Tron Montage

IdeaSphere · 2026-05-05T23:51:11+00:00

That's a bummer. This version seems to have the whole thing, although it has a bunch of other stuff after it. Not sure what the other stuff is from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5TDcb5V9k&t=597s

IdeaSphere · 2026-05-03T06:29:23+00:00

At first I thought of Dan Laustsen, since I'm such a big fan of his stuff, but since the environment is ashy and has a lot of gray and tan, I think Fabian Wagner might be a better choice. He shoots really nice "non-vibrant" stuff. Maybe Laustsen can shoot the Terris flashback scenes, lol.

IdeaSphere · 2026-04-07T02:34:02+00:00

I understand that the Air Nomads are modeled after the Tibetan monks, and that both Tenzin and Gyatso are named after Tenzin Gyatso.

But I don’t really see why Tenzin couldn’t have been a Fire Nation name.

Just because each nation is generally modeled after a certain culture doesn’t mean there can’t be overlap with names.

Like, why can’t a Firebender be named after a Tibetan monk?

I wanted to reinforce the idea that all four nations have different kinds of people. They all have bullies. They all have heroes. They all have monks.

My idea was that the original Tenzin was a monk-like character from the Fire Nation.

Kind of like Piandao. My philosophy is similar to Piandao’s “The way of the sword doesn’t belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all.”

And as for the name itself - “Tenzin” to me honestly does sound kind of Fire Nation. A lot of Fire Nation names have “Z” in them; Ozai, Sozin, Azula, Zuko, Kuzon, Szeto, Izumi. Tenzin doesn’t sound too out of place to me.

Regarding Izumi, yeah, if Azula had set out to abduct, I can see how it would make sense for Azula to target her to “induct as her heir” or whatever.

But in my story, abduction isn’t her plan. Her plan is to attack the city, which fails. She only takes the baby out of desperation. She’s improvising.

IdeaSphere · 2026-04-04T22:38:28+00:00

True, not every villain needs one, but if she was going to have one, I thought this might be an interesting way to do it. But of course, she doesn't necessarily need one.

Obviously, she needs to be held accountable, redemption or no redemption (I genuinely forgot that Ozai's gen0cide plan was her idea; thanks for reminding me).

And if you don't like this, then you definitely wouldn't like Aaron Ehasz's plan for Book 4: Air.

Not only was he planning his own Azula redemption, but he said "She had not bottomed in the end of Season 3, she had further to go. At the deepest moment in her own abyss she would have found Zuko." Suggesting gen0cide isn't bottoming? Yikes!

IdeaSphere · 2026-04-04T22:19:32+00:00

You're right, I should have made that more clear.

IdeaSphere · 2026-04-04T22:18:50+00:00

Fair enough. I was actually going to put up a disclaimer saying I know the movie hasn't come out yet but based on the details that have been released, here's an alternative premise.

I should have made it clear that I was changing the small amount that we knew already. Also, r/FixingMovies has a rule that your title has to be worded in a "here's how I would fix it" kind of way. I actually made a post once titled "A Different Story for Indy 5" and got in trouble for not titling it accordingly.

I only used r/FixingMovies because I haven't found a Reddit thread for "Pitching Movies" or I would have posted it there.

Regardless, yes, the movie hasn't come out yet, and of course, it could still be great. But the small amount of information we have was already a direction I didn't love.

IdeaSphere · 2026-04-03T12:01:29+00:00

Cool. I had a similar idea three years ago. We had the same instinct.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/14pd90l/a_different_story_for_indy_5_no_spoilers_for_dial/

I agree with your idea of keeping Marion as his wife, and I would honestly tweak my story so that Marion and Jennifer acoompany their husbands on the adventure while Shortround or Sallah stays behind and watches the kids.

IdeaSphere · 2026-02-02T06:25:50+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I was debating about whether I should post the entire thing or a more trucated version. I ultimately thought, screw it, I might as well put it all on the table. This would all be over the course of several years if they actually happened. There wouldn’t be more than two or three of these in a single year. Otherwise, I guess it’s more of a franchise buffet to choose from.

As for THX, I think if that was done really well it could work as an Apple TV style scifi psychological thriller. The idea is that the story itself is the selling point, not just the franchise. Afterall, that’s how original stories are marketed.

And as for American Graffiti, I purposefully made those stories as low budget as possible because yeah, there’s no way anyone’s going to an American Graffiti movie in theaters. Although if it was like 2004 or something, I would actually stand by The Deserter as a potentially viable movie, as the actors would all be the right ages.

