Have you seen the behind the scenes to the prequels? Next to nothing is practical except sometimes in episode 1. It's blue screen for days. Especially compared to other films st the time it was absolutely exorbitant with cg. Look at the prequels compared to lord of the rings. Regardless you could still.hafe battles and action, it's a full scale war story but the story of that war can't just be some but not enough events leading up for it to make sense, the inciting incident and the ending. Making the whole prequel trilogy about Darth Vader was a mistake from the start and letting the allure the character had on the real world affect the world building. In the OT he was important to Luke but to everyone else he was just like...the emperor's really scary right hand guy. He was part of a larger world
If it's gotta be a film trilogy and be less andor mire rotj, focus less on anakin, he's there and a major character but Obi Wan is the main. The first episode is obi Wan and his new apprenric Anakin doing some jedi bullshit and discover a threat! Some weird aliens thst can clone themselves and be basically an unlimited army are a-comin! The republic reacts to this crisis, gives Palpatine the emergency powers, this clone army is relentless and eventually society becomes more and more militarized and people are drafted into being storm troopers, politcal control increases etc. The clones run dry, the empire is now a thing without anyone really noticing it happened. Maybe Palpatine orchestrated the clones maybe he didn't, doesn't matter much. Anakin goes dark side somewhere over the course of this but by the end circumstances have led to the jedi being pretty dark as well during the war, he just didn't let it go. The remaining jedi wh ogot their shit back together after the war are then mostly killed by Vader. Add a compelling cast that gels as well as the OT and add their personal stories and that pretty much fills out three films.
i accidentally deleted my wip reply: tldr, War and Peace proves a big expensive setpiece-y movie series can be good, Lucas had a unique opportunity (having more money than god) to direct such a project. the fucking writing and story sucked. i don't like the 'darth vader lifestory' premise either, it just wasn't an unworkable idea
the clones being the bad guys was the 'original' premise of the Clone War in novelizations that's some deep lore you're on
Have you seen the behind the scenes to the prequels? Next to nothing is practical except sometimes in episode 1. It's blue screen for days. Especially compared to other films st the time it was absolutely exorbitant with cg. Look at the prequels compared to lord of the rings. Regardless you could still.hafe battles and action, it's a full scale war story but the story of that war can't just be some but not enough events leading up for it to make sense, the inciting incident and the ending. Making the whole prequel trilogy about Darth Vader was a mistake from the start and letting the allure the character had on the real world affect the world building. In the OT he was important to Luke but to everyone else he was just like...the emperor's really scary right hand guy. He was part of a larger world
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If it's gotta be a film trilogy and be less andor mire rotj, focus less on anakin, he's there and a major character but Obi Wan is the main. The first episode is obi Wan and his new apprenric Anakin doing some jedi bullshit and discover a threat! Some weird aliens thst can clone themselves and be basically an unlimited army are a-comin! The republic reacts to this crisis, gives Palpatine the emergency powers, this clone army is relentless and eventually society becomes more and more militarized and people are drafted into being storm troopers, politcal control increases etc. The clones run dry, the empire is now a thing without anyone really noticing it happened. Maybe Palpatine orchestrated the clones maybe he didn't, doesn't matter much. Anakin goes dark side somewhere over the course of this but by the end circumstances have led to the jedi being pretty dark as well during the war, he just didn't let it go. The remaining jedi wh ogot their shit back together after the war are then mostly killed by Vader. Add a compelling cast that gels as well as the OT and add their personal stories and that pretty much fills out three films.
i accidentally deleted my wip reply: tldr, War and Peace proves a big expensive setpiece-y movie series can be good, Lucas had a unique opportunity (having more money than god) to direct such a project. the fucking writing and story sucked. i don't like the 'darth vader lifestory' premise either, it just wasn't an unworkable idea
the clones being the bad guys was the 'original' premise of the Clone War in novelizations that's some deep lore you're on
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