New Star Wars Storyboards show abandoned concepts for the prequels

Just more of how the prequels could have been so much better and darker.

http://io9.com/storyboards-reveal-the-amazing-star-wars-prequel-you-ne-510134498

An older Anakin and younger Qui-Gon are both great ideas, and both would have probably lead TPM - and by extension the rest of the PT - to being more faithful to the OT.

I don't see how a shapeshifting Jar Jar could be an improvement, though. If anything, it would have only made him more annoying.

As for the stuff with AOTC, none of the stuff mentioned would have made any significant improvement to the movie; it would have been just as bad, but in a slightly different way.

Though I do like the idea of Padmé pulling a knife on "evil" Anakin, it wouldn't have made her any less of a cognitive dissonant, racist ditz.

It might be fun to see if James Robinson's performance in Braveheart could be edited into TPM with adjustment.

I loathe Braveheart but from what I can remember it was a more compelling performance than George got out of Jake.

Yet again I have to say that TPM has the best core concept of the three prequel movies and could have been fantastic if only we had a young adult Anakin, and the romance with Padme begins right away.

Not that much of a fan of younger Qui-Gon, though.  Liam Neeson added a lot of depth and gravity to the movie. And we already have far too many action star Jedi characters in the prequels.

So, the Geonosians are the Neimodians for TPM pre-production ?

Bingowings said:

 It might be fun to see if James Robinson's performance in Braveheart could be edited into TPM with adjustment.

I had a similar idea for a fan edit. Not that particular actor but generally a late tenn-young 20's Anakin would greatly improve the movie even without much other changes (of course, in addition to drastic Jar-Jar cuts).

DuracellEnergizer said:

As for the stuff with AOTC, none of the stuff mentioned would have made any significant improvement to the movie; it would have been just as bad, but in a slightly different way.

Though I do like the idea of Padmé pulling a knife on "evil" Anakin, it wouldn't have made her any less of a cognitive dissonant, racist ditz.

Well, I'm sure the article won't show you everything, they're hoping you buy the book to check it all out.

I've been reading David Semillion's Star Wars 'Awkenings', and I must say its actually VERY good. And I've read extremely positive reviews of the second installment 'Split Horizons'. THIS is how the prequels should've been. 

I don't know how feasible it is, but I wonder if any of these better concepts could also be snuck into PT:R.

Leonardo said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don't see how a shapeshifting Jar Jar could be an improvement, though. If anything, it would have only made him more annoying.

The moment I read "shapeshifting Jar Jar" I was immediately reminded of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJrTQjVGpT8&feature=youtu.be&t=30s

 That was Anakin's mom.

Take it I'm a tad late to Semillion? 

Burdokva said:

Not that much of a fan of younger Qui-Gon, though.  Liam Neeson added a lot of depth and gravity to the movie. And we already have far too many action star Jedi characters in the prequels.

So, the Geonosians are the Neimodians for TPM pre-production ?

Almost every space based series has a stab at shape-shifting (Star Trek, Space 1999 etc).

ILM invented morphing to pull off the plot device in Willow.

Almost always it's a beautiful woman turning into an animal.

The logical story place for the idea is Palpatine.

In the PT he is a friendly looking human politician and in ESB he is a prune faced, possibly alien thing with chimp eyes.

It seems they ditched the Mask/Schmoo/Barbapapa form of CGI shape shifting for Jar-Jar but instead went with the tried and true beautiful woman turning into something (here a weird alien) in AOTC.

Neither proposal shows signs of linking the concept to the story.