Wanted!: Writers for Live Action STAR WARS

I would love to be a writer on, and for this series. Although I have visited Skywalker Ranch before, I never got to meet George Lucas...this in spite of the fact that I have crossed paths with several of Lucas' employees in the past...one having been an old family friend. Anyway...in case one of Lucas' people is reading this...I posted this idea on Mania.com some months ago...and really believe in it. The story is a continuation of the Star Wars saga, one which puts matters back into the epic focas of the original story, while giving fans the once promised final story which were to be episodes 7 thru 9. Here is my presentation from last May of this year:

Posted On Mania.com May, 10, 2007-Note...I have added a few changes to the original text, in order to make the body of what I have written more akin to a traditional story outline.

New Star Wars--Story Outline

Taking place 24 years after the Battle Of Endor, Luke becomes the new Sith Master, and takes an apprentice...Leia's daughter. Luke quickly attempts to usher in a new Empire.

The ensuing war might see Luke build an entire Sith legion (instead of just two Sith). Yes, we will see an entire Sith army of Knights, equal to that of the new Jedis.

Leia...now a wise old Jedi Master, on the level of Yoda...must try to stop Luke. We would finally get to see huge light saber battles between thousands of Sith Lords and Jedi...as well as massive space battles between the two groups...fleets of Jedi, and Sith Lords.

Two central core ideas rumored to be considered for the original script of Return Of The Jedi would play into my story: 1.) Luke goes to the Dark Side...and 2.) The Millenium Falcon, carrying Han and Chewie blows-up in a suicide run while in battle against the newly re-established Empire.

In the end, Padme, Luke and Leia's mother, appears as a spirit alongside Yoda, Anakin and Obi-Wan...revealing that both the Jedi, and the Sith, are the imbalance in The Force...for they oppose each other. Hence, there is no neutral ground between the two...for good, nor evil...is neutral. "There must be oneness", she says, "for The Force is a whole, not a division of its sums." This, a thought communicated to both sides--one which finally brings a final end to the Star Wars...and all wars!!!

If George Lucas likes my story (see above), I'd be more than happy to sell it to him. I think it's pretty exciting and inventive!!!

Note: There are two rather explosive moments that will get people talking and deeply involved in the story which I dare not print for fear that they will be stolen...but I promise you, they are more than worth Mr. Lucas' time to review them. Anyway...if you want to contact me, I am sure Jarrod would be more than happy to give you my email address!!!

He owns the rights to the characters and worlds so there wouldn't be any selling going on there...but writers do get paid for their thoughts. They don't get paid enough though hence the upcoming strike. Join the WGAW, Metal. Get some representation and take the studios to task... :)

Personally, I'd love for a new story inside the universe to be around something small...something gritty...and something NOT related to Skywalkers, Jedi, etc..

It'd be fun just centering around the people that are frequently missed inside these fantastical worlds.

Sure, it's the Captain Kirk and his bridge crew (Star Trek) or Admiral Piett and his commanders (Empire Strikes Back) that get the screen time but what about the poor Joe Schmoe who does their dirty laundry and cleans up after them. Their lives are on the line as well serving aboard these ships in danger... Haha.

It's like that SW conversation in the original Clerks. All those contractors--data cable runners, plumbers & engineers-- killed while doing their jobs because of a lousy group of rebel scum.

DarkJedi, Lucas addressed that in the AotC commentary track. The Death Star was built by the complicit Geonosians, not "innocent" contractors. So the Rebels were guilt-free as that was concerned.

:) Necro, I was referring to the "Return of the Jedi" death star.. and it was really just a joke I was quoting there from the Clerks movie. Just kidding around. Even the joke makes you think about the "little" people inside these complicated worlds that never get mentioned. I mean, let's say the A New Hope Death Star was built by complicit Geonosians..It was complete by the time the Rebels blew it up? Are we saying that everyone on that DS deserved to die..That there wasn't "families" of some tech officer just out of the academy? lol It's the little stories inside the big story which can be fun from a writer's point of view...

You know Jarrod, the kind of story that you are advocating reminds me of a comic that Dark Horse did about two guys stumbling through central incidents in the Star Wars mythos, unwittingly contributing to, and fueling epic events in the wider Star Wars story arc...events which went unrecognized as being attributed to them--ala Forrest Gump triggering the Watergate investigation.

