Re-Writing the Star Wars Prequels....

[DarknessOfDeath]

You know what I wanted in the prequels?

I wanted the Anakin Skywalker that Obi-Wan Kenobi described to Luke Skywalker. The greatest pilot in the galaxy. This powerful rising Jedi who became stronger than almost everyone else. The person who was SEDUCED by the dark side of the force. The character we were supposed to love and root for, so when he eventually becomes seduced by the dark side and turns against the Jedi, the change has such a huge dramatic feel to it that the audience thinks "Oh my God" and becomes mezmorized by what is occuring on the screen.

We didn't even get half of that.

Exactly Warhammer. Knowing what I knew throughout the OT, I was hoping that the PT would establish those connections that were presented in ANH, ESB and ROTJ but you are right, we only got half of it.

When I first started doing a bit of re-writing myself, I went back to what I knew about every character and the reason for their existence. I focused more on what Obi wan had told Luke about his father in ROTJ, how he was amazed by how strong the force was with him and that he thought he could train him just as well as Yoda.

Well anyway, I think I may have the file of a scene I was working on a while back about obi wan convincing Yoda that he is capable of training Anakin and that if anything happened, he would take full responsibility for his actions and as well as his pride.

I used to be a die hard SW fan back in the day but I dunno, with the prequels been done and all, there really isn't anything to look forward to. Besides playing the games countless times, I used to read the expanded universe novels. If only someone could make a film adaptation of the Thawn Trilogy, that would be kinda interesting to see how it is handled or do the X-wing series.

 

[DawnWarrior]

To DarknessOfDeath:
I’m just spitballing here, but while reading your rundown I thought of this: what if Anakin’s father turns out to be Count Dooku? I’m not positive on it, but why don’t you try dropping that into your rewrite plot and stirring.

The one thing, IMO, that could have solved nearly every other problem in the PT was to have all three movies directed by someone other than Lucas. ‘Empire’ was the best one of all and was directed by Irvin Kirshner. ‘Jedi,’ which doesn’t seem so bad now, was directed by the late Richard Marquand. It wouldn’t matter if they had one director for the whole trilogy or a different guy for each episode, there are dozens of working directors in Hollywood who would have been chomping at the bit for a chance to get a Star Wars movie on their resume.

I have no objection to the notion that the PT needed a Han Solo type, though I’m having trouble seeing it myself. In a way, they tried to make Ben Kenobi that character in EpII and III, which came off a bit weird.

I’m of the opinion that Hayden is a good actor (see "Shattered Glass") who was saddled with bad writing and terrible direction from George "Faster/More-Intense" Lucas. We know that Portman is good ("V for Vendetta," "Closer") and she doesn’t fare much better with the material.

The plot to create the Clone Army in EpII needs an overhaul; it’s so convoluted and full of holes that I can’t believe anyone would fall for it. Again, I’ll have to let someone else come up with that one.

I wonder if R2 and 3PO should have been kept out of the prequels altogether. It helps establish continuity, sure, but maybe the prequels needed their own pair of bickering robots.

The clearest adjustment I can see is with Anakin in EpI. Someone suggested making him older, Padme’s age, and I’m down with that (we would basically get Hayden, or whomever, for all three films instead of two). Someone else suggested making him more rebellious, and I’m down with that too. More specifically, I would make him more of a bad-ass. This is a guy who’s been kicked around his whole life living as a slave, so he’s got a bad attitude and a chip on his shoulder. So he’s got some anger issues. We would also find that he acts differently around his mom than he does around anyone else; a little more human, kinder, whatever. He takes a shine to Padme, who is intrigued by him being a bit of a bad-ass. As they click, we find that Anakin softens up a bit around Padme, the same way he used to around his mom. Padme becomes convinced, as any girl attracted to a bad boy does, that she can "save" Anakin.

The first scene between Anakin and Padme, for ex, could become more flirtatious and less creepy, while keeping most of the dialogue as it is. From Anakin’s point of view, he’s just having a chat with a fellow servant, while the queen/senator-in-disguise is surprised that this grease monkey has the balls to talk to her this way.

Do away with the Midi-chlorian nonsense. Have Qui-Gon examine Anakin’s blood and find what looks like a unique anomaly, if you will, that squares with the prophecy.

