What Would You Do with Lucasfilm ?

The hayday of Lucasfilm productions was the 1980's, when it was more likely that your friends would have been going to the same movies and watching the same shows you did since there was not quite as many options competing for your attention as today. Generation X has had the most nostalgic investment in Star Wars and Lucasfilm in general. Indiana Jones is very much a character that meant something to those of us who were teenegers in the Eighties. Twenty years later came the generation that saw Star Wars in a cinema as special editions in 1997 if at all and then embraced the prequel trilogy from 1999 to 2005 more so than Generation X who would have preferred to erase it from canon. SPOILER: In the best of the prequel films, Revenge ot the Sith, a glaring story continuity error is distracting. After giving birth to Luke and Leia, Padme dies supposedly from a broken heart due to Anakin's corruption to the dark side. This took some of us aback, especially those of us who know the Original Trilogy by heart and remember Luke asking Leia about their biological mother. "She died when I was very young." is not the same as, "She died in childbirth." The Obi Wan Kenobi series might have been a place to rectify that, maybe suggest that Padme recovered and her death and funeral were staged. She could have been shown living with the Organas, even in ill health. But instead that show created more continuity errors. Dave Filoni has stated that the World Between Worlds he established in the series Rebels is not for time travel, but he has demonstrated that pulling someone through a porthole from a key event in time was possible. Ezra Bridger pulls Ahasoka Tano from her ill fated fight with Darth Vader. Filoni likely knows that fans have been campaigning to have Lucasfilm use the World Between Worlds to erase the sequel trilogy and get Star Wars more in line with the tone of the Original Trilogy and initial Expanded Universe. The response has been to come up with an animated Lego Star Wars Holiday Special that revolves around Rey time-travelling and invading the Original Trilogy to mess with continuity. Not funny. It seemed designed to troll older fans. Day one, if I had been in charge of Lucasfilm, the so-called story group would be discontinued. The Eye of Sauron (any loyalist of Kathleen Kennedy) would be purged. There has not been any demonstration of dramaturgical quality control at this point. The World Between Worlds would indeed be used to erase events of the sequel trilogy. The Willow sequel series that was pulled from Disney Plus would be edited from 8 episodes to one two hour feature called Willow 2. Biggest change would be that Willow Ufgood would be the main character, appearing in 75 percent of the final run time. The confusing dark coda where Elora seems evil and the show feels like a cliffhangr would be removed. And, yes, the romance between Kitt and her friend would not make the cut. As long as that element was in the show the world of Willow became nothing more than a delivery device for wokeness rather than a show that existed for its own sake. There would be a contractual moratorium on actors, writrs or directors badmouthing the audience or engaging negatively with the fans - especially disenfranchised fans - on social media. Rian Johnson would not be working with Lucasfilm again. Gina Carano would be given an apology and the lies around her and defamation would be acknowledged. A deal would have to be struck to get her back as Cara Dune. Din Djarin would resume boounty hunter work. Grogu would resume studies with Luke Skywalker. Unfortunately, corrective measures would be a strong factor going forward. The Rey feature directed by a documentarian would be abandoned. The Acolyte would be cancelled and shelved. Patty Jenkins' Rogue Squadron would be resumed as long as it is set in the Original Trilogy era and not the abandoned post-sequel era. The High Republic would be cancelled across the board. No further books would be published, and those under way would not have to be completed. Knights of the Old Republic would be adapted by a screenwritr and director who are familiar with it and already like that source material. Anthony Ingruber would play Indiana Jones in a trilogy set in the 1930s. He could also play Han Solo in adaptations of trilogies by Brian Daley and A.C. Crispen There could still be a series of Lando Calrissian (including L. Neil Smith's trilogy) staring Donald Glover, omitting the L3-37 droid that only appeared in the Solo movie. In general, adaptations would be adaptations and the book writers would get their fair pay rather than some "original" variation that skirts that and frustrates fans of the existing stories. With standing MIllennium Falcon sets already available it makes sense to do a number of movies that utilize them. American Graffiti could be about the character played by Richard Dreyfus and his college days, since he does not appear in More American Graffiti and school would be a great setting for him to live through the historical moments of 1963 for example. A new young actor who can immitate Dreyfuss might be fun.