STAR WARS LEGENDS Writer Drops Some Hints About Which Stories Might Inspire James Mangold's Movie

@hartley07 - in fact if this were the case, whenever a bad movie came out, the die hard fans could still say, meh doesnt really matter that much, because the time line has screwed it all up. The end of this gigantic story will work out fine, so its ok. Besides, I can still read Heir to the Empire in peace, because it really IS what happened once upon a time, and no one can tell me its just fan fiction anymore.

@hartley07 - How about this?

STAR WARS
Episode IX
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

The New Republic and the fledgling Resistance have been decimated by the First Order. The galaxy, under the rule of EMPEROR REN, is in turmoil. Billions are starving and dying as the First Order tries to control the population and resources.

Following in Darth Vader’s footsteps, Kylo Ren and his loyal Knights of Ren are tracking down and murdering all of the force sensitive beings he can find, including younglings. Only Rey has eluded them.

After Emperor Ren’s betrayal and murder of his mother, Leia Organa Solo, Finn and GENERAL POE DAMERON, hunted by the First Order, lead separate missions to recruit freedom fighters for the new REBELLION…


Similar to the opening of ANH, we pan under a huge FO star destroyer moving into position over a planet below. As we pan out, we see that there are several of them. On the bridge of SD we see a FO commander watching out of the view port as a subordinate reports to him. “Sir, all ships are in position. Our informant reports that the meeting is in progress and that General Dameron is present.” Without looking away, he responds, “Good. Have all ships launch fighters. I don’t want them escaping.”

We see 3PO sitting in the pilot seat of the Falcon as an alarm starts. “Oh, no! They’ve found us! I have to warn them.” Threepio frantically calls for Poe over his comlink.

We see Poe and Chewie in a room talking with several local freedom fighters dressed in paramilitary gear. There’s a break in the conversation as the freedom fighters are discussing Poe’s proposal among themselves. Poe’s comlink buzzes and a frantic 3PO is calling “General Dameron! General…!”, but Poe say’s “Not now 3PO, we’re in the middle of something here…”. “But, Sir! They’ve found us! Several Star Destroyers have arrived and are launching fighters!” At that, Poe jumps up and turns to Chewie, “We gotta go….” Turning to the others he says, “We don’t have time for a debate. If you’re with us, you need to come with us right now.” Without waiting for an answer he turns and leaves the room.

Suddenly there are multiple explosions around the city as the Star Destroyers open fire. We then see Poe and Chewie, and the freedom fighters, running through the city, avoiding multiple explosions. Poe yells into his comlink, “Threepio, get ready for a quick takeoff…[a nearby explosion]…and if I don’t make it, tell my wife that I love her.” They make it to the Falcon and 3PO, piloting, quickly takes off just before the place where they were explodes.

Finn and Rose, with R2 in tow, are meeting with a small group of freedom fighters on another planet. They are trying to convince the group to join with them to rebuild the rebellion that took down the first Empire. Among the group is Lando, who started the group after the FO destroyed one of his businesses. Little do they know that the FO found out about their meeting (from an informant…similar to ANH) and is closing in on their meeting location. Bursting in, the whole group is captured. As they are being led away in cuffs, a couple of Lando’s men attempt to escape. In the commotion, Lando is killed by FO troopers as Finn and Rose also break away. R2 helps the escape attempt, but is blown up in the process. As they are running, Rose looks back and sees a trooper sighting on Finn. She throws herself in front of Finn, taking the shot in her back. Finn is horrified, but turns and flees.

On the other side of the galaxy, Rey is studying the old Jedi books from TLJ. The camera shows her hands holding the books…she’s wearing a wedding ring. Yoda comes to her and teaches her how to force meditate (much like he did for Luke on Dagobah). She has a force vision (again similar to Luke) and tells Yoda that she sees her husband, Poe, Chewie, and others in trouble, and dying. She sees Finn, cowardly running away, chased by the FO. She sees lots of death and destruction and the dark side consuming everything because of Kylo. Yoda tells her similar to what he told Luke, that it is a possible future that she sees through the force. She asks him about Kylo and mentions that, through their “force connection” she learned that it was Snoke that seduced Ben to the dark side. She tells Yoda how Kylo turned on Snoke and killed him, but that drove him further to the dark side instead of towards the light.

As the Falcon attempts to get away, a whole squadron of FO TIE fighters chases them. (The FO were attacking the city trying to get the last few remaining Resistance members). The Falcon takes a lot of damage, but manages to take out several TIEs while avoiding the turbo lasers of the SD’s. Just as the Falcon goes to jump to lightspeed and get away, the remaining TIE’s concentrate their laser fire and missiles…destroying the Falcon. (at this, all of the OT characters have been killed off)

Rey senses their deaths. Alone and distraught, she searches for what, if anything can be done. All seems lost. Suddenly, through their force connection, she sees Ren. He has reached out to her, and see that she is sobbing. Behind him we see a large screen with an image…it’s the “living” painting of the Father, Son, and Daughter that was in Rebels season 4. “You!”, Rey screams at him. “You killed everyone that I love!” But he just stares back at her for a moment, then a small smile comes to his face. He is feeling the dark side swell at him through her anger. Then, calmly, he says to her, “Now there is nothing keeping you from joining me. Together we can cleanse this galaxy and bring order and peace.” (or something like that).

