Five Star Wars Character-Movies that Should Be Made (and Five that Shouldn't)

Who knew that collecting all those Kenner figures as a child would be great preparation for the journalistic research I’d be doing as an adult? In the Star Wars universe, there were no insignificant extras, because the toy companies finally figured out that if you made their plastic likenesses small enough, kids would collect every single alien that ever appeared in frame. As such, they all had to have names; years later, some of the kids who imagined backstories for the obscurities would get to make them canon, give them new species names and so on and so forth.

And now some of the biggest fanboys have grown into positions of power from which they will actually make spin-off movies featuring existing characters. Needless to say, I have some suggestions. And in some cases, they’re really counter-intuitive.

Let’s start with the ones I’d actually like to see get their own features.

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