Thursday, June 09, 2005

Lucas Talks of a Pre-Episode I Star Wars Movie

George Lucas said in an interview that he was considering a pre-Episode I Star Wars movie. Whether he was batting an idea around, joking, or dropping hints, it makes for an interesting discussion.

With the highly successful "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" behind him, Lucas is looking at doing two Star Wars TV series.

If there was any weight to his comments about a pre-Phantom Menace movie, some think that it would be better if he did a movie that follows immediately after Revenge of the Sith to explain a few things, instead of focusing on Palpatine’s becoming a Dark Jedi and how he murdered his master in his sleep after learning all he could from Darth Plagius the Wise.

Some questions for an Episode 3½ : did all the Jedi (except Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi) die during the events of Episode III, or were there other Jedi that went into hiding, only to be hunted down by Darth Vader and the Emperor later on?

It’s been said in the Star Wars expanded universe that Palpatine subjugated all alien races and made humans the dominant species in the Empire. Is that Star Wars canon?

How did the Rebellion start, and when? When did Mon Mothma become leader of the Rebel Alliance? When did she stop being a senator and become a fugitive from the Emperor?

People have been waiting for the story of Darth Vader and the Emperor's rise to power to be told, so the story should be moved forward from Episode III, not back further in time.

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