Just to cut down on too many superfluous threads and keep extraneous posts from choking up other threads, I’ve decided to make this my go-to brainstorming/world-building thread for my various ongoing/in-development/planned re-writes/spinoffs/etc.

The below are two posts I originally posted in my Lost Hope thread. I’m transplanting them here 'cause I’m going to delete them there.

94 BBY

Clone Wars begin with the First Clone War

91 BBY

First Clone War ends

86 BBY

Ben Kenobi is born

84 BBY

Siri Tachi is born

83 BBY

Kane Skywalker & Nellith Whitesun are married on Taris

Owen Lars is born

79 BBY

Second Clone War begins

Beru Skywalker is born

Kane, Nellith, & Beru move to Tatooine

71 BBY

Anakin Skywalker is born

70 BBY

Ben leaves Tatooine to begin his training under Yoda

Second Clone War ends

Galactic Republic becomes the Galactic Empire

69 BBY

Third Clone War begins

67 BBY

Ben finishes his training under Yoda, starts going under the name “Obi-Wan”, and enlists in the Imperial Army

Nashira DuQuesne is born

60 BBY

Darth Vader is born

56 BBY

The events of Star Wars: The New Dawn transpire

51 BBY

The events of Star Wars: Knight of the Empire transpire

Clone Wars end with the Third Clone War

36-35 BBY

The events of Star Wars: A Lost Hope transpire

34 BBY

Great Jedi Purge begins

30 BBY

Great Jedi Purge ends

18 BBY

Luke Skywalker & Leia Organa are born

Since I embarked on this grand endeavour of mine to re-write the prequels, when it came to envisioning certain actors as certain characters, I always went the timeless route – ie. I’d pick whichever actors I felt best suited the characters, whether they were contemporaneous or not, etc.

However, lately I came to wonder who I’d cast if I had to work with actors who were alive specifically when the actual PT was filmed – alive, and the right ages to play their allotted characters. As I have (undiagnosed) OCD, this idea took root and just wouldn’t let me alone. Thus I felt compelled to abandon my fanciful timeless cast list and come up with something more grounded.

TPM was filmed in 1997; AOTC in 2000; ROTS in 2003. Who was around in those years? Who could’ve believably portrayed the characters as I conceived them? Here’s my new list.

CAST OF A NEW DAWN

Kenneth Branagh as Obi-Wan Kenobi (holdover from my original list)

Joel Edgerton as Owen Lars (holdover)

Sarah Gadon as Nashira DuQuesne

Lance Henriksen as Pre Vizsla (holdover)

Iman as Adi Gallia

Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu (holdover)

Ewan McGregor as Qui-Gon Jinn

Alannah Myles as Zul Danaan (holdover)

Nichelle Nichols as Lwa (holdover)

Lindsay Wagner as Nellith Skywalker

Jimmy Smits as Capt. Bail Organa (holdover)

Naomi Watts as Siri Tachi (holdover)

Illya Woloshyn as Anakin Skywalker

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cmdr. Raia Vaness

CAST OF KNIGHT OF THE EMPIRE

Pernilla August as Shmi Warka (holdover)

Christian Bale as Anakin Skywalker

Jane Fonda as Corin DuQuesne

Bob Gunton as Chlorian Vader

Laurie Holden as LUH-3417 (holdover)

Cameron Bright as Darth Vader

Jeremy Irons as Marka Ragnos

Temuera Morrison as Cmdr. Jango Cody (holdover)

Gregory Peck as Emperor Cos Dashit

Wayne Pygram as Lt. Cmdr. Wilhuff Tarkin

Mary Lynn Rajskub as Kathe Naad (holdover)

Robert Redford as Nemec DuQuesne

Ray Wise as Atha Prime

John Schneider as THX-1138 (holdover)

Dean Stockwell as UIY-5241/SN-2249 (holdover)

Joy Tanner as Dahlia Karin

Keegan Connor Tracy as Nykres Eikhan

Amy Adams as Nashira DuQuesne

CAST OF A LOST HOPE

This one I’ll save for a later date.

Not a flawless list, to be sure. Sarah Gadon didn’t actually begin her career until 1998, one year after filming of TPM wrapped up; Jane Fonda was retired during the '90s; and who likes recasts? Still, it saites the OCD.