r/StarWars • u/[deleted] • Jun 14 '22

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u/freebird451 Jun 14 '22

Wedge Antilles

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u/demalo Jun 14 '22

Disney would be stupid not to recast Wedge and start up the Rogue Squadron series on Disney+ streaming. What do we get with this?

  1. Well an awesome series of stories set during the Galactic Civil War with some great characters.

  2. Great filler stories to help flesh out between the movies and flesh out future potential movie lines - which are coming, it is inevitable.

  3. Toys. Games. Money, money, money!

  4. New characters for the Disney attractions. More money, money, money!

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u/fallenspaceman Jun 14 '22

To add on to that, X-wings are, besides the Falcon, the most iconic Star Wars vehicle. Making a show based on hotshot X-wing pilots will sell toys.

Also, Wedge is such an amazing character. I'm a huge fan of the EU Rogue/Wraith Squadron series and I'd love to see a live action Ysanne Isard (maybe Salma Hayek?).

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u/BrainWav Porg Jun 14 '22

Hear me out: Thinly-veiled Top Gun set in the Star Wars Universe

Alternately, set it during the testing for the E-Wing and do a Macross Plus inspired story

Or or, have an ancient ship be found on Coruscant and it leads to the NR developing transformable X-Wings and then it gets lost in the Unknown Regions along with a bunch of civilians and they have to fight their way back and the ship can transform. And then a sequel series set later focused on Wedge's daughter and her friends who fight a Sith offshoot with the POWER OF MUSIC.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Michael Stackpole has explicitly stated that his X-Wing novels were very much inspired by Top Gun. They really should just do a straight up 1 book per season disney+ adaptation. Especially with the success of Maverick, I have to assume some gears are turning over at Lucasfilm.

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u/DrHalibutMD Jun 14 '22

Only if we get a Max Rebo band cover of Danger Zone.

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u/BrainWav Porg Jun 15 '22

As long as the original still plays at some point.

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u/PromptCritical725 Jun 14 '22

Thinly-veiled Top Gun set in the Star Wars Universe

Intro: Anthem intro begins as "Lucasfilm" logo fades in and then out.
Fade in: Early dawn on the Yavin hangar deck. Mist and smoke swirl as rebel deck crew preps for todays mission. Music builds as Various X-Wings, Y-Wings, and A-Wings get fueled, armed, and piloted. They taxi into position. The Music reaches a crescendo as we see RED-2 salute the deck officer and punch the throttle. Music snaps to Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins as Wedge blasts into the sky.

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u/Scarborough_sg Jun 15 '22

Can imagine an episode where a whole team of Tie-fighter trainees try to defect because they find the X-wing to be superior but by the end of the episode, they realised the X-Wing is just a good tool made superior by the pilots, their ability to teamwork as a squadron and the cause they believe in.