Thread:The Dark Lord of the Sith/@comment-25641444-20150711015526/@comment-3298705-20150711035146

I ultimately need to decide if a reboot is the best course of action. I'm thinking we'd either ignore The Force Awakens, onward and just do a sequel to Return of the Jedi, or we would ignore the entirety of the Star Wars saga as it exists today and start it from scratch, only using the same basic principles (Jedi, Sith, the Force). My logic for this: Now obviously Star Wars isn't a dying franchise like Jurassic Park or ALIEN, hence Hollywood's plan to revive these films and basically say the sequels that killed them never took place. Therefore, I don't know if I have the right mentality here. What do you think? I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place here: if we make this a sequel series to the three films starting with The Force Awakens, I'm going to be really tempted (speaking from previous experience before our mass-reboot of the project) to borrow and take from Legacy, even if it is non-canon now. I still don't want to just put new faces to someone else's ideas, to put it bluntly. At the same time, if we ignore The Force Awakens and its coming sequels and make our films set after Return of the Jedi, then that's going to make me want to use the characters from those films, like Luke and Han and Leia, hence I'd be clashing heavily with the new and old canon.
 * Jurassic World is a reboot/revival of the Jurassic Park franchise that does not consider the first two sequels as "canon." It doesn't say they never happened, but it only references the first film and its events. While it is technically Jurassic Park IV, it's the first film in what the director wanted to be its own franchise, rooted in Jurassic Park but separate at the same time.
 * ALIEN 5 - The fifth film in the ALIEN series started in 1979 by Ridley Scott is still only in the pre-production phase, but it is already a well-known fact amongst franchise fans that it is going to be a sequel to the second film, ALIENS, that ignores ALIEN 3 and the fourth film, ALIEN Resurrection.

I had the idea that our films could take place in another galaxy in the Star Wars universe and/or they could be taking place at the same time as the main Star Wars saga (Episode I.5, II.5, etc.), but I don't like either of these ideas, especially since we're making "the Sequel Saga." That said, the Sequel Saga needs to start automatically at square one, rather than continue building up from where Episode I-IX have taken and are going to take us. That is why it is best to do something way in the future, where there is no possible way anything in Episode VII-IX could ruin us (I have this thing where I abandon a project if something official uses one of my ideas or makes an idea of mine impossible). At the same time, though, a story taking place in 1,000 or 10,000 ABY is not exactly logical, we've established before.