This dude is spot on about Darth Maul dying in Ep I.He should have survived and would have a simple drop in for Count Dooku.You can almost use the same dialog and everything.Don't get me wrong, I dig Christopher Lee.  The Man with the Golden Gun is a great villain.But Darth Maul could have been the Emperor's right hand man all the way up until Anakin kills him and takes his place as Darth Vader.Such a waist of an Awesome looking character.  Even the marketing people at FOX knew he was cool.  ALL the marketing material has Darth Maul's head REAL big on it but in reality he was such a minor character its sad.  Whats does he have, one or two lines in the whole move?

Nicely done man! You should keep going, fix the rest of these crappy prequel "films". By which I mean money sucking lightsaber filled eyesores.

This is brilliant--love it!

It's not really that astounding.

Very, Very, Very good job.  Ten times the movie that we all got.  Good work.  

Absolutely brilliant, food for thought - except your point about Toydarians. Don't the Empire HATE Aliens? With Vader pretty much in charge, he (and therefore the Empire) would find the Toydarians to be a threat, and just wipe the little buggers out (which is why we don't see them in the original Trilogy). 

You are... a %100 right, and the world is a darker place because we do not have a Delorean with a flux capacitor to go back in time and take your ideas and give them to George Lucas.

The most disappointing thing about the prequels is not just Lucas going for his cheap parlor tricks (which are all over the original series if you're looking for them) but that he went from telling one of the greatest emotional stories of his generation to one utterly devoid of emotions. Contrast the lightsaber duel at the end of Jedi, when Luke is about to lose himself to the Dark Side because he is bent on avenging THREE fathers (Owen, Obi-Wan, Anakin), that he has turned his back on the master manipulator who created this entire dark universe. Then at the crucial moment Luke stops, THROWS AWAY his lightsaber, the symbol of the fighting Jedi, because he realizes that standing against evil, not his tool for fighting it, is what being a Jedi is about. I'd put up with 1,000 Ewoks and a million Jar Jars so long as the series crescendo'ed at such a pregnant, meaningful moment.

I've been touting around a rewrite of Eps I-III for years now and you hit right on some of the big points (like keeping Darth Maul alive, Anakin being much older, Obi Wan being the main character who lusts for the old days of Jedi Action versus Sith, and the Obi Wan/Padme/Anakin love triangle).I was going to further depart from the original storyline and go more for the Roman epic that Lucas used as backstory in A New Hope, where the Republic before the Empire was ruled by the Senate and policed by mystical warrior monks until a huge war against faceless barbarians.

Major Thematic Changes:-Obi Wan and Amidalah have obvious chemistry in the 1st movie. The second movie's big subplot is the maturation of their love story, when by the end Obi Wan finally has to choose being a Jedi over loving her. Your moment of him abandoning Qui-Gon is a perfect foreshadowing of that, and I especially like the idea of Obi-Wan being so haunted by Qui-Gon's death that he abandons his love for Amidalah because of it. You can see where this is going: Amidalah instead takes up with Anakin because he's the perfect Obi-Wan rebound: a younger, hotter, more powerful Jedi who doesn't care about the celibacy rules.

-Screw the Galactic Trade Federation. The best you could do with this is make it into the East India Company but we're not telling the story of how Britain became an empire; we're talking about Rome. The shadow enemy they're fighting against is a barbarian uprising in the outer systems of species who lived on the planets (e.g. Naboo) that were colonized generations ago. Somehow the barbarians (of whom Darth Maul is a type species and a leader) have been modernized enough to go on murderous rampages in the outer systems. Naboo=Israel, a centuries-old peaceful and productive colony under siege from terrorists with a legitimate historical beef. And this is a perfect enemy for a jingoist, corrupt, disassociated "Rome" i.e. Coruscant.

