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Post #463840

Author
xhonzi
Parent topic
Can the story of the prequels be fit into only three films?
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Date created
14-Jan-2011, 11:41 AM

Well, I typed this fantastic wall of text here and I thought to myself- I should put this into a notepad incase it fails to post... I didn't.  And it did.

So here's the crappier shorter version that I can rewrite without breaking my own heart:

1. Are you all aware of the rewrites forum here on OT.com?

2. Who expected to see Vader in 2 of the 3 PT movies?  I wanted to see him in 0 of the movies because I wanted the movies to end with the apparent death of Anakin.  I know a lot of people wanted more Vader than was had.  Just wondering how many people wanted 2 movies of Vader...

3. When laying out a structure for my mPT to follow, I came up with 4 rought movie plots.  Which isn't quite true- I came up with 4 movie endings.  Which also isn't true- I wanted mEp1 to be a light hearted romp where everything about the mPT could be established and importantly- the friendship between Anakin and Obi-Wan could be firmly established.  Then I wanted to get into the fall in mEp2 & 3, but I had 3 movie endings within that structure.  To make a long story short, I had to compress the first two structures into a single structure and I think my story was the stronger for it.  It gets into the danger a little earlier than I had wanted, and it short changes the "Obi-Wan and Anakin" are best buds timeline somewhat...  But what can you do?  You can't release 4 Episodes prior to Episode 4.

4. I had a 4 in my previous post.  I wonder what it was about?

TO BE CONTINUED!