MTFBWY #14: Star Wars Disney Infinity News, And The 5 Star Wars Anthology Films We Want

Welcome back to MTFBWY, ComicBook.com’s ongoing column about everything Star Wars.

New Star Wars Updates For Disney Infinity 3.0.

With the official announcement of Disney Infinity 3.0, it was revealed that Star Wars characters, vehicles, and locations were hitting Disney Interactive’s popular collectible toys-to-life video game.

While the press release revealed some cool news, including the fact that every Star Wars character can play in any Star Wars play set (Who wants to team-up Original Trilogy era Luke with Prequel Anakin in The Force Awakens era stories? This guy). The play sets, for those that missed the news, will be Clone Wars, Original Trilogy, and Force Awakens, with the first shipping with the starter pack, and the last launching closer to the movie’s release a few months later.

Additionally, the new Toy Box Games announced for 3.0 will bring every property together for the first time. While 2.0’s Toy Box Games, featuring dungeon crawlers and tower defense, added even more gameplay to the play sets, you had to separate things out, keeping your Marvel characters in the Marvel games and the Disney Originals (including Pixar) in the Disney games. Not so with 3.0, which introduces a new advanced dungeon crawler called Villain Takeover. In it, Syndrome, the villain from The Incredibles, steals the Infinity Wand from the Toy Box. With it, he creates his own adventure featuring areas themed to Star Wars, Marvel, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more. Merlin from Sword in the Stone gathers up heroes from all properties (yes, you can team-up Yoda and Rocket Raccoon, for example) to take down Syndrome and return the Wand. The other Toy Box game is a cart racer with 9 tracks, each themed to a specific property, once again including Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney.

These sorts of advancements are exactly what fans were hoping for with 2.0, and it sounds like they’ll be getting it this fall, alongside a whole new cast of characters.

Star Wars Anthologies: What’s Next?

The Star Wars Anthology line of films has its debut set, with Rogue One hitting theaters in December 2016. While that movie doesn’t even start filming until July, fans are already clamoring for any news they can get on it – and its successors. After all, Disney is moving forward with their initially announced plan: Episodes in odd years, Anthologies in even years, for the foreseeable future.

Keeping in stride with Disney, I am going to try to foresee the future and suggest five Anthology films I’d like to see. Some ground rules: I’m not going to repeat Rogue One, though I’m very excited about it. However, since Boba Fett is still just a rumor (a persistent one, though), I’m going to touch on that a bit. Also, I’m sticking to movie ideas that are actually conceivable, so don’t expect any far-reaches into the “Legends” universe, sorry.

Star Wars Anthology: Bounty Hunters

This idea came as a result of the Boba Fett movie’s possibility. It’s rumored to be an origin story, but we already know his basic origin, from Attack of the Clones and The Clone Wars. While a shot-for-shot live action remake of any number of his Clone Wars arcs would satisfy some fans, I want something that expands this into a broader story of the Bounty Hunters during the Dark Times.

Star Wars has just started to crack the lid on that era, and we don’t know how Boba Fett got his crazy reputation, right? It’s a great opportunity to bring in other fan-favorites from the Original Trilogy like Bossk and IG-88. Lucasfilm could also introduce major Clone Wars players like Aurra Sing and Cad Bane ( a live- action Cad Bane would be so awesome). Show how, while most of the population was repressed and downtrodden, Bounty Hunters really benefitted from the Empire’s rule, all while trying to one-up, take-down, and even kill each other.

Star Wars Anthology: Falcon’s First Flight

Okay, not first, but something that least dates a while back. Yes, I’m suggesting a Lando Calrissian heist film here. We know he owned the Millennium Falcon before Han Solo did, but we don’t know that story (not in canon anyway). Lando and heists go together like…Danny Ocean and heists? Okay, this isn’t the most original idea in the world, but it doesn’t have to be original to be fun. Let’s see how Lando got the Falcon, in a big, over-the-top heist with daring deeds, and an Imperial being made a fool of in the end. Bonus: a post-credits scene where you see it from Han Solo’s point-of-view at a Sabacc table. You hear him say, “Well, Lando, she’s still a hunk of junk, but she’s my hunk of junk now,” and just see Lando pounding the table upset.

Star Wars Anthology: Aftermath

We don’t know much about the time period that the “Journey to The Force Awakens” series of novels and comics will explore later this year. There are thirty years to sift through, though, in the time between the Battle of Endor and the start of The Force Awakens. While the books and comics will undoubtedly do a great job talking about things like the Battle of Jakku, I’m interested in one thing in particular for a film: the Imperial point-of-view.

While many Imperials abused their power and embraced the “trample on others for your own sake” credo that the Emperor seems to pass down, you don’t have an entire Empire of citizens without some average to even good people in the mix. A tale of survival, of power corrupting some of the Rebel Alliance, of someone’s life falling apart and them trying to pick up the pieces, all from an Imperial protagonist’s perspective? That could really make people look at Star Wars differently. If you need a comparison, maybe something like a Bourne film, but if the entire CIA had been destroyed leaving him out on his own, alone.

Star Wars Anthology: The Rōnin

A Rōnin is, by definition, a Samurai without a master. Samurai culture and films greatly influenced George Lucas and the original ideas for Star Wars. While Rebels and the comic Kanan: The Last Padawan are touching on this concept, yes, this is me once again campaigning for an Ahsoka Tano movie.

Ahsoka wasn’t just a breakout Jedi from The Clone Wars, she was a character that defied all expectations. After she left the Jedi order, she became in a sense a Rōnin. While we’ll probably get some of her backstory in that intermittent fifteen years in season two of Rebels, the idea of a legend being built around this master-less wanderer, popping in and out of cities and planets and systems, sometimes striking at the Empire, sometimes gathering intelligence, and sometimes just helping other wayward souls, is ripe for exploration. You could even jump throughout the years: Padawan Ahsoka leaving in the height of the Clone Wars. Her own Order 66 moment, when she heard about it, what she was doing. Then navigating throughout the Dark Times, and, if she were to survive, maybe even peak in on her when the Rebel Alliance was fully formed.

Star Wars Anthology: The Rule of Two

Okay, I said I wasn’t going to get into “Legends” stories, but this is my way of skirting the issue a bit. Indeed, Darth Bane, the institutor of the Rule of Two for the Sith, was brought into official canon (that means the movies, animated series, and any books, comics, and games made since September of 2014, January of 2015, and November of 2015 respectively) in the final episode of The Clone Wars. With Darth Bane’s force ghost challenging Yoda (and voiced by none other than Mark Hamill), he became fair game for further exploration in the greater Star Wars Universe.

The basic story of Darth Bane’s rise to power, as written by Drew Karpyshyn in a trilogy of novels, can be kept and fit into the new canon fairly easily. The idea of this slave boy rising into the ranks of the Sith, at a time when thousands of Sith and Jedi each roamed the galaxy, eventually taking over, killing them all, and making just two remain? Yeah, that’s the kind of power story that wouldn’t just make for a great film, but also makes the Sith that much scarier.

What story would you like to see told through the Anthology films? Let us know below!