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Instead of producing a trilogy of films exploring the prequels and backstory of Star Wars, make it into a spin-off film like Rogue One.
I think a decent director in the 90's with an okay writer or two(Lucas would oversee it but would only be exec. producer) would make it work fine{it has the basic outline of the actual prequels and is much simple}. The only issue I have is the studios might not want just one film(this isn't the 2010's, where there is a sequel trilogy and other people can make standalones as prequels to the OT but post ROTS). Oddly, Lucas really did like the idea of standalones ironically enough.I could see this being an origin story for Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi told in flashbacks primarily which explain much more efficiently than without.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a young Jedi assigned to protect Alderaan during the Clone Wars and its king named Bail Organa. During an invasion, a pilot on a spice freighter named Anakin helps intervene and rescue him and the Royal family to safety. It's during this time Kenobi takes the young man on as his Jedi apprentice sensing he is sensitive in the Force. Skywalker is a refugee from Tatooine whose family had mainly been lost in the war except for his brother Owen who he detests for his isolationism.
A few years later, after many years of training together in a warm and friendly relationship. Both become war heroes for their efforts and known across the galaxy. Skywalker probably has a brief romantic fling with some sort of woman they encounter along the way who is a supporting character, not a serious character like Padme Amidala was. Anakin eventually gets into an accident like a crashed ship which causes him to be burned and scarred from head to toe. He goes missing in the process with Obi-Wan unable to find him, which causes Anakin to assume he was purposefully abandoned by his master out of envy. Eventually, he is rescued by the future Emperor who convinces him that his master abandoned him or even deliberately shot him down and offers to heal him using training in the dark side of the Force.
Anakin now calling himself Darth Vader seeks revenge and hunts down the Jedi quietly as the Republic becomes the Empire in armored cou and purge. Eventually, Vader kills all of the Jedi except Obi-Wan who he personally detests the most for being the one who led him on the mission where his accident happened. The woman he got pregnant goes with Obi-Wan where she gives birth to the Skywalker twins and exile begins for each.
An AT-AT under construction can be a plot point on the Empire's side, as can Vader surviving wherever his ship crashed.Interquel between A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, Mon Mothma and General Dodonna talk about how they have a chance now and recall everything that lead to this point.
Rogue One functions exactly like that, so a ROTS analog would be the ONLY film needed(2 maybe as an 7 minute opener, and 1 as a single flashback shot involving a Darth Maul esque villain).Just do Revenge of the Sith. Think about it, are PH and AotC really needed for us to understand ep 3?
The conflict would have that name even with better writers(ironically including those who actually managed to make a decent cartoon within that universe). It is mentioned in Episode IV in passing.I really can't stand the structure of the Clone Wars. It was poorly written. A conflict between droids and clones, which the Republic probably wouldn't use for morality reasons, makes little sense and doesn't vest the galaxy in the conflict to want to shape it into an Empire. I imagine some sort of Republic military experiment goes wrong or a crazy leader wants to control the galaxy using this army. Whichever occurs an invasion of the Republic with the monstrous clone army and their star fleet. Entire worlds and systems are destroyed in their path. The clones even commit genocide from orbit with bombard from space. The Jedi initially rise up to defend the Republic but are quickly blamed for the crisis appear in the first place as is the Senate and replaced by a full-scale and conscripted military. The Jedi go into exile awaiting the end of the war when they will return to be peacekeepers of the galaxy. Only the man who becomes Emperor has other plans and his secret police or other hired mercenaries including a young Darth Vader massacre and kill the Jedi off almost entirely. The military will stay in place following the rise of the Empire. The disappearance of the Jedi will simply be explained as them dying out following their retirement. No alleged cou and treason needed to destroy them.
Just do Revenge of the Sith. Think about it, are PH and AotC really needed for us to understand ep 3?
The conflict would have that name even with better writers(ironically including those who actually managed to make a decent cartoon within that universe). It is mentioned in Episode IV in passing.
True. He creates the Stomtroopers later on as his elite squadron(or kidnaps Manadlorians and tortures them into being that way)).I'm not talking about the television show, but the actual conflict itself.
The show was created AFTER Lucas made his dubious ideas.
If I rebooted Star Wars I would change the conflict from clones invading to droids invading and being under the control of the Emperor. Instead of storm troopers, machines are the Emperor's enforcers in the Empire. i could even see instead of a war like that a plague spreading across the galaxy and causing civil unrest leading to a war. Something more interest, to invest in, and less political than a secessionist movement.
