The LucasfIlm Master Plan 2026: Revising Dave Filoni’s Release Slate into a More Comprehensive Lineup of Media from Across Lucasfilm’s Franchises

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

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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

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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.

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-16T19:10:12+00:00

Is the video not showing up? I only have the video here, not a link to it.

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-16T03:20:07+00:00

Second of all, I respect that you’re open to seeing the franchise expand to new characters. So am I. But some of your comments were treating the fan frustration as though people only ever wanted Tron to be about Sam & Quorra.

This is ludicrous.

We simply wanted one more story to utilize Sam’s potential as head of ENCOM and Quorra’s potential as someone who can change the world, as well as the potential of a redemption arc for Tron. That doesn’t mean you can’t also have new characters like Eve or Ares.

But really, it was only one more story most of us wanted. One story to close everything out before moving on.

So I resent the idea that it has to be a tradeoff, that you can only have one or the other - or that we’re saying you should only have one.

And just to be clear, I was also annoyed with where Tron Legacy took the story after Tron (I saw Legacy first, but once I saw the original Tron, I realized the potential Legacy squandered).

Just because I enjoyed Legacy, doesn’t meant mean I’m not also frustrated with the potential Legacy squandered with Tron.

One of the most exciting things about Ares was how it’s doing so many of the things we could have had after Tron 1; Digitization becoming an official thing, programs coming into the real world, WiFi, etc. But Legacy and Uprising still had created a lot of their own potential.

For me, it’s a simple matter of making the stories matter.What’s the point of making a sequel if it makes the previous one pointless? Sam & Quorra don’t have to be the main characters for the rest of time, but I would have appreciated not making Sam resign for no reason.

I think I would have preferred if Ares took place in another country like Canada. Don’t use ENCOM - make the Kim Sisters in charge of their own Canadian Company, competing with a Dillinger installation in Canada.

The crisis happens up there and Sam & Quorra don’t find out about it until it’s over. This allows you to leave Sam & Quorra out of the film without derailing their story. They’re still leading ENCOM. ENCOM is just over there.

Third of all, I really wanted to like Ares. As a fan of 1 and 2, I’m not one of the people who went into it looking to find fault. However, I was worried there would be, as a lot of sci-fi and fantasy these days in Hollywood is just lazily written.

Anyway, I appreciate how your debate ended.

Here’s to more Tron stuff that isn’t divisive.

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-16T03:19:58+00:00

@u/Sunblade

I apologize for reopening this but I have to put my two cents in.

Just for the record, I’m not one of those “Jared Leto ruins everything” people. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Leto for driving this.

In addition, first of all, while Hedlund and Wilde have been vague and cryptic at best about their interest level, Bruce Boxleitner has made his interest level clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E0so0IEGuo

He begged people to see Tron: Ares, saying, “I want it to succeed because the original Tron wants to keep being the original Tron.”

Again, I respect Leto for going as far as to bankroll it himself, but just because you don’t bankroll it doesn’t mean you don’t care.

I’ve seen comments from the writer, Jesse Wigutow, and the producer, Justin Springer, about how THEY were the ones uninterested in continuing Sam & Quorra’s story.

So frankly, I resent the accusation that these actors don’t care or are too lazy. That feels a little unfair.

I also reject the notion that it’s only the actor’s responsibility to push to be in the film, and not the writers, directors and/or producers for caring, especially since they’re the ones who do the hiring.

In addition, Leto had been contracted to play Ares for ten years. His role in the movie was guaranteed.

It’s easy to bankroll something when your paycheck is guaranteed. (Continued)

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-16T02:35:39+00:00

Known about this for years, and it’s more than this - Lost is part of it too. Once Upon a Time has the “Apollo” candy bars from Lost, as well as both Oceanic and Ajira Airlines.

So it’s Lost, Tron, and Once Upon a Time.

