After the negative critical reaction to The Phantom Menace, George Lucas loses confidence in his abilities and hires you as his chief creative consultant for the rest of the trilogy. George still has veto power, but he’ll basically do anything you want as long as you have a good reason.
How do you save the PT at this point?
Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? none holds them up except Allah. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe. – Quran (16:79)
Emphasize the Obi-Wan/Anakin friendship and avoid the space-prophecy shit set up in TPM. I’d encourage him to make the clones the bad guys and have the stormtroopers just be an army of normal people recruited to fight them. I’d also have Bail Organa and Owen Lars play a bigger role in the drama.
EDIT: I’m also fine with the Padmé and Anakin love story but it shouldn’t be a Romeo and Juliet forbidden love thing.
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Don’t bring back any characters except Anakin, Obi-Wan and Palpatine. Avoid other OT characters. Write a space adventure story. Forget all that crap about shooting digital. Hint at a romance between Anakin and another Jedi, but don’t show it to save the ESB reveal. Think up new and actual good ideas about the Jedi order and the Force instead of making a big mess. Spell it Kloa’ne Wars or something so we can have an interesting storyline.
After the negative critical reaction to The Phantom Menace, George Lucas loses confidence in his abilities and hires you as his chief creative consultant for the rest of the trilogy. George still has veto power, but he’ll basically do anything you want as long as you have a good reason.
Sounds like an interesting premise for a movie empire simulation videogame 😉
Rogue One is redundant. Just play the first mission of DARK FORCES.
The hallmark of a corrupt leader: Being surrounded by yes men.
‘The best visual effects in the world will not compensate for a story told badly.’ - V.E.S.
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Since we’ve already spent a whole movie with Jar Jar, his character must evolve going forward. I mean that literally. Since it’s been 10 years since TPM, he’s put on a lot of weight and his voice has gotten deeper. He’s becoming a Boss Nass figure in the Senate, and is actually one of the few senators who listens to the plight of the young and downtrodden in the galaxy. One of his primary interests is in demanding that the Republic enforce its anti-slavery laws (with the help of Anakin and Padme). He’s frustrated by the Republic’s lack of power as it is continually thwarted by local military uprisings and powerful galactic corporations.
Padme is still a queen of Naboo, and as such has some power in the Senate. She is also frustrated by the Republic, but she doesn’t believe that military might is the correct answer to the Republic’s problems. She prefers diplomatic solutions to problems, and has been working on the anti-slavery initiative for years behind the scenes, quietly convincing planetary leaders of the benefits of droid labor.
Anakin has become a prodigy Jedi. Obi-wan has grown to truly care about his student, and is proud of Anakin’s accomplishments. They continue to serve as the galactic law enforcement, but the Jedi Order is leery of the mechanization underway in the Republic. The Jedi view automations as unnatural and some even view them as evil. Droids are banned from piloting Jedi starships, and Obi-wan wants nothing to do with them. Nevertheless, Obi-wan has a defiant streak from his apprenticeship under Qui-gon, and is one of the few Jedi totally dedicated to finding and destroying the Sith menace, even going against Yoda at times.
The plot has similarities to AOTC in its broad outline. The senate is voting on whether to create a droid army to enforce their laws, and Padme has come to Coruscant to argue against the measure in any form, believing that the Jedi are capable of protecting the galaxy. Anakin is also against the measure, but secretly believes that a conscripted army would be an acceptable solution. He joins Padme’s side as the most outspoken Jedi on the counsel. Jar Jar merely wants an army of some kind. On the eve of the vote, word comes that there has been a droid uprising on Tatooine. Anakin and Padme return to Tatooine to find Shmi dead and her new husband Owen inconsolable. Anakin, through his mechanical brilliance, discovers that C-3PO has received a transmission from off-world which was distributed secretly encoded en-masse and had lead to the uprising.
Meanwhile, the uprising has spread to numerous worlds, including the highly mechanized Coruscant. Palpatine is apparently captured in the uprising. The government is incapacitated and communication impossible, so Padme, Anakin, and Owen leave to trace the transmission to its source.
Obi-wan has been working to track down the Sith for years, and at this time he gets a lead to the homeworld of the Nemoidians. Little does he know that it is the transmission that has drawn him there, and when he arrives he sees that the droid army of the Trade Federation (which has been decommissioned after the Federation fell out of power) has been building its own factories and generating massive armies of much more powerful droids, apparently on its own. The droids are cloning themselves at a tremendous rate, and Obi-wan is captured.
Our heroes infiltrate the droid’s factories and rescue Obi-wan, but not before Anakin is gravely injured and confronts his dark side. The Jedi, who are spread thin in the galaxy trying to protect against all the uprisings, can send only a few Jedi to fight the droids.
Palpatine, who had been ‘captured’ in order to lead his new mechanical army against the weakened Republic is thwarted when Jar Jar of all people arrives leading an army of eager new recruits to battle. It turns out that Jar Jar was able to rally the population of Coruscant and mount a rescue, and so the day is saved. Palpatine returns to the government with nobody the wiser, there’s a new Republic Army, and the droids are now resurgent throughout the galaxy where Episode 3 picks up.
Whew, that was a bit more long-winded that I expected.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
No one expects the Neverar exposition.
