DARK EMPIRE MOVIE PART 1 FAN FILM - STAR WARS THEORY PRODUCTION 

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It’s funny considering this plot line was so ill received when it was first released and the OT fans didn’t like it for the same reasons as the prequel fans didn’t like this plot line in the sequels era Perhaps if this story line gets the clone wars style treatment then it would flesh out a lot of character growth and lore growth as well

May the 4th be with you

This is amazing! Great work as always Theory.

​​Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy is a Legends adult-fiction novel series from author Timothy Zahn. It consists of Heir to the Empire (1991), Dark Force Rising (1992), and The Last Command (1993),

I said the exact same thing…

@@BendoBrushes Nah, man. It predates that SHIT.

@@540VarialHunter Palpetine returned

@@ianYT36 He did, granted, but EU makes more sense by default. And it is cohesive, has a good story arc and consistency, from what I've heard (never read any of the Legacy stuff, stayed in The Old Republic era, cause if Lucas was to move somewhere, he would move forward. Now he won't move nowhere).

Too bad the writer never got the opportunity to finish the story properly. Empire End was suppose to be six issues not 2.

@@jeremyfields9009 It'd be so cool to read.

They are better then sequel trilogy for sure but it still sucks. Emperor should never return! His death in return of the Jedi was and should be final!

@@krystofthepolishguytalksan310 Idk, I agree and I don't, I mean as Chancellor he had a lot of power, and wealth, hiding the clones of himself and the technology at an off world site, sounds plausible. And the Dark Side does drain life force, and Palpatine was very deformed from his power, him needing clones to be eternal essentially makes the most sense, even though hatred and suffering should keep him from dying Like Scion, but him still being alive technically because he's just another clone is a very good story Arc, the fact we were robbed of a trilogy with Grandmaster Luke finally going 1v1 with the Emperor to finish the Skywalker saga was really where we lost out in.

@@damien2729 I actually like this storyline alot.... the character development is done right and it's balanced.. 'The power of the darkside' needed to be fleshed out aka immortality.. as the Jedi have their 'ghosts' the emperor has 'essence transfer' Luke realizes this and that's why he kneels.. it's a very deep moment for his growth.. One day StarWarsTheory will buy one of those portable sets used to make Mandolorian and shoot his own films.. using the Unreal Engine.... and the fans will reclaim starwars proper..

Which is really funny because Kennedy and all the other echo chamber yes-men said " Star Wars has no source material" and yet here they are grabbing source material 😂

Somehow... Palpatine survived

I would say homage’d badly, not ripped off.

@@UninvitedGhost More like desecrated

That basically WAS the entire sequel trilogy; a bad attempt to be like the Shadow Empire story arc from Legends. While I definitely have my issues with that arc, at least it did a better job explaining how Palpatine returned and made him feel more like a massive threat. In the sequels, he came off nowhere near the manipulative mastermind who's always three steps ahead of everyone.

The other destroyers are somewhere else, in other parts of the system to be specific. Probably

It’s funny considering this plot line was so ill received when it was first released, so I kind of find it ironic that we have to remake that story to make it better.

Indeed!

Yes please!!!!

So does the darth bane trilogy !!!!

The channel Star Wars Fan Animation is making one!

Red birb with lightsaber and hair go: HIYAAA

@@pjtheprimalpeashootergamin6159 hiyaaa.

@@pjtheprimalpeashootergamin6159 hiyaaa.

Just got out of the theater! Same man. Same

As Did I. I Loved Every Moment Of It.

Same and nobody waited to see the acolyte trailer 😂 just straight up walked out

Me too. I was 10 when Ep 1 released. Miss the time when everyone had their own head canon and not every last detail about the universe had a crappy „official“ Disney-story attached to it.

@@treyjayy_63sixftp62 My theater was over half full and as soon as the movie ended, all but 2 people left😂

Both anakin and Luke equally IS star wars.

@@Mr.MacMannah it’s Luke

@@Mr.MacManyep.

Palpatine IS Star Wars

Facts

I still have a problem with it, it undermines the importance of what Vader did. Just come up with a new villain

@@thespaceman9465 Yea it makes his whole sacrifice all for nothing.

