JOHNSONS NEW STAND-ALONE TRILOGY

Early this month (December 4th 2017) was a meeting to discuss the upcoming trilogy of Star Wars movies directed by Rian Johnson.

In this meeting was Kathleen Kennedy, Pablo Hidalgo, Rian Johnson, and over skype, Timothy Zahn.
I was lucky enough to have an inside source in the room with Zahn, able to hear the bulk of the discussion.
Note that this was the first official discussion regarding the details of this trilogy and as such, details are ready to change on a dime.

The current working title of the trilogy is Star Wars: Edge of Unknown and will be told in "Parts" as opposed to the main sagas "Episodes" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). There also seemed to be a strange push to not have any subtitles for each of the specific films beyond "Edge of Unknown".

The trilogy will take place thousands of years before the Original Trilogy, during the Old Republic era. However, the entirety of the movies will be set exclusively in the Unknown Regions of the SW Galaxy with minimal references to anything established in the current saga of films.

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The main focus of the film and conflict is about the ancient Chiss Ascendancy versus the Yuuzhan Vong, an ancient species that discovered the ability to regenerate their physical form through a technique that can only be achieved through strong will in the Dark Side (although it was specified that the 'dark side' will never be directly referenced in the films).
Any big star wars fans would recognize these two species as ones from the now noncanon EU. Kathleen brought up that these films are a good opritunity to reintroduce fan favorite concepts while focusing on what works, and dropping what doesn't.
Both species are being reintroduced from the ground up. Especially the Vong, who have lost their force immunity, and have had their desire for self harm replaced with the mentioned ability to regenerate. They are now no longer from an entirely different galaxy, but instead have always resided in the Unknown Regions. Their technology is still entirely based around organic materials, and as such they are able to use their regeneration to keep their weapons, ships, bases, and society alive.
The Chiss on the other hand have become a species of super intelligent beings, who must use their wits and natural talents to overcome the Vong, who are impossible to defeat through conventional actions.

Zahn is being brought into the project by request of Kathleen who believes that attaching a big name in the EU fandom to the film will attract otherwise skeptical old fans. She believes he has done a great job with the new Thrawn novel trilogy currently being released, and has assigned him to be a lead writer/consoltant on the film, working closely with Ryan.

A short list of rules that the team created during the meeting that I find facinating:
>No Lightsabers
>No Jedi
>No previously established characters or designs
>The Force is allowed, but can not be referred to directly. The term "the force" is STRICTLY off limits.

Now this is where things get interesting. Aside from the upcoming trilogy, the team also dropped some important knowlage for the upcoming Disney streaming network show and the current SW Saga.
I can know confirm for a fact that the live action streaming show will take place during the Old Republic. Hidalgo believes that there is opritunity to tie the Old Republic show and the Edge of Unknown together, considering they both take place around the same time.

STRONG SEQUEL TRILOGY SPOILERS:
Snoke is set to be revealed as an ancient sith who discovered the same dark side force in the Unknown Regions that the Vong had, giving him the ability to effectively live forever. This has seemingly always been his origin story, however the team agreed that having an entire race in the new trilogy based around this concept will give a good opritunity to better explain what this force is and how it works. Although they were VERY vague on the topic, they also mentioned that this could be what Emperor Palpatines master Pagueis could have used to save others from death.
End Spoilers.

Something brought up was that this regentitive dark force has already been referenced in extended canon material multiple times as an energy that Palpatine feels coming from the Unknown Regions. While this was originally set up specifically to tie into the Sequel Trilogy, (see the above spoiler), it was unanimously agreed that it even better ties into this new trilogy, and will serve as a perfect way to tie the sagas together. Zahn and Hidalgo also discussed for a bit the ending of the recent Thrawn book, which ties perfectly into this new set of events.

That is all the information I have. Sections of "the next Thrawn novel" are now being rewritten to better forshadow the new trilogy, so if you need definitive proof what I am saying is legit, prepare to see references to what I am describing in either the next Thrawn book, Thrawn Aliences, or the following novel. It wasn't specified in the conference.

The Yuuzhan Vong are unironically one of my favorite parts of the EU. Changing them from extra-galactic aliens to dark side force users is kind of dumb, but this could still be cool. I also would have preferred to see them fighting the Jedi and Republic rather than just the Chiss and whoever else in the Unknown Regions.

>Rian Johnson

Stopped reading right there

>First word in the topic

They're going all out.

If they take a giant shit on the EU and then co-ops the Yuuzhan Vong, I will seriously lose my calm.

ENDLESS TRASH

>Star Wars: Edge of Unknown
You can tell they have no idea what to do. This sounds like Star Trek but really it speaks more about them, 'unknown', they don't know what to do. Rian Johnson is no a writer, he has the most stupid ideas and considering the reaction to TLJ, rest assured his trilogy is already cancelled, they just can't say it publicly now, it would harm TLJ. Wait 2 months and that'll be it. Lucasfilm is a disaster.

I'd watch the fuck out of that

>Yuuzhan Vong
>not force immune

I didn't even like NJO but that's retarded might as well use the Ssi-Rruk or the Killik

fucking blue people vs a bunch of doomsdays
yawn

>Yuuzhan Vong
Stopped reading, they don’t exist anymore

Their force immunity is like, the worst aspect of them.

Good riddance

>make me some god damn money

this all sounds like bullshit

>billion dollar trilogy with no humans or jedi

Nope. Too risky. Fuck off LARPer.