There's more, but I've got to take some time to collect it since all this stuff is still in my head.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Dawn, when I thought about writing about who and what Anakin's father was, the last thing I wanted to do was make an existing character within the sw universe to be Anakin's father. I thought making up a character would be something new and exciting for me because I never knew my real father and so I thought this would be an opportunity for me to identify through Anakin not knowing who his father was and I wrote a bit of backstory about this topic. As for Dooku, he's his own character as he is in ep2 and ep3 but I still think his role could have been expanded upon if he was in ep1 and we witness him leaving the jedi order after Qui gon's death.

And yeah I agree with everything you said in the rest of your post.

Also, unfortunately I lost that obi-wan/yoda file and the reason this happened was probably because I knew I wouldn't finish it.

 

[Jordacar]

Episode II

2) Keep Padme as Queen of Naboo: It's not the prom, you don't vote for who's gonna be queen.

Here's what I think happened:
When George was just starting to come up with ideas for EpI, he figured "Leia=princess, Leia's mom=queen." It was probably as casual as that, and before long Padme being a queen had nothing to do with Leia being a princess.
Then EpII rolled around, and Padme still being queen was too constricting on what he wanted to do with the character, so he demoted her to senator, then explained it away with this weird left-field concept of the ruler of an entire planet getting a limited term.

Here's the solution: Galvanized by the events of EpI, Padme decides she's had it with being nothing but a figurehead and wants to take a more active role in the politics of her homeworld, so she steps down from the Naboo throne and becomes a senator instead (basically taking the vacant seat that Palpatine left when he became Chancellor.)

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Well actually...I think it would have been even better if in ep1, Amidala was introduced as Senator and I think having her being a Queen should have been her backstory. So what I am saying is this: perhaps a year before ep1, Amidala was the Queen of Naboo and then at the start of ep1, she's a Senator.

Of course, her stepping down from the throne would be explained and why she decided to become a Senator. And...she'd be a young hot adult Senator... and I can't go any further than that. lols

 

[DawnWarrior]

Dawn, when I thought about writing about who and what Anakin's father was, the last thing I wanted to do was make an existing character within the sw universe to be Anakin's father. I thought making up a character would be something new and exciting for me because I never knew my real father and so I thought this would be an opportunity for me to identify through Anakin not knowing who his father was and I wrote a bit of backstory about this topic. As for Dooku, he's his own character.

And yeah I agree with everything you said in the rest of your post.

Also, unfortunately I lost that obi-wan/yoda file and the reason this happened was probably because I knew I wouldn't finish it.

Fair enough. It seemed like there was potential for a nice parallel, with Anakin discovering that his long-lost father was actually a Sith Lord whom he must destroy, just like Luke does later. But whatever.
And thank you.

When George was just starting to come up with ideas for EpI, he figured "Leia=princess, Leia's mom=queen." It was probably as casual as that, and before long Padme being a queen had nothing to do with Leia being a princess.
Then EpII rolled around, and Padme still being queen was too constricting on what he wanted to do with the character, so he demoted her to senator, then explained it away with this weird left-field concept of the ruler of an entire planet getting a limited term.

I never thought of that, but suddenly it makes sense. Princess Leia was raised by Bail "Bobby Simone" Organna, so she definitely didn't inherit her royal title from her bio-mom. And is there any nation on this planet that elects its royalty with term limits?

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Fair enough. It seemed like there was potential for a nice parallel, with Anakin discovering that his long-lost father was actually a Sith Lord whom he must destroy, just like Luke does later. But whatever.
And thank you.

Well who knows really. Its all up in the air but I was considering that Anakin finds out the truth about the whereabouts of his long lost father. Maybe along the way as Anakin's father began to understand the power of the force, he was becoming stronger and maybe there was some darkness lurking inside of him? Whatever it was, it scared him and who knows if he went down that dark path? Maybe he tapped into the power of the dark side and it led to his death, which only Yoda would know and had kept secret from Anakin since he met him. But that is just an idea for now.

