Any Movie Studio Can Make Its OwnStar WarsMovie Right Now

Star Wars is back . The space - opera house Jagganath that rule the late 70s and early 80s is once again rule supreme over pop civilization . Disney pay $ 4 billion for the capacity of George Lucas ’ toybox . But really , any motion-picture show studio that require to can make its own Star Wars movie . ( They just ca n’t call it “ Star Wars . ” )

Sure , you’re able to brandmark those two words , and the name of the master persona , and a few cardinal touchstones like “ The Force . ” But aswe’vediscussedendlessly , Star Wars is a mish - mash of tons of other hooey that was already 10 honest-to-goodness in 1977 . It ’s Flash Gordon , Lensmen , heroic fantasy , The Hidden Fortress , The Dam - Busters and a bunch of other hooey , all smushed together and spiffed up with beautiful space VFX . You ca n’t really own Star Wars , because it ’s a collection of classic story .

So any pic studio that wants to cash in in on Star Wars cacoethes can create its own blank fantasy , full of weird beast , spaceship battles , epic seeking and huge mystical fate . They do n’t even have to found it on a picky classic IP — and give how much weird baggage thing like Flash Gordon carry , it might be better not to .

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There ’s such a deep trove of stuff out there to adopt from , too . Space opera , just by itself , goes back generations and has left us with a huge riches of archetypes , plot gadget and story theme . Star Wars hardly scratches the surface of what outer space opera house has to offer . And when you coquet it up with other genre like epic fantasy , sword - and - sorcery and military science fiction , the possibility are basically unlimited . A lot of what cause Star Wars so endlessly entrancing is n’t the result of George Lucas having a boundless imaging , but of Lucas receive his hand in a lot of cookie jars . ( And yes , I have now constructed a tortured miscellaneous metaphor in which Lucas spoil several cookie jars to make a toybox . )

What I ’m suppose is , I desire that we see a wave of swashbuckling new outer space activity movies presently . After the original Star Wars swash everyone ’s mind , we receive the Star Trek films , Alien , Flash Gordon , the shamed pleasance Moonraker , and a host of other random distance movies from Buckaroo Banzai to Last Starfighter to Ice Pirates . Plus Buck Rogers and Battlestar . Plusa million Spaghetti space operasand other random oddities . Not all of these film were brilliant — although I will not stand for any smack - talk about Moonraker — but they were mostly thrilling and sport , and the perfect space confect for your inner child .

So I approximate I ’m hop that , even as the success of some big flick in the 2000s started a superhero feeding hysteria , a new Star Wars supremacy will make some other studios think about way to get in on some of that fresh space natural action . One unexampled Star Wars moving-picture show per yearfeels like a lot , but it also feels like not nearly enough space action . We need a unconstipated acid of spaceships fritter away vigour weapon at each other , foreign planets , wild and crazy ray - gun fights , and so on . There is a serious space - battle deficit in our lives .

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I eff what you ’re going to say here . John Carter . Jupiter Ascending . Tomorrowland . Even J.J. Abrams ’ own Star Trek flick did n’t really make Star Wars money . There ’s been a farseeing train of seek to do a brand young spacey , futuristic moving-picture show series , and a lot of them have tanked . These sorts of movies are expensive , even if you trim niche . And we can be here all day talk about the ways in which those movies flush it to gain over hearing , and failed to convince us that they were going to be fun exciting blowout . It ’s utterly true that Star Wars has a huge ocean of nostalgia to sip from , and The Force Awakens follow in part by reminding us of everything we loved about that world . But the marketing for a lot of those other picture show did n’t really channel the idea of “ fun , exciting joyride . ”

On the other hand , thing like Guardians of the Galaxy and Avatar prove that it is possible to set up a serial about starship and alien , and have a massive achiever . It helps if there ’s a known quantity involve , like Marvel or James Cameron , but also if the first movie actually seems fun and entertaining . The key to owning this rollicking - outer space - fantasy ecological niche is 100 percent about win over people that this is go to be a fun ride , with a decent payoff .

So sure , maybe doing a new quad - opera house movie serial is n’t a slam dunk . But a canny film - maker can absolutely draw from the same sources that George Lucas plundered and come up with something that mainstream movie audience will recede their shit over . If our Modern moving ridge of Star Wars - mania leads to even one or two thing that palpate like a new Alien or a raw Buckaroo Banzai , then that will be a brilliant outcome .

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And you have it off what existing property actually urgently deserves a goddamn pic version ? Nexus . The space - fare comedian by Mike Baron and Steve Rude about a bozo who have superpowers — but is forced to assassinate mass he dreams about — is give way for a lavish movie adaptation . Also , Saga . But our Nexus movie is crazily overdue . WHERE IS MY NEXUS MOVIE , HOLLYWOOD ?

Update : I realized that I already published a lean of awe-inspiring space heroes who merit their own movies , a couple years ago :

https://gizmodo.com/space-heroes-who-should-get-movies-if-guardians-of-the-1529396869

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