Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

[X]Large Scale

Go Big or Go Home, we're gonna make this series into a legend that a US President is gonna be a Jediist

[X]Small Scale

[X]Small Scale

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

Also read this description, does this really sound like Star Wars: A New Hope?

Large Scale: George just said he was willing to finance the whole damn thing out of pocket. He wants it to be a massive fleet battle between the two armies of the Galaxy. Destroyers, carriers, and much more. He wants the finale to be more about the spectacle, and showing that, despite the main cast being heroes, they are just there, simple pieces in a grander galactic universe.

The Rebellion is not a galactic army. It's a small plucky group standing up to the big power. It's the French resistance versus the Nazis, it's the Vietcong against the US. It's not two equal forces, and it undermines the message if the rebellion is just as big or grand as the Empire in terms of military strength.

And Star Wars, despite the name, isn't a war movie. It's a pulp movie, with bigger than life heroes, showcasing how extraordinary individuals can save the day. You can't end the film by devaluing these characters to just pieces on the board, without changing the whole message of the movie.

At least that's my opinion, and it is of course subjective.

[×]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

We still retain all the miniatures and props, right?

ILSergenteSalv said:

We still retain all the miniatures and props, right?

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I mean, unlesss you ask George to destroy them?

No you'll still have them

Can we do write ins? Because I'd love to suggest escalation as the series goes on. So new hope is small, revenge of the sith is medium as the rebellion gets more backers and the empire puts more of its forces towards crushing the rebellion, and Return of The Jedi is large as it goes into an all out brawl.

Heck, if we do end up buying DC, I hope we can make an executive decision to put a clause of including an: 'In Memory of Bill Finger' in any attempts to make a Batman movie. Kane can go pound sand.

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

Start small. The Rebellion isn't widespread at the moment. And this is their desperate gamble to survive. Meanwhile after their victory in this movie we can start ramping things up. Eventually having a huge fleet in the final movie

[X] Write in- Escalation: There's something to be said for covering multiple scales to show multiple levels of war. Tell George to keep it small, but only for "A New Hope," as it showcases the rebellion when it is still in the vein of the French resistance. Later films can escalate as the empire starts paying attention and more people flock to the banner of the rebellion and/or more rebellious groups join the alliance. They'll go from New Hope's small, to medium for the second film, to large for the third film. This allows us to have our cake and eat it too. As a nice bonus, the funding from new hope will allow us to do the scale of the next film without compromising on detail and quality, and so on for the one after that. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

Hopefully write ins are permitted, I asked and didn't get an outright no in response, instead I got a like which seems vaguely approving. If it isn't allowed I'll unmake this if you say the word.

Edit: it's mostly small with a promise/idea to George, I think he'd more happy with small if we told him about the plan to increase the scale in the next films.

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

I say we go small here. There would very likely be a sequel, so we can go large there.

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

I don't want like another year to pass, plus it fits more imo.

In for a penny?
[X]Large Scale

I can see a Lot of good arguments for Small in the first movie, some decent arguments for Medium (and I do understand the impulse to go bigger and better than OTL when the opportunity presents itself)... But Large is both out of place and potentially throwing away a big chunk of the advantage the problems the rest of he industry is having gives us (even medium might have that issue, I'll admit to not keeping track well.)

[X]Medium Scale: This will require reshoots, but since George and ILM got the money to spare, they decided to make this… battle far more grand, far more epic. Far more like a battle in a war, than a desperate last stand for the Rebellion. It would take some time to get it complete, but it would be like watching an Ariel war film from the second world war… only in space, and not real. And in far better quality. (Time it will take to complete: 14 Months)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

The big issue is small doesn't feel like enough, we need a medium between small and medium ironically in my opinion.

[X]Medium Scale: This will require reshoots, but since George and ILM got the money to spare, they decided to make this… battle far more grand, far more epic. Far more like a battle in a war, than a desperate last stand for the Rebellion. It would take some time to get it complete, but it would be like watching an Ariel war film from the second world war… only in space, and not real. And in far better quality. (Time it will take to complete: 14 Months)

[X]Large Scale

I ain't no coward

[X]Medium Scale: This will require reshoots, but since George and ILM got the money to spare, they decided to make this… battle far more grand, far more epic. Far more like a battle in a war, than a desperate last stand for the Rebellion. It would take some time to get it complete, but it would be like watching an Ariel war film from the second world war… only in space, and not real. And in far better quality. (Time it will take to complete: 14 Months)

[X]Small Scale: This was the one originally envisioned in the script, with only around forty fighters against the monstrosity of the death star, turrets, and tie fighters. Fitting a much more desperate situation of the rebellion, placing much more emphasis on the characters, their struggles to survive, and adding to the tension of the rebellion's last hope to save the day, and the rebellion. (Time it will take: 7 Months.)

Damnit, I was originally really gunho for a large scale battle, but reading the description in how it downplays the characters as cogs as part of the grander universe when Yavin is the pulpiest of Star Wars with Luke single handily restoring hope to the galaxy just feels wrong and it's something that should be reserved for Endor when it serves as the Endgame film of the OT with the entirety of the Rebellion coming together to kill Palpatine and destroy the Death Star II. Let's do instead an escalation series of battles where Yavin is small scale, Hoth is medium scale, and Endor is large scale in all of its glory. Plus the Empire lacking a fleet is really good storytelling in showing just how cocky Tarkin is in that he thinks the Death Star is all he'll ever need from this point on and it's invincible.

The one thing I'm just really hoping to change with small scale is that we have a lot more TIE fighters. We don't have to create hundreds and hundreds of models of TIE fighters, but maybe just show small waves of squadrons and overall like 50-100ish TIE fighters being sent to show the Empire is taking this somewhat seriously but they still think the Rebels are wasting time and just making themselves feel better by trying down fighting. Plus the Rebellion being whittled down to three starfighters by 100 TIES and the turrets insetad of just 9 TIEs and Vader feels a lot more natural and we can establish the X-Wing's superiority.

We can also just add a couple of lines to address potential disappointment to further enhance the stakes and desperate reality.
Luke: 40 Fighters?! Where's the rest of the Rebel fleet? You guys got propaganda blaring on Tatooine how the Rebellion is fighting in every system in the galaxy but this is it?
Biggs: Quiet down Luke or you'll make a lot of enemies off your wingmen. We used to have a fleet. Just a couple weeks ago we had a great fleet of dozens of ships, all staffed with the greatest heroes this galaxy has ever seen. Some of the best friends you could have asked for.
Luke: Used to, What happened?
Biggs: Scarif. The Plans your little R2 unit is carrying, all thanks to their sacrifice. Now we've got to finish the job.