I think an aging T-800 left out in the field whose biological functions are aging and deteriorating would be the best way to go.

Yeah, gotta do Brainiac - do him like Geoff Johns wrote him in the pre-New-52 miniseries "Brainiac" - brilliant redo and one of the best Superman stories ever IMO. Yes, Luthor will have to be a part of it at some point, but personally I'd be happy for him to remain in the background - as brilliant as Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey are as actors, Luthor has been done to death as a villain, and the 'criminal genius' angle is old. Go the corporate psychopath angle, except less of a suave fuck than in Lois & Clark.

And the JLA villain has to be Darkseid, there simply isn't anyone else.

Ouch!

They could always bring in Quinlan Vos, whom fans of the original Dark Horse "Star Wars" title (later "Star Wars: Republic") will know as Aayla Secura's Master. Lucas was going to put him in Ep 3 as a nod to the comics. He gets a mention ("Saleucami has fallen, and Master Vos has moved his troops to Boz Pity") and his scene is still in the screenplay, but sadly was never filmed. In the comics he was one of a handful of Jedi who survived Order 66 and went into hiding. He would be a great choice IMO.

The extended trailer which explains that the horseman is one of the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse, and that Ichabod Crane, who was a schoolteacher in the original story, was actually a special agent of George Washington's. This looks like pretty much the stupidest thing I have ever seen put on a television.

Bootsy Collins and George Clinton FTW!

A pity we presumably won't be getting the live action series now - I guess the story treatments they came up with will be used for this?  Still, I'm looking forward to it.

I disagree that ANH is beyond reproach - the script and plot get cringingly hokey at times, in ways that TESB and ROTJ manage to keep above, but yes, TESB is an near perfect film, and truly the crown jewel in the whole saga. That said, ROTJ will always be my favourite. Even the updates are a mixed bag rather than universally negative - the revised closing musical piece is far superior to an Ewok barbeque singalong IMO, and I actually thought Vader's "NOOOO!" at the climax worked well, but "Jedi Rocks" stands as the greatest non-Jar-Jar related crime of Lucas's career *shudder*.

The drama of the last half of the film - Luke's revelation to Leia, handing himself over the Vader, every scene with Palpatine in it, and the final duel - are all cinema gold. The take the saga to dramatic heights none of the other films - including TESB - reach. It's a simpler drama without the complexity of TESB, but it packs a bigger punch for standing on the shoulders of what's happened in the previous film. And the Battle of Endor is still the greatest space battle ever put to screen.

And as one can't mention ROTJ without the qualifier "but the Ewoks were stupid!" or some variation, I think a couple of things need to be considered. Firstly, if you remove the slapstick elements (e.g. Wicket knocking himself out with his bolas) you're left with a bunch of seemingly primitive but clearly competent pint-sized warriors, who also happen to be cute. Secondly, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO ALL THE STORMTROOPERS WHOSE ARMOUR WAS MADE INTO DRUM KITS AT THE END?????? Those fires during the final scene weren't just because it was cold!!!!!!!!!!!

the extraordinary beauty of the first film was the unspoken love between Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat's characters - just exquisite acting and directing and one of the most moving love stories I've ever seen. The rest of the film was also fantastic, but that 'romance' will be missing from the sequel. Looking forward to it though. Hope they get Yoyo Ma back.

I'll be seeing it in a few days when the crowds die down a bit - can't wait!