​@@thespaceman9465I second this

@@andrewcabral963 Well, he saved Luke and in the end it were Skywalkers who finally destroyed Palpatine's spirit. But yeah, even Timothy Zahn thought it was bullcrap to bring him back.

​The difference is in dark empire palpatine dropped the sith title and is now only a force user of the dark side. @@andrewcabral963

Man there was some utter shite in the EU wasn't there? The Jedi Academy Trilogy where Anderson revisits every single location seen in the original trilogy, Luke has no trouble finding Jedi candidates but is such a lousy teacher that he loses two to the dark side. One student, Kip Durron, is described as being more powerful than Luke and Leia. Luke get's defeated by the spirit of a long dead Sith and is generally portrayed as being pretty pathetic. Meanwhile we get a super weapon even more powerful than the Death Stars, which Durron uses to destroy a solar system killing millions but because he's under the influence of the dark side at the time he suffers no legal repercussions and is simply allowed to continue as a Jedi as if nothing had happened (eventually becoming a Master on the Jedi Council who even leads a rebellion against Luke's leadership). Then we have Callista who transferred her essence into a computer for crying out loud and then back into another Jedi's body but was no longer able to feel the Force. Oh and another Jedi had been transferred into a droid body. Even though it was written before the prequels and the introduction of midi-chlorians these were very stupid ideas. Legacy of the Force was a pathetic retread of Vader's fall with Jacen becoming more and more of a 2 dimensional "evil villain" with each instalment, none of which were coherent because the 3 authors seemed to be writing different stories with only Allston making much of an attempt to hold them together. Denning, hands down the worst writer of the EU with an obsession for creating ever more over-the-top "Force powers", dredged up Lumiya from a storyline that was never even part of the novels (only the comics). She pretty much only turns up in the books he wrote as does his own Alema Rar character. He retconned Vergere and made her a Sith (despite the fact that she appeared to Jacen as a "Force ghost" after her death and other EU works being clear that Sith cannot do this.) He also completely changed the concept of "Shatterpoint" from being able to sense key moments upon which future events hinge to being able to touch an object such as Beskar armour and cause it to shatter. Luke teaches this to Jaina and she trains with Boba Fett to give her skills so she can take on and defeat her brother... but she never uses any of them! Oh and we're given an ancient telepathic Sith training ship that is in many ways vastly superior to any modern vehicles. Meanwhile Traviss clearly wanted to indulge her obsession and write a tedious Boba Fett/Mandalorian story which she shoehorned into the Legacy of the Force series. Fett and her characters are barely featured by the other writers until the finale. Her contributions were slow and boring with a focus on Mandalorian culture and even her own made-up Mando'a language as if she believed she is the heir to Tolkien. None of it worked together. The worst part was Luke refusing to take out Jacen himself because it would mean he'd turn to the dark side! What crap. Instead he let's his nephew murder millions and destroy whole swathes of Kashyyyk. As for Fate of the Jedi we're given multiple Sith, including a "lost tribe" that has been isolated on a planet with no metal and therefore no modern technology for 5 millennia (although conveniently lightsabers are still plentiful and have an inexhaustible power supply). Despite this they have absolutely no problem operating spacecraft or any other technology that should be way beyond their comprehension. We have a former Imperial Admiral as head of the "Galactic Alliance" despite the fact that she was guilty of major war crimes. Despite his history of past heroics, Luke is banished and the public simply accept this. He and his son go travelling around uncovering ever more ridiculous "Force powers", most of which never come into play again. This includes leaving their bodies and astral projecting into some bizarre netherworld where they can speak to the dead who reside under the surface of a lake. (No surprise that Denning wrote that claptrap.) Meanwhile we have Jedi Masters who, in Luke's absence, are constantly angry and yelling at each other over disagreements. Apparently the way to decide who gets to lead the council is to have a lightsaber duel! Oh and young Jedi run away because they're afraid. And don't even get me started on "all powerful" Abeloth!

Yes please

Ehh not the Callista Trilogy or Black Fleet crises, but everything else hell yeah!!

@@jjc5407 I enjoyed the Jedi Academy Trilogy. It was one of the first, earliest, novels back when they began. Kevin Anderson tends to write a bit down for teens; it is his nature. But they were ok back then. And the cover was incredible.

