the BEGINNING of EpIII

As we have it right now, TPM and AOTC both follow the path of a typical "summer blockbuster" movie. The same path followed by ANH and ROTJ. Theres a minor scuffle at the beginning to set the stage for the movie, and the movie progresses towards a big climatic battle at the end.

ESB, which is my favorite Star Wars movie, did the exact opposite. It set the stage for the movie with about 20 minutes of slow stuff, and then exploded into a HUGE battlescene, which set the stage for the events to follow later in the movie. the movie ended with a climatic character-oriented battle, that wasnt a special effects all out battlescene extrveganza. and its my favorite star wars movie. It also ended with a big cliffhanger.

My HOPE is that EPIII will follow the same formula. I would hope all three prequel movies didnt follow the staple hollywood summer blockbuster formula. I think it would be great if GL did the same thing for EPIII. Have the big battle scene in the beginning, and the rest of the movie be character driven. no huge battle at the end of the movie. just a duel between master and apprentice and a "cliffhanger" as to what will happen in EPIV.

Wow,i totally agree.
Episode 3 i think will be spectacular..in every aspect..like the turn of anakin..and the birth of luke and leia,in my opinion its gonna have to be the best of the trilogy,because its like the turning point,in the middle,you know what i mean. 🙂

😱 Are you saying you didn't like the other films? Blasphemy!

Also, how do you know AOTC will start with a scuffle? How could it start with a scuffle? The apprentice of the dark side is as of yet unkown, and Lucas wouldn't dare unmask him in the opening scenes, nor will Palpatine do anything due to his new status. I kind of picture Obi-wan training Anakin somewhere.

I always hoped that EpIII would end with Anakin falling in the lava and you see someone pulling him out (this way the shock in ESB would still be there)

This topic isn't about the beginnings of the film's...

Episode III should have something about their children, or at least a heightening of Padme and Anakin's relationship, IF it's not already on the downfall.

first, AOTC, does open with a minor scuffle. There is an assassination attempt on padme amidala.

actually, the topic i started IS about the opening of the films: My idea that EPIII, will start big, and get smaller and more personalized at the end, the way ESB did. I am interested in a discussion about with what we know happens at the end of AOTC, with the clones boarding ships, readying for an all out war, what kind of huge battlescene people think we could see at the opening of EPIII.

I'm writing EpIII at the moment (well, the things that need to happen, and what I think will happen) and I have to say, there are no cliffhangers ... well... I made it so that the shock will come in EpV (twice: father and who he is)

when i say cliffhanger, i mainly mean something along the lines of at the end of ESB, where han's fate is left in the open, and luke has heard that darth vader is his father, but we dont have conclusive evidence.

I still have my doubts that we will know that darth vader=anakin skywalker in EPIII, but that aside, I think we could have a cliffhanger along the lines of, "is anakin REALLY going to turn to the dark side" and more probably, just a bad scenario of events for the main characters. Its going to end with the bad guys in power and the good guys in deep sh!t. that in of itself, is a cliffhanger

Spelling error. I meant to say this post isn't about the endings of this movie. 😮 🙁

Really big, you can alter it that you don't know that he becomes Vader...
you should read it 😄

YESS!!!! i argued till my head exploded that GL could easily do EPIII so that we wouldnt know he turned into Vader until EPV. and you guys all told me i was stupid and critized me to no end!

whats youre theory, yess?

don't have a theory, but if you make the fight at the end (like a last struggle to get him back) and Anakin falls, Ob1 leaves in sadness for Padme, to pick up Luke (Yoda is there and tells him that he will leave to Dagobah)... when he is gone you see an arm grabbing someone out of the lava...

Then you THINK it's Anakin and then suddenly the mainvillan in the OT tells someone he is Anakin, the one you thought was dead...

ok, how about this. im not going to offer any explainations, because then i would be typing for hours, but suffice to say, if GL wants to keep the anakin thing a secret, this is how i see him doing it....(along with how i think the beginning of the movie should open)

Ok, first of all, reguardless of whether we find out anakin is vader, padme cannot have the twins in EPIII. The movie will end with her being very much pregnant and anakin not knowing about it. Padme will become pregnant between EpII and EPIII.

At the beginning of EPIII, Obiwan will be in his fighter on some important mission being chased by ALOT of enemy fighter ships. He will land his fighter on a planet, probably Alderaan (since hes working for bail organa. The fighters will disengage and before long a whole fleet of ships will appear and send landing craft towards the planet (ala Hoth in ESB) A big fight will ensue, between the clones and whoever and the good guys will get their @$$es kicked.

Obiwan will go to tatooine seeking Anakin's help, who left the jedi order after EPII to live a quiet life on tatooine with padme. Against owens will, Anakin will follow Obiwan on a damn-fool idealistic crusade - that being to reunify the republic and deal with dooku. Anakin leaves padme, not knowing she is pregnant. Somewhere along the line, Anakin and Obiwan confront Dooku and find out that Palpatine has been behind everything from the beginning. Palpatine convinces Anakin that what he is doing is the only way to bring order to the galaxy, and that he will free the slaves, etc. He also will tell him that Obiwan HAS been holding him back, and keeping him from reaching his potential. Obiwan and Anakin battle it out, and it is left with the audience thinking Anakin Skywalker is killed. The movie ends with the children unborn, so that we only beleive there to be one child, and that that child will one day be born and offer the galaxy hope.

The only major problem with any theory reguarding the Anakin Skywalker=Darth Vader not being revealed until EPV, is this line from ANH: "when we last met, i was but the learner...now I am the master."

ok...
Anakin does know she is pregnant, otherwhise he can't know that Luke is his son (could be his nephew otherwhise)
But I agree that she will become pregnant between EpII and III.
I think the Clones will get a new name, the stormtroopers...

Anakin won't life on Tatooine, he is still with the Jedi order normally...

Hmm, if you see two children you still don't know that Leia is his sister

..how cute would it be,seeing these two mini versions of luke and leia!

in the script for ROTJ, obiwan tells luke: "when your father left, he didnt know your mother was pregnant." in the script, the whole speech obiwan gave luke on dagobah after yoda died was ALOT longer than what we see in the movie, but GL cut it out so we wouldnt get bored. While technically, this statement isnt cannon, it WAS GLs idea, and he probably hasnt changed that aspect of the story since filming ROTJ.

I don't know, I think he will change it, otherwhise there would seemingly be a HUGE gap between EpIII and ANH

there should be a huge gap. theres over 20 years between the movies!

there is also 10 years between TPM and AOTC, but you don't see that clearly

exactly. we dont see obiwan train anakin like yoda trained luke. its simply not important to the story. likewise, its not important to the story to actually see luke and leia born. it actually works out alot better for EPIII to end with padme still pregnant. thats the only way to keep leia a surprise until ROTJ