We all dislike the PT. Not because he hate backstories, but because all three movies were poorly written, directed, and over all produced. We can't stand them and many of us have lain awake at night dreaming about "what could have been."
But, what if they were able to remake them? Not just remade, but totally redone - new plot line (not to be confused with "storyline"), new dialogue, new editing, new everything. And this time, done right.
Granted Ewan looked fantastic as Obi-Wan these past years, but there are other actors out there.
Let's say it's 10 years down the road. Lucas has been dead for years leaving the rights to his movies to the company, we've gotten the OOT on DVD recently, and the world is basically shaking off the reminants of what once was "a dark time for Star Wars fans." But one thing remains. The PT.
We don't watch them anymore. We don't talk about them anymore. It's too painful. But then someone gets the idea that they should be remade. Remade in a way that tells a good story for once.
It will fix all the plot holes that Lucas created all those years ago. It will make the OT story all that more powerful. And finally, Star Wars will be loved by just about everyone.
Taking the original Story by Lucas, only now new directors will take the reigns, a better and more exciting story develops. The script is re-written and the character development is amazing.
We all have our own thoughts as to how this trilogy could be made better, so if this were to be done some people would be annoyed while others would be delighted. And others would say that what was done was bad enough; no more, (or what was done was great; leave it alone.)
My question is, would you like to see the PT remade? And if so, how should it be done? What flaws would we fix? How can we make the character development better and make the audiance love the story and the characters?
Here is my 2 cents:
-Keep the prequals in trilogy form. Makes the whole thing flow better.
-make sure that the three main characters (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme) are played by the same actor for all 3 films
-Don't make Anakin say he'll "free all the slaves" unless you are going to allude to it in a deeper metaphor later in the other 2 films (and beyond)
-Actually make Anakin a pilot, not a "NASCAR driver"
-More anquish over Anakin's struggle with his passion for attatchment (i.e mother and Padme)
-Make him older when taken the the temple
-less politics
-less throw-away characters (i.e. Mace Windu, Grevious) so that when they die we don't shrug our shoulders and go "ehhh, whatever"
-No lightning-in-the-face that makes the emperor look nothing like he did in ROTJ
-Make Leia be born first, dammit
This is obviously nit picking from the existing Trilogy, but what I would really like to see is Yoda, Obi-wan, and baby Luke go to dagobah for just a short while before Obi-Wan and Luke head off to Tatooine so that "There is something familar about this place" actually means something.