Phantom menace could be cut into a really short flick about qui gon and obi wan saving the queen and fighting darth maul, just splice the opening and the third act into one 30-40 minute short or something
That’s interesting. Instead of having an entire prequel trilogy explaining everything, just have a little teaser of what the Galaxy and the Jedi were like before the Empire. While still keeping the origins for Vader and the Empire and why the Jedi were hunted down a mystery.