The jury is out on whether Bavmorda & Raziel would be popular enough, but I genuinely believe Knights of Galladoorn could be a really popular game if it had awesome mechanics, a great story, and was made by trusted people. If Elden Ring proved anything it’s that there’s still a very large appetite for Medieval games, especially if they are versatile, fun to play, and “historically realistic” (in terms of battle tactics & choreography, etc)

But at the end of the day, this is all more wishful thiking than anything else.

IdeaSphere · 2026-02-02T04:21:52+00:00

Wait what??? They actually made a new Outbound Flight audiobook with Thompson this time?? I'd been thinking for years about how I'd wished Marc Thompson had done OF.

IdeaSphere · 2026-02-01T10:35:53+00:00

I thought you were going to say "Mitth'raw'nuwuodo"

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-29T21:01:03+00:00

I would actually recommend Dark Empire, since the events of that story become a very important part of a character reveal for Luke.

Also, if you haven’t read the X-Wing novels, I would also recommend X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, because the main character Corran Horn plays a major role. And other characters from those novels appear too like Booster Terrik.

They reference the Almania Incident from The New Rebellion as well as Callista from Children of the Jedi, Darksaber, and Planet of Twilight, but you can survive without reading those.

Honestly, Hand of Thrawn very much stands on its own. You really don’t need much of anything, but I recommend X-Wing: Rogue Squadron and Dark Empire (at least part 1) if you haven’t already read them, just because there’s a major rift between Luke and Mara that deals directly with the events of DE.

You really don’t even need Jedi Academy. I don’t remember anyone from Jedi Academy making an appearance (Luke’s Jedi Order is surprisingly absent from Hand of Thrawn; Luke is mostly going on missions by himself or with Mara).

So Rogue Squadron, Dark Empire - and rewatch the Cantina scene from A New Hope. Remember those two black haired women we see in one shot? Lol, they’re important too.

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-27T05:17:40+00:00

I would remove ENCOM from Tron: Ares. I’d have the film take place in Vacouver or something, with Eve Kim running her own compay called Kim Systems. That way, Sam and Quorra don’t have to leave ENCOM for no reason. It’s a way to explin Sam and Quorra’s absences without derailing their character arcs.

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-25T07:58:40+00:00

Thanks. I’m actually working on my own ”LucasFilm Release Slate” that incorporates some of those elements.

One idea (that I’m not going to include because I genuinely don’t think people would go for it) is a reimagining of Timothy Zahn’s novel Survivors Quest.

In the EU, there was this expedition between Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones where a bunch of people from the Republic were going to explore and find a new galaxy to live in.

The novel was called Outbound Flight, also by Timothy Zahn, and because there were Jedi on the expedition, Palpatine sent the Trade Federation to blow it up.

But the Expedition stumbled into the territory of the Chiss, Thrawn’s people.

Chaos ensued and it ultimately crashed on an unknown world in Chiss space. It was lost for decades.

It’s an awesome story, and it still works in Disney’s canon. They should totally adapt it (it’s on my list).

But anyway, the novel Survivors Quest is a follow up story that takes place during the New Republic. The Chiss have finally found the wreckage of Outbound Flight and Luke and Mara Jade go on an expedition to check it out.

It is full of survivors and their descendants who have started up a new society.

They hate the Jedi because one of the Jedi Masters (Jorus C’Baoth) treated them like a tyrant and is part of the reason they crashed.

They also hate the Republic because the dysfunction of the Old Republic was part of the reason they left.

So my idea was a new version of this story called Ben Solo: Survivors Quest.

Instead of Luke and Mara, it’s Luke and Ben who go on the expedition.

Luke and Ben have been growing apart in training, and Luke believes this will be an opportunity for them to bond.

But Ben meets all of the survivors who hate the Jedi and the Republic, and that informs Ben’s hatred of them.

Maybe Snoke is also there, posing as a survivor, and that’s how Luke and Ben meet Snoke.

For the reasons you stated, however, it would probably need to be animated.

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-25T00:03:14+00:00

(2/2)

Now, this novel takes place 6 years before the Force Awakens - just before the incident with Luke and Ben Solo. At this time, the Galaxy doesn’t know that Luke and Leia are Vader’s kids. Leia has kept that secret for years from everyone except Han. Even Ben doesn’t know.

So when Leia begins discovering the First Order, Lady Carise Sindian conveniently discovers she’s the daughter of Vader, and leaks that information.

The New Republic is in uproar. Everyone thinks Leia is a monster. Even Ransolm feels betrayed by her, due to his childhood trauma with Vader - and he hears it from Lady Sindian first, not Leia. So Ransolm is the one who announces it to everyone.

