Star Wars already has the perfect characters for an R-rated series

Ruthless, armed with blasters and full of bite: bounty hunters in the war of stars Galaxy have always been some of the most fascinating supporting characters, backgrounds and, more recently, main characters in the franchise. From the dented and worn helmet of Boba Fett staring at Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Backto the sharp-toothed grimace under Cad Bane’s hat in The Book of Boba Fettthese characters ooze intensity and hint at a much darker world beneath the genre-bending adventures of the Skywalker Saga.

For many years, war of stars Fans have read books and comics from the expanded universe that explore the darker lives and adventures of the notorious bounty hunters. Shows like The Clone Wars went even further by adding fascinating new additions to the galaxy’s gunslingers. Until Villain One, SoloAnd Andor, The franchise had always hinted at the live-action potential of darker and more adult stories in the universe, but always chose to keep the connective tissue with the Jedi and Skywalkers. The video game revival Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was a great example of a deep look into the underworld before the world of the prequel trilogy. Cancelled projects like Star Wars: 1313 were mourned by fans who reveled in the opportunity to venture into the lower levels of Coruscant as smugglers or bounty hunters. After hours of television, movies and games have been made about the Skywalkers, two major warring factions and Jedi, it is time war of stars has created an anthology on the theme of noir with bounty hunters.

Bounty hunters have their finger on the pulse of the Star Wars underworld

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• Jango and Boba Fett are the most famous bounty hunters in the war of stars Universe.
• There are well over 40 bounty hunters in the current war of stars Canon.
• Jim Cummings, the voice of Hondo Ohnaka, won a Daytime Emmy in 2013 for his portrayal of Hondo Ohnaka in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

In addition to rogue smugglers like Han Solo and clever pirates like Hondo Ohnaka, the bounty hunters of the war of stars The humans of the galaxy always have their finger on the pulse of the criminal underworld that spreads throughout the galaxy. Their livelihood was based on knowing who the most wanted people in the galaxy were, and when money was tighter, they would settle for a bounty on a petty thief or deathstick dealer who had messed with the wrong noble or senator. Full of moral ambiguity and shifting alliances wherever the next pile of credits comes from, they are the most dynamic class among humans. war of stars“Scum and villainy”.

Although movies and shows like Solo And The Book of Boba Fett took the audience to familiar, legendary and exotic new places within the criminal underworld, their stories were eventually re-integrated into the main continuity of the main plots of The Mandalorian or the founding of the Rebel Alliance. With shows like Star Wars: Visions An anthology about bounty hunters embraces the openness of creative freedom in animation styles and playfulness in storytelling, and is a natural choice for creating a live-action worldbuilding piece that is adjacent to, but not connected to, any of the current stories.

Following the underworld can lead to a neo-noir Star Wars

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• Neo-noir is the revival of the film noir genre, a film genre that flourished from about 1940 to 1960.
• Films like Blade Runner applied the genre to futuristic scenarios to tell darker, morally questionable stories featuring antiheroes.

The audience of fantasy and science fiction films has already been influenced by decades of films with aesthetics such as Blade Runner to video games like Cyberpunk2077 to plunge in and enjoy the darkness of the film noir genre when you are transported to a space setting. With war of stars Because the technology and logic is so fast and loose, the writers could easily build intense stories with single episodes that follow a single mission of a single (or pair) bounty hunter. The beauty of the current war of stars Canon is that there is a wide variety of bounty hunters to choose from. From the samurai-inspired Embo and the intricate Latts Razzi to the odd couple Zuckuss and 4-LOM, the creativity and dynamic range of stories that could be told about their smaller missions and personal characters are endless and would take audiences to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

Anthologies allow for a broader discussion by fans about a show, their favorite bounty hunters, interesting corners of familiar or new planets never seen before, or the nature of the bounty hunters they are chasing. Some stories can be more personal, while others can take the entire perspective of the target. Other episodes could easily follow a hunter getting up to uninvited mischief while spending his credits on leisure, or being duped by an engineer hired to upgrade his ship or weapons. Bounty hunters are a force of nature in the outskirts and densely populated metropolises of war of stars and can give us characters we love to hate.

Bounty hunters have different codes and limits

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• Bounty hunter Asajj Ventress turned against Boba Fett during The Clone Wars series when she discovered that her loot was a trade with a young noblewoman who was forced into marriage against her will. She released the young bride and locked Boba in the chest instead.
• In The MandalorianDin Djarin turned against the entire Bounty Hunter Guild after recapturing baby Grogu from his employer, an Imperial Loyalist working for Moff Gideon.

The wide variety of bounty hunters that already exist in the war of stars Galaxy has shown how fickle or stubborn their beliefs or “ethics” are. Some bounty hunters draw the line at certain bounties, such as hunting children or stealing from certain cartels, in order to keep their profile low, but others are limited only by confidence in their abilities or the number of credits they’ll rack up. Watching these fluctuations in their ethics and personal codes as circumstances around them change leads to unexpected and interesting storylines in stories that would otherwise take the more conventional hero’s journey route. An anthology of bounty hunter stories would showcase some of these villainous or surprisingly virtuous traits over the course of the series, perhaps with episodes that mark a major turning point or the reason they now have a limit.

It has become clear that darker shows like Andor have been incredibly well received and the potential of future stories like this has left the fanbase hugely excited for future projects that grow with their older audience. The beauty of this range also allows the show to not be limited to a specific time period. Stories can jump between any time period already in war of stars Live action or animation and could showcase the unique limitations certain bounty hunters faced when taking on contracts from the CIS, Republic, Empire, Rebels, First Order and Resistance, not to mention all the other criminal cartels and syndicates. With so much worldbuilding on bounty hunters already structured and ready for this series, it’s surprising that there isn’t a series in development already.

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The original trilogy shows the heroic development of Luke Skywalker as a Jedi and his fight against Palpatine’s Galactic Empire alongside his sister LeiaThe prequels tell the tragic backstory of her father Anakin, who is corrupted by Palpatine and becomes Darth Vader.

Created by

George Lucas

Last film

Star Wars: Episode XI – The Rise of Skywalker

Broadcast date of the first episode

12 November 2019

Pour

Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Rosario Dawson, Pedro Pascal

Where can you stream?

Disney+

Comic

Star Wars: Revelations

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