@@zarander never judge a book by it's cover! 😃

yea tf did this luke go?

Seriously, I thought it was good and interesting until Luke's decision to join him. We know Luke never would so this must be him tricking Palps? Idk but that soured it for me a bit.

​@@edwards.8453 Read the comic. He knows he can't defeat Palpatine, so he tries to buy time... and it ends badly. Leia has to come save him.

Threw that out the window real quick

Ah so none of you actually read Dark Empire. Or you would know the answer to this

Seerch the fan animation of "spikey tortoise" chapter 2 and compare the lines,he takes the original audiobook voices

100%

So true I haven't felt this since ... Kyle katarn days❤😊

Theory has terrible taste in EU, you have to admit. He liked all the sequels on first watch until public opinion on them changed.

@@Hello-bi1pm Thrawn trilogy, shadows of the empire, Jedi academy series. Any of these would have been better. But no, the most divisive series of the EU.

😂😂😂😂lol this coment its funny because its true😂😂 LOL

The in-universe explanation would probably be that Luke didn't really turn at first, he wanted to destroy Palpatine and the dark side from within and Sidious obviously knew that. He did manage to break Luke complately later on, so from that point onwards it's up to interpretation. Imo after the experience with Vader he'd want to make sure that Leia and the New Republic are dead and gone first, in order to properly grant Luke his Sith title, knowing he's former self will never resurface. Alternatively you could argue Luke was never meant to become a Sith and Palpatine was just waiting for the right moment to posess him as a vessel OR he knew his final death was inevitable anyway and turning Luke was just a means to prevent the Jedi Order from returning.

Or you could just remember that the Sith were not defined at the time Dark Empire was written i.e. before the Prequels. Tim Zahn originally intended for the Noghri to be the Sith hence their allegiance to Vader "The Dark Lord of the Sith". Vader's helmet was even supposed to be a stylised version of their faces. George nixed that idea for obvious reasons. At that time, as far as anyone knew, Darth was simply Vader's first name and it's also why he is often referred to as a Dark Jedi in stories of that era. After the Prequels were released this was one of many elements that were retconned, with Dark Jedi becoming separate to Sith. It's also why characters like Exar Kun never had a "Darth" title, which was again retconned.

@@jjc5407 Yes, but why does it matter in-univere? And it's the in universe explanation that people usually expect. Both Dark Empire and the prequels exist in the same timeline in Legends, that's a fact regardless of what came first.

@@emzonik8851 to come up with an "in-universe" you'd have to retcon why Luke didn't get a Darth moniker in Dark Empire and I'm not aware anybody bothered to do so. It's certainly not mentioned in any of the novels or other books.

Damn. I was going to say that. 😂 he did get force pushed like a b!tch tho

This. I usually like Theory's stuff but this just didn't do it for me. And sadly I felt that his portrayal of Palpatine was a bit cringey with the accent going way too far in places. Last but not least, I felt the art style, or rather the portrayal of the characters, felt a bit amateurish at times...if a good artist was hired to illustrate this perhaps it would be better.

​@@MishKonnit's the dialogue for me... I mean "activate dark force cage"?? 😂 a lot of cliche and "generic villain" monologue, feel like a bit more effort could've gone into that. That being said the still image / stop motion style actually grew on me over the video.

@@Graystripe02 yeah I didn't even go there because it's a fan film. But since you started: It's a bit ironic for me that this is building on / developing the biggest shit show improv idiocy that is the sequels. Having him ressurected was one of the most uninspired, desperately creatively void and burnt out things to do already in the movie IMO, and I feel the idea should have just been buried, not expanded upon. And don't even get me started on Luke bowing to him. How somebody can criticise what Ryan Johnson did to our beloved character while having them do this is beyond me. The style of a narrated comics was okay with me, I just hated most of the art and strange action figure poses. The vehicle design also felt quite poor, at times it felt almost AI generated. I felt that a good illustrator would go much further much more consistently.

@@Graystripe02 the “Activate dark force cage” line was almost as bad as the young Leia chase scene in Kenobi 😂.