Maul(brought back for a cartoon OTL) is the ONLY villain of these(even with one having a late skilled actor playing him) anyone cares about. The Emperor being both sides trait is kept but is greatly simplified(he trains Maul, but Maul turns on him for being an alien and wants to rule the Sith and the galaxy himself). He acts however, a bit more like Kylo Ren in OTL Sequel Trilogy(as foreshadowing), but as a non-human, he fights for justice for aliens and to an extent droids in the worst possible way.Just combine Episode 2 and Episode 3 into a good (KEY WORD) 2 hour (or so) movie, and you'd have a very fitting part of the Star Wars saga that tells the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker and how things got to be the way they are in A New Hope, and deepen the Skywalker family drama. You can pretty much keep most of the plot points.
Having droids as the main fighting force of the villains (who are aliens) would make sense, given the lack of aliens in the Empire and their role as second-class citizens, not to mention the general dislike of droids ("we don't serve their kind!"). Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous can all show up in some form or another.
I guess the big problem is it might feel too cluttered for a single movie, but in theory, it could totally work, and easily have a reputation on par with Empire Strikes Back.
Attack of the Clones, yes, Phantom Menace, definitely not, since it's basically a prequel to the prequels. You don't need to know Anakin was a slave who was a supernaturally great pilot and got picked up off of Tatooine by some insane luck, you don't need to know who Qui-Gon Jinn was, you don't need to see Palpatine as anything but a popular chancellor, and same thing with the droids/clones and their origin.
I'm not talking about the television show, but the actual conflict itself.
If I rebooted Star Wars I would change the conflict from clones invading to droids invading and being under the control of the Emperor. Instead of storm troopers, machines are the Emperor's enforcers in the Empire. i could even see instead of a war like that a plague spreading across the galaxy and causing civil unrest leading to a war. Something more interest, to invest in, and less political than a secessionist movement.
True, I knew she had a small hand in making the conflict{the Emperor being two faced for instance}, and this clearly had potential if Lucas had had less control. There was a small amount of anti-Iraq war sentiment that went into making ROTS. I imagine a different ROTS made in the mid 2000's like the real one with the same outline would have likely capitalized on that element(easily the best prequel).Did you know that Carrie Fisher actually created the political threads of the prequels and did script doctoring for them? In fact, she personally stated that she considered the political drama the most important point. This isn't just in Gore Presidency TL, but an actual fact. Indeed, she, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford always accepted the prequel trilogy as making sense and fitting with the original films, and genuinely enjoyed it. In fact, if you read a recent interview with Mark Hamill in Vulture magazine, he makes it all quite clear.
Maul(brought back for a cartoon OTL) is the ONLY villain of these(even with one having a late skilled actor playing him) anyone cares about. The Emperor being both sides trait is kept but is greatly simplified(he trains Maul, but Maul turns on him for being an alien and wants to rule the Sith and the galaxy himself). He acts however, a bit more like Kylo Ren in OTL Sequel Trilogy(as foreshadowing), but as a non-human, he fights for justice for aliens and to an extent droids in the worst possible way.
To make it one movie, my idea of a Padme analog(with some Kaylee Frye-esque traits to make her useful and likable as a female character) is important, the threat is simple(Maul and the droids}, and the conflict is called the Clone Wars because Maul's proto-Empire and the increasingly authoritarian Republic mirror each other. Anakin turning into Vader has little to do with her , but more to do with Obi Wan( Obi Wan wants to end the war without killing Maul, Anakin refuses and kills Maul himself and only Palpatine truly congratulates him). The Luke-Leia split has more to do with the fact Luke and Leia were separated at birth(she gave birth on a crashlanding ship on a desert planet). Luke was given to Obi Wan, she would raise Leia herself, and she went out to live her days on Alderaan(where she died from cancer or some other mundane reason). Mustafar battle is similar to OTL, just MUCH shorter. The film ends with the iconic Vader scene, just no "NOOOO!!"
I'd(this would be in a very different 90's) give him a character, even if only a minor character, though. Maybe a personal bodyguard to the Emperor, perhaps, or a pessimistic Jedi master.Needs more Dooku/Christopher Lee. I don't see the point in re-writing the prequels when most everything about the prequels is perfectly functional if handled well.
People would eat it up if done right. More Star Wars, and an awesome lead-in to the OT.
I'd(this would be in a very different 90's) give him a character, even if only a minor character, though. Maybe a personal bodyguard to the Emperor, perhaps, or a pessimistic Jedi master.
I know that worked surprisingly well OTL and if handled better would have been awesome in the prequels we did get(had they been handled by someone else with the same outline). This thread is about one movie, not three.