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OutboundFlight
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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17-Dec-2018, 10:37 PM

I have an idea to use the PT footage to create an anthology film, starring Obi-Wan and Anakin during the Clone Wars. No fall of the republic, no turn to darkness, just the “good ol days” Obi-Wan talks of. TCW accomplishes this but I wonder if is possible in live action. A lot of restructuring would be required:

  1. Start off with Obi-Wan investigating Geonosis, with a crawl explaining everything up that point. Everything before that could be used but is frankly boring; the asteroid dogfight will catch viewer’s attention from the start.

  2. Keep the Battle of Geonosis grounded to Obi-Wan / Anakin / Padme; although the fight scenes are cool they take away from the pacing of the primary story- capture Dooku before he starts a galaxy-wide war.

  3. But of course they fail. The loss creates personal stakes. Yoda only uses the force. Dooku’s escape leads to a clone wars montage, which I already created and posted here a while back: https://vimeo.com/294955682 (excuse the distortion). With this we smoothly transition to ROTS without a text time jump, making it feel natural.

  4. Here’s where things get complicated. Obi-Wan is sent to General Grievous before the death of Count Dooku in hopes of finding Dooku’s location. Meanwhile, Anakin begins to doubt the council and learns his wife is pregnant. But he shows no obvious dark side signals (with the raider and dooku murders having not happened).

  5. After Grevious’s defeat is the trickiest part. We establish the Separatists have hired change-lings using audio from ATOC and TCW’s Holocron Heist. Then, it is implied that four changelings have infiltrated the Republic and taken the forms of Mace Windu and three other Jedi. The “treason” scene is repurposed as Separtists kidnapping an innocent Palpatine. Of course, Palps doesn’t whip out a saber as that would give away the big secret.

  6. Anakin rushes to save Palpatine but is too late, leading to the Battle over Coruscant. Anakin apologizes to Obi-Wan about not appreciating his training, allowing them to have character arcs going into the third act. Then the battle plays out, only with General Grevious. This time Anakin and Obi-Wan work together to take down Dooku, concluding the anthology.

Tl;dr: A simple, fun edit for the Prequels that could played before ANH without any spoilers.