How Would You Have Done the Star Wars Prequels?

[Fappy]

Wall incoming!

Personally, I preferred when the story of Anakin's fall was nothing more than a few conversations between Obi-Wan and Luke. The original trilogy did an excellent job giving us the right amount of information about Vader at the right time, and as a kid, I was never really curious about how he specifically fell to the darkside. That said, it's still fun to imagine how the story could have gone down had Lucas retained the creative integrity of his youth.

I'm going to vomit out some of my ideas of how I would have changed/improved the prequels and I encourage everyone to share their ideas as well. Note that some of these ideas are probably not entirely my own. I won't list any small detail nitpicks, only things that have a detailed alternative.

- Anakin should not have been a child in Episode 1. Ignoring the fact that good child actors are hard to come by, introducing Anakin at such a young age ultimately serves no purpose. Yeah, you get that he's a good pilot (for some reason) and a mechanical genius, but what about his personality? He's 10, he's going to be either annoying or endearing... 10 year olds don't have much else going on in the personality department. The Anakin we meet in Episode 1 has no resemblance to the man he ultimately becomes outside of his piloting skill - and since when was Vader a mechanical genius?

It would have made more sense to make him a teenager or a young adult, maybe close to Luke's age in A New Hope. Give us a likable character whose brash actions and unchecked passion foreshadow his eventual fall. This should be done right off the bat! We shouldn't wait until the next movie to see these signs! Yoda alluding to some cryptic nonsense is telling, not showing!

- Qui-Gon Jinn should not have been Obi-Wan's teacher but his best friend instead, and he should have died either before Episode 1 or at the very start. I'll start with the teacher aspect: As we learn in Empire, Yoda was Obi-Wan's teacher. Why did this suddenly change in the prequels? If we consider Obi-Wan to be one of the most powerful Jedi masters of his era, it makes sense that Yoda would be one of the few Jedi truly capable of helping him wield the power inside him. Considering Yoda's importance throughout the series, it also reinforces their implied bond from the original movies rather than them having a rather boring 'professional' relationship. What purpose does Qui-Gon Jinn honestly serve in this role? He finds Anakin and basically guilts Obi-Wan into training him after his death. Not all that compelling.

So where does that leave Jinn in the story? He could still serve the story as a martyr of sorts. Perhaps he took a pupil before Obi-Wan did - a young zabrak with a lot of potential. Jinn sees the darkness within him and tries to save him from it. Ultimately he fails and is killed by his pupil (due to Palpatine's manipulations). Obi-Wan vows to avenge his fallen friend and tells himself he won't make the same mistake. Enter Anakin, who he is hesitant to take under his wing at first, but ultimately folds as he grows to admire the young man.

Obi-Wan hoping to fill the vacant space in his heart left by Jinn and Anakin seeking a father figure, become teacher and student (which appears to be the arc that Lucas attempted to convey).

- Obi-Wan needs to fail Anakin. In the original trilogy Kenobi implies that he failed Luke's father - that his tutelage wasn't enough to prevent Anakin's fall. Obi-Wan certainly makes some questionable decisions in the prequels, but he never really tangibly fails Anakin. Anakin is manipulated into thinking he his master failed him, sure, but that's not something Obi-Wan would take credit for. So how does he fail him exactly?

Obi-Wan fights against and ultimately expels the darkness inside him throughout the films, but Anakin doesn't see the eventual resolution within Obi-Wan's heart. No, instead he's lead astray by Obi-Wan's actions just as much as he is Palpatine's. In other words, he repeats the mistakes of his father and Palpatine is the X factor that changes the outcome. Obi-Wan's dark side can be explored in several ways (some of which fundamentally change the plot):

A. As mentioned above, Obi-Wan has a vendetta against Jinn's killer (Darth Maul probably), which impairs his judgement and invokes the darkness within him. This can culminate in a final confrontation with Maul where, after a long battle, Obi-Wan finds it within himself to show Maul mercy after his defeat. Maul takes this opportunity to sucker punch Obi-Wan while his guard is down, but before he can kill him Anakin intervenes and defeats him. Though there is an opportunity to, Anakin's anger does not allow Maul mercy. He almost killed his best friend, after all. When he comes to Obi-Wan's side and says, "I did it, Master! I destroyed him! I avenged your friend!" Kenobi suddenly realizes what he'd allowed to happen.

