Mrebo said:
@VideInfra78
I've started and I run into the same thoughts/issues as xhonzi.
My ideas are improved from reading other people's scripts/thoughts. Reading xhonzi's beginning really made me rethink how I would start. My idea was Obi Wan's ship being attacked by several small pirate ships near Tatooine, resulting in a crash landing. I like the scene but I think I need to make it more important that a plot device for getting Obi Wan to Tatooine. I think xhonzi has a good idea in jumping right into the Clone Wars.
I've thought it could be neat to have a wiki style editing system in order to construct a prequel many would enjoy. Of course, it could result in middling results.
CWBorne suggested paying homage to "New Hollywood" films. That inspired me to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. While I've yet to get a full sense of the stylistic elements, that movie was inspiring for the relationship between Obi Wan and Anakin. And there is a scene on a cliff that I would be tempted to borrow almost completely.
I guess it could be nice for more of us to post things we've written. I shy away from doing so because I'm afraid of not continuing or I will want to radically revise it and don't want to present something so tentative... And of course, delusions of grandeur make me think I can present a finished product so compelling that others would fall over in awe XD
Maybe I'll post something, since I have been inspired and helped by what others have written. Feedback would be helpful too I suppose.
I'm not really familiar with New Hollywood although I think I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as a child, but it was awhile ago. I'm not a big fan of the love triangle angle, although it's better than anything that was on screen in the PT. I think the love triangle worked well in the OT in ESB and to have that again might be kind of a rehash.
I thought that this forum might be a good idea for people to share thoughts but for the reasons you mentioned it seems that not too many of us are interested. At one point it seemed there was a lot of motivation to get something going, but I think it has lost steam.
You reminded me of something that I wanted to put in another post of mine with pirates. And that is that I see a lot of similarities between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Empire in SW.