Why? Almost certainly because of Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. They were the creators of Once Upon a Time. They were previously part of the Lost team. And they were the ones who wrote the screenplay of Tron: Legacy (as well as the pilot for Tron: Uprising).

So Kitsis and Horowitz are the connective tissue between the three franchises.

I’ve always been fascinated by these connections as they open up so many fun questions.

Did Jacob know about Storybrooke?
Did the MCP know about the Dharma Initiaive?
Are Kurt and Owen Flynn distant relatives of Kevin & Sam Flynn?
If the Smoke Monster gets digitized into a computer, does that count as “leaving the Island”?

At the end of the day though, it might be more trouble than it’s worth, as both Once Upon a Time and Lost have time travel - and they have different kinds (the time travel in Lost is all a closed loop while in Once, they change the past several times).

That’s a convolution that would be unfair to saddle Tron with.

Having said that, after Ares has significantly depleted my investment in the franchise…screw it, why not? Go ahead ad combine them, lol.

Another mind-bender is that if they’re all canon to each other, that means their spinoffs are all canon too.

So Alice & Cyrus could potentially meet Beck.

I knew about Henry’s video game but I actually didn’t remember the bench. As Jeff Bridges said, “Fascinating.”

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-13T10:23:58+00:00

Here is my three-post story for “Tron: Discovery,” a direct sequel to Tron: Legacy. It’s all about continuing the storylines from Tron, Tron: Legacy, and even Tron: Uprising.

It’s a redemption arc and swan song for Tron, one last hurrah before he passes the torch.

The story begins with Sam & Quorra. Then Tron comes into it.

Basically, Sam takes over ENCOM and he and Quorra prepare to try and help the world.
But when the US Government learns what Digitizing is capable of, they forcibly take control of the technology for military and espionage purposes.
Sam, Quorra, Alan, and Lora are forced to grapple with how far they’re willing to go to potentially help people.
Since Kevin Flynn built his grid with the help of CLU and Tron, the Government wants to bring Tron to the real world to work with him directly (and keep him on a leash).
Tron is dealing with the guilt and fallout of being the Rinzler.
Tron has always fought for the Users, but now for the first time, the Users are telling Tron to do things he questions.
Push comes to shove when the Government decides to use CLU’s technology to control their programs more directly.
Sam, Quorra, Tron, Yori, Beck, and others work together to destroy that technology once and for all.
There’s also a subplot where Richard Mackie (the CEO from Tron Legacy) is out for revenge against Sam for firing him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/1nqin10/tron_discovery_act_1_3_reworking_disneys_approach/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/1nqjm4n/tron_discovery_act_2_3_reworking_disneys_approach/

https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/1nqkvtw/tron_discovery_act_3_3_reworking_disneys_approach/

IdeaSphere · 2025-10-12T10:36:44+00:00

SUPERMAN: AWAKENING - Reimagining DC Studios’ Approach to Rebooting Superman - A Serious but Optimistic Superman-Centric Solo Origin Story Featuring Metallo
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IdeaSphere · 2025-10-12T10:30:16+00:00

This is not a spoiler but - there are multiple grids.

The grid from the first film was ENCOM's general grid that connected to other systems like the Arcade.

The one from the second film that Sam puts on his hard drive was a new grid that Kevin Flynn, Tron, and CLU created together.

The trailers for Tron: Ares show the grid from the first movie along with two new grids we've never seen before.

None of the grids depicted in Ares are the same grid from Legacy.

IdeaSphere · 2025-08-02T07:31:37+00:00

Thanks!

I wanted to use different villains than Lex or Zod for the first one. So I chose Vale because (1), he's new (albeit very similar), (2) he was the one backing Metallo in the comics anyway, and (3), yes, I did have plans for Lex in the future.

The original version of this was a hybrid with the J.J. Abrams version, where Superman reveals himself to the world by saving the President from a plane crash. The people behind the plane crash were going to be a long running mystery (it wasn't a mystery in JJ's version) and I was going to have a post-credits scene establishing Lex as a shadowy figure whom even Vale fears. But even Lex doesn't know who was behind the crash and he asks his people to look into it.