-The Jedi are split into parties and also corrupt. Their obviously analogous to the Catholic Church of Late Antiquity, though this is not an exact comparison. We meet them when they are questioning their old stoic, samurai ways and considering how they might be the ones to step into the power vacuum of the crumbling secularist Republic and restore order. I agree that Yoda needs to be sidelined, but not as a myth as you suggested. Rather he's the history professor of the Jedi Academy who has been politically ostracized from Jedi power centers because he's so damn monkish. Yoda has a few dedicated followers among the Jedi, but most are behind Jedi leader Mace Windu. Windu is the polar opposite of Yoda -- he is deeply engaged in secular politics and sees himself as a demigod. He is against Anakin being trained because he senses Anakin's power. Windu is not overt about his designs to take over the Republic (even if it's just temporary) but any time Mace Windu and his ilk make a power grab (e.g. by getting Jedi appointed as high-ranking officers in the new model army, or when he tries to arrest Palpatine in Ep3) it helps Palpatine convince Anakin that the Jedi are just as corrupt and power hungry, and Light Side/Dark Side is just as B.S. as celibacy.

-Amidalah isn't democratically elected or any of that. Her father was assassinated by Palpatine (she doesn't know who obviously) because the future emperor was banking on the little teenage queen being easy to manipulate into the perfect outer planet sob story and build support for a war against the barbarians. Her thing is she's actually a spark plug, and once she has seen some of what goes on in the empire she goes over Palpatine's head, walks out into the woods herself and Yizhak Rabin's a lasting peace with the once downtrodden original inhabitants of Naboo. In Ep 2 Obi Wan is hiding her from now very serious attempts to assassinate her as she tours the outer systems as a peace ambassador. Obi Wan at one point offers to give up being a Jedi if she'll give up being queen of a small colony who's sticking herself between very ambitious warmongerers (Windu, Maul) on both sides, but she refuses. Since the Sith can't get her, they get the barbarians to attack her homeworld again, plus three more planets, and this time they kill the Naboo, the Nabooian Aborigines she made peace with, and though Anakin leads a commendable X-Wing/Y-Wing defense from the Republic, their crummy old naval power is not enough to save anybody. Ep 2 ends with Anakin raised to Jedi for his heroism, Amidalah just a figurehead survivor of an extinct people who blames Obi Wan for her not being there to stop the genocide. Obi Wan says fine and chooses to be a Jedi for good, and we leave off with the Republic mobilizing for total war.-Anakin's mother isn't just a slave, but it's strongly hinted she's a...certain kind of slave, kidnapped as a young girl by human traffickers who are paying off someone in the Republic to ply their trade (mostly from defeated, underdeveloped aboriginal populations, e.g. Wookies, and the sexy tube-head girls, of outer colonies). The father isn't God--he's an offworlder and all Shmi remembers about him is that he said he was a Jedi (evidence that celibacy isn't working as well as the order pretends), which nobody has ever believed. 14-year-old Anakin goes out on night escapades where he hunts human traffickers and kills them (it's more about revenge than saving girls). This is how he meets Qui Gon and Obi Wan, when the traffickers kidnap Amidalah and Anakin saves her before the Jedi can. Also saved at that moment is a young Beru, whom Amidalah was comforting during their short captivity. While Qui Gon does that whole podracing thing you mentioned with Anakin, Obi Wan and Amidalah sneak off and Amidalah uses her unlimited funds to get Beru set up where she's safe. In one of the subsequent movies we'll mention that Amidalah keeps in touch with Beru of Tatooine--she never talks about it with anyone but Obi Wan. When Amidalah dies in Episode 3 (not of a "broken heart" but in complications from being strangled by Anakin in his jealous rage) the last letter from Beru arrives and Obi Wan receives it in his grief -- we never have to go back to Tatooine.Minor Character Changes:-Qui Gon is an acolyte of Yoda, and stays away from Coruscant on purpose because he's so old school. He's got a rebel streak, like a Han Solo Jedi, who picked and chose what parts of Jediism he believed in.

-Obi Wan you've got down. His arc is the main crux of the story but his adult progress is also blocked by the choices he makes to remain "just a Jedi" and stay true to its codes. Obi Wan admires the hermetical Yoda a bit too much, interfaces with the world as a consummate samurai soldier, and therefore won't ever seize the political opportunities that come up.

-No Jar Jar, Han shoots first, all the other obvious crap, etc. etc. etc.

LOVE ITWhy Couldn't this guy be Lucas? 

