6. "Bocce, C-3PO! Do You Speak It!?"
A lot of peoples want this one. I have my doubts. Don't get me wrong: I love Samuel L. Jackson as much as the next nerd. But without him in the part, is there anything to Mace Windu? The character's kind of boring in the prequels. Of course, the whole point of a Mace Windu film would be to make up for lost time. Windu's a nice departure for Jackson - he's stoic, humorless, even judgmental. When you put it that way, it sounds like Jackson was miscast. With a script that explores everyone's favorite purple lightsaber-wielding Jedi, Samuel L. Jackson could turn Mace Windu into a truly memorable character. Few actors are better at playing characters whose ideals have been comprised like Jackson. Do the prequels imply that the Jedi became a bunch of close-minded hypocrites? That they were, to some degree, unwittingly responsible for the Emperor's rise to power? I think so. It's one of my favorite story beats from the prequels. I give George Lucas a lot of credit for it, even if he didn't stick the landing. Here's another chance to make up for lost time. Put the character on a battlefield where there are no clear heroes or villains. By the end of the story, we shouldn't even know if Mace Windu made the right decisions. Disney probably wouldn't dare make a film about a warrior past his time, who doesn't know if his society is still worth fighting for - but how cool would it be to have a Star Wars movie in the vein of The Searchers or Apocalypse Now? And Samuel L. Jackson is the guy to make that movie work.