Star Wars announces 'The High Republic'

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Super excited to not have the old characters around

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Yoda would be close to 700 years old in that time period, Jabba probably would have been an up-and-coming gangster, and Maz Kanata would have been running that bar for the better part of a Millenium.

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Starring Snoop Dog and Seth Rogan?

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I’d love to see a movie based ok. The end of the new Sith wars

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The Nihil.
“Where’s the Force, Lebowski?”

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Yes, but will it have eyeless dolphin-like creatures?

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That Republic really tied the Galaxy together, man.

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The flipchart shown at 1:25 in this video is a fascinating window into their creative process of this new writers room they’ve assembled:

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A fool and their money… etc. :roll_eyes:

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DINOSAURS!!

They already had a guy called Rex…

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Not to mention the sarlacc, which is somewhere around 50,000 years old.

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Didn’t the one guy say something like “The Jedi are the Knights of the Round Table”?
Well, there’s your concept:

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I think I know the director for that…

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And Chewie would be a newborn!

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Oh man, people are going to kick Baby Yoda to the curb once they find out how cute Wookiee pups are.

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Alderaan had an absolute surplus of dinosaurs. (Just watched the Saw Gerrera Clone Wars episodes again last night.)

I’m a bit of a fan of this “actual ending” concept!

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Ooooh, Sith, bounty hunters, and smugglers. They’re really going off in all sorts of new directions!

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