A friend of mine linked me to this very detailed plot summary of the next movie…it’s probably complete b.s., but it’s a cool story even so. If it’s real (and done right), it could turn out to be the best star wars movie of all.
Maybe spoilers if this thing is real, but I doubt it is.
It makes no sense: There’s been no hint of a secret “Sith council”, no setup for the appearance of a 1000 year old Uber-Sith with the (idiotic) name of Darth Bane who’s been hanging around just waiting to destroy FetalLuke, etc.
I can’t imagine that Lucas would bring that many new pieces to the board without dealing with the ones he’s already got in play. I also have trouble picturring him pulling out like 15 new characters and one new arch-badguy when he hasn’t even really touched on the badguy he’s got (Palpatine) yet. I’m hoping that movie 3 will be Palpatine’s movie. He’s one of the best actors and sadly underused. Plus, I’d love to see some motivataion beyond “Bwah-ha-ha! It’s fun to be eeeee-vil”. I mean: is he in it because he thinks he’s the best ruler? Or is he in it just for the fun of being an arch-fiend?
Imagine if, in Jedi, rather than the big showdown between Luke/theEmperor/Darth, 12 new characters were introduced. It’s bad storytelling and that particular stunt isn’t Lucas’s style. The final part of a trilogy is designed to wrap things up.
The “time-bomb” (or whatever) ruse doesn’t “fit” the flavor of the rest of the universe, the big fight with all the Jedi vs All the Sith at the end just seems contrived, and the Millenium Falcon showing up is just too coincidental.
Finally, it’s WAY too long. Including the fact that you’d have to introduce all the Darths, give the backstory of “Darth Bane”:rolleyes:, have two long light-saber battles (plus several shorter ones) make Anakin INTO Darth, do all the setup for episode 4, etc, there’s just too damn much going on for a two hour movie.
Frankly, it sounds like wishful thinking fanfic to me.
Dooku’s fleet was cloaked. Since when is the ability to cloak something that mainstream enough to be used by an entire fleet? It’s never been used in a movie, and I think maybe in a book it has been, but it was probably experimental and highly dangerous. Someone wanna clarify if that’s right at all?
The main doubtful thing I see in it is that it says that it is two years later, but that Boba Fett is involved. He’d be, what, 12? 14 tops. And the inclusion of the Millennium Flacon is just so much fanboy claptrap.
Oh, and if it is how Ep. 3 is going to play out I will personally mail George Lucas some of my cat’s poo to register my displeasure, because that plot sucks pretty bad.
Lucas understands storytelling, even if he doesn’t write particularly good dialogue. Movies follow a three-act structure, and Lucas himself is on record as saying the trilogy is set up as three self-contained acts of a three-act play.
Act One, you introduce the principal characters. Act Two, the characters get into a situation. Either they solve the situation (rescue the princess) and move on to the final Act Three battle (against the Death Star) or the fail to solve the situation (Superman fails to stop the bombs from blowing up California) and run around for Act Three repairing his mistake. That’s how movie storytelling works, and Lucas knows this.
He wouldn’t introduce extra characters this late in the game. It’s not done. Characters have a certain investment with the viewer that has to pay off later. I could probably write a better Episode 3 summary than that.
Lucas has also said there will be parallels from Eps 4, 5, and 6. This script has no such parallels.
My thoughts on Episode III:
we may see a partially constructed Death Star
the Emperor may command Anakin to kill Count Dooku and take his place at the Emperor’s side – Luke resists in Ep 6, but Anakin will succumb
the Rebels may rally a local population (Wookiee slaves?) against the Empire, as in Ep6 they rally the Ewoks
Obi-Wan may be at the side of the dying Mace Windu, as Luke was with Yoda in Ep6
I don’t know if any or all of these will be there. But maybe, who knows? The whole point of the first trilogy is to see how Anakin does it, so we can see how Luke later is confronted with the same choices and avoids the path to the Dark Side.
