STARS OF WAR

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

STARS OF WAR

After a thousand years of peace, a confederacy of rebel star systems is breaking away from the great GALACTIC REPUBLIC, forcing an entire galaxy to the brink of war....

(Here follows an account of the great civil war, later known as the Clone Wars, from the eyes of Beru Whitesun and Owen Lars, who, having no personal stake in the war, were nevertheless swept up in a life and death struggle across the stars. Their tale will not disprove the account of Anakin Skywalker, the dark and mysterious figure who claimed to Owen and Beru to be merely a navigator on a Spice Freighter while in hiding on Tatooine. However, this tale will expose the conditions on the ground for a galaxy at war, the plight of the poor and underprivileged, those with no allegiance and no home. It will reveal the true origin of Anakin and his abilities, and the curse that drove generations to despair. Finally, it will tell of the onetime greatness of the Old Republic, before it was destroyed from within, and its resurrection in the birth of the Rebel Alliance. But the story, to state it simply, is about a boy, a girl, and a universe.)

Good thinking about Owen/Beru not truly knowing Anakin. Very good.

Thanks. I think Open War is a better title for the second in the series, the first being between Episodes 1 and 2 and called something like STARS of WAR. This will cover the first breakaway of the Separatist systems, around 24 bby. The second will be directly after the death of Cliegg Lars and the beginning of the Clone Wars, and the third will be at the same time as Episode 3.

The whole idea behind this is that a good trilogy of movies could exist within the prequel and EU timeline, a series of movies that can be watched before the original trilogy and that don't give away Anakin's fall, Yoda, or Leia. They center on Owen and Beru, and their untold adventures throughout the galaxy. These 3 movies will be unnumbered, as Episodes 1, 2, and 3 already exist, but as STAR WARS was unnumbered, this could be seen as a thematic tie-in to the ORIGINAL original trilogy.

Okay, I've changed the title to STARS OF WAR, and the working titles of the two sequels are OPEN WAR and HOLY WAR (or JEDI WAR).

Blast it, I was kind of expecting this new thread to galvanize me into actually beginning to finalize the writing of these movies. Oh well. It will happen eventually.

I know it will happen! I prefer Jedi War to Holy War.

Mrebo said:

I know it will happen! I prefer Jedi War to Holy War.

Lol.

I don't think that Jedi War will stay either.

The thing is, I don't want to have Jedi in these movies at all. The goal is to have it be completely Jedi and lightsaber free, so that we first learn about the lightsaber when Obi-wan gives it to Luke.

As for Owen not knowing about Anakin, I would have liked him to be ignorant of Anakin's powers throughout the movies, but as Anakin becomes the poster boy for the war in the EU, I'll work in the fact that Owen and Beru are vaguely aware of Anakin's Jedi status in the 2nd and 3rd movies.