Hi, I really wanted to hold out on announcing this before I actually start weaving the new edit plan together but I can't ignore your question... it would be rude to.
So I have decided that I am going to use more of Attack of the Clones in this edit since Revenge of the Sith doesen't do a great job, on its own, to introduce aspects of the Prequels like:
- The Jedi Council
- Palpatine and why he is d*ck
- Anakin and Padmes relationship
- The C.I.S
- and why we should care for Samuel L. Jackson, he literally would have like 6 lines in the movie
So i've been spending my days calculting how I can make AOTC into a 30-40 minute prologue to the movie and I have a decent structure which will sow itself into ROTS.
The Jedi Council send Obi Wan, Anakin and Padme to Geonosis to investigate a possibly droid factory being built. First Obi Wan flys in and find the factory with Count Dooku and his crew inside. He then sends a transmission to Panakin who are on the outskirts of the same planet (this will be acheived by colour correcting the scene to make Tatooine look like Geonosis) and also the Republic in Coruscant. Obi Wan gets captured and Panakin go to rescue him. Palpatine in response orders a clone army. The Fett's wont be in this movie so Panakin never get captured they just burst into the arena to help Obi. The Jedi then arrive to kick arse, this is there first chronological appearance. The clones arrive shortly afterwards. The Anakin and Obi get rekt by Count Dooku then Yoda arrives (this is his first chronological apperance) he fights of Dooku with the FORCE and not his saber unti Dooku retreats. They all fly home. The bridge between AOTC and ROTS will go nicely; we see the Clone army looking awesome then a montage of Anakin and Padme falling in love, hopefully a combination of John Williams and a couple of nice shots will convince the audience. Anakin then has a nightmare of Padme dying or something and Anakin wakes up and we are now 5 years ahead. We then cut to the space battle of Coruscant where we see how everything has changed, Anakin and Obi Wan never board the ship we just go straight back to Coruscant where Anakin and Obi are looking smug.
Major Changes:
. Dooku is now the side-villan, not Grievous (he can now be cut)
. Dooku and the C.I.S aren't alligned with Palpatine, the Empire would be the 3rd side in the war which would wipe everyone out.
. Dooku's death will be moved to order 66 montage so its shows Anakins gradual rise of power to the point where he could single-handily overthrow Dooku
. We only get one AOTC flashback in the ROTS period and thats when Anakin finds his mother.
Hopefully that's a decent update and I hope the AOTC prologue will work out well.