B. (Ties into a below point) Obi-Wan should actively rebel against his master (Yoda's) wishes. Obi-Wan openly defying his master's whim and forging his own misguided path, sows the seeds for Anakin's eventual betrayal.

- The clones should have been the bad guys throughout the whole trilogy. The whole concept of pitching two disposable armies against each other is so asinine I don't even know where to start. How can you expect to invoke any kind of emotional response from your audience if every single person on screen exchanging blaster fire is essentially a living weapon with no unique thoughts, feelings, histories or families? There's no tension.

And that's not even taking into account how utterly stupid it is that Palpatine had not only one but TWO fake-out armies. How about this: the villains (being manipulated by Palpatine) use a clone army to wage war against the Republic. In the first movie we see the peaceful Republic overwhelmed by this terrible force and learn that, "hey, we need an army of our own". Palpy gets executive power and starts a galaxy-wide draft. Now in the next two films we have an army of real people trying to protect their civilization against these godless, faceless and unnatural usurpers. We could have real tension and real non-Jedi characters!

This could also give us a much better set up for the fall of the Jedi. Palpy tricks the senate and general populous into thinking, "gasp, the Jedi were behind the clone army all along", and instead of a mindless clone army marching into the temple to slaughter the jedi you have real people who have suffered from this war taking out all their rage and anxiety on those they believed to be their guardians.

This also makes more sense for the original trilogy. Few if any of the clone troopers are still around for the original movies, and considering how many officers and engineers they have around they must have drafted them at some point. Why not show the Republic truly die and rise again as a fanatical Empire by showing these poor people fight for their freedom, only to have their allegiance betrayed and their ideals twisted. Lucas tried and failed to get this point across. In the end we only really saw Anakin fall. Everyone else just died or was apparently tricked into loving Palpy off-screen.

- Divide the Jedi. I admit, I drew this idea from Kotor (specifically Revan's backstory), but I think it could really work here. The Jedi serve as guardians of the Republic and saviors of the people. They can't stop reminding us that they aren't soldiers, and yet they all end up fighting in the war anyway. So why did they all do it anyway? Why not have them divided on the issue? Truly divided, not just argue about for a second. Yoda, being the leader of the Jedi (and who was implied to be a very peaceful Jedi in the original movies), could have ordered the Jedi not to fight on the front lines and instead focus on doing what he interpreted as protecting the Republic: helping the people through the force (and weeding out the darkness that is shrouding the truth of the matter). Obi-Wan, seeing the carnage first hand, cannot stand for it and condemns his master - leaving with other like minded Jedi to fight in the Clone Wars. Eager to help, Anakin joins his master's side, and takes note of his defiance.

So long as Obi-Wan and Yoda can make amends in a logical way by the end, it could serve to support their relationship in the original trilogy. Obi-Wan's line "Was I so different when you trained me?" would mean even more.

I have a million other ideas, but this post is already long enough. I'll list a few more individual points here and may elaborate on them later:

- Padame should not have been a politician/royalty, but rather a rogue that Anakin grows to admire (serve as a Han of the story - Natalie Portman has Harrison Ford level charisma when she is directed well).

- Bail Organa should have been at least a Lando-level main character (serve as a Leia of the story).

- Scrap Naboo and replace it with Aldaraan for added weight in Episode IV.

- Scrap the stupid emotional aspect of the lightside/darkside dichotomy and keep true to its superior portrayal in the original trilogy.

- Scrap the whole forbidden love subplot and make Anakin's fall purely focused on his paranoia over losing his loved ones and feeling powerless. Obi-Wan's poor example and Palpatine's machinations facilitate his fall from there.

- Scrap Dooku, have Maul survive until Episode 2 at least for the reasons mentioned above and, most importantly, give Palpatine's a mole on the Jedi council. Best candidate for this would be Mace Windu. Other Jedi could comment how he draws his power by teasing the darkside (which is actually canon) not knowing that at some point he did actually go to far and was consumed by the darkside (probably with good intentions originally).

- Anakin's fall shouldn't have been so sudden. Yeah, he snapped a few times before killing the "younglings", but the way his fall to the darkside is portrayed his comically stupid. Have him do more subtle things across all three films (his execution of Dooku was a good example) and the ultimate crime he commits once he's gone full darkside is betraying his former friend and master, Obi-Wan.

- Let Padame die a hero. The who "died from grief" thing is horrendously stupid. She had two babies to take care of. No mother would be so grief stricken by their lovers fall to evil that they would allow themselves to die and abandon her children. She should die ensuring their survival, not on an operating table.

