According to the Star Wars magazine I saw at the bookstore, when they were first designing Greivious, someone started superimposing Darth Maul’s eyes in Grevious’ head. They actually kept it up for quite awhile, before Lucas said that he wanted something totally new.
Annakin, Obi-wan, Yoda, Chewbacca, Palpatine, Jar-Jar, Han Solo and about 10 out of work comedians all witness a single person craft crash on a planet. On investigating, it turns out there’s a fortune in Aldeberon Gold on the other side of the galaxy and whoever finds it first gets to keep it all.
Madcap zany adventures await for characters. It all comes down to a frenzied race around Tattoonine with a cameo by Jay and Silent Bob.
Paradoxically, the best way to make this movie a guaranteed blockbuster is the same way to eradicate the most loyal customer base… just have the Enterprise come in at the end and kill everyone. All the Warsies would swear blood oaths to take Lucas’s life, but all the Trekkies would go see it dozens of times each.
Y’know, it just might happen… SW3 would make more money than Titanic.
The series ends in infamy when the charges of racism brought against Lucas (for the Trade Federation reps who sound like stereotypical movie Japanese villains, and for the fact that the original Star Wars film had no blacks in the cast) finally bear fruit in Ep. 3, when when the altered midichlorians spewing out Dark Force actually increase the amount of melanin in his skin.
In Lucas’ ultra-bigoted fantasy, the farther you go to the Dark Side, the darker you are, which explains the fact that Darth Vader has James Earl Jones’ voice.
Hell, we can bring in Jack Ryan (CIA boss and President), Indiana Jones, Neo, Harry Potter, Scooby Doo, and a host of others and have them duke it out in a final showdown pitting series vs. series in the epic Devlin/Emmerich production of Destroy All Franchises.
Unless, of course, Amadala and Padme enter into a lesbian relationship, and through in vitro methods, it’s revealed that Anakin’s father is really David Crosby.
Episode 3 is a real-time depiction of the 4 hours exactly preceding the beginning of Episode 4, shot and presented a la Timecode, with a separate screen-within the screen for each of the following characters/clusters:
Luke, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru
Leia, C3PO and R2D2
Darth Vader and Governor Tarkin
Han and Chewie
Whose character, of course, was not in the original film.
There was much speculation that his casting as Lando Calrissian in “Empire Strikes Back” was to quell the stink raised by black activists in 1977 over the fact that “Star Wars” (then the highest-grossing film of all time, and therefore representative of the state of then-modern Hollywood) had no blacks in the cast, at least not on-screen.
In a strange turn of events, God reveals that it isn’t actually long ago and far away, but is, in fact, the End Time.
Jack Chick is given command of the Armies of God (with Phred Phelps as his Second) and proceeds to liberate Annikan from his gayside, er… darkside, with carefully chosen snippits of Scripture.
John Travolta dances his fat ass in the finale scene which also has Ewoks lining up to get baptised by Reverend Binks.
Somewhere in the movie, Pin Head says, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”