Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Cindel and Wicket Back Together?



The rumour has been floating between various blogs for weeks now, starting with Zack Snyder going to make a film about a group of Jedi warriors, and now it has all (mostly) come true. Disney has confirmed that they're developing a slate of stand-alone Star Wars films to be released in the same time period as the new trilogy.

Many speculate that the first stand-alone is going to centre around Yoda, exactly what time-period Yoda we're talking about no one is certain, and this speculation has its merits. Lawrence Kasdan, writer of The Empire Strikes Back, which introduces Yoda, is one of the screenwriters set to write a stand-alone. Bring me all the hate you want, but as fun as Yoda is, I think his story is much better left in mystery. The way he is introduced and shown in the original trilogy is so fantastic. We have no real idea who he is, other than he's supposed to be a great Jedi master, and we never learn who he is before he passes away just shy of training Luke to his prime. He is a great character indeed, but I believe he is great because of how little we know of him (as far as I'm concerned, he wasn't in the prequels).

I am a fan of Bob Iger 's(Disney CEO) wording when it comes to what the films are going to be about.
"[We] are working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga." -Iger
It could sound like they're making films about fan-favourite characters from the films, and that the films are not going to be a part of the main saga, but to me it sounds like they want to make films about characters that hasn't been in the main saga. And I have to say, the latter sounds much more interesting. As much as I want to learn the origin of Wuher or the final demise of a certain Binks, it'd be much more fun and interesting to see characters from the extended universe come to life in bigger budget films.

I have recently watched some of the old stand-alone Star Wars films (for reasons which will be apparent in future), and I have to say, I really want Cindel and Wicket to meet up again for a stand-alone. If you even can call a third story of them two a stand-alone.
For those of you who don't know, Cindel and Wicket were two of the main characters of the Ewok Adventures films, Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor. Cindel was a young human girl at the age of eight or nine at the time, and Wicket was a young Ewok boy roughly the same age (at least mentally). I believe that a story that brings those two back together could capture the imagination of the viewer.

Perhaps one could be set around the time Cindel turns sixty, she is all alone, her family long gone, and she never found anyone she thought she could spend her life with. She watches her holovision (or whatever it is they're watching in The Star Wars Holiday Special) and sees the news that the moon of Endor, and the Ewok people has entered into the new Galactic Alliance.
   - We can add something about how their bravery during the Battle of Endor contributed to the membership despite the Ewoks's obvious long way to star travel -
The first Ewok congressman is an adult Wicket, who now speaks quite fluently Galactic Basic Standard, who promises he will fight for the Ewoks's rights to the entirety of the Endor system and for congress to grant them schematics for hyperdrive engines so that they can travel freely within the Alliance.
Cindel immediately recognises Wicket despite all the years they have spent apart, and she goes on a quest to find him. She has to get to Coruscant, but it's not that easy getting to the capital of the relatively newly formed Galactic Alliance. The planet has been off-limits for off-worlders for decades, unless they're elected congressmen.
   While she is doing all the sneaking about to get to Coruscant, we learn that Wicket himself is looking for Cindel. One of the main reasons he went into galactic politic was so that he could find his childhood friend once again.
   Cindel is left stranded on Tatooine after a trafficker robbed her of all her credits and took off, leaving Cindel with nothing but the clothes on her back. Sat in a crowded bar (yes, it's Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina, alright?) she is on the brink of tears, she has no idea what to do. She then hears the bartender shouting something. "HEY! We don't serve furry bastards around here." Cindel looks up, and sees Wicket standing in the door. She gets up and runs towards him. "How did you find me?" "Oh, it wasn't so hard." Wicket then points to wristband she's wearing. "I remember the serial number, it was how you learnt me to count." Cindel gets teary eyed and hugs Wicket again. They leave the cantina together.
Or something like that.



There you go, Lucasfilms. Please go make "Smuggler of Truth", I know I'll watch it.

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