I always thought of Anakin's father as a mercenary who didn't know he had potential to use the force. He was the type who followed his own path and chose not to become like the Jedi are as we know them to be (not having any attachments, etc) because being a mercenary was the only thing he felt he was good at. Yet, he felt there was something else about him of the way he performed his duties and how he got lucky and how he survived during his missions. This would have explained why he was gifted...but then again...I dunno. The only thing that kept him going was the thought of his son he had to leave behind so he could help make the galaxy a safe place for Anakin when he, too, faces the same choices his father made.

 

[Castro]

I wish the prequels didn't exist and George let someone else direct-Darren Aronofsky-I feel he could have really made the downfall of Anikan amazing. Or of course Christopher Nolan.

Episode 1: Introduce Anikan already at around 20y.o. sorta like how kyle reese was introduced into Terminator Salvation where Obi runs into him. Let him and obi grow close through some conflict. Build to Anikan being persistent about wanting to become a jedi. I dunno-make it to where Yoda meditates on it and sees Anikan as savior and allows his training-but to be watched closely. (Yoda doesn't always have to be right). Train him much like Batman Begins, make it mental and physical tests like that one poster has already mentioned. Make the training like BB but make his introduction to the jedi way and lifestyle like...think The Last Samurai but in a Giant, amazing jedi temple. Find a way to add the start of the clone wars where Maul can be involved and where everyone goes to battle but Anikan is forced to stand down-of course he ignores and fights anyway and saving the day(no lightsaber) but feeling very cocky and Yoda is very displeased- he starts sensing bad feelings from Anikan. Obi kills Maul.

-More desert theme. Don't introduce so much cgi and all this technology that makes it look like ANH went 20 years in reverse. Keep it a little more simple as far as that goes. Focus on story-dialogue + good acting for the most part. Amazing Cinematography. Assassination of Jesse James like cinematography.


Episode 2: Years into the war. Make it just like we know what happened during WW2, the whole galaxy is in chaos. Very dark times. Anikan introduced now as a Jedi Knight and he's kicking azz, very cocky and bad boy ala solo. Introduce Anikan to Padme, show the chemistry-and growing closer once again through the war. Make them almost lose each other several times. This is the movie you make epic war scenes in space and on planets. Fill in the gaps with the obvious-the whole palps/sidious pulling his strings and so on..

-film it dark and gritty, everything in the prequals was so happy and so clean and bright. Even epIII.......make space dark, quiet and creepy sorta like Moon...so that when the big fights come, they stand out more imo.

Episode III: I'm not too sure. Battle torn Anikan growing more unstable-call it PTSD if you will, death all around him, reminding him of his mother(which should have been shown as dark time for him in a flashback in ep 1). +Stress of not seeing his pregnant wife in a long time. Anikan having been away fighting for so long-knows of Padme being pregnant and has constant struggle getting to her knowing the baby will be born soon. Find a way to tie him into a situation you see in every superhero movie-he has to make a choice to save padme or other innocent people. Padme dies. Find a way to make it where he thinks it's obi-s fault and he believes his child died with Padme but Padme had already given birth to twins. Not even obi knows. The already loss of his wife and what he thought a child is enough to push Anikan into darkness, have the darkside take over him but him confused. Yoda's only fight scene in the triliogy against Darth Sidious. I dunno, keep the whole relationship between Anikan and Palps thing throughout the triligoy and have sorta the same ending in ROTS basically i guess. Way better choreography in the final duel, waaaay less cgi. WAAAY more emotion. Show Obi just finding out about the twins. Yoda exile. Twins going there own ways, obi going into hiding. Final scene- Same scene where Anikan marches into the jedi Temple with clone troopers, only It's him donning the suit. Meaning don't ever show him or mention him being saved from the lava so the noobs can still be shocked when they find out who he is lolz. Have a different, quieter and darker version of Imperial March playing as they are marching into the Temple, Have the camera pan out behind them and as it's far away right b4 it goes to the end credits- Vader ignites his red saber b4 entering the temple. -When it cuts, keep the imperial march going instead of the usual happy jedi theme, this is the one movie where there is no happy ending and the audience knows the galaxy is in for one wild ride for the next 20 years.



Anikan Skywalker: Heath Ledger (of course) or Ben Foster(give him bulk) or Cillian Murphy
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Billy Crudup
Padme: Natalie Portman or anyone who had chemistry with Anikan lead.
Jano Fett: Cliff Curtis

Make Sam L Jackson a bad guy instead- a General or something.
Keep Liam Neeson but replacing Mace Windu.