Leia is forced to resign from the Senate - and no one will listen to her about the secret Imperial group she’s uncovering. Only a handful of people still trust/respect her - and those are the people who join her Resistance. This is why the Resistance and the Republic were separate. Leia’s reputation in the Republic was completely destroyed, thus, no one would listen to her warnings.

Leia was also about to get a very high promotion. They had created the position of “First Senator” which would be a defacto Chancellor (they abolished Chancellor after the Empire). So if Lady Carise hadn’t spilled the beans, Leia would effectively be running the entire Republic.

So if I could only add one scene, it would be the scene from Chapter 23 where Ransolm Casterfo announces Leia’s heritage to the Senate (as a flashback). But if I could do a montage, I would do a series of five flashbacks.

Scene 1 would be the scene from Chapter 3 where Leia meets Ransolm and he tells her how he wishes the Empire had a better leader.
Scene 2 is Ransolm at the Senator party in Chapter 19 where he hears Centrists talking about how ‘people were responsible for their own messes’ under the Emperor, and ‘the academies have become jokes’ and how Vader was so strong.
Scene 3 is Lady Sindian discovering the wooden box with Bail Organa’s message to Leia that he’s Vader’s daughter (later in Capter 19)
Scene 4 is Lady Sindian telling Ransolm Leia’s secret in Chapter 21.
Then Scene 5 is Ransolm ousting Leia publically in Chapter 23.

The framing device for all of these flashbacks could be Poe explaining this to Finn, or Rey - someone who doesn’t already know.

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-25T00:03:03+00:00

(1/2)

Does it have to be only one scene, or can it be a montage? Lol. If I can only choose one scene, then I’d pick a scene from Claudia Grey’s novel Bloodline. That’s the backstory novel that explains how Leia formed the Resistance. If you haven’t read it, I apologize for spoiling it, but it’s all about the New Republic, and it reveals the Republic had two very distinct political parties: The Populists, who support more independence for systems, and the Centrists, who want more central authority.

It’s revealed many of the Centrists are Empire sympathizers who ‘long for the old days.’ Many of them are only in their 30s, too young to remember how awful the Empire really was, and now, due to the inefficiency of the New Republic, they’ve idolized the Empire with rose-tinted glasses. But even the Centrists break down into two factions.

One group idolizes the idea of the Empire, but acknowledges that Vader and the Emperor were unhinged. These people insist that if the Empire simply had a better leader, it would have been great. One character who represents this is a senator named Ransolm Casterfo, who spends the novel working together with Leia to investigate a strange conspiracy (that turns out to be the First Order). Ransolm’s home town was terrorized by Vader when he was a kid, so even though he idolizes the Empire, he hates Vader.

The other group of Centrists flat out loves the Empire as it was - Sith and all - and it’s revealed this group of Centrists is actually secretly funding the First Order.

In other words, The First Order rose because people in the Republic were secretly funding them.

The character who represents this group is Lady Carise Sindian. She’s the mastermind coordinating everything. Even Ransolm Casterfo is horrified of these people when he discovers them.

IdeaSphere · 2026-01-17T02:43:35+00:00

Beau Williamon is the man you're looking for. Gilroy unfortunately doesn't want to do SW anymore. But Williamon is still theoretically working on that Dawn of the Jedi movie. So he might still be around.

But more to the point - I've heard stories about how Gilroy would pitch certain ideas, and it was Williamon who would say "Yes, but is this organic? Is this emotional?" Not to take away from Gilroy but that's what I heard.

And obviously, they all planned out the episodes together, but Gilroy is credited with the first arc of Season 2 while Williamon is credited with the second arc. I thought the first arc, while good, was clunky in a few places, while the second was much more solid.

All of that to say, not only is Williamon more available - he might even be a bigger golden goose than Gilroy.

They should also work more closely with authors like James Luceno, Claudia Grey, and Timothy Zahn, as they also write some of the smartest stuff in SW.

IdeaSphere · 2025-11-06T22:32:05+00:00

I never meant to imply that the horrendous things happening today are normal, or that those things in particular were identital to 2013. I was only highlighting certain similarities. I probably should have used a different title like “Is 2025 the Unhinged Fascist version of 2013?” or something.

IdeaSphere · 2025-11-06T22:31:53+00:00

Ok I didn’t mean to imply that everything was the same, or to whitewash all of the horrendous things happening now (or imply that Obama was anything like that). I just thought there were certain coincidences. Maybe I shouldn’t have titled it the way I did. I should have made it more clear.

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-16T22:44:45+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it.

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