Are you focusing on the Clone Wars?

YES:

Who are the Clones?

How does the War pertain to them?

How does Cloning become irrelevant by the start of Episode 4?

Is the War 'Symmetrical' (i.e. WWII) or is it 'Asymmetrical' (i.e. Iraq War or the OT Empire vs Rebellion)

What are the objectives of both sides in the War?

When did/does the War start?

How does the War end?

Yes and...

1) They are the military forces of the League, a non-Human separatist movement that seeks to destroy the Republic in order to end the perceived dominance of Humans over the galaxy.

2) They started it.

3) The answer is two-fold. First, cloning was outlawed in the Republic and stays that way in the Empire. Second, some species are easier to clone than others. Humans are one of the more difficult ones. And as they are the main species of the Empire by the time of the OT, cloning has faded into obscurity. Also, in my draft, you cannot clone Force-sensitives.

4) Difficult to determine. The League has been covertly preparing a fleet and several armies for upwards of five or six years by the start of Episode I. The war is briefly symmetrical when they attack Coruscant at the start of the war, causing the Republic to collapse after the League bombs the Senate and kills the Chancellor. After that it's roving fleets of clones vs. various different remnant groups and rebels. So you could say that for part of the war, it's asymmetrical in favor of the clones.

5)

League: wipe out Humanity.
Alliance to Restore the Republic: restore the Republic.
Empire: take over the galaxy by any means necessary.

Episode II shows all three factions existing simultaneously. It's depicted as a two-against-one conflict of Alliance and Empire vs. the League. Needless to say, the League is eventually defeated...only to have the victors turn on each other afterward.

6) The Clone Wars begin with a surprise attack on Coruscant in the year 25 BBY.

7) The Clone Wars end with the destruction of the League in 21 BBY.

Continiuity to the OT:

Do you show Obi-Wan receiving training from Yoda?

Do you show Anakin receiving training from Obi-Wan?

1) No. Yoda is never on-screen, though he gets a mention here and there.

2) No. Anakin is in his thirties in Episode I. He has had an apprentice of his own already! One thing I was sick of right away in the PT was the decision to focus so much screen-time on Anakin's youth.

How many years before Episode 4 does your story take place and how old are the main characters?

Episode I: 25 BBY
Episodes II and III: 21 BBY...the gap between these two films is only a few "days".

My protagonist is in his late twenties in Episode I, Anakin is in his mid-thirties, his love interest is around the same age as my protagonist...point is, there are no stinking kids. The other major villain (besides Anakin and Palps) is in her forties.

How will you handle the surprises in the OT? Will you set out to protect them from a chronological viewer? Or will you show them happen?

Will you show Yoda?

Will you show that Luke has a twin sister? Named Leia?

Will you reveal that Anakin becomes Darth Vader?

I will address the OT surprises if absolutely necessary, but I will not go out of my way to name the twins or show Anakin being put into the Vader suit. Turning him evil and burning him will be enough. In the Lucas prequels, I always felt like he was just running down a checklist..."did we show how that prop from the OT got there? ok *tick*"

Will you have surprises in your new PT? Will it affect anything that we thought we already knew in the OT?

Lips = sealed. :-)

How do the droids fit in to your new story, if at all?

No. With all due respect, **** the droids. I have A droid in my treatment, but not *those* droids. My droid character is named "Zero" and is the engineer aboard the main character's ship. He has a few important technical functions in the plot, roughly analogous to how R2 took care of all the computer-related conundrums in the OT.

Zero also lends some comic relief here and there, mostly pertaining to his lack of understanding of living creatures' biology (such as referring to muscles and bones as actuators and struts, for instance).

Zero is the only non-English-speaking major character.

I'm specifically avoiding any appearance or mention of astromech or protocol droids.

Who is the main protagonist in your films?

- I clearly think that Anakin should be the main protagonist as a point of comparison that Luke is the protagonist of the OT.

It's sad to see someone make iron-clad "should" statements based on Lucas' six-year-long fecal output. You ought to open your mind a little and accept the existence of other possibilities.

Case in point, Anakin is *not* the main protagonist of my trilogy. My protagonist is a likable half-Chiss everyman who happens to be a smuggler captain, but with a latent Force sensitivity that entwines his destiny with that of the Jedi's. His name is Ben. I have set things up so that he is the hero of one trilogy and the unsung precursor of the next. Echoes of his actions and personality can be felt throughout the OT, with Obi-Wan and Luke even uttering his name out loud. Let me say right off the bat, that this does *not* mean Ben is Skywalker Senior. That's still Anakin's domain.

In short, Anakin is important in my treatment, but he's not the protagonist. He's a part of a larger story, just like he was in the OT.