[I plan to add something in here about the Knights of Ren hunting down force sensitive people. One scene will be in Canto Bight where they find “broom boy” and kill him. At some point, the Knights of Ren find Rey, but she defeats them (gotta have some lightsaber duels in a SW movie!), however, not before they are able to report her location back to Ren. At some point, Rey has another force vision in which she sees Ben as a jedi and the galaxy is at peace and people that have been killed are alive and well. She understands that the force is showing her some kind of possible future…or something.]

Yoda, again, comes to her and tells her to seek out Ahsoka Tano in the Unknown Region (Not only would it even more connect to Rebels, but it could be similar to the Dark Empire comics where Leia meets Vima da Boda). Rey uses the force to guide her and finds an old worn down Ahsoka. Rey tells her about all that is happening in the galaxy, about the dark side permeating everything. Eventually, Ahsoka tells Rey about the World Between Worlds…and that she and Ezra found a “living” painting of the “Father, Son, Daughter” in the Unknown Region [the FO also are looking for this]. She takes Rey there. When they get there, Ren is also there. He attempts to convince Rey and/or Ahsoka to take him in. She doesn’t, so a fight insues. In the middle of the fight, Ahsoka tells Rey to go, that she’ll keep Ren busy. Rey goes in and finds a portal where Ben is very young and Snoke sees him for the first time. Knowing that Snoke is strong in the force, she withdraws herself from it (like Luke did in the ST) so that she can get close to him. Determined, she steps into the portal and uses a vibroblade to stab him in the back.

As Snoke is dying, Rey, tries to get back through the portal to her time. She does, but then has to find her way out of the WbW. Again, she does, but when she emerges, Ahsoka is gone and everything looks different. We then get a montage of a completely different galaxy. As a way of showing the New Republic is thriving, we see the NR Senate chambers (like in the PT) where they are all cheering. The camera pans to show the Chancellor is Holdo with Connix (Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd’s character) as her aide. Above Coruscant Poe is leading a squadron of New Republic "newer model" X-Wings or even E-Wings (another nod to the EU), Rose and her sister can be seen working on a NR K-Wing bomber in a large hangar, Luke and his wife have several kids, as do Han and Leia. 3PO and R2 are seen chasing around a playful BB-8, Chewie and his family are there with the Solo’s as is Lando. On Yavin IV there are lots of Luke's New Jedi Order with Ben Solo as a Jedi Master, “broom boy” is among the jedi trainees. There is no sign of the FO, but Finn is seen with a family of his own visiting his parents (after deserting the FO, he actually gets away and finds his family).

Lastly, we see Rey vanish, her clothes falling to the ground, as she becomes one with the force. She made the ultimate sacrifice to save the galaxy.

The End

The story of how the FO is defeated and all of the other stuff leading up to what we see at the end of 9 could then be in animated and live action tv shows, books, comics, etc.

So, a reboot of the ST, without getting rid of the existing episodes 7 and 8 movies. What do you think?

@Skywalker2B - I think something along those lines would be great. I always told myself if it ended in a way that looks the way the EU did when Luke set up the Jedi Temple, I would be ok with it. This ending you wrote where time is reset, combining both old and new, would be amazing. I know a lot of people don't want a time travel thing, but at this point, this would fully restore my enthusiasm for star wars. Well done.

Maybe the only thing I would change is maybe have Rey get beat up by the Knights of Ren pretty bad, even if she wins the fight, just to show she is not perfect. Even as is, that ending is amazing.

@Trimount - rebels. there is a secret hallway with doors that open up to significant points in time. ezra pulls ashoka out of a duel with darth vader. in theory, he could've gone through other doors which lead to obiwan teaching Luke about the force, or jyn erso stealing the plans. in the episode, the temple in which one of these doorways was found was destroyed, but I assume there are other ways to get into that hallway, or world between worlds. if one was to reset history, you could potentially reset the EU as canon, erase any moviesyou like from canon, or the obvious middle ground, would be to combine old history with new, gaining back some of your fans.

@hartley07 - Glad you liked it. I've since made some updates. You can read them here: http://www.eucantina.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2206

@VicSage - Dude thats the bees knees.

@ExpertlyMediocr - nuts, your pic didnt work, what were you trying to send?

@ExpertlyMediocr - haha thats what I was hoping for.

@Scarilian - Not sure about that Rogue One sequel.. I'm sure that sequel's name is Star Wars. Han Solo? I'm seeing it may have been their plan, sure. Doubtful now though