle with Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, and you just can't do it again.

8:28 And I think the same concept can be said of Star Wars. You got lightning in a bottle with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford. And the way that they played those characters through those three movies, that I don't think you'll get again. I just don't know how you do it. What do you think? I think it's possible. But like you're going to have to do a lot of work, like a lot, a lot of work. And I think I remember kind of a documentary about Harry Potter. And I believe Daniel Radcliffe was the last person to get cast because they were going through everyone and they were like, no, no, no, no. I think, and I could be really wrong here. Someone fact check me, but like, I think they already had Ron and Hermione and they had like, they introduced them to each other and they're like, okay, like they seem to kind of get along. Um, and they were just like going through auditions for Daniel Radcliffe, looking for the perfect person. I think you can do it, but like you, so here's the issue. Making. Movies making TV shows is

9:59 a business. So you're going to have a project timeline. You're going to have a budget I Really think you need to take a step back from all of that and be like we are gonna spend as long as it takes to find these three children That's going to be that like special spark for this like new generation. I'm like a little worried that no one no studio No director is gonna have the patience to do that if that makes sense We're going to find out. We will find out. Yeah. Now, on the on the television side of it, and we're getting a little off topic of the original topic, but we'll kind of go with this. HBO is known for its television. HBO does not screw up television.

10:43 HBO knows how to make good quality television shows. So if there's any network, cable or otherwise, which service. that has the best shot at doing the Harry Potter casting and has the patience and ability and institutional knowledge from a production level to do this. It is absolutely Warner Brothers and HBO. Right. This is just what they do. Hello, Last of Us. Hello, Game of Thrones. Hello, Sopranos. Hello. I mean, I can go on and on and on and on and on and on. Hello, newsroom. You know, I mean. They just this is what HBO does Separate actually what we'll hit that the quick hits here in a minute because they did something this week. That was really silly You know I Here's where I would go with Star Wars if I was gonna do it Right.

11:44 I'm Kathleen Kennedy Right or I take over for Kathleen Kennedy tomorrow. Somebody did this where they took that obi -wan show right and they cut it into a movie it was about two and a half hours but they literally were like if i take this and cut it into a film and it was good it was on youtube for a minute before it got dmca'd but everybody who saw it was like this this is really good i think there's a good two and a half hour movie in that six hour tv show i think in a lot of the stuff in the prequel trilogy I went took my daughter to see episode three the other week. It's not good. It's got good moments. But it's not good. We talked about this at the Mariners game. Yeah. And I brought up. So I also saw it in theaters a couple of weeks ago as well. And I was like, you know what?

12:41 This is the first time where I actually remember saying this. Yeah. The acting is not that great. I think like as a kid, I was so caught up in like the lightsaber battles and everything like that. And then like I held on to that for so long. But then like going back as an adult, you're kind of, you kind of look at it and you're like, Ooh, there's, there's really great moments. But in episode three, I was like, overall, like the acting's not that great. I think that in the prequel trilogy, there's like a Fellowship of the Rings extended edition for our version. Right.

13:25 That combines elements of episodes one, two and three. That is awesome. Right. And maybe if I'm the head of Lucasfilm, I make a definitive cut of all these different projects to cut out all the crap. Right. Maybe that's the solution. I don't know. I really don't. But no, I stand by fully retconning and rebooting Star Wars. Is not a good idea. It's just. It's just not. It doesn't make sense. Also, if you're comparing Star Wars to Harry Potter, the creator of Star Wars. He did have that scandal. It's a very small, tiny scandal, but nothing as big as Harry Potter creator scandal. No. And the scandal I'm talking about for Star Wars is just Jar Jar Binks. Darth Jar Jar. Jar Jar Jar. Yeah, we need to get in there and get us some Darth Jar Jar. Yeah. So, that's our thoughts on that. Tell us what you think, right? Down in the comments below.