If Harry Potter can be re-adapted into a tv show, can Star Wars do the same? Retell the original trilogy into a series?

There’s very little they can’t, in theory, adapt into television. If there’s money to be made, they will do it. They could turn Home Alone into a series. Episode 1: Buying the house. Episode 2: Harry Lyme origin story. Episode 3: Furnace installation arc begins.

Harry Potter fans are toxic but Star Wars fans are on another level.

Star Wars wasn't an "adaptation." It was and still is an original creation. Nothing in Star Wars was ever "adapted" from another medium. The Harry Potter movies, on the other hand, are an adaptation of the books. What you're suggesting is more akin to someone rewriting Harry Potter into a new book series.

Hypothetically sure, why not? Would there be much demand for something like that to justify the investment, particularly compared to telling new stories? Maybe. Would any sane network risk that much ire from arguably the most miserable fandom in existence? Doubt it.

I don’t need a season of A New Hope. Feels in conflict with the pace of that movie.

Get a Black man to play Han Solo and a Japanese man to play Obi-Wan. That's the way Lucas originally intended when he wanted Billy Dee Williams and Toshiro Mifune for the roles. As for the Vader voice? That's gonna be tough to recast, you may wanna cancel the series before it began.

I mean you could technically reboot anything. The only way I'd want to see it work though is if they do it animated final season Clone Wars style. You could theoretically tie in some of the new canon. The main question a good reboot should be answering is "can this bring more to the table?" It's the difference between 21 Jump Street and The Little Mermaid. In HP's case, the answer I think is yes, because most of the movies leave a ton out. Like Half Blood Prince leaving out the entire f****** backstory of the main villain. Or Order of the Phoenix where there is no payoff for Harry's rage, because they spent no time highlighting his loneliness or frustrations. There were entire plotlines cut. World-building shelved. Such is the nature of making a movie. This can be rectified in a tv series of good quality, which this looks to be. To answer your question, the more I think about it, the answer could potentially be yes, since there is a lot of new things to be added. Which is the key, new thing. It could build on the framework the OG trilogy had if done correctly. Which is exactly what Andor did for Rogue One. It added, not subtracted, and now it's a full series rewatch every year for me like Band of Brothers. There are things that can be added like Darth Vader's Inquisitors. What's going on with side characters like Wedge. Detailed New Republic politics. Battles like Tanaab where Lando becomes a general. All the conflict between V and VI while the Rebellion is in full swing. The second heist of the Death Star plans. Plus you can add more modern takes on the iconic battles that were a product of their time. Which is not a bad thing if done correctly.

Zero upside to doing that.

No

No

The Star Wars thing is “why would they want to?” We can debate the quality the Disney+ shows but they’ve objectively been more successful than Harry Potters’ attempts to expand the universe with Fantastic Beasts. Star Wars doesn’t need to retell the same story (save your jokes about Starkiller base being a retelling of the Death Star please) Harry Potter evidently does

Harry Potter is only getting adapted into a tv show bc its based on a book series. The show is just going to follow the books more closely and expand upon it with the extra runtime.

Harry Potter was a book series. Episodic was the natural home for it in the first place. Star Wars was written as a movie. So the two aren't comparable. But of course artistic merit is irrelevant - the question is whether it'd be sufficiently profitable and the answer is almost certainly yes. Kinda surprising it hasn't happened already. I guess it's considered too high-risk because there's no source material, it'd be extremely expensive to film, and people might not like it. Harry Potter is a much safer bet because the "full story" of the books was already so popular.

I would not mind them remaking the prequel movies. The concept of the Phantom Menace is great. The implementation is what I have a problem with. It's why the Acolyte was so disappointing. A show set in the high republic can be a lot more creative with the setting. But their first proper high republic show was creatively bankrupt.

No. Just give it a sequel trilogy after the original trilogy, 10 years after or something

I mean they could try. But it would be really bad. Recasting Luke and Leia and Darth would cause massive fits. As much as I don't like the Star Wars TV shows, the new adventures of Obi Warn and Grogu and gruff ol' malcontent Pedro Mandalorian would fare better than just rehashing the same story over, because at least they're trying to tell another story

It's beyond time to just let the star wars franchise die already!!

F*** no. Is nothing sacred anymore?

I mean a book series being adapted to TV is more logical than forcing it into condensed movies. Where that process usually involves deciding where to trim the story... Turning star wars original trilogy into a tv show lends itself more to where tv adaptations usually fall flat... trying to add excess with writers that think they know better than the original source material.

Please no. Not everything needs to be a reboot.

I want reboots of movie and tv shows that didn't perform well but had potential

It wouldn't be a readaption because the original trilogy is the original work, so it won't be like someone else adapting a book or something

They could but would t make much sense since they were movies originally. Expanding on it would be dragging I feel. SW just needs a solid new trilogy (or two) to makes new content from. The Old Republic is an obvious one. The 9th Jedi would be my vote though. That would make for a great saga.

The core problem is star wars is a franchise with multiple ongoing spins off across multiple mediums even prior Disney and live action TV show this was true. Harry potter is one story told across volumes that they attempted and failed to turn onto franchise/universe via spin offs so now they are going back to the only thing proven to work .

for the love of god, please no however, considering Disney's obsession with remaking all of its animated classics in live action...

No, it's impossible.

I don’t think Disney has the balls to do that and also they kinda hate the past considering they have made a point to disrespect it

Sure it could be. But it’s f****** pointless. Just like the Harry Potter show is. It breaks no new ground, does the same thing all over again…there’s absolutely no reason for it.

Unlikely. The budget would need to be way too big. For some reason people are obsessed with special effects online, as if that makes a show good or not. So if the budget wasn’t like 50 million plus per episode people would rip it, and that is a huge cost to risk on a show that may not pan out.