{"id":135773,"date":"2018-01-08T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135773"},"modified":"2018-01-08T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:20:20","slug":"things-id-like-see-star-wars-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/things-id-like-see-star-wars-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"Things I’d like to see in a Star Wars movie, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing here not doable or damaging to the franchise, and lots that would be both cool and, I think, helpful.<\/p>\n

As the MCU has shown for Disney\/Marvel, it’s possible to tell a variety of stories in a variety of tones. The one-shots — Rogue One, Solo<\/i> — are part of that, and all of the below could easily be part of that variety of a film world\/franchise that is getting richer, not on a single railroad of epic trilogies.<\/p>\n

[h\/t +<\/span>Stan Pedzick<\/a><\/span>]<\/p>\n


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\n13 Things We’d Love to See in a Star Wars Movie<\/a><\/span>
\nYoda would hate us. Just like Luke Skywalker, we\u2019re never in the present. We\u2019re almost always thinking about the future of Star Wars. It\u2019s a future that\u2019s mysterious\u2014but also, especially with the release of The Last Jedi, more wide open than ever. And while most thinking right now is focused on what we might see in Episode IX, we wanted to go even bigger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There’s nothing here not doable or damaging to the franchise, and lots that would be both cool and, I think, helpful. As the MCU has shown for Disney\/Marvel, it’s possible to tell a variety of stories in a variety of tones. 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