Greetings folks,
I’d like to bring you a new segment called…Hollywhat if? This is where I speculate wildly about parallel universes where film history goes a little…differently. This universe exits… if only in my mind. I present you with…
Hollywhat if? #1 – Krull Wars
So Krull (1983) is a pretty bad movie. So bad, its good. In our universe, there was a novelization and maybe a written sequel. I don’t think it’s really a “cult classic” but it’s one of those movies you watch in grim nostalgia for the simpler times of the 80’s. I’d love to say I thought it was decent, but I think Okay is more accurate. Had me right up until the convenient fire horses of convenient fire. It was also largely overshadowed by the much better movies of the day… like 1983’s Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi.
In the Hollywhat if? Universe, however, Star Wars IV: A New Hope never took off… It was a box-office flop…
And Krull in 1983 was a massive, MASSIVE, success spawning several sequels, video games, card games, and a tv series.
Krull 2: Krull Strikes Back is released in 1986 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest sequels of all time.
Krull 3: Return of the Kruli is released in 1989 and introduces to the world the Kruli. A race of super powerful alien race called the Kruli… A race of Krull’s.
10 years later in 1999, the first of a prequel trilogy is released chronicling the rise of the Kruli race.
The Phantom Menace is released in 99 and is critically panned.
The Krull Wars follows three years later.
Krull 6: Revenge of Krull is released 7 years later and is largely loved by children but hated by fans of the original trilogy… and yes… They call it Krull 6 in spite of the other two being prequels…and not numbered.
Because Star Wars IV never spawned sequels (but garnered a cult following), a television series debuts in 1997.
THE SERIES
Star Wars: The Series effectively takes the place of the expanded Stargate Universe.
The events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are played out over several seasons, and the prequel trilogy never comes to fruition.
Han Solo is played by…you may have seen this coming…
Richard Dean Anderson
AND. AND. AND. AND. Luke Sywalker is played by…
Michael Shanks
The duo from our Stargate-SG1 lives on in the form of Star Wars: The Series.
So despite the abomination that would be Krull Wars…
We get an amalgamation of my beloved Stargate and Star Wars.
Also…It should be noted that because Stargate the film is never made into a television series, it is eventually rebooted in 2015 as a trilogy, which is regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi trilogies of all-time.
BONUS: Harrison Ford makes 4 Indiana Jones films still. However, there is a third film between Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade that deals with the Shroud of Turin. The Last Crusade is his final installment.
In 2008 instead of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, they got Blade Runner 2… directed by Ridley Scott.
Hope you enjoyed.
Next time, I’ll tell you about the universe where Bryan Singer directed X-Men 3, Superman Returns never happened, and Christopher Nolan didn’t direct Batman Begins.
-scritch out.
Son of a Scritch 