7) Knights Of The Old Republic
With Rogue One, the Star Wars franchise has proven that it’s possible to jump around the timeline without confusing or putting off casual viewers. For their next movie, Lucasfilm decided to stay in a similar period, the time between the original and prequel trilogies. It would have been amazing, however, if they had dived even further back into Star Wars history to bring us a film based off Knights of the Old Republic.Â
A phenomenally popular video game franchise – plus a comic book tie-in series – KotOR is set in what’s essentially the medieval period of the Star Wars world. Taking place 4000 years prior, it differs from the set-up of the saga films as it features the Jedi and the Sith at all-out war, with whole armies on either side. We’ve never seen the battle between the light and the dark side fought on such a scale on the big screen, and it’d be great to finally get the chance to witness it.
As for characters, the villain would be Darth Malak – the apprentice of the legendary Darth Revan – who leads the Sith armada against the Republic. In the original video game, you play as someone suffering from memory loss and you can decide whether you follow the ways of the Jedi or the Sith. Whoever they are, a protagonist with ambiguous allegiances and a mysterious past sounds like a great character to us.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, though, as the KotOR games have enough story and world-building in them to create a whole new mini-saga within the franchise. If Lucasfilm were willing to take a trip to the same galaxy far, far away but a much longer time ago, it could open the window to whole new storytelling possibilities.
