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Interesting thread.
For Ep. I:
I would ditch the whole original Ep 1 storyline and start off Anakin and Obi Wan at around the same age and as Jedi apprentices under Qui Gon. I would already put them at war against a separatist faction led by Count Dooku. Sidoius and Maul will be secretly controlling them. Anakin could meet Padme at this point and they get secretly married in the end. There would be no Jar Jar Binks.
Ep. 2-3
I would keep the Revenge of the Sith storyline but stretch it out over two movies so that it would be a gradual fall for Anakin rather than right away.
Honestly, that might very well be the best way to do it. Drop the "Chosen One" pretext entirely and simply have Anakin start off as a Padawan (maybe with Obiwan already being a Knight, and Quigon being the Master in charge of the trio) so you don't have to waste an undue amount of screen time on the obligatory "pleasantries" of training, and can get right to the action.
He becomes a Knight, hooks up with Padme in the process of helping her make her escape, and maybe even loses a hand to Maul before the end credits roll, and it's all downhill from there.
Hell! Maybe they can even pose as the crew of Spice freighter at some point, as a mythology gag of sorts. :2razz:
While I might quibble over a point or two, I think your ideas plugged into the Lucasfilm machine would have made some really good movies.
Thanks! :mrgreen:
Yeah... I'll hardly claim to be any kind of screen writer, and I'll freely acknowledge that anything I came up with would probably need a Hell of a lot of tweaking and more than a few rewrites before it really could be said to be coherent. However, the fact that even some random dude spit-balling ideas over the internet comes off as a substantial improvement over Lucas' original work is probably saying something in and of itself. lol
The guy put next to no effort into the story of any of the movies beyond Ep 1. Frankly, even then, as I understand, most of that was ripped off of some samurai movie anyway. :doh