Should Disney erase PT from canon?

I honestly go back and forth with the Prequels. I like that they add to the Saga in a macro sense as it opens up the universe and expands the OT story. I love the Senate scenes, I love the mythology it adds with the Jedi council, and the worlds like Kamino.

What I don't like is the personal story it tells as Anakin just never resonated with me. That's sort of my conundrum in that I love the story the PT tells and how it expands the OT, but when I watch it never grabs me on an emotional level like Luke & Rey's story does.

 

It's the beginning of truth.

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What they definitely failed at was, was being the proper authentic backstory to the originals.

I didn't say anything about their general quality or box office success, those are other things

 

they still made like 700 mil or whatever worldwide.

 

And making like 700 mil or whatever worldwide still equals "box office success".

 

exactly which is why they wouldnt be remade.

 

I'm going to play devils advocate here and how about Disney doing a standalone prequel on the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker? I always thought Lucas could have told his story in 1 movie because all of the Red Meat plot points happen in the last 45 minutes of ROTS.

Disney could make a 3 hour movie much like Superman (1978) where it is divided into 3 sections:

1st hour: Set up of a Obiwan meeting a younger Anakin through flashbacks

2nd hour: Anakin turns to the darkside through Palpatine's manipulation

3rd hour: Anakin fights Obiwan, The extinction of the Jedi, Padme goes in exile with Leia, Obiwan takes Luke to Tattoine, Yoda goes to Dagobah, The Empire takes over.

 

are yout alking about ROTS from anakin's pov? your sections make sense but it wouldnt make sense to rehash the exact same plot again. .

 

I was just writing if off the top of my head, as they would develop a different storyline but still in the context of the movie being Anakin's turn to the darkside.

I would even go as far to tell the story Quentin Tarantino style, where the first shot of the movie is Suited Darth Vader killiing one of the Jedi, and then you go back to the beginning.....

Again, this is off the top of my head as I'm sure if someone sat down and developed a whole new screenplay and tell the rise and fall of Darth Vader in a different way that Lucas did, I'd be in.

 

probably something like seeing the end of R1 with vader, then him sitting on his ship meditating and thinking back to what happened so we see the events of his life through the eyes of the force
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I firmly believe a Prequel Trilogy Reboot should be in LucasFilm Plans.

The Reboots work very well on Star Trek and Batman Movies.
The Prequels are not bad movies, i think the main story beneath them is amazing, but they where very poorly filmed and with an ugly non Star Wars Look (very poor CGI overuse??), but the story was great and should be told in a different manner, a proper Star Wars manner. Besides Obi Wan and Palpatine, the acting was awfull.

 

The difference is that this is Star Wars. It can't be rebooted. They could recast moving forward though. SW is too unified for a reboot

 

No. A stupid question deserves a blunt answer.

 

Star Wars is yet to involve time travel which is usually the key for reboots like in Star Trek.
I hope they never do it.

I think the PT works best viewed as the flashback of Vader after ESB which is why it is a bit rough on dialogue and cheesy. It's a person who is essentially incapable of emotion trying to remember how that should feel.

Or at least that's what I tell myself to make up for some of the direction and writing choices.

 

George Lucas once said that Star Wars is intended to be seen through the eyes of the droids, which never made sense to md

 

Wouldn't it just be a series of 1s and 0s then?

Oh George.

 

No. And why would they need to? I'm not a huge PT fan but it's not hurting anybody. The execution may have been lacking but there wasn't anything wrong with the overall story arc. It basically told a story we already knew, knew how it would end, it was just the details that remained to be seen. I don't see how it would interfere with future projects unless the future project is to remake the PT.

 

Why re-boot or remake? Wasn't that the main complaint of many about TFA? Being a re-boot. Sometimes I really wonder about Star Wars fans... never satisfied. Even if they were to remake them it would be too soon. Nonetheless, I do believe that they will re-boot the films in about 50 years from now. They have other films planned.

 

Sounds too rushed.

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You're not making any sense.

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That makes no sense at all

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TFA was supposed to be a sequel, the complaints were that it was too similar for a sequel.

A reboot is already supposed to be similar, except this time people actually want a reboot with a different storyline as well - so it'd be a reboot but not a remake.

 

Would love to say yes, but I really love some things from the PT. I loved Liam Neeson as Qui-gon, Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan and I think they could done much more with their characters, so if they ever plan a reboot, I would like to see those guys back, to see what could've been, but probably Disney would decide that they are too old for the parts.. oh well.
And personally I think Darth Maul was awesome but completely wasted on the PT. Would have loved to see a lot more of him. Now we just have one movie with him in it...

Oh and one thing we would never have had without the PT: Duel of the Fates music, that piece of soundtrack from John Williams was superb!

So my view: leave the song Duel of the Fates and Darth Maul. Delete or reboot/remake the rest. But that's just me.

 

In a few years time the entire Skywalker saga will be rebooted and retold. I strongly believe this.

But Lucasfilm, Disney, or whoever, should never, ever, remake or just remove from canon, just a certain part of any saga, let alone Star Wars. If they remake, do it all, start from scratch and tell the story from the beginning rather than the middle. Otherwise, leave it alone and add to it.

I actually think they should NEVER reboot/remake at all. But my preferences are not gonna effect the decisions of TPTB, and I think it's an inevitability.