EDIT: My grammar failed me halfway through the post. Fuck it, there's too much to proof XD

 

[Barbas]

Wow, that's a depressing amount of effort. Keep it simple. Kill every last one of the useless, Dude-wannabe, bathrobe-wearing fucks and ushered in the glorious crimson reign of the Empire two movies earlier. There's no good or evil, only power and those who choose to take it. And the only side...

IS NOT THE NORTH OR THE SOUTH SIDE...

IS NOT THE EAST OR THE WEST SIDE...​

The galaxy doesn't want peace, it wants excitement. The Jedi are an easy target for scapegoating, being largely ineffectual wizards who sit around in flowing robes in marble rooms, barely lifting a finger or giving a tinker's cuss about the struggling man.

EDIT: And field-test the Death Star laser on that shithole Geonosis.

 

[Hades]

Scrap Dooku? Uuum, do you know your asking to remove a character played by the legendary Christopher Lee? Without him what would episode 2 have going for it?

I'm one of those rare freaks who likes the prequels. I thought the first was at least okay, the second just awful and the third a legitimately good move on par, if not superior to any of the original ones.

I do have some changes though.

In complete contrast to your opinion I would actually put MORE focus on Dooku. In part because he's played by Chrisopher Lee. As a fallen Jedi he must know a lot of Jedi members and his stated political idealism would be nice to explore. He was just underused. He appeared very late in the worst star wars movie, had one fight in it and didn't make it past the opening of the next movie. It was a waste.

Make General Grievious...something: In episode three he had filler villain written all over him and who constantly fails to impress. I thought he just didn't amount to anything but...apparently he's a complete baddass in the cartoon.

Scrap Jar Jar binks: Duh!

Make Anakin less pathetic: Anakin had always irked me. Pre vader Anakin was at his best when he was 10 years old. Why? Because he's a LOT more mature then the whiny brat he would grow to become. A kid who just wanted to help others grew to become a spoiled brat who demanded special treatment and was shocked, SHOCKED when the council didn't want to give it to him. He was pretty much objecting to the council not swallowing Palpatine's nepotism. Whenever he argued I always found him to be on the losing side. Always. Anakins fall would have been so much more tragic if he was in any way likable.

 

[Fappy]

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Christopher Lee is a brilliant actor, but Dooku really serves very little purpose in the movies. Perhaps if he was completely reworked he could be a great edition. He could be the mole on the Jedi council that betrays them all.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

I wouldn't have done the prequels at all if I'd been Lucas, I'd have just put references to their time period in official canon companion books. Then let the rest sit. Really there's not much of value. I might have included the prequels as apart of an animated series that had tighter narrative, but not gone through them as movies. That was just a bad move.

 

[JoJo]

I'm very much on the side that the basic idea of the prequels was good, but the execution was flawed. I mainly would have toned down Jar Jar Binks and made Anakin's descent into evil more subtle. I think the youngling massacre was a mistake, it didn't feel believable that the basically heroic if flawed character we knew would suddenly stoop to killing defenceless kids, even if it was to save his wife.

I have to disagree with your first point though, kids even much younger than ten have just as much personality as an adult, there's that saying: "the soul at four is the same as the soul at forty". Anakin in the Phantom Menace primarily showed he had an instinctive drive to help other people, first inviting the party from Naboo to dinner when a dust storm picked up and then even offering to risk his life in taking part in a pod race to win the party the parts they needed, with nothing to gain for himself at the time (Qui Gon's later secret manoeuvre to win his freedom notwithstanding). That also show's his nature as a risk-taker, as he would be in later life. I think the idea was to show Anakin when he was still so young that he wasn't yet corrupted by the later events that would eventually turn him to the dark side.

I do like the idea of replacing Naboo with Alderaan though, especially if it were confirmed by word of God that Jar Jar was there at the time

 

[Albino Boo]

The fundamental problem with the prequels is that we know what happens. The element of suspense has gone Anakin will join the dark side as Darth Vader. But if forced to make them

1. Make Anakin older in episode 1. Women dont tend to have the hots for people they have know as pre pubescent kids. The age gap doesn't work. Make him 15 at the start not 10.

