The opening scene of Epi. II

It may well start out on Coruscant, but not on Tatooine. They spent way too much time there in ep1. But I honestly think it will start with a view of and eventual action upon, one of the new planets.

I'm getting a little tired of Tatooine. It's already been in 3 of the 4 movies.

Yeah..but it's too important to think that it won't be shown.

I think that the letters comes, than pans down to a ship, there a scene with Annakin and Obi-wan who are discussing there mission.

Who reopened this old thing. Started by EJ. RC's gonna have a fit. 😄

Someone has been checking the back posts. Right-on, Yerssot! A VERY early Edna post there as she hasn't posted in the Star Wars discussion areas in nearly six months.

Anyway, it's looking almost certain that it begins at Coruscant now, isn't it?

Opening scene: I have consulted Ms. Cleo, she consulted her terra cards: definitely Naboo! 😄

Yeah, I think it's Coruscant with a ship leaving: OB1 and Annakin

This is what I heard:

Opens with ship heading for Naboo - Jar Jar, now a senator, is informing Boss Nass of the senates' plight over recent 'terrorist' moves aginst the jedi council, and is concerned that unrest could lead to conflict.

The first word spoken in the film comes from Boss Nass himself and is the word "War?!!", countering the final word of TPM (which he also spake) which was, of course, "Peace!"

Don't remember where I got that - could even have been here in this forum - but someone claimed it to be credible...

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Maybe from the scriptment

Scriptment says Coruscant.

A long time ago the rumor was that the first line was Boss Nass saying "War!" but after all the recent "spoilers" it seems as if he's not even in the movie any more. Just goes to show that everything we think we know is probably all false leads given by the people at LFL.

Certainly a lot of the early stuff was crap (I remember the Tatooine invasion rumour...) but a lot of stuff since then is far more likely to be genuine; the more time goes by the more shots and stuff from the filsm seem to match what was predicted; people thought names like Jango Fett and Zam Wessel were nonsense but now there they are on the site...

I'm always sceptical, but there is no escaping that a lot has been blown.

from the 4 examples so far i would have thought the beginning would start with a picture of the bad guys ship, perhaps chasing padme and her ship or perhaps sidous sending dooku off to wait for anakin or a look at the ship that has the cloning gear, just a thought. i find it hard to believe that gl would start such an important film with such an uminportant character as boss nas.

The generally accepted thing right now is Amidala's ship arriving on Coruscant and blowing up shortly afterwards.

Still, we will see.

It's still not sure

Personally, I'd like to see Lucas break the mould and do something completely unexpected to open AOTC. Like have a false start that turns out to be Anakin's dream or something that eludes to events to follow. Lucas is going to have to dramatise Anakin's conflict somehow, just as he did Luke's with the Vader encounter in the tree on Dagabah.

It would be brave of Lucas to start AOTC with a sequence like the tree encounter, then have Anakin wake up, sweaty and confused. It would certainly drive home the conflict, could be used to foreshadow important events, tie up lose ends/events between episode I and II and throw the audience completely.

I know dreams in films can be terribly tacky, but Anakin makes a big deal about his dreams in EpI, so it would at least be justified.

Make me happy, anyway.

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No, we won't

Is that "No, we won't" SEE or "No, we won't" make you happy? 😂

The dream should happen, then he wakes up sweaty. He rolls over in bed where Padme is laying. Then guess what happens? 🙂