Sounds too much like the original film (um... 'Star Wars', for those who are unsure what I mean). If Lucas had done that, people would have cirticized him for repackaging the original. He wouldn't have gotten off easy.

But most of us would have loved the film mroe and felt a heck of a lot better about it in the end :)

This man should be made Emperor.  He just make a steaming piece of crap the most epic movie ever.

I don't like the idea of Kenobi and Padme going gaga for each other...and you could still do it the same way, Kenobi just goes to the side of Padme when she's hit because she's the queen.  No romance needed.  I think a romance between them would make things more complicated than they need to be later.

Like it matters...

So awesome! Please do episode 2!

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Lucas plagiarized himself in the prequels to the point it was moan inducing. what makes the prequels awful for me is that i felt he wasn't trying to make a film in as much as he was doing R&D for ILM. that's his thing, now. Just look at Red Tails: the high points are the ILM handled fight scenes. Low points are everything else. and it was the same with the Prequels. if Lucas had bothered to go to writers who were passionate about SW, and then let people who were passionate about SW direct, and just sat back and tackled the techie aspect, i think it would have come out better.

Of all the weird, stupid crap Lucas barfed up for the prequels, the direction taken with Padme was most unfortunate. I couldn't begin to tell you what she did in "Sith" except have babies and die. I am still convinced she was originally meant to survive (possibly a faked death) and re-appear under the name Mon Mothma. Read Mon Mothmas bio in "Behind the Magic" sometime, its Padmes story all the way, up until around the events of "Sith". Also, before it's release Rick McCallum admitted an OT character appears in Episode 1, but we wouldnt know until the final film. Well, if not Padme/Mothma, then who was it??Ah. Feels good to get that rant over with. Thank you for reading my insanity.

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Ever since Red Letter Media did their mega review of TPM, every nerd on the internet has started dreaming of how things could have been better.

 It's getting damn old.

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I just love that he describes an alternate version of the first film, with his interpretations of the characters, and then riffs on fanfiction at the end. God, if only someone could write this thing he is describing... oh, wait. What would that be called...?

Dude, you really hit the nail on the head. Excellent analysis.

I'm going to make the unpopular comment and say the simple truth. The prequel trilogy wasn't so much "bad" as the original wasn't as critically amazing as it gets credit for. It was a cultural phenomenon, and a film friendly revision of The Children of Dune... and then the prequels for the most part play out Dune and Dune Messiah in Hollywood fashion. Honestly- this guy's vision is definitely an improvement.

Genius. Please do vids saying how you'd remake eps 2 and 3, ASSUMING that your ep 1 got made.

This dude looks like a cross between Dustin Diamond and that dude who fucked a pie.

I want to live in the universe where this is reality.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

I miss the treatment that used to be at betterstarwars.com

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I disagree with the idea of Palpatine being a "Jedi liaison", it keeps intact another big problem with TPM: the whole conspiracy thing. The prequels would have benefited greatly from it, if the rise of the Empire was due to the failure of the Republic to deal with a fascist-like movement, headed by Palpatine openly (instead of Palpatine advancing a secret plot to overthrow the government). If the Republic was presented more like the Weimar Republic, a failing government that, by the end was more of a bureaucracy than an actual democracy (where people actually became attracted to a philosophy of violence, or in Star Wars terms, a philosophy of the Dark Side), the conscious references to Nazi Germany in the original trilogy would have also rung more true, at least to my ears.

Most of it has been done in the many fan-edits that have existed for years, so it's pretty unoriginal. 

Honestly, if you don't like TPM, then don't watch it. Just stop beating the dead horse already. You're well past the bones.

Liked his ideas a lot.  Myself, I would have made Obi Wan older.  If he's in his early 60s during A New Hope, he should be early 30s in Phantom -- past the age of apprentice.  I never thought he was old enough in the prequels for how old Alec Guiness looked just 20 years after Sith.

So Obi Wan, and not Qui Gon, should have been the one to see potential in Anakin.  Obi Wan should have had his own apprentice and lost him to Darth Maul.  That would also put greater depth into his training Luke to kill Vader, who was 100% Obi Wan's fault.