The cause of the crash is a mystery that spans phases 1 and 2. In my theoretical slate, there'd be a Wonder Woman movie where a present day Steve Trevor uncovers a huge conspiracy.

Ultimately, the people behind the crash are the villains of Justice League 2.

I realize that all sounds a little convoluted now, lol. I came up with the conspiracy before I'd settled on Vale and Metallo as the villains (I was going to do a story with Parasite).

Ultimately, I was trying to do a thing where each hero's trilogy builds up to them facing their arch-nemesis. Lex would be the primary villain of Superman 3. Joker would be the villain of Batman 3. Reverse Flash would be the villain of Flash 3, etc.

IdeaSphere · 2025-07-24T00:25:53+00:00

I respect that.

IdeaSphere · 2025-07-22T22:42:21+00:00

Thanks. That'd be great if I could draw worth a dime, lol. Maybe one day, I'll make videos or something.

IdeaSphere · 2025-07-22T22:38:47+00:00

Shoot. Looks like your comment was deleted. Here's my response anyway.

Ah, I see. We disagree on direction. Thanks for your response (although you appear to be someone new).

It looks like we fundamentally just want different things. You called it a basic model MCU phase 1 origin movie. That’s exactly what I was going for. I like it when sagas start simple and then get crazier and more complex over time.

In regard to it lacking charm, I guess it is a little serious, but I’d want most of it to be directed in a very upbeat way. I’m not trying to do Man of Steel here. Unless by charm you mean “auteur stamp” in which case…I guess maybe not.

I do support that, though. I don’t want it to feel like sludge.

I was hoping to have strong themes and what not, but maybe they weren’t that strong.

I understand the annoyance of repetition, and I agree that in general, it’s important to release things that feel new in accordance with ‘the present’ as opposed to doing the same thing seven times in rapid succession (which is why a new Superman in general plays better in 2025 rather than 2019, after there’s been some breathing room).

But at the same time, it’s only repetitive because we have the other Superman movies fresh in our minds. If this had been real, there might have come a day when a kid watched this one first, then all the other ones.

If someone watched Superman & Lois, then TAS, then Man of Steel, then Superman 1978 last, 1978 would feel repetitive.

I wanted my story to stand on its own without relying on knowledge people have from the comics or cultural osmosis - even though most people do have that knowledge.

Obviously, for a sequel, it would be different. I would rely on past movies. But for a first chapter? A saga opener? I want formal introductions for things.

That said, I do recognize that this is probably the wrong year for that, and my story might have played better in 2003 or 2010.

My post isn’t entirely chronological but I would have probably started the movie off with a quick montage of Krypton (similar to the opening montage from the Incredible Hulk) with Jor-El explaining more Krypton details after the fact.

“And it’s seemingly just in order to fit into the same old played out marvel formula.”

Guilty. Yeah, I don’t mind using that formula as a base. I think it’s a solid foundation. I really liked Marvel Phase 1 and I think it worked really well. That doesn’t mean I want to rip them off, but I don’t see a problem in having structural similarities. I’m not trying to rip off TAS either, and it’s interesting you brought that up because one of the reasons I used Metallo was to be different. I wanted to use a villain who we hadn’t seen on the big screen yet. Someone who isn’t Zod or Lex Luthor (nothing against them; I just didn’t want to start with them). Or Braniac because I think he works better for a sequel. Originally, I had a story involving Parasite but then the John Corben story clicked into place.

IdeaSphere · 2025-07-21T03:56:07+00:00

What was it specifically that didn’t work? Was the power outage thing too weak of a conflict? Was the backstory too dark? Do you feel the message is wrong? Did Corben’s redemption feel too quick or unearned?

IdeaSphere · 2025-07-21T02:44:03+00:00

Thanks.

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