 

[SchumacherFan]

Would these two have better chemistry than Natalie & Hayden (who had ZERO on screen chemistry)

Anakin Skywalker

Padme Amidala

 

[Kurosawa]

You know what I wanted in the prequels?

I wanted the Anakin Skywalker that Obi-Wan Kenobi described to Luke Skywalker. The greatest pilot in the galaxy. This powerful rising Jedi who became stronger than almost everyone else. The person who was SEDUCED by the dark side of the force. The character we were supposed to love and root for, so when he eventually becomes seduced by the dark side and turns against the Jedi, the change has such a huge dramatic feel to it that the audience thinks "Oh my God" and becomes mezmorized by what is occuring on the screen.

We didn't even get half of that.

I thought he was pretty likable in the first half of ROTS, and he was seduced by about the greatest power one could imagine.

Would these two have better chemistry than Natalie & Hayden (who had ZERO on screen chemistry)

Anakin Skywalker

Padme Amidala

No. Natalie is a good actress and she still couldn't pull Padme off completely, although she did better than Hayden, who just isn't any good. All of the acting issues in the prequels came from American actors who cannot handle greenscreen acting. They should have used all English actors, who have enough stage background to handle acting to nothing. Ewan was awesome in the prequels, as was Liam. It was the Americans-Natalie, Hayden, Jake Lloyd and Samuel L to a degree that didn't hold up their end.

 

[Jordacar]

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[Deaths Head II]

I thought he was pretty likable in the first half of ROTS, and he was seduced by about the greatest power one could imagine.



No. Natalie is a good actress and she still couldn't pull Padme off completely, although she did better than Hayden, who just isn't any good. All of the acting issues in the prequels came from American actors who cannot handle greenscreen acting. They should have used all English actors, who have enough stage background to handle acting to nothing. Ewan was awesome in the prequels, as was Liam. It was the Americans-Natalie, Hayden, Jake Lloyd and Samuel L to a degree that didn't hold up their end.

Maybe they should just have less green screen.

 

[Sloth7d]

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Have you seen the Confused Matthew reviews. Just as hilarious.

 

[Bim]

Anikan Skywalker: Heath Ledger (of course) or Ben Foster(give him bulk) or

ANAKIN Skywalker

Sorry, but i'm really happy Lucas did his own thing and didnt listen to what people wanted. He wasnt gonna make everyone happy no matter what he did.

 

[DawnWarrior]

Watching Plinkett and Matthew's reviews, a few plot modifications occurred to me:
1) In episode I, maybe, just maybe, we should have watched Anakin hanging with his Mom on Tatooine way before Qui-Gon and the others arrived. That gives them a bit more screen time, and it helps set up what happens in #2.
2) In epI, instead of Qui-Gon concocting some hopelessly convoluted scheme to get the part they need and get Anakin off the planet, Qui-Gon simply threatens Wattoo with his lightsaber, and they're out of there in a jiff. Anakin somehow stows away on their ship, and it isn't until they're well on their way to Coruscant that Padme finds him hiding out in the ceiling vent or wherever. This would have some side effects: a) No podrace. But if that can't be fit into a plot that makes sense, there's no reason to keep it. b) It just about cuts EpI in half, but that time can be made up by showing more of the Clone Saga later. c) It does away with the whole bomb-in-the-brain plot device, which was only their to explain why Anakin and his mom can't just leave and is never brought up again anyway. In this scenario, Anakin didn't leave because he never had the opportunity until now. Qui and Obi decide that taking him back to Tattooine would be a waste of precious time, and then later examine his blood, find the anomoly I mentioned earlier, and decide to put him in front of the council.
3) In epII, after Shmi dies and Anakin slaughters the Sand People, he doesn't tell Padme about it. She knows he's hiding something, but he refuses to say what happend, and she, along with we in the audience, are left to wonder what exactly went down after Shmi died, and Anakin lets this horrible act fester in him all the way into EpIII on Mustafar when he finally reveals to her that he slaughtered the whole village, and that's why he was so upset. In between EpII and III, there could be fan theories about what happened in the village, until it's finally revealed. Then Padme doesn't look like a plot-convenient psycho for trusting, loving, and marrying a confessed mass murderer.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

ANAKIN Skywalker

Sorry, but i'm really happy Lucas did his own thing and didnt listen to what people wanted. He wasnt gonna make everyone happy no matter what he did.

