Re: Star Wars Standalone Film (Dir: Gareth Edwards)
Yes, but more likely Revan (still don't know who that is) doesn't exist at all. The replacement character could be a green hermaphrodite for all i care. :lol
To use the same name would be to invite nerd rage. That's why I think they just did the blanket "we're not using any of it" approach.
More to the point, I think they're just not going to touch that era at all. 1) The story's already been largely told, and 2) though he's the central player character in the KOTOR game, and has massive effects on the galaxy, he's intentionally left bland enough for whoever is playing him to be able to project themselves into him. On the one hand, there's potential there to reinterpretation and character development. On the other, despite being the central character to the game, I see him as only one contributor to about 400 years of great wars, legendary deeds, towering heroes, and unfathomable villains.
Any film set during that period would have to be at least a trilogy to fit in everything relevant and interesting, even if only following
one character.
I mean, Revan's context has to come from somewhere. Canderous Ordo, the Mandalorian Wars, Mandalore the Ultimate, the Neo-Crusaders, Cassus Fett, the dying Taung who confers the title on Canderous and tells him
he was Mandalore the Indomitable's true heir but Mandalore the Ultimate usurped him... That's all important backstory. Likewise Mandalore the Indomitable and the Great Sith War of a few years earlier. Which, of course, has the Beast Wars of Onderon and the Freedon Nadd Uprising as instigationg factors. So
that's the most convenient starting point -- 44 years before KOTOR.
And the
other direction! After the events of KOTOR, there's fallout for centuries, a lot of it with large gaps. Like how we got from the state of things in KOTOR 2 to the state of things at the beginning of the Old Republic MMO -- the Mandalorians marginalized, the Sith Empire appointing a pit fighter the new Mandalore, his eventual challenge by and death at the hands of the eventual Mandalore the Vindicated, and the as-yet-unanswered question of what happened next, in the mid-3600s BBY...
--Jonah