Even if all this were true there's no way they'd keep Johnson on this project now that he's single-handedly crashed the sequel trilogy.

It's not happening tho

>RT Score in the 90s
>On track with monetary projections
TLJ was a success from a business perspective.

Even if Disney gave a shit about the user score on RT, they understand that the hate comes from """ruining""" established characters. They wouldn't drop a standalone trilogy for that, especially since it's all new content instead of based on already established characters

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The Vong. The single dumbest thing to come out of Star Wars.

No one I know wants the Vong. No one. Not that I would watch it even if it was Thrawn or something good. I seen Rian Johsnons hack take on star wars and I see where Disney is going and its a shit direction I don't want.

when I saw last Jedi I was like, is that kid at the ending of the film with the broom the one the trilogy is gonna be about?

Except there was foreshadowing in books for this and Rian just tossed it all out. Face it this new "direction" is make shit up as we go along and fuck the plan.

It's all full of shit man. There was heavy implications in the new lore for stuff to happen in Last jedi and....well nothing happened in it. Status quo is god. And you expect them to be so bold as to do any of this? Are you on cocaine or something?

It''s going to just be remade shit from the old cannon but 100x worse in all ways or god forbid something new and horrifying. At least as far as movies and shows go.

LOL kotor tv show. Right.

>The main focus of the film and conflict is about the ancient Chiss Ascendancy versus the Yuuzhan Vong

And I dont have to keep reading from there because its all bullshit

Now this I would watch

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>>No Lightsabers
>>No Jedi
Fucking FAIL

This shit goes straight to torrents.

Star Wars (2030)

calling it now

reboot some point this century

Episode 7 WAS the soft reboot

Are you stupid? Take a look at twitter, facebook or youtube. People hate this fucking movie. Even Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were not getting this kind of hate so fast.

Not even Timothy Zahn can save this trainwreck. Disney wants quips all day every day.

How to safe star wars:

Replace Kennedy ( aka subhuman feminist ) and the Kike.

Johnson has not earned the bashing.

Sweet Christmas this guy can't write for shit his trilogy would be fucking Gitmo Bay torture legit CIA interrogation tools.

That sounds absolutely horrible and after seeing TLJ I completely believe it's what Rian would pitch to Disney

Better schedule an appointment with your therapist, then, user

Johnson did the Hyperspeed battering ram which is so bad the series can only be salvaged by releasing a new version of the movie with that bullshit cut out and replaced by a different, more lore-friendly asspull

>the trilogy will take place thousands of years before the Original Trilogy, during the Old Republic era

Oh no. Revan, Exar Kun, and the ancient Sith about the get fucked in the ass.

>Ssi-Ruuk
>Space dinosaurs with blasters
Shit yeah

bullshit

It's not on track for anything until the second week numbers come in and we see how big the drop is, JL made 400 million opening weekend worldwide and then went to a screeching halt after.

TLJ is one of the best reviewed, best earning movies of the year. You're delusional.

The Vong were the most interesting part of the entire EU. Stop being such a little faggot.

Batman Vs Superman I mean, not Justice League

>The trilogy will take place thousands of years before the Original Trilogy, during the Old Republic era

good

why are KOTORfags still allowed to have their Star Wars intact just because the lore was created mostly through games? it all needs to turn to shit. what's fair is fair

TFA < TLJ

Your just a delusional nostalgia fag who only hyped TFA up and not saw how bad it is was at the end.

>no lightsabers
>no jedi
>no established characters
>no force
>no EU references
then why call it Star Wars?

It may as well just be "generic space movie" like Valerian or Enders Game or some weird shit.

>Second biggest opening weekend in history
>slid in massive amounts of NWO divide and conquer agenda, Luciferian principles and SJW propaganda
>not feeding Rian and endless supply of fetus shakes and premature child anus to rape ritualistically to Satan
Pay attention nigger

Impossible. KotOR is all save in Legends. There's nothing Disney will do that could ruin it for me.

>TFA < TLJ
>knights of ren dropped
>kylo/vader subplot dropped
>snoke dropped
>rey's parents dropped
>Luke's map, the main fucking plot, dropped

Yeah, great movie.

TLJ is riddled with problems. Rose isn't a good character, the Casino sideplot wasn't good, too much of it happened on the island and in spaceships making it feel small. No need to even mention the role of Luke Skywalker.

I don't like what Rian has done in the ST at all but a trilogy around the old republic era is promising and he might do a better job without being so restricted by a previous movie and previous lore that has to fit

>kenobi calling rey dropped
>where did the blue LS came from dropped
>phasma dropped literally

A short list of rules that the team created during the meeting that I find facinating:
>No Lightsabers
>No Jedi
>No previously established characters or designs
>The Force is allowed, but can not be referred to directly. The term "the force" is STRICTLY off limits.

''Let's get old EU fans on boarding while throwing out the only thing that old EU fans cared about.''

Seems so stupid it might actually be legit.

Stop LARPing.

Holy Goddamn shit this is fake. Fake as fuck.

>knights of the cringe
>kylo cringe vader subplot
>snoke the most boring sithlord the world has ever seen
>reys parents not droped, Kylo is lying,brainlet

>Lukes map was only there too find him, Rey found him so nobody need that map anymore.

yeah great brainlet you are

Vongs have always been boring generic bad aliens. This is dead on arrival.