@@MishKonn I agree, I typically like him as well but definitely feel it lacked a refined aspect. It felt very much like a storyboard concept you’d get feedback on before making the real thing. What was high budget? You don’t pay yourself for voice acting, you used John Williams’s music, and still photo renderings of existing character likenesses. I know the idea of budget is different for everyone but for someone with Theories resources this felt like it could have been done in a few days with a few hundred bucks, ChatGPT, and Midjourney. High budget would mean special effects, actual animation or live actors and costuming/makeup. Something akin to his Vader episode 1.

I don't even acknowledge it as Legends. To me it's just cannon. The REAL Star Wars.

I know but it still Legends from the original Star Wars, Not Disney because they screw up the movies too.

I feel the whole using the darkside and being in control goes against everything the movies and Lucas has told us

True

It’s funny considering this plot line was so ill received when it was first released, so I kind of find it ironic that we have to remake that story to make it better.

This is not better than what we getting lol

@@chrisrodgers8255 You try making a high budget fan film, oh wait cause you're not passionate about star wars. stay crying hater

@@isthatajojoreference. You try making a high budget fan film, oh wait cause you're not passionate about star wars. stay crying hater

This was written way before the prequels, between 1991 and 1996. So at the time there was no chosen one.

Bro just delete this comment lol.

@@PaulBlartsMall why should i delete my comment? im allowed to have my opinions. bro really tryna control what other people say

@@thebendu33 george lucas already had the story planned out

@@PaulBlartsMallYou are being a brat dude. Shut up.

C... C.. Commander Skywalker..?

Exactly; anyone could be cast in the prequels (besides palpatine maybe), but nobody can replace the OT crew

What nice work?This is dark Empire.Someone made this already.He didnt make it.He doesn't have any original idea on his body.

Dark Empire is an comic series Star Wars Theory never made it

The glazing is insane

@@rooracleaf561 "Glazing", Nice way to out yourself being chronically online. Please seek help

George Lucas is working at Disney on the next star wars project so what was that about no matter what employees?

​@@infamoswordzyou have no proof of that!

It's not disney it's lucasfilm. And this is crap!!! Theory sucks

Bro this is basically what disney gave us the diffrence luke didn't turn to the dark side he run away from it. And it's not fan made it's an older comic adaptation so it's "offical" star wars legends

Are you mental?We have true Star Wars right now.

This isnt true star wars, is just the sequels but better, still ass tho

@@eliezerrodriguez5863Where? Certainly not the sequels. In the words of the directors, they were rushed and poorly planned knockoffs.

This was early EU. They have known that Darth meant “Darklordof the Sith” since the promotional material for the release dater of the original movie. It wasn’t until when EU officially became in 1994 that they Sith were fleshed out, with the ‘Tales of the Jedi” Dark Horse comics were released. Which in canon legends now. Naga Sadow, Exar Kun, Ulic Qeil Droma, Revan were all Dark Lords, none of them chose to be named by the title of Darth.

Palpatine himself turned his back on the sith traditions, claiming he's above them. So, no sith titles. Just "Lord Skywalker".

@@user-sm6gn3nl6o Ummm...Darth Tyranus, Darth Maul, Darth Vader. So he turned his back on tradition once? lol

Good story?

Because Trump is the embodiment of what Jedi stand for?

Sure.

haha USians and their teams. You see them in everything aye?

Lol, because he isnt a Trump supporter?!🤣 You people are insane

Dude keep the politics out. Please

This is not meaningful this is old crap

@@eliezerrodriguez5863Which your beloved sequels copied because they couldn’t come up with their own ideas. Every plot line and character from the Disney sequels are knockoffs from better stories.

The lines are pulled from Dark Empire, Theory didn’t write them.

@@filmiccrossroads I know the plot was taken from it… but the dialogue can’t be word for word taken. That would be copyright infringement. I would double check but my copies of Dark Empire are in storage.

@@raoulduke8382 majority of it is word for word with a couple lines being slightly altered.

Lean back and enjoy. It will all make sense later on.

@@raoulduke8382 I agree to the extent that the dialogue in the original comic needs to be rewritten to satisfy a more modern audience and needs to be more concise.