Star Wars

I love nothing more than the original trilogy of Star Wars. The wonder I had watching them as a kid has remained with me to the this day. When I heard about the prequels I was very excited just like everyone else. And just like everyone else I was mainly disappointed.

Now whilst the prequels contain some excellent elements overall they were poorly acted and scripted leaving them feeling clunky and almost dumbed down.

I do believe there were better ways to tell this story further. Whether making further sequels now will be it I do not know?

Disney's take over of LucasFilm is certainly remarkable and they seem to be set on snapping up franchises at the moment and the work they have done so far with Marvel had been very good. But in the film world can they redeem the Star Wars reputation?

I was excited about a Star Wars TV show, I thought it could have been made intelligently dealing with the fallout of the Empire and what the rebels will do now? Make sure there are no more Sith Lords? Maintain the teachings of the force?

Would a film be able to deal with these issues whilst maintaining the wonder of the Star Wars universe? No one liked the political content of the prequels as it was slow and full of in relevant dialogue.

There is a case for blockbusters becoming more intelligent, look at Christopher Nolan's films, so maybe the world is ready to handle a Star Wars movie that has as many questions to answer as well as finding new characters to go on a journey with.

Whatever's happens I will be excited to see the film just as I was when queuing up for The Phantom Menace. Expectations will be higher this time and there have been many good books set after The Return Of The Jedi so is adapting one of them a likely route or does Mr Lucas have a very definitive version of where to go in his head?

I just hoped to be wowed.