It’s well known that the plot of Rogue One was inspired by a single sentence in the opening crawl ofStar Wars: Episode IV A New Hope: “Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon.” Star Wars has always excelled at this sort of world-building, dropping references to events, people, and places beyondthe immediate story to embiggen yoursense of the universe. What is the Kessel Run? Which border dispute on Ansion? Who’s the bounty hunter Han ran into on Ord Mantell? As Disney prepares more standalone “anthology” stories—a Han Solo origin tale is next—it’s going to need ideas. Luckily, we have some, in a slew of genres.
Bounty: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: “I want them aliveno disintegrations.” Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back
Genre: On-the-lam road drama
Pitch: Vader’s brief, embittered warning to Boba Fett hints at adark history between them, one that could make for a taut two-hander: In the years between A New Hope and Empire, an increasingly unhinged Sith Lord—obsessed with finding young Skywalker—breaks rank with the Emperor to chase down Luke. But when Vader’s master sends a team of bounty hunters to track him down, he turns to the Mandalorian warrior for protection—and finds himself drawn into Boba’s violent, disintegration-dizzy world. We have no idea what happens next, but surely Disney has another $5 million bounty to throw at Tony Gilroy to make it work! Brian Raftery
Twin Sons: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: “Ninth time. That business on Cato Neimoidia doesn’t, doesn’t count.” Obi-Wan Kenobi, Revenge of the Sith
Genre: Buddy comedy
Pitch: What business was that, Obi-Wan? For context, Anakin’s just boasted about saving his master’s life for the 10th time. Except it’s been just nine times, because whatever happened on Cato Neimoidia* doesn’t, at least in Obi-Wan’s version of events, qualify as life-savingly heroic. Aww, you guys! So chummy, so playful. By Sith, you’reexpected to believe these two go waaay back. They even banter and shareinside jokes. But no one isprivy to their bonding. Everything crystallized, of course, on Cato Neimoidia, where Anakin only thinks he rescued Obi-Wan, but clearly there was a massive, hilarious misunderstanding, the revelation of which sends these two into a laughing fit so convulsive they knock teeth and fart a little, cementing their bromance just in time for it to all go crumbling down. Jason Kehe
(*Yes, we knowLabyrinth of Evil covered this subplot,but that’s one interpretationand not a particularly satisfying one. Besides, the canon is basically up for grabs these days.)
Almost Infamous: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: The performance in Jabba’s lair in Return of the Jedi
Genre: Rock mocumentary
Pitch: Everyone knows the Max Rebo Band for the performance that landed them in ignominyand landed poor Oola in the jaws of Jabba’s rancor. But before they washed up at the most sordid dive in the galaxy, the band’s debut album (including “Jedi Rocks,” the song of the summer that played nonstop on every controller across the skies) reached the top of the Jizzcharts. In this mockumentary, learn the history of how 12 misfits from Orto found their tribeand how frontman Max Rebo’s addiction to Dirvinian daiquiris initiated a desperate descent into the gambling underworld of Tatooine. Charley Locke
Fly Brave: A Jek Porkins Story
Inspiration: The ill-fated X-wing pilot from A New Hope
Genre: Inspirational biopic
Pitch: When Red Six went down in a blaze of glory in the Battle of Yavin, the galaxy didn’t just lose a rebelit lost an icon. From his humble beginnings on Bestine to his distinguished career with the Alliance, audiences will witness the grit, humility, charisma, intellectual curiosity, bawoonka skill, chili recipe, and warm-heartedness that didn’t just define a man, but a movement. The “Porkins Belly Run” lived on for a reason, and these 163 turgid minutes will tell you all of them. Peter Rubin
Gamorrean Guard Academy 2: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: The unheralded henchmen of Jabba’s lair in Return of the Jedi
Genre: ’80s sex comedy
Pitch: Sure, everyone thinks of the porcine green meanies as humorless mucus factories, but before Jubnuk and the gang settled down to work the Hutt Hut, they were lovable snot-nosed hell-raisers turning Lieutenant Grodnowski’s training facility upside down! In this inexplicable hard-R sequel, follow the wild waddlers of Company G as they rig their commanding officer’s vibro-axe, stage mischievous raids on the sows’ dorm, andafter getting framed by their rivals and dishonorably dischargedmaybe even learn the meaning of loyalty. Peter Rubin
Extremity: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: Rey finding the Skywalker lightsaber in The Force Awakens
Genre: Hidden-treasure mystery
Pitch: Halfway through Episode VII, Rey makes a startling discovery in Maz Kanata’s basement hoard: The Skywalker family lightsaber. The weapon was last seen on Bespin, tumbling through the mists after Darth Vader severed Luke’s hand—holding the lightsaber. In the decades beforeRey’s discovery, some intrepid artifact-hunter traveled to the cloud planet’s surface and recovered the family heirloom. Whoever that was surely did enough swamp-romping and stormtrooper-dodging to merit aStar Wars story. But more importantly, the adventure will answer that most vexing question: What became of Luke’s lost hand? Nick Stockton