I am glad he did too, but I still think he should have taken his time and planned everything carefully - develop the characters more and expand on what was said about the characters from what we know and heard in the OT, ie: Obi wan and Anakin's relationship. If I were him, I would have done just that but wtf, I'm not George Lucas.



What really killed the prequels was the ten year gap between ep1 and ep2. The timeline should have been at least 2 and a half - 3 and half years between 1 and 2 and 3-4 years between 2 and 3.

Anakin would have been 16 years old at the time of ep1( but turns 17 near the end of ep1) , 18 and a half or 20 and a half years old in ep2...then by ep3, he'd be 23 or 24.

 

[TMC1982]

I thought he was pretty likable in the first half of ROTS, and he was seduced by about the greatest power one could imagine.



No. Natalie is a good actress and she still couldn't pull Padme off completely, although she did better than Hayden, who just isn't any good. All of the acting issues in the prequels came from American actors who cannot handle greenscreen acting. They should have used all English actors, who have enough stage background to handle acting to nothing. Ewan was awesome in the prequels, as was Liam. It was the Americans-Natalie, Hayden, Jake Lloyd and Samuel L to a degree that didn't hold up their end.

I thought Hayden was from Canada.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

^^ He is from Canada.

 

[SchumacherFan]

Everyone sort of has their own vision of how to make the prequels better, but I believe every story has been done before (Hidden Fortress was A New Hope).

I figured, better just completely change the prequels. A lot of people want small changes, like just change an actor. I want to change the complete story....

I'll get ripped a new one for my ideas, but I like it...Here are just some ideas off the top of my head..

Episode I - I would want to model after The Seven Samurai & Aladdin. Make Padme a real queen, and she escapes the evil Federation (led by the talented Gary Oldman) into Tatooine. Anakin is an orphan (16-17, not 9! - played by Robert Pattinson to gain massive fan girls, no twilight fan but the guy has a dark side...). Anakin has no mom or pop... Just a slumdog, with his best friend who is his equal, Owen Larrs, who share different dreams of their future, Larrs a successful farmer, Anakin a starpilot. Padme is all alone in this dangerous city in tatooine, Anakin saves her life by some danger and protects her and begins to have feelings for her. Obi Wan comes in to retrieve Padme. That's where Obi / Anakin meet. Obi recongnizes his talent and brings him to the Jedi. Then the second half of the film would be all Naboo, seven Jedi have to take out the enemies. Problem is Darth Maul is part of the Federation and starts picking off Jedi one by one. That leads to the ultimate battle at the climax, Obi vs. Maul, where Maul wins. But then Yoda is FINALLY revealed (after all this talk of how bad ass he is) and thats where the audience is like, whao , Yoda is in this movie and he messes up Darth Maul, chop off a limb or two, he barely escapes.....Like Vader in A New Hope, he just leaves.... No Qui Gon Jinn, sorry, but that character should have been Obi Wan to begin with... Expand on Samuel Jackson character, like he's a powerful Jedi that doesnt agree with protecting Naboo cuz he's an a-hole, but character arc is that he fully supports it at the end.

