Is there any hope for the new Star Wars films?

Will the new Star Wars films be any good?

The new Star Wars trilogy is being made at the moment and many were excited to hear that the first film of the trilogy will be called  'The Force Awakens' and has now finished being filmed.

 

There are also high hopes that director JJ Abrams will do for Star Wars what he did for Star Trek with his 2009 reboot of that franchise.  The terrible Star Wars prequels with their dull scripts, lack of acting by the main characters, and disturbing resemblance of a second-rate computer game were a huge disappointment for many fans of the original trilogy, so many are pessimistic about Star Wars 7.  

Here is a review of the prequels:

Another worrying thing about the new film is that the beloved cast of the original trilogy will be in it.  This is disturbing as if they are treated in the one-dimensional, simplistic manner that Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi were in the prequels, it can only mean serious disappointment for fans.  Remember in Alien 3 when the popular character Hicks and Newt were killed off at the beginning of the film?  This angered many fans of that franchise and had people regarding Alien 3 as one of the worst sequels ever made, terminally ruining the franchise.  However, other fans praised the bold direction of the film in killing off beloved characters in such a meaningless fashion, so maybe those sociopathic people will be pleased if Star Wars 7 does the same with Han, Leia, Luke, Chewbacca and Lando.  

As with the Star Wars prequels, there were many comics produced by Dark Horse Comics that told stories of the time before the original trilogy in the Star Wars Universe, and these turned out to be superior stories than those presented in the Prequel trilogy. 

 Dark Horse also produced many superior comic stories for the Alien and Predator franchises, so maybe the producers of films could look at these stories and make films of them rather than come up with half-baked, dumbed down, one-dimensional plot lines in order to make money from die hard cultist fans of their older work.

       

Another option for the new trilogy could have been to film the much-praised Timothy Zahn novels of the 1990s.  These books featured well-rounded characterisation and an interesting villain, Grand Admiral Thrawn.  However, one can see that George Lucas does not care about licensing his product to other companies, letting them write a story using his characters, that the fans then take as canon, and then disregarding it and making his own inferior product when it suits him to.

We sincerely hope that Star Wars 7 puts the series back on track and is not a repeat exercise of the awful, soulless prequels.  Here is a picture of actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) on set: