Twitter users create alternative 'Star Wars' titles with #rejectedstarwarstitles

Disney released the title for the newest installment of the Star Wars film franchise on Thursday, entitled “The Force Awakens.” However it did not take long for fans to react to the news.

Across Twitter, users tweeted alternative titles to the seventh installment of the George Lucas saga under the hashtag #rejectedstarwarstitled, some of the titles referring to other titles from pop culture while others are jokes on the Star Wars universe.

Television titles seemed to be used the most among users, jabbing at titles such as How I Met Your Mother becoming “How I Met My Father” by Twitter user Tylere_B.

Multiple members, including Twitter member Scott Smith took the title for the zombie series The Walking Dead and turned it into “The Ewoking Dead”, ewoks to be a furry creature in the Star Wars universe.

Movie titles were also the subject of many of the “rejected” titles. Twitter user Shawn Herriger took the title for Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave and changed it to “12 Years a Sith” for his contribution, the Sith to be the antagonist force in the Star War movies.

Cliff Schecter gave use “Snakes on a Death Star”, a play on the title Snakes on a Plane which stared actor Samuel L Jackson, who has also appeared in the prequel installments of the Star Wars series.

Some users were creative and related some titles to songs titles. Joe Bradford took the song title “Lookin’ for Love” by Johnny Lee and changing it to “Looking for Love in Alderan Places”, Alderan to be a planet in the Star Wars universe.

Saladin Ahmed also went this route, taking The Geto Boys’ “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gansta” and alter it to “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Rancor”, a rancor to be an alien monster who Luke Skywalker, the hero in the fourth through sixth installments of the film, had to fight off.

Finally those on the humorous side of the hashtag poked fun at the Star Wars films and universe. Twitter user Rainbow Heron made a joke reference in his title contribution being that the Stormtrooper soldiers throughout the film series can never hit a target with their guns, his title being “Star Wars: Stormtroopers Actually Hit Something This Time.”

Entertainment news site IGN tweeted “Star Wars: Episode 7 – Jaar Jar Binks Strikes Back,” referring to the fifth installment The Empire Strikes Back and the infamous alien character from the first installment Jar Jar Binks.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set to premiere Dec. 18, 2015.

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