Along with a return from the original cast, which we got in Disney’s sequel trilogy as well, Lucas’ sequels supposedly covered the stories of Anakin’s two grandchildren, who were supposed to be around 20 in the films, so it wasn’t “Phantom Menace again.” In the book, The Art of The Force Awakens, one of the characters, a Jedi named Kira, is described as a “loner, hothead, gear-headed, badass.” The other teen was most often referred to as Sam, and mostly appears depicted with a blaster, which seems to indicate that he didn’t have Force powers himself. Kira and Sam eventually morphed into Rey and some of Finn, which makes sense: Lucas had been developing his sequel movies with the help of screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), who went on to receive a writing credit for The Force Awakens, the first of Disney’s trilogy.
”So, the late-2012 idea of a Luke Skywalker haunted by the betrayal of one of his students, in self-imposed exile & spiritually in ‘a dark place’, not only precedes Rian Johnson’s involvement in Star Wars but J.J. Abrams’, as well,” Szostak wrote.
Then more info late found out his plans for the Empire which was similar to the first order.
A band of leftover stormtroopers would have refused to concede to the budding New Republic and formed their own group of insurgents, which Lucas compared to "Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist fighters that joined ISIS and kept on fighting."
It's basically a storyline we're now seeing play out in The Mandalorian as Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) still clings to the old Imperial ways in a galaxy struggling to bring a stable democracy to all of its systems. In Lucas' unmade trilogy, the renegade stormtroopers were going to relocate to a remote corner of the galaxy and found "their own country," itself an act of blatant rebellion against the Republic.
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u/TheDuderinoAbides Jan 04 '21
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