But given we know, thanks to the prequels, that a Star Wars galaxy with thousands of lightsaber-wielding space monks is infinitely less exciting than one with just a few, that seems like a risky proposition. Lucas is also said to have once considered a movie about the roots of the Jedi themselves. Would this cover young Ben Solo’s conversion from trainee Jedi to proto-Sith? Or might there be a wider significance to the knights beyond making their leader look good in scary flashback sequences? Where else might Disney venture, if it finds success with these tentative steps into spin-off territory? Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams this week suggested a Knights of Ren movie, detailing the backstory of Kylo Ren’s murderous platoon of dark side disciples. It could be a new direction for Star Wars, or it might turn out to be a strange anomaly in the pantheon, one that unwisely dispenses with the cosmic B-movie veneer that gave Lucas’s wildly successful original trilogy so much of its identity and magic. Gareth Edwards’s movie has been plagued by rumours that Disney ordered reshoots to inject a bit more knockabout space fun, but early footage from the recent Star Wars Celebration suggests the film has maintained its identity as a dark war movie painting a picture of life on the margins of galactic society, when the Jedi and Sith have taken their fancy lightsaber battles elsewhere and ordinary people are forced to deal with the horrors of imperial invasion. This December, we’ll get to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which tells the tale of the Rebel grunts who stole the plans to the first Death Star. More than three decades after Star Wars’ creator abandoned his plans to explore the more far-out reaches of the galaxy, the Force is once again with the spin-off movie. As for the robots of the long-running space opera, they have remained sidekicks, though Pixar’s Wall-E hinted that Lucas might have been on to something here. The only time the wookiees have ended up taking centre stage is in the execrable 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special, which perhaps tells us everything we know about their suitability for elevation to the big time.
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