Originally posted by: CO
I always thought that Lucas could have played the PT as a real backstory, narrated by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hammil) as he tells the events of the PT to his son post ROTJ.
The problem with the PT is it just doesn't work in order 1-6 for so many reasons. The focus on Anakin for the first three movies is gone by Episode IV. The special effects are SOOO different in both trilogies, and the whole tone of each trilogy doesn't jive as one continuous story.
Lucas could start TPM with Luke talking to his son some 20 years after ROTJ as an 'Obiwan' type role. It could flashback to him throughout the trilogy as he explains certain key plot points that Lucas is trying to convey, such as why Anakin chose to be Darth Vader. How fuckin cool would it have been for Mark Hammill to say, "And now this is the point where your grandfather was lost to the darkside!"
I always thought that Lucas could have played the PT as a real backstory, narrated by Luke Skywalker (Mark Hammil) as he tells the events of the PT to his son post ROTJ.
The problem with the PT is it just doesn't work in order 1-6 for so many reasons. The focus on Anakin for the first three movies is gone by Episode IV. The special effects are SOOO different in both trilogies, and the whole tone of each trilogy doesn't jive as one continuous story.
Lucas could start TPM with Luke talking to his son some 20 years after ROTJ as an 'Obiwan' type role. It could flashback to him throughout the trilogy as he explains certain key plot points that Lucas is trying to convey, such as why Anakin chose to be Darth Vader. How fuckin cool would it have been for Mark Hammill to say, "And now this is the point where your grandfather was lost to the darkside!"
I agree, and I think that would have been a good idea- having Mark Hamill being part of it again. Mark Hamill said years ago that he had agreed to appear in one of the prequels, if GL decided to make all nine of them, and he said that he would probably appear on another plane of existance (in ghost form, I gather) in episodes 7-9. But, if he had appeared as you suggested, that would have kept the order of the movies with SW as the first and ROTS as the last, which I agree works better.
I'm sure MH would have loved being asked to participate. I get the feeling now that he's a bit miffed at GL for various reasons, as he seems to be distancing himself from all things SW recently.
I also still think that a great opportunity was missed to deepen the relationship between Anakin, Ben & Padme, by not having Anakin and Ben both in love with Padme. If Padme had chosen Anakin over Ben, she would have more dramatically chosen the path that leads to her death. It would also explain more deeply the affection Ben had for Luke and Leia, being Padme's children.
But then, there were so many missed opportunities with the PT. Too many to count really.