Sometimes you get carried away…
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
Sometimes you get carried away…
When I saw the start of your post I actually thought it was a joke since you mentioned Jar Jar haha. Actually, it turned out pretty good.
Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? none holds them up except Allah. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe. – Quran (16:79)
Retcon TPM into being an in-universe Z-movie made by the GFFA’s equivalent of Ulli Lommel. From there … *shrug*
Padme is still a queen of Naboo
Opening crawl:
The Nubian constitution has been AMENDED. After a long political battle arbitrated by a wise JEDI MASTER, democracy has been undermined by the removal of executive term limits. Nubians must now decide whether to launch a popular revolution against the young queen, a move which threatens to send the Galactic Senate into bitter DEBATE. . . .
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
Padme is still a queen of Naboo
Opening crawl:
The Nubian constitution has been AMENDED. After a long political battle arbitrated by a wise JEDI MASTER, democracy has been undermined by the removal of executive term limits. Nubians must now decide whether to launch a popular revolution against the young queen, a move which threatens to send the Galactic Senate into bitter DEBATE. . . .
This is what I’m talkin about. All politics, all the time!
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
Well since he’s gonna come back eventually, might as well bring back Maul right away to act as the unifying villain of the trilogy. Maybe we can even have part of his original legs and just change his “death” scene in TPM upon rerelease to have him cut at the legs rather than bisected. Another thing I’d rather implement sooner than later is Phase II clones. Really, there’s no point in having them change helmet designs between movies.
Am I capable of convincing to hire someone else to write or to direct? He original said he didn’t want to direct the Prequels, after all. If he wants to do one of those things, best to relegate him to directing. Better to have stale acting than a bad story. Knowing George, he might write something stupid like “Love won’t save you. Only my new powers can do that.” Anyway, my point is, something seriously needs to be done about the romance in “Attack of the Clones”. Btw, that reminds me, given that clones never really, you know, attack anything, I think it’d be best to change the title to Rise of the Clones.
Now in list form:
-Maybe try to embrace Jar Jar and make him more likeable instead of just sweeping him under the rug.
-Give Bail and Owen bigger roles.
-Make Beru Obi-Wan’s sister instead of making Owen Anakin’s Stepbrother.
-It’s okay to give Yoda and Palpatine lightsabers, but they should only be used when fighting other lightsaber wielders, not each other.
-Remember not to have more than one (maybe two) lightsaber duels per film. We wouldn’t want to get tired of them, now would we.
-For the love of the Force, no Stass Allie or Agen Kolar. I know you’re probably not responsible for their existence, but just tell everyone at Lucasfilm that no one’s gonna know the difference if you cast similar looking actors as the same Jedi.
-It’s okay to give Yoda and Palpatine lightsabers, but they should only be used when fighting other lightsaber wielders, not each other.
I don’t really see Palpatine humoring any low-level Jedi with a lightsaber duel. Why would he bother with that?
I can see Palpatine using a lightsaber the same way a Satanist might use a crucifix – to profane the “Jedi weapon” by using it to non-Jedi ends.
For that to work, though, it would have to be a lightsaber taken from a Jedi, not one he built himself.
I am intrigued by the idea of making Jar Jar into a more serious character. It’s a bold move, but I’m not sure the fans were ready to see Jar Jar ‘rehabilitated.’ The wounds might’ve still been too fresh. And is it even possible to make Jar Jar a tolerable character without making him nigh unrecognizable, can this ‘rehabilitation’ be done believably?
-It’s okay to give Yoda and Palpatine lightsabers, but they should only be used when fighting other lightsaber wielders, not each other.
I don’t really see Palpatine humoring any low-level Jedi with a lightsaber duel. Why would he bother with that?
Because he enjoys it. He knows he can beat them regardless, so why not have a bit of fun in the process.
He knows he can be them regardless
OMG Palpatine was a shapeshifter…I knew it!
Palpatine is not a real shapeshifter, but he thinks he is. He tries to be. He’s tried to be a lot of things, I expect.
I think the idea about Jar Jar is amazing honestly. Would’ve been a welcome dyanmic shift and AotC was 10 years later, so it could’ve been a nice development.
I know I’m gonna get a lotta hate for this but what was wrong with him in the first place? He never bugged me. I get that there are a couple instances of toilet humor (which is not only intrinsically inappropriate, but also used in a half-assed, unearned way), but that’s not something deeply rooted in his character. His stupidity isn’t obnoxious, and it’s not like the characters aren’t willing to acknowledge it. Just look at the fabulous dynamic between him and Qui-Gon.
His stupidity is obnoxious. And simply acknowledging his obnoxiousness isn’t enough to justify it. That’s just another flavor of the old “Lucas made the prequels terrible movies on purpose” argument.
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There’s also the racist caricature problem.
What was Jar Jar’s character though? That he stepped in the poopie? What was Qui-Gon’s? He was a cheater and made terrible choices? They’re written as flat, simplistic stereotypes without any further development. You could leave them both on the cutting room floor without impacting the plot. Fabulous what now? There’s only so much you can discuss without sounding like a joke account.
I don’t even know why Jar-Jar even had to exist.
Make episode II episode III
make episode III a streamlined, grounded psuedo-western about a disgraced Obi-Wan rallying others to his cause and going after the blood lusting tyrant Darth Vader
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