Expanding The Universe: Other Genres Star Wars Should Try Out

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The Star Wars franchise is a never-ending expanse, but in its decades of success, it remained largely attached to the genre it still defines. But, in the modern day, the franchise has made tentative steps into a couple of other narrative styles.

With The Mandalorian, Star Wars made a valiant and largely successful strut into the venerable western genre. Shortly thereafter, Star Wars: Visions sold itself entirely on the concept of sliding the franchise into the realm of anime. That anthology covered a variety of ideas, from Kurosawa style Samurai to Tezuka-esque charming youth comedy. Those gentle dips into the enormous ocean of genre fiction could open up the franchise for even more new horizons.

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Between the endless monsters that hide in the pits and caverns of Star Wars' galaxy, and the countless powerful villains that commit acts of slaughter, there's plenty to be afraid of. There have certainly been a couple of scary scenes throughout Star Wars media. Perhaps the most interesting comes in the sixth episode of The Mandalorian.

Entitled «The Prisoner,» that episode makes the titular Din Djarin something akin to a high-tech slasher movie villain. The set design, lighting, and violence on display in that single episode came across like a short horror scene in a larger narrative. The power of clean white walls and futuristic technology as a medium of horror is clear and well established.

A full-fledged Star Wars horror film could be incredibly powerful. Whether it's a stripped-down space survival story like Alien, a darker take on the force ghost concept, or perhaps the grim tale of the PTSD-riddled survivors of the Clone Wars. There are nearly endless