Continuing on from last night....
Revenge Of The Sith
While I love the idea of starting with an apparently calm Coruscant and then hurtling into a major battle as Ady pointed out and I now can see, the way it was done in the theatrical version makes no sense.
In this version the camera pans down to a calm Coruscant night.
Anakin is in bed and dreaming of sandpeople (yep).
A mysterious cowled phantom massacres the camp that murdered his mother.
The sequence is slow and has subtle nightmare tropes playing through it like the cowled figure getting Darth Mauleque eyes briefly. It plays more like the cave sequence in ESB than the Padme dream in the theatrical cut.
He wakes up in a sweat.
Padme tries to calm him, they are on the balcony contemplating the future birth of their child when all hell breaks lose.
Fighters descend from the sky, towers are shattered and the sky fills with thousands of starships.
Palpatine watches this from the senate building. surprised by a noise he turns around to see The General (he has no name) towering over him from a smoke filled corridor.
The design is a bit different he still has a whole head but it's under a helmet which makes a very familiar noise (and it's not a cough!).
The General impales the guard on a lightsaber blade with ease.
Jedi rush to the fighters which launch from the temple complex.
Buzz droids gone, silly droid voices gone.
The General's ship is now largely one enormous hanger. Droids don't need rooms, large corridors and lifts filled with air so a section of the Jedi Fighter activity now takes place inside the belly of the mostly hollow floorless and airless ship (more like the Federation Spacedock or the reactor chamber of the Death Star but full of war machines and fighter craft).
Very little if any droid slapstick should remain.
When they find the Chancellor his back is to the window (he is a prisoner and doesn't have the luxury of a ROTJ evoking view of the battle).
Dooku enters via a lower floor door not by spinning over the upper banister.
He still tries to explain that he want to flush out the Sith Lord but the Jedi will hear nothing of it.
As he dies Dooku sees the true face of Palpatine and tries to tell a disbelieving Anakin.
Palpatine dismisses this with talk of ANAKIN KILLING THE SANDPEOPLE THAT MURDERED HIS MOTHER (dum dum dar).
Anakin doesn't have time to process this information as the ship begins to crash into the lightside of the planet.
Much of the shifting of allegiances stays the same as in the theatrical cut including some of the deleted material if still possible.
One major change is that Anakin doesn't throw a hissy fit about not being a Master.
He isn't happy at the obvious snub but quietly accepts it.
The Separatists don't go to Utapau they go direct to the Volcanic world there the General negotiates a truce via hologram with the Chancellor/Sith Master who offers to make him his new apprentice and ratify the treaty ending the war.
The fight between The General and Kenobi happens here there seems to be some sort of unspoken something here. The General's eyes look like Maul's but could he could also be that previous apprentice from TPM (or maybe it's brute cyborg animal magnetism)?
The General is knocked over a gantry apparently to his death.
Anakin has been having dreams of (the increasingly separatist sounding) Padme dying and Palpatine reveals his power to him while offering him a means to save her.
Shocked Anakin alerts Mace to Palpatine's Sithness and Windu all pleased with Anakin (for a change) and regretting that they hadn't listened to Dooku all along goes to face Palpatine alone (idiot).
Mace's entrance mirrors the Generals only this time Palpatine screws with the lights and his false and real face flash in the strobing battle that commences.
While he is there a mysterious dark figure(TM) leads the stormtroopers into the temple and massacres everyone inside.
Anakin senses Windu in danger and rushes to save him.
The prune face from ROTJ is Palpatine's true face and as he battles Windu the mask falls as it did on the General's ship.
Anakin makes a bad call and Palpatine reveals that Anakin himself is the Dark figure doing all these powerful things. Anakin would never consciously betray the Jedi but subconsciously his dark side has outwitted his own light side.
He has punished the Jedi for starting the war, that he has avenged his mother and he hopes to send him to the volcano world to kill the Separatist leaders who plan to build a terrible weapon.
He doesn't call him Darth Vader.
Padme does not go to the Volcano world she witnesses the end of the Republic and the shock of it sends her into labour.
Anakin kills the remaining separatists, recovers the plans and encounters Kenobi.
They fight, Anakin now hates Sith and Jedi equally but vents his disappointment in the Jedi for ignoring the weak and suffering and not letting him save his mother (some of his confession to Padme from AOTC may be usefully recycled in his description of how he killed the Jedi in the Temple, now that he remembers doing it).
Anakin loses the fight.
As Kenobi flies away a robotic hand claws it's way up the shore of a lava lake.
But is is Anakin or the General?
Obi-Wan meets with Yoda and Bail ANTILLES on the Tantive.
The Jedi decide to go into hiding to protect Padme's offspring.
The ship lands on Dagobah and Padme gives birth there (we see only one baby and we don't hear it named).
The droid explains that there were complications and she should have died but something is keeping her alive that it can't explain.
Yoda steps out onto the surface of his new world.
Threepio is sceduled for a memory wipe (something neither he or Artoo are happy about).
Artoo DOESN"T LAUGH HIS NUTS OFF.
We see a montage of scenes pass (mirroring the celebrations in ROTJ:SE) showing a primitive form of Vader tracking and killing the remaining Jedi.
The Republic ships give way to Imperial ships.
Padme weakens and dies, we see her funeral.
A little girl of about three takes the neckless Anakin made.
Yoda is visited by Padme's silent ghost and humbled, pledges to learn from her how this was done.
Many years in the future Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine watch the construction of the Death Star.
A New Hope.
Not much needs changing here from the original ANH:R.
I would replace the man walking in to tell Tarkin about Dantooine with a holograph (it seem weird to have one major one in this film but the three before and the one after so full of them and Tarkin sounds like the sort of person who would want to hear the news from a man on the ground).
I'd also as mentioned in the other post replace the shiny Rebel helmets at take off with helmets that match those of people who die in the battle.
The vibro-needle I'd replace with a scanning laser (like those probes off Prometheus) They were very big in the seventies and it looks like the sort of thing they might have done if they knew a bloke who knew The Who (like Ridley Scott did with Alien)
Unless something new can be done with the subtitles so he says something interesting I'm not sure if correcting Jabba to look like Jabba is worth the effort.
But if it is doing something about the tail is essential.
I'd keep it out personally it adds nothing.
It might be nice to see a bit of Bail Antilles in there (calling him Organa is a bit of a give away in ROTS).
It might be fun to add even more Separatist junk on the planet so that the Jawas can still be cleaning up the mess.