Man, all of these suggestions are infinitely better than most of the io9 list on account of actually being stories and narratives as opposed to half-baked ideas that could be thrown into just about any film with a functional plot. Well, except the Romance idea and the Seven Samurai idea, and the Romance idea is just a…

A couple of things I would be interested in seeing (that I didn’t see mentioned above or in the other comments):

Okay...this bugs me about Star Wars. Why is every Star Wars planet a single environment: desert planet, ice planet, swamp planet, forest planet...etc. You said it yourself, Earth has all of these. Why can’t there be a planet that’s similar to Earth...one that actually has some real environmental/ecological diversity?

I envy people who get this feeling from The Last Jedi. I see it as even more retrogressive then TFA. Killing the past is not a bold move forward when the direction is more or less the same. I have zero hopes for Episode IX to change the course, but I think Johnson’s own trilogy will be a bit more deviant.

One simple little thing that I’d like to see is a a lightsaber fight where someone remembers that you can turn the blade off. Time and again, we see lightsaber fights where they only use them as if they were fixed blade swords. They even come up with nifty new lightsaber designs, but keep forgetting that there is an…

In the non-special edition OT, Han name-dropped Jabba but we didn’t see him on screen until RotJ. I was holding out hope they might do the same for King Prana* in episode IX. But I guess not having that storyline payoff would be a bigger subversion of my expectations so I suppose I shouldn’t hold my breath :)

careful with this one. Every new tv show has new token gay character and if done incorrectly like many shows have they are Poorly written and never are anything more than “the gay” character and nothing more.

Is it just me or is everyone, up to and especially including the studio, overthinking this waaay too much. Can we just work towards making a good movie with good characters and not “how can we draw parallels with previous movies, reference a number of events and may homage every 30 seconds along-side campy quips,…

After this last movie it’s going to be hard to go back. I have no idea what we watched but it was like a bad episode of BSG that could have been done in a 20min SW cartoon episode. It was check a box and collect the cash. There was no mystery or ewww what’s next or WOW I can’t believe that just happened.

Hm, now I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a regular visitor to Canto Bight.

Build off the nostalgia...not use it as a crutch!

Introduce us to the bloodthirsty maniac to whom Han Solo was selling rathtars.

I’d like a Battle of Britain / Dam Busters style Star Wars film that focused on a ragtag squadron of X-Wing pilots.

And more Jess Pava.

“so please, stop the self-referencing.”

I remember when we were all fantasizing about the new trilogy - sigh, we were so innocent back then - that some of us talked about a cold war setting. Part of that was the question what other kinds of movies should become part of Star Wars mix of genres. They shouldn’t stop being a pastiche of pop culture, but it…

Cloud City was on Bespin, a gas giant. It doesn’t get much different from Earth than that.

If you want to do a “Seven Samurai” type film, I see two ways to do it. Both ways take place between Episodes III and IV:

A story that makes sense

Combining two suggestions, my favorite idea was to look at some of Kurosawa’s other movies for inspiration. For instance Kagemusha would make a great movie about warring factions in a Sith Empire.

The Star Wars universe has always been a pretty veneer with not much substance behind it. The old EU tried, and got far, but even that was never too ambitious or revolutionary. Star Wars is a franchise perpetually stuck on the same handful of tired formulas being played over and over, being terrified to try anything…