Jubenhimer
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The Star Wars Prequels aren't looked at fondly among fans. What was hyped up to be the epic origin story of how the original story happened, ended up being a series of bland, boring, convoluted and anti-climactic films that only raised more questions than answers. While not as hated as the Disney-era films are now for their blatantly hamfisted SJW messages and disrespect to the original universe, the prequels are generally seen as a joke, and many fans would rather forget they ever happened.
Lets say you have a DeLorean and decided to Travel back to 1999, How would you go about fixing the mess that George Lucas and Fox made with the original prequels? How would you make a Star Wars Prequel Trilogy that both gives backstory to set up the first 3 movies, while also being more faithful to the original films?
In a basic sense, I'd first put more emphasis on action/adventure, not make up random shit to explain Star Wars Terminology on the spot, and absolutely say no to Jar-Jar Binks. I'd also make Anikin a more interesting and likable character who starts off as a genuinely nice person who believes in the Jedi philosophy, but is slowly led down a dark path, and now has to choose whether to stay with the Sith, or return to his Jedi origins. Basically, give us a more believable explanation and conflict as to why he became Darth Vader, rather than some whiny kid who becomes a Jedi because it's cool, but becomes evil because he didn't get what he wanted. That's not interesting, that's lazy. But more importantly, I'd also limit the amount of free reign Lucas has over the Trillogy. George Lucas is a great writer, but he's not really a great Director, something he himself has admitted. I would have Lucas write the story and serve as executive producer, while getting somebody else on Directing duties. The most disappointing part of the prequels is that there are good movies hiding underneath all that misguided and clumsy direction, bringing in people who can guide the team to make those films truly great would've been better than letting George go nuts on all of it.
But how else would you make a new prequel trilogy?
Lets say you have a DeLorean and decided to Travel back to 1999, How would you go about fixing the mess that George Lucas and Fox made with the original prequels? How would you make a Star Wars Prequel Trilogy that both gives backstory to set up the first 3 movies, while also being more faithful to the original films?
In a basic sense, I'd first put more emphasis on action/adventure, not make up random shit to explain Star Wars Terminology on the spot, and absolutely say no to Jar-Jar Binks. I'd also make Anikin a more interesting and likable character who starts off as a genuinely nice person who believes in the Jedi philosophy, but is slowly led down a dark path, and now has to choose whether to stay with the Sith, or return to his Jedi origins. Basically, give us a more believable explanation and conflict as to why he became Darth Vader, rather than some whiny kid who becomes a Jedi because it's cool, but becomes evil because he didn't get what he wanted. That's not interesting, that's lazy. But more importantly, I'd also limit the amount of free reign Lucas has over the Trillogy. George Lucas is a great writer, but he's not really a great Director, something he himself has admitted. I would have Lucas write the story and serve as executive producer, while getting somebody else on Directing duties. The most disappointing part of the prequels is that there are good movies hiding underneath all that misguided and clumsy direction, bringing in people who can guide the team to make those films truly great would've been better than letting George go nuts on all of it.
But how else would you make a new prequel trilogy?
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