My first thought is very surface level that I want to see a live action adaption of the Tales Of The Bounty Hunters book. It’s a perfect opportunity to get a variety of directors and to lets each segment really push into different genres. The IG-88 story always stuck with me personally because it has so much going on. IG-88(series) is created as a shady off the books project, which goes wrong for the creators. It’s like a horror movie section with a terminator coming to life. Then it becomes a kind of strange scifi conspiracy with the IG-88s taking over a robot production planet while keeping up appearances. Simultaneously it incorporates bounty hunting and brings in Boba Fett in his classic cold blooded EU incarnation. It’s just fantastic. And much as I gush, the other stories in the book are all interesting in their own ways as well.
After that, since Star Wars is heavily “WW2 in space”, I’d like to see some kind of submarine warfare analog. Perhaps it makes more sense to put the rebels in the shoes of a wolfpack hunting down Imperial supply convoys, and evading their counter measures with wit and luck. Think of all the tense submarine movie cliches and port them into a Star Wars setting. I think it clicks.
These ideas fall short of high concept, high minded examination of deeper things, but they come to mind for me when I think of what I’d be gripped by in Star Wars live action. I’m sure there is a lot more examination that could complement these ideas and fill them out to be more substantial.
My first thought is very surface level that I want to see a live action adaption of the Tales Of The Bounty Hunters book. It’s a perfect opportunity to get a variety of directors and to lets each segment really push into different genres. The IG-88 story always stuck with me personally because it has so much going on. IG-88(series) is created as a shady off the books project, which goes wrong for the creators. It’s like a horror movie section with a terminator coming to life. Then it becomes a kind of strange scifi conspiracy with the IG-88s taking over a robot production planet while keeping up appearances. Simultaneously it incorporates bounty hunting and brings in Boba Fett in his classic cold blooded EU incarnation. It’s just fantastic. And much as I gush, the other stories in the book are all interesting in their own ways as well.
After that, since Star Wars is heavily “WW2 in space”, I’d like to see some kind of submarine warfare analog. Perhaps it makes more sense to put the rebels in the shoes of a wolfpack hunting down Imperial supply convoys, and evading their counter measures with wit and luck. Think of all the tense submarine movie cliches and port them into a Star Wars setting. I think it clicks.
These ideas fall short of high concept, high minded examination of deeper things, but they come to mind for me when I think of what I’d be gripped by in Star Wars live action. I’m sure there is a lot more examination that could complement these ideas and fill them out to be more substantial.
Is that the one where IG-88E or something eventually hooks into the death star and just as it’s about to take over Luke blows it up?
That’s the one. It was IG-88A, the original of the four, uploading into the Death Star II.
Both of those sound awesome. Man, I should re-read my Tales books soon.
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