Apartment One: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: “Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth.” Return of the Jedi opening crawl
Genre: Romantic comedy
Pitch: After fleeing to Hoth, Han and Leia’s relationshipbuilt upon fiery and flirtatious Vader evasionmust change and adjust to its more contained domestic stage. Now (relatively) safe, they must build a home together in this odd-couple Star Wars rom-com. What kind of silverware works best in a rebel base? Should their ice-planet abode tend toward a modern or cozy aesthetic? And is it really always Han’s job to feed and walk Chewie? Watch as the unlikely lovers negotiate the difficulties of that first place together. Joseph Bien-Kahn
Die This Day: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: “Many Bothans died to bring us this information” Mon Mothma, Return of the Jedi
Genre: Espionage
Pitch: “Bothan. James Bothan.” He is the suavest motherfucker in the galaxy, the ace in the deck, preternaturally good-looking (in a predatory sort of way), amoral except for his loyalty to the crown (Princess Leia) and country (the planet Botha, now half-destroyed by the occupying Empire). And when the Empire determines to build a second, even bigger Death Star after the Battle of Yavin, the growing Rebellion knows that another ragtag team of rogues won’t get the job done. They need intelligence on the new Death Star, but this time the mission will take finesse. Deception. Sex. Alcohol. High-stakes gambling. Fast spaceships. And a license to disintegrate. Adam Rogers
The Sith Inquisition: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: Darth Vader killed your father
Genre:Hitchcockian suspense
Pitch: When the Emperor initiated Order 66, every clone trooper in the galaxy got a new mission: Kill the Jedi. Thousands of Knights, Masters, and padawans died. Some, through chance or skill, escaped. Yoda. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kanan Jarus. A handful of others. After the Clone Wars, hunting down these renegades became the job of the Inquisitors, Sith-sensitive warriors hand-picked by Vader himself. Now, from the ruins of a Jedi outpost, one of these Inquisitors has acquired a broken, garbled holocron with a database of the Jedi order’s most gifted students. He has found a lead on the location of the last, most dangerous Jedi, the Old Republic’s greatest defender: Anakin Skywalker. And the Inquisitor has learned a secret: Darth Vader is actually Anakin Skywalker. It is a secret only four other sentient creatures know. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, wherever they’re hiding. Vader himself. The Emperor. It is a secret the highest echelons of Imperial power will kill anyone—everyone—to keep, because to reveal it would question the very foundations of the Empire’s creation. And now the Inquisitor charged with killing the last Jedi must deceive the most terrifying leader in the galaxy, evade the entire Empire, and find the nascent Rebellion—not to destroy it, but to save his own skin. Adam Rogers
Fire Over Coruscant: A Star Wars Story
Inspiration: Fire over Coruscant
Genre:Hardboiled noir
Pitch: After the Empire fell, Coruscant—planet-sized city, capital of the Republic, Empire, and New Republic—is a ruin. Constant battles have destroyed vast swaths from the lowest levels to the highest towers. Landing access is limited; supplies are low. The planet is divided, with the Trading Guild, New Republic, and Hutt Confederacy all responsible for different regions. The nascent First Order keeps things just dangerous enough for the New Republic. And everyone is hunting for former Imperial officers to put them on trial for war crimes. Shara Tal is one of those officers—once a fearsome Commander in the Office of Coruscant Security, she was responsible for the imprisonment and deaths of countless enemies of the state. So now Tal is on the run.
The lower levels of the planet-city are more dangerous than ever—in part because of people like Kalimar Revdo, a mid-tier enforcer for the gang that runs the docks one short transport hop from the ruined Senate building. Revdo was a thug and criminal before the war, a smuggler and gun-runner while the fighting was going on, and whether he was talking to Rebels, Imperials, clones, wookiees, stormtroopers, or Jedi, Kalimar managed to keep his neck resolutely unstuck out. The Coruscant Docks are a good place for someone with those kind of skills and that kind of love for credits.
But Shara Tal ran into Revdo’s bar, and Revdo learned to love something else. Whatever she had done in the past, she was his now, and he was hers. He might not be the smartest or slickest crook on Coruscant, but he could be the toughest. The woman he loves is the coolest killer to ever graduate from the Imperial Academy—and number six on the New Republic’s most-wanted list. So Revdo is going to get them off Coruscant—no matter who they have to kill. Adam Rogers
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