7. Forget The Seven Samurai, Bring On The Dirty Dozen
The Seven Samurai has already been done on The Clone Wars - and that show was smart enough to mostly use bounty hunters instead of Jedi. As interesting as a Seven Samurai riff is for a spin-off film, what possible threat could convincingly challenge seven Jedi? Watching The Seven Samurai for the first time, you wonder how the ronin samurai could ever challenge the bandit army. Watching seven Jedi do their thing, I'd be left wondering why the opposing army of thousands even bothered to show. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Jedi - but the prequels and The Clone Wars have scratched that itch. It's time to give them a break and get back to blasters, two-fisted action, and the hilarity that comes from playing with thermal detonators. A lot of fans would love to see a Star Wars movie in the vein of The Dirty Dozen or Kelly's Heroes. It's a pretty malleable concept, too - it could work as a hard action film or something that's played equally for laughs. The motley crew behind enemy lines could be anyone, helping with possible franchise overkill. They could be scoundrels, rebels, even stormtroopers from the 501st ... or some mixture of the three. Give the writing duties to someone like Shane Black, and you've got every kind of "ass" you could possibly want out of an action hero ensemble - hard-ass, bad-ass, smart-ass. It's an "ass" trifecta. Any way you slice it, it's time to get some characters who crave adventure and excitement back into Star Wars.