Scrapped Star Wars Projects You Never Knew About
Star Wars has undergone some rough luck over the past twenty or thirty years, constantly changing plans as the minds behind the franchise struggle to determine what fans actually want. Though a variety of modern projects have been halted or scrapped, there are a ton of older ideas that never got their moment and could have been interesting.
When the sequel trilogy was coming out, it seemed a new Star Wars project was announced every few days. Today, most of those didn't make it to the filming phase, let alone to the screen. While there will almost certainly be Star Wars media for the next thousand years or so, the series has a long and proud history of canceling ideas and starting over halfway through.
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Back in the early 80s, when George Lucas was still in charge of the franchise he started, he threw out ideas for Star Wars spin-offs in casual conversation all the time. Lucas spoke of a movie entirely about droids, possibly led by C-3PO and R2-D2. He brought up a cinematic outing about Wookiees, set on their home planet Kashyyyk and built around their unique culture. In 1980, around the time Empire was released, Lucas was already describing the franchise as a nine-film saga. While it did eventually reach that milestone, it did so in a way he never could've predicted and with several other creators at its helm. Lucas evidently had big plans for the franchise that never came to fruition, but there's no way of knowing whether those projects would be better or worse than the modern output.
Many scrapped projects evolved into future productions, often through a variety of bizarre trades and transfers. Fans of The Mandalorian probably know that the series gradually formed from the shell of
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