SPECULATION You direct and write the Prequels: where is YOUR beginning?

You say that, but don't you wish it was Space Chicks prequels.

 

I say that because you wasted time making a dumb crack at the Ghostbusters reboot, as if the fact it has a female cast is why it will suck, despite the fact the number of Y chromosomes the cast has has no effect on film quality.

 

Then you will have to re-write the Original Trilogy movies, as well. However, I personally believe there is nothing more boring than perfect or ideal protagonists.

 

Anakin is definitely a teen. His relationship with Padme is less prevalent, and more time is spent focusing on the heroics of the clone troopers who get next to nothing in the limelight. So practically erase The Phantom Menace and some of the romance, and you have my prequels. And Jar-Jar. Definitely strike out Jar-Jar.

 

This is great! A little bit of Cinderella thrown in there that's a tad amusing...

I would love to see the other 2 Acts! (and other 2 movies)

Great writing!

 

It's not the Prequel Trilogy I want to see. Sorry. And by the way, there are now TWO threads on this topic on re-editing the Prequel movies. I find this rather excessive.

 

Just move Attack of the Clones into the First Prequel/Ep. I slot - Anakin is a hot shot young Jedi, Padme's an upstart Senator and they're young and hot and living in the capital city - don't really need any romance platitudes there.

Input Ahsoka Tano's CW arc as Ep. II - demonstrating Anakin losing yet another attachment, being his own apprentice, as well as moving Anakin into the Palpatine/Tarkin camp as the military begins to take control of law & order as well as beginning to supplant the Jedi Order's role in the galaxy, symbolized by Ahsoka's abandonment.

Ep. III can stay as is, but with more of Padme's political subplot edited in - it puts her in a similar spot as Ahsoka was and Anakin would do anything......anything....to prevent losing her. That was more effective in the ROTS novelization than Anakin's dream sequences.

 

@BobaFettNY21 This is a superb idea!

Though the Prequel Trilogy may start just where it should. In your episodic structure, without The Phantom Menace there are a couple of key plot points that are essential to the saga. Namely there is the need to establish Palpatine's rise to power and also Anakin's separation from his mother--these help to explain the downfall of the Republic and the Jedi Order and also Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.

I thought it would be cool to see how this episodic structure would fit into that twelve-episode saga George Lucas alleged in the late 1970s.

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Attached image is from the Lucasfilm Archives--special thanks to J. W. Rinzler--as posted to Michael Kaminski's old "secret history of star wars" website and with my notes on the right to align the treatment to the current state of Star Wars. (As a side note, I think the intended purpose of a prelude would have been to establish a story about the beginnings of the Jedi Order.)

It's really not very useful pigeonholing today's canon of star wars into this old treatment and episodic structure, especially since there are cartoons and spin offs now, but it is illuminating and fun nonetheless!

 

i would have started as anakin teenager, the kid was annoying

 

Without wanting to change AOTC as much as many would like, Shmi's death would remain in there and I don't think anything really changes with Palpatine. Palpatine could have been anybody willing to support the creation of an army to fight the Separatists. His very election would have been for that purpose, rather than an emergency vote. And at the risk of editing even more, I would have kept in his mother's death and re-worked an escape scene on the refugee ship where Anakin truly gets to be the hero and defeat an assassination attempt while escaping to nearby......Tatooine.

I don't like going into too many details on what I would have suggested, in hindsight, to Lucas. Ultimately its his story.

But I will say this - rewriting and retconning are well within the tradition of Star Wars, so let's all have at it!!! Just as we have for the past 12 years lol

 

My version would start sowing the seeds of Anakin creation from the very beginning of The Phantom Menace, and Darth Plagueis would be present throughout the whole trilogy. The trilogy would end with Sidious realising that Plagueis wants Anakin instead of him, the eventual betrayal of Plagueis by Sheev, and the conversion of Anakin to the dark side. The prophecy would not refer to Anakin bringing balance to the force, but to a Sith Lord becoming so powerful that he could cheat death.

Despite the Jedi's best efforts, the prophecy would come true, as Plagueis' 'lives on' in the form of Anakin Skywalker. Part of his consciousness merged with Anakin during his creation. This means that Anakin is not Plagueis, but shares a 'connection' with him. Palpatine realises this after his master's death and hopes to keep Anakin under his control, while he studies him in an effort to learn his master's secrets.

• The connection helps explain the inherent darkness within Anakin that the Jedi detect.
• Anakin frightens Sheev Palpatine, as he eventually receives a vision of the future. In it, his master kills him.

This would be my setup for the original trilogy.

 

If it was just about women, then Anakin would make the cut!

 

This sounds so rushed.

 

Great post, i have recently started editing a ruff copy of the prequels without jar jar. if your interested its here.
Its only a hour and there are a few choppy cuts but if you can see through them, a new more interesting story does emerge.

This is the trailer

 

Agree. I would make condense current Episode I and fit there an older Anakin, being already Obi-Wan padawan, so in Episode II we might see the start and some of the action of the Clone Wars. I would definitely add Ahsoka into Episode II - so we can see not just the beginning and the end of the legendary actions of Anakin as a Jedi knight tried in battle - and leave a cliffhanger of Ahsoka either being called responsible of the Jedi Temple bombing or her leaving the Jedi Order. Then ROTS would be both the aftermath of Ahsoka cleaning up her name but not wishing to be part of the Jedi order anymore, then Anakin and Obi-Wan rescuing Palpatine and the rest of the ROTS action. I would definitely add more activity of Padme being one of the precursors of the Rebel Alliance with Bail and Mon Mothma.

 

I was digging in some old blast I had lying around on a forgotten external drive and found my notes for Star Wars: Episode I: Guardians of the Republic. I wrote a lot of "beginnings" actually, never seeming to agree with myself which I liked the best. The one I had done the most work on (as in, actually writing scenes) has Obi-Wan Kenobi encountering Anakin Skywalker as a young, brash co-pilot on a Baltarrian spice freighter when Grand Admiral Palpatine surprises the galaxy by taking the Republic Fleet for himself.

 

I wrote out scene by scene Prequel Rewrite in 2008, 2011, then in 2015 completed it. So my rewrite has been in my head for a long time. I realize there are hundreds of others that rewrite the prequel, but I'm dedicated in providing a story that is made for the Original Trilogy. I wrote a scene by scene long format, but also a 3-5 page summary. I'm having trouble getting people to check it out though. Then after viewing TFA, I was disappointed with that one as well, so I wrote out a sequel trilogy as well. I'm a massive Original Trilogy fan and each movie comes out, I just dont feel it lives up to the quality of the OT.

http://prequelsreborn.weebly.com/

 

The Obi-Wan and Anakin comic; we'd still see a young Anakin, and show the relationship Palpatine has with him, while still giving us a sense that Anakin doesn't entirely fit into the Jedi Order. Change the ending to include Darth Maul, and you'd be golden.

 

Go back in time and cast DiCaprio as Anikann like they were going to do. How much better would the episodes 2 and 3 be just from the acting alone...

 

Spoilers for Rogue One.

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I wouldn't mind something like the flashback at beginning of Rogue One (while still having a crawl to set the galactic scene), to show Anakin being taken from Tatooine from his mom. That way, we could still get a little bit of that emotional connection to his mother without wasting an entire movie for it. Then, we could see him and Obi Wan head to Kamino together to investigate some strange invitation to view a "clone army" the Republic had no memory of ordering, and begin the Clone Wars at the end of the first film.