Episode II - A SERIOUS forbidden love. Model after Titanic & Escape from New York. First part of the movie is on Corcusant. Total Love story, a real one, not just cheap scenes like AOTC. The Federation is getting close to build this 'Space Station that can destroy planets'. Republic needs to stop this before they suceed. Metaphor for Weapons of mass destruction. The Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne) is on a ship that is attacked and lands in the Federation tied planet, Genosis (not the same Genosis - make it a rock planet, but a wasteland, like a planet that used to be like Naboo , but after a civil war , Federation won and its just a crap waste planet) - right out of Escape from New York. Danger everywhere. Iraq / Iran, whatever you wanna call it. Chancellor is there. Jedi send Obi Wan and a few Jedi to find him. Of course, a surprise attack happens, Obi Wan is sole survivor and has his own adventure to rescure the Chancellor in this desert wasteland planet. On Corcusaunt, Anakin is assigned to protect Senator Palpation because he's up for election in case something happens to the Chancellor. Anakin sneaks off in the middle of the night, goes around with Padme. Even sneak off to some exotic locations in the huge city. Their first kiss should be in some Star Wars opera with soft musical score.. The Jedi are totally against this because it could lead to badddd things. Jedi wants Anakin to do his job and thats it. No hanky panky on the side. Queen is there to legally get married and establish the new king, some jerk.. But of course at the end of the movie, its revealed that she chooses Anakin at the end of the day. Obi rescues Chancellor, but then Darth Maul returns and captures them both. He takes off to Kamino where Federation leader, Gary Oldman is at. Kamino will be the third and final chapter of this story.. Basically, Anakin is near this great love with Padme, but learns the location of Obi Wan and Chancellor. Then, Anakin arc is that he decides that he will stay true to the Jedi and leave Padme to do his job. The Jedi race off to Kamino, but there is this enormous space battle, many Jedi starships gets destroyed, except Anakin who is able to fly through the insane space battle (hence he was the greatest star pilot in the galaxy). The climax of the film is of course, Anakin Skywalker vs. Darth Maul, the sith lord that the Jedi were OBSESSED with finding... He kills Darth Maul on Kamino, I envision a crazy rain storm outside, they could battle in the rain and then all the way to some power generator from TPM (which wouldn't be in my episode 1, that was a cool location and visual scene, save it for the climax of the clone war). After Anakin Skywalker kills Darth Maul, captures General of the Federation. Boom, huge wedding , millions of people, Padme & Anakin. Jedi are there, but watch from a distance, kinda upset about it, but dont ***** or complain since anakin succeeded in killing the most power sith at the time (they dont know about palpatine). The arc of Chancellor is that he resigns because the Federation is defeated, the Clone War is over, Palpatine gets elected....And thats that...

Episode III -

 

[8wid]

Here is my take on the events that lead to the transition, not fall of the Republic into the Empire. Let me know what you think.

80 BBY - An illegal experiment taken out by corrupt senators, with industrial and military special interests in the Republic, covertly sell secrets of advanced cloning technology to Mandalorian War Lords in turn for a huge bribe.

75 BBY -The Mandalorians cloning experiment fails, their armies mutiny, and begin a war path of destruction across the galaxy. Soon the Mandalorian forces are overrun by their own clone creations.

75 BBY - Clones become free-thinking and begin to raid and ravage worlds within the territory of the Republic to build an army.

75 BBY - The treacherous senators are exposed for their crimes in the heat of war. Anger and dissent for the republic begins after this, and the enormous destruction that has already resulted from clone raids.

75 BBY - Republic military engages the clone threat and becomes deadlocked because of guerilla tactics.

72 BBY - First Clone War ends in cease fire.

70 BBY - Second Clone War begins after Clone second clone invasion into the republic.

65 BBY - Second Clone War ends with minor Republic victory.

64 BBY - Third Clone War begins after Clone ressurgence.

60 BBY - Third Clone War ends with second cease fire.

55 BBY - Fourth Clone War begins after Republic aggression provokes conflict.

54 BBY - Order of the Jedi intervenes at the request of the Galactic Senate.

Fourth Clone War intensifies, becoming the bloodiest of all conflicts, combined, as desperation because of swift losses in the Clone ranks turns attacks on civilians targets, planet hostage taking, and genocide, become abundant tactics.

50 BBY - Clone Wars end with complete Republic victory.

49 BBY - Galactic Depression begins in wake of a severe economic downturn including a nearly bankrupt central treasury, food and supply shortages, overwhelming war repairs, inflation, increased rioting and civil strife. Dissent from mismanagement during years of war by the Senate, corruption scandals before and during wartime, increased violence because of Jedi intervention, besides poor general response to economic problems.

35 BBY - Imperial Cou takes place after, famed war hero, former Jedi Master and high-ranking Republic General, marches his army on Coruscant and seizes the Senate house. The Galactic Senate appoints Palpatine as the new president and ousts the former one.

35 BBY - The Galactic Civil War begins after multiple and different, Separatist factions declare their independence from the Republic, and assault the Republic Navy. Many of these worlds are non-human alien and harbor large colonies of Jedi.