That said, it is a big risk to go that way...albeit, that of course, I woould assume, would be doing it straight...and not for laughs, like the comic. But if the story doesn't hit a cord with the fans, and most importantly, general audiences...the tv series will wind-up being yet another--Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories...Young Indiana Jones, or that Endor TV movie.

The safe bet, is to go with the established Star Wars mythos in a series, and using that as a launching point to make the new series a hit, Lucas can safely spin shows off from his new series, like the Star Trek and Stargate franchises have been doing for years--and are gearing up for more. The spin-offs can then take the big risks, in terms of story and direction, that the launch series cannot...and should not.

If this new Star Wars series is a success, imagine all the lucrative profits that will be generated from the initial broadcast of episodes, reruns, syndication, DVD sales/ rentals and merchandising??? We are talking about billions of dollars being garnered for years to come if done right!!!

I have another major element that would make this series a smash success on tv...however, this part is on a technical level that will immediately distinguish this tv show from all others, past or present--but, again...as I said before, one must be careful of what he openly prints these days, because there are alot of desperate people in Hollywood who make it a career out of stealing.

And Jarrod thanks for the advice. I would join the Guild, but there are alot of built in Catch 22's there...and I am an "outside of the box thinker". In fact, I don't even view there being a box at all, in the first place--, well, other than the illusion of what the system creates to force us all into the same belief: that belief being, that we are all chained, in body and spirit--chained to serve the system as its slaves. This kind of rebellious thinking--it gets me into trouble alot, but all innovators...every last one of them...is a troublemaker--but only one in a million ever get through the system...and the rest (???), they become the martyrs!!! Which one am I??? Right now...I'm in the martyrs column, but one day...I hope to shoot the shot that takes out the Deathstar...just as you suggested, in other, more direct phrasing...the kind, not steeped in metaphors.

In the time frame btw ep 3 and 4, I would do it about Jedis who slipped through the cracks, travelling through the galaxy incognito, trying to survive and preserve their culture somehow. But Lucas sez no Jedis will be in it.
Something tells me that this series will be a disappointment.

I say focus on more of the underworld of the Star Wars mytho's the bouty hunters, the smugglers, the bad seeds so to speak of the galaxy.

Or go back to the roots and do a series ala Knights of the Old Republic.

I've never seen a prequel that worked. The Star Wars prequels (that invented the trend, BTW), were uneven at best. I would prefer to see episodes 7 thru 9, as opposed to more endless exposition about new story points related to back history of Star Wars, that don't ever add up to anything in the end.

Really, they need to allow the story to progress to a more satisfying conclusion, unlike the shorthand concluding chapter-- Return Of The Jedi--a film that really rushed the proceedings, therefore resulting in it being anti-climatic. I never got the sense of proper closure that I wanted from the film, or the original trilogy. Instead of just the Battle of Endor/The Battle Of The Second Deathstar, we should have seen simultanious and immense battles going on throughout the galaxy...on world after world, including the capitol city planet--where reports of victories for The Rebels were streaming in from all over the known space, as Imperial Star Destroyers and Cruisers began to retreat, and or, surrendered. We should have been told that this was the last and decisive effort by both sides to end the war...not just to inaugurate the new Deathstar...or attempt to blow it up. Alas, that wasn't to be. Now...Lucas has the chance to give us that closure, and we as fans deserve to see it.

It is time to move the story forward, instead of creating endless side stories about the past, that fail to evolve the Star Wars mythos. Enough with prequels!!!

Hopefully, Lucas is inviting John Jackson Miller and Brian Ching from Dark Horse's KOTOR comics and John Ostrander and Jan Duursema from Star Wars Legacy. Both of these books are well-plotted and exciting reads.

It would also be nice if Timothy Zahn and Rob Salvatore were invited to the brainstorming table, too.

But, an interesting idea that I always had was one where Padme didn't really die at the end of Ep3. She faded away and became a sort of Force Vampire. She travels the universe in a ship manned by her victims and hunts down Jedi.

id like to see a storyline [im not a big fan of the EU, so i havent read the books, feel free to correct me] based around the premise that during the years between RotS and ANH, Boba Fett sees an unmasked trooper (remnants of the clone troopers before conscription began in the empire ranks) and believes that his father was not killed in battle in AotC, begins a search across the galaxy for the man he believes to be his father, taking up the mantle of Bounty Hunter as his father did, in an effort to make ends meet as he searches for Jango Fett.