I think Boba should kill Windu. It ties AoTC into it. Sure he’ll only be 14, sure he’ll have no chance against a Jedi, but it has promise to be one hell of a fight…
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Boba is helping the Empire kill the Jedi’s. At this point Jedi’s are fleeing and losing anything force power they had left. Boba’s tells Vader that Windu is his. Boba goes to great lengths to locate him. Cut to scene of Windu in a building walking down a corridor. He goes up to a door, it opens, he looks up. There is Boba suited in Jango’s armor. It takes a second for Mace to realize what is going on (weakened force, no foresight). By this time, Boba who has been planing this moment for years, uses his grappling hook to pull Mace’s sabre to him. He ignites it and decapitates our poor Jedi friend. Boba then turns off the sabre, sighs and moves along. The next scene is him boarding Slave I, taking off his helmet, then laying the sabre beside it and smiling. Substitute helmet for picture of Jango if needed.
Boba Fett is a vastly overrated character. He won’t figure largely in Episode Three, if at all.
Disclaimer:
Yes, I like Boba Fett, too. His armor is way cool.
Yes, I remember how special Boba Fett was when you could send off for his Kenner action figure with proofs of purchase.
But Obi-Wan says: “[Vader] was a pupil of mine before he turned to evil. He helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.” It would seriously undermine Anakin’s evilness by having him split these duties with your average 12-year-old wearing Dad’s battle armor.
There’s no real way to show the slaughter of the Jedi (it would get dreadfully dull, hundreds of Vader-killing-Jedi scenes, and Vader shouldn’t be in too much of Episode III), so you have to do something that shows it beginning, and also symbolizes the fall of the Jedi. We have three major Jedi we associate with the golden era in these films: Obi-Wan, Yoda and Mace. The first two are going to escape. Which means that Mace, the leader of the Jedi, will have to be our symbol for the fall of the Jedi at the hands of the Sith.
Thus, the story demands that Vader must kill Windu.
Yes, Dooku must have used his Jedi Mind Trick[sup]TM[/sup] to make Shmi forget that he was the father. Episode 1 is pretty clear about the fact that Anakin has no father, and seems to imply that he was born of the force.
If they did another “I am your father!” scene with Dooku or Palpatine, I just wouldn’t buy it.
This is almost definitely concocted by a weird guy named Supershadow, who is known throughout Star Wars Internet Fandom to be a complete nut who thinks he has convinced people he is a friend of George Lucas, who consults him for story ideas.
He’s a complete loon who doesn’t know when to shut up and leave well enough alone. He also has all these alien visitation and bigfoot theories.
I can’t wait to see how Chancellor Palpatine manages to turn himself into Emperor Palpatine. Obviously, the “Army of the Republic” is going to turn into the Stormtroopers. But what happens to the Senate? In Episode IV, they talk about how the Emperor has just dissolved the Imperial Senate, but they hint that it had long since lost any real authority. So what happens in Episode III to strip the Senate of its power?
In other points:
[spoiler]Anakin’s arrogance, plus his forbidden romance with Amidala, have set the stage for Anakin to be thrown out of the Jedi Knights in Episode III. After that, I predict that Palpatine will reveal himself to Anakin as Darth Sideous, and lure him over to the Dark Side.
Also, I’m a little surprised that Watto survived the movie. I guess that if he’d sold Shmi to a whorehouse or something, he’d probably have gotten a lightsaber enema.[/spoiler]
Almost forgot: Did I, or did I not, predict that something terrible would happen to Anakin’s mother, and that it would be the beginning of his decent to the Dark Side?
As of Episode II, the Senate has already lost all real power. Palpatine is now Emperor in all but name. His Emergecy Powers mean that he is now a functioning dictator… the Senate cannot rescind the powers they gave him.
At some point in e3, Anakin/Darth is going to need to lose most of his body parts, no? I forsee a battle between Palpatine and Anakin, Anakin losing and almost dying, and Palpatine rebuilding him and gaining his loyalty.