35-30 BBY - Palpatine becomes president for life, and is voted many emergency, and other executive powers as a result of the new conflict. The newly annointed Imperial Navy and stormtroopers are created with some of these new powers.

By this time, most sentiment for democractic values has dissolved across the Galaxy.

30 BBY - Galactic Empire declared out of the former Galactic Republic.

30 BBY - Newly annointed Darth Vader takes command of the Imperial Navy.

30 BBY - Jedi declared traitors and enemies of the state for allegdedly aiding Separatist forces and for war crimes, beginning the Great Jedi Purge. Any worlds harboring Jedi also are labeled traitors and declared enemies. Many alien species are enslaved or exterminated as a result, including the Wookies on Kashyyk.

18 BBY - Imperial military forces managed to overrun and defeat most separatist armies, as well as other conquest across the Galaxy. The Rebel Alliance forms under Bail Organa after many years of hesistation to use violence to resolve diplomatic issues, and continues the war alone, but as the most succesful.

 

[Infinity9999x]

You know what I wanted in the prequels?

I wanted the Anakin Skywalker that Obi-Wan Kenobi described to Luke Skywalker. The greatest pilot in the galaxy. This powerful rising Jedi who became stronger than almost everyone else. The person who was SEDUCED by the dark side of the force. The character we were supposed to love and root for, so when he eventually becomes seduced by the dark side and turns against the Jedi, the change has such a huge dramatic feel to it that the audience thinks "Oh my God" and becomes mezmorized by what is occuring on the screen.

We didn't even get half of that.

This is what I've been saying for a while. I agree completely

When I watched the OT, in ROTJ when Darth saves Luke, I always thought "Wow, he must have been a good guy that just had loads of crap happen to him." After watching the prequels...well, the Anakin I saw, let's just say I'm kinda surprised he saved Luke at the end of ROTJ.

I wanted Anakin to be a really likeable character. And one great idea I heard was to make Anakin the Han Solo of the prequels. In Episode one have Anakin be a young smuggler (late teens) that Obi Wan and Qi Gon run into. They realize the guy has a strong apitude for the force, but he's wayyyyy to old to be trained (the same way Luke was wayyy to old). Make Anakin a more gruff, likeable, down to earth guy that we really care for. And someone we really feel for when he's finally seduced by the dark side.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

This is what I've been saying for a while. I agree completely

When I watched the OT, in ROTJ when Darth saves Luke, I always thought "Wow, he must have been a good guy that just had loads of crap happen to him." After watching the prequels...well, the Anakin I saw, let's just say I'm kinda surprised he saved Luke at the end of ROTJ.

I wanted Anakin to be a really likeable character. And one great idea I heard was to make Anakin the Han Solo of the prequels. In Episode one have Anakin be a young smuggler (late teens) that Obi Wan and Qi Gon run into. They realize the guy has a strong apitude for the force, but he's wayyyyy to old to be trained (the same way Luke was wayyy to old). Make Anakin a more gruff, likeable, down to earth guy that we really care for. And someone we really feel for when he's finally seduced by the dark side.

Thats what I've been saying too. As for Amidala, scrap the Queen part and make that as her backstory but introduce her as a Senator.

I think I even wrote a scene between Anakin and Amidala a while back just for writting practice. heh...

 

[DawnWarrior]

I think I even wrote a scene between Anakin and Amidala a while back just for writting practice. heh...

I hope you can find that scene, because I'd like to read it.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

i would have just loved to see an altercation between darth vader and yoda. Whether it be a straght up lightsaber duel or a force battle of wills. 'Cause Vader (well, anakin technically) is described by obi won as being the most powerful jedi he ever met IIRC, would have been cool to see him go up against a master of yoda's caliber.

 

[Kurosawa]

ANAKIN Skywalker

Sorry, but i'm really happy Lucas did his own thing and didnt listen to what people wanted. He wasnt gonna make everyone happy no matter what he did.

Lucas said before he even made the original in 1977 that the prequels wouldn't be as commercially appealing due to the complexity of the story and it's content. Fanfiction stuff is fun, but it is just that-fanfiction. Lucas version is the real story from the series creator.

I thought Hayden was from Canada.

Good, pawning him off on Canada is +1 for the USA.