Thoughts on possible retconning the sequel trilogy

[Xwho]

Overlord DVD talked to Kamran Pasha on YouTube and he MAY have said that we're plans to retcon the sequel trilogy or something.

If someone was going to try how would they likely go about it and when?

Also what are the chances of something like this would happening someday?

[80sbaby]

They aren't going to ever retcon the ST. That's not how movies work.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Did they ever retcon the prequels?

[godisawesome]

Despite that "Lindelof is making an epilogue film to the ST" story, they're never going to make a movie dedicated to cleaning up the ST; they're not going to waste that kind of budget on something that would both be a humiliating mea culpa to a lot of professionals at LFL that would be punished by pretentious critics desperate to argue that TLJ was a great movie and not a massive mistake... and more importantly, not when there's more inexpensive ways to get around the ST's problems.

Like... the ST is already retconning itself movie-to-movie, but in a "diet-retcon" way: what visually happens on screen is not ignored or changed, but the "truth" of the events is completely up for grabs because of the disrespect and "course corrections" Rian Johnson showed TFA in TLJ, and the pained compromises and "course corrections" Abrams made in TROS.

I mean... TFA ended with Rey and Finn actualized and motivated for the larger story, Kylo crazy and intentionally played as a loathsome madman, Poe and Hux as calm, cool-headed, professional military men, the First Order as a lean, mean machine, and Luke doing *something* in exile... then TLJ began arguing Rey and Finn "actually" weren't actualized and were actually self-centered idiots who needed to change their priorities (either away from the white girl in Finn's case or towards the Neo-Nazi pretty boy in Rey's case), Kylo was a sympathetic angsty teenager we should all want to be the main character, Poe and Hux were idiots incapable of fighting their way out of a paper bag, the First Order was a massive, clumsy empire, and Luke was a self-centered coward and loser who was failing to commit suicide properly.

Then the next film tried to compromise between those opposing interpretations and characterizations, while also adding in Palpatine and a hidden Sith fleet.

The ST already exists at a "Geoff Johns writing Green Lantern Rebirth and Flash Rebirth" level of retconning, film-to-film; it's not going to get more retcon-happy than that, but it's already at a a level where any future material is going to have to choose directions for characters and events who are already torn in different directions.

[ChrisIII]

While there have been sequels that have ignored previous sequels (Pretty much every Terminator thing after 2, Superman Returns, there were talks about doing that with ALIEN etc.), I'm not quite sure there's been a major trilogy ever undone on such a scale.


The ST of course kind of did that to the preexisting post-ROTJ EU, but that's pretty much par for the course with any EU, even the current Disney one (Even the current Disney EU has had a few continuity hiccups).

[Xwho]

While there have been sequels that have ignored previous sequels (Pretty much every Terminator thing after 2, Superman Returns, there were talks about doing that with ALIEN etc.), I'm not quite sure there's been a major trilogy ever undone on such a scale.


The ST of course kind of did that to the preexisting post-ROTJ EU, but that's pretty much par for the course with any EU, even the current Disney one (Even the current Disney EU has had a few continuity hiccups).

Could the sequel's be made into a alternate reality so they still happen and make another universe even if they don't in films?

[Rincewind]

Overlord DVD ...

Gonna stop right there.

No. There is no chance whatsoever. 0%. None. Everyone on this board is now dumber for having read that. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.