{"id":75323,"date":"2025-05-05T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75323\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:14:11","slug":"the-scrapped-palpatine-show-was-probably-the-last-chance-for-one-star-wars-characters-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/75323\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scrapped Palpatine Show Was Probably the Last Chance for One Star Wars Character’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars<\/a> has its fair share of scrapped projects: Rian Johnson was cooking up a trilogy of movies after Star Wars: The Last Jedi that never saw the light of day, and Fan4stic director Josh Trank worked on a Boba Fett solo film years before the character made his return to live-action in The Mandalorian. And it feels like every few weeks, information about another movie or show that didn\u2019t come together makes its way onto the Internet. In fact, Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid recently had a lot to say about a TV series that would\u2019ve followed his character in his younger years.<\/p>\n

McDiarmid let it slip that Lucasfilm had plans for a Palpatine show that focused on the Sith\u2019s time with his master, Darth Plagueis the Wise, who made his live-action debut in the only season of Star Wars: The Acolyte. That would\u2019ve set the project\u2019s place on the timeline in the years leading up to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which may have presented the opportunity to bring back an iconic figure from the galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n

A Palpatine TV Show Would\u2019ve Been the Perfect Playground for Mace Windu <\/p>\n

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While not much is known about Palpatine\u2019s early years, at some point, he begins to train with Darth Plagueis and learn about the dark side of the Force. They search the galaxy for a way to become immortal because Plagueis fears dying more than anything. However, while it feels likely that any show set in or around this time period would focus on that journey, with Palpatine scheming to kill his master in the background, it\u2019s really not much to go on. Any threat the duo came across would be child\u2019s play for them since the Jedi don\u2019t learn about the Sith\u2019s return until years later. One way to fix that problem would\u2019ve been to have the show focus on Palpatine\u2019s origins and some sort of conflict during his time ruling the Empire. To pull that off successfully, the Dark Lord of the Sith would need an opponent who poses a real threat and has ties to both eras. <\/p>\n

Obviously, Yoda would have been a prime candidate since he\u2019s the strongest living Jedi throughout Palpatine\u2019s life. However, one of Yoda\u2019s pupils, Mace Windu, held a pretty nasty grudge against the Emperor. Had the Palpatine series gone forward, it could have focused on Windu\u2019s early years at the Jedi Temple while also confirming that he survived the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith<\/a> and wanted to get revenge for his fallen comrades. Showing how Palpatine and Windu came to be the people they were before having them come to blows once again would\u2019ve made for fascinating television. Unfortunately, the show never got off the ground, leaving the fate of Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s iconic Jedi up in the air. <\/p>\n

[RELATED \u2013 George Lucas\u2019 Original Plan for Han Solo\u2019s Backstory in Star Wars Was Bizarre<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Mace Windu Is Running Out of Places to Make His Return to Star Wars<\/p>\n

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Ever since Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith hit theaters in 2005, there have been theories about Mace Windu\u2019s survival. And there are some compelling arguments, including that a Jedi of his caliber would never perish from a mere fall. Despite all the pushing from fans and Samuel L. Jackson, though, Windu has yet to return to live-action. Even Bryce Dallas Howard, who works with Lucasfilm on its various Disney+ series, can\u2019t seem to get a straight answer about the Jedi\u2019s future<\/a>. But the clock is ticking because Star Wars appears to be moving away from the prequel era altogether. Most of the new films and shows in development take place either after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi or after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. That doesn\u2019t leave much room for a Jedi born a couple of decades before The Phantom Menace takes place.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that Lucasfilm reverses course and starts fleshing out the prequel era again, but it\u2019s not looking good at the moment. That means that, unless the Palpatine show somehow returns, there\u2019s a good chance that Mace Windu remains dead for good. <\/p>\n

Do you think Mace Windu would\u2019ve been a good fit for a Palpatine show? What other Star Wars project would you like to see him in? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star Wars has its fair share of scrapped projects: Rian Johnson was cooking up a trilogy of movies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[37146,77,37147,3943,4580,37148,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-75323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-emperor-palpatine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mace-windu","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-regular-feature","13":"tag-samuel-l-jackson","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114452815841230030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}