How to go about remaking the entire Nonology?

So, Star Wars. Basic plot of Good vs Evil. Fun romp through space. Iconic imagery, sound effects and score. But a worldbuilding and characterization mess. How about try to make it more coherent?

Since it's dawn as a copy of Flash Gordon, the franchise has no true pure fountain of canon. Like many great works of the past (the Bible included) it suffered a great deal of massaging and retrofitting. So I don't mind to throw my hat in the ring.

Am I a competent writer? No. Am I talented in any kind of storytelling, visual or otherwise? No. Am I even smart? HELL NO. But I feel like doing this, so why the hell not?

So, how will I go about it? Main points of interest:

  • The nine films are the focus, other material might be looked upon for reference only;
  • The Force will be looked upon as a hard magic system as it's used by it's various praticants, but will remain mysterious regarding it's origins, or if it has a will of it's own;
  • As far as genre, it will be treated as both fantasy and sci-fi. So real world logic and science will be applied when useful. Like the more technological aspects like artificial intelligence, ships and world biomes;
  • Character development will be reworked to be more internally consistent than serving some sort of "star status". There will be no need to make you "love" a particular character just because it's the protagonist. And of course, real world events like car crashes won't have any sort of impact;
  • The most amount of concepts presented in the movies will be worked with (yes, even midi-chlorians). To discard concepts without even trying to work with them is lazy;
  • The work will be done thinking in a visual medium. Like a movie or animation, even if most of the artifacts of this work will be just words.
Character-wise and story-wise, the most important characters that should be "figured out" are Palpatine and Luke. Not because they're the best or coolest, but they were, at least for most part of the franchise's history, the paragons of good and evil. Or at least the paragons of the Dark Side and the Light Side. So figuring them out is paramount to think not only about how good or how evil someone can get, but how powerful in the force can someone get. Other characters like Mace Windu and Darth Vader give us some insights, but they're not as "pure" as those two.

In light of all of this, I see this project as two great tasks, in order to go through all those points of interest: figure out the basics of the universe and than rework the movies so they're consistent between the basics and each other. I have a bad feeling about this. But screw it.

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