2. Cast a better actor as adult Anakin. He was annoying not a brooding hero. Anakin needs to be more like Hamlet and less angry teenager

3 Cut huge chunks out of the script. The Gungans dont need to be there at all. They could have just as easily been replaced by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi Wan raising a rebellion out of the native Naboo population. In general just simplify the plot of each film to cut out a lot of the exposition

4 I feel this is the most important point. Get Samuel L Jackson to call Palpatine a ************.

 

[The Madman]

I wouldn't have made them at all.

The original trilogy worked best when built on a foundation of mystery. Nothing put on-screen could ever match up the ideas we spawn in our own heads at the casual mention of things like the 'Clone Wars' or past deeds of fame and infamy. Plus the entire idea of there being some sort of large centralized semi-government 'jedi council' works against the very idea of them being rare, near mythical figures seen as backwards relics of an outdated religion as demonstrated by Han and others perception of them.

Just leave it vague, leave it to the viewers imagination to fill in the blank spots. Not everything needs to be described or detailed, some stuff is better left unsaid. Rather than doing prequels if Lucas were smart he should have kept going with sequels, maybe implement some of the stuff from the books to further expand on what's been delivered while still keeping the past shrouded in mystery.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

The Bridge of the USS Enterpise. Captain Jean Luc Picard sets a course when all time stops, except for Picard. His curosity is solved when Q appears. Q apologizes for interrupting Picard's trivial life, but Q requires him and his crew to solve a 3 way bet between him and Mr. Myxlplyx. The Enterprise is suddenly transferred to a galaxy far far far away....

Back in present time, The Tenth Doctor, following The Waters Of Mars spins some dials on his machine when he's interrupted by Mr. Myxlplyx who explains the same situation before manipulating the TARADIS. The Doctor exits to find himself in Watto's scrap yard, with Watto demanding compensation.

 

[WolfThomas]

I agree with a lot of the OP's points, so much that my commenting would be repetition.

What I do however wish, is for the Clone Wars to have actual Clone based drama. What sort of mistrust and paranoia happens when Senators are being replaced by (Sith organised) clones? What happens when the Jedi start to lose a intergalactic war and start cloning Jedi?

One of the best pre-prequels theories is that Obi Wan Kenobi is a clone of Ben Kenobi. Obi Wan is actually 0B1 Kenobi. This clears up the disparity of the two names, without the dumb explanation Obi Wan was hiding with the same last name.

This allows you to kill Ben off for a shock twist at the end of Episode 1 or start of episode 2. With 0B1 being introduced at the end of episode II.

4 I feel this is the most important point. Get Samuel L Jackson to call Palpatine a ************.

Samul L Jackson's miscasting was criminal. Why cast such an emotive actor as a stoic Jedi. He could have been Bail Oragana, Jango Fett or a Sith apprentice.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I'm very much on the side that the basic idea of the prequels was good, but the execution was flawed. I mainly would have toned down Jar Jar Binks and made Anakin's descent into evil more subtle. I think the youngling massacre was a mistake, it didn't feel believable that the basically heroic if flawed character we knew would suddenly stoop to killing defenceless kids, even if it was to save his wife.

Ohhhh but that is such a good scene though, and it's the point where he crosses the moral event horizon.

 

[DrownedAmmet]

I actually really like belated media's ideas:

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My favorite is having Darth Maul survive Epsiode 1 and making him a recurring antagonist for Obi-Wan for the next two movies.

Though personally I would change the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan in episode three. They need to have a reason to fight other than just to fight. What I would have done is have Padme die, but the Emperor tells Anakin that if they kill all the Jedi, they could somehow extract all the force from their deaths and use it to bring Padme back. So Anakin does Order 66, is about to bring Padme back, but Obi-Wan stops to fight him. Obi-Wan manages to kill Anakin but *BAM* theres a huge force explosion and theres two babies. Anakin couldn't bring Padme back but ends up creating Luke and Leia. So Obi-Wan takes them away, but the Emperor comes back and using the left over force juice and cyborg parts he is able to revive Anakin, and thus Darth Vader is born.

One of my favorite parts of the prequels is how it is hinted that the force can reverse death and create life, it would be nice to have that explored more thoroughly

 

[Barbas]

4 I feel this is the most important point. Get Samuel L Jackson to call Palpatine a ************.

Alternatively...

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Or simply recast him as the badasserest motherfuckerest bounty hunter in the galaxy. Also...

3 Cut huge chunks out of the script. The Gungans dont need to be there at all.

I disagree - you could replace all the CGI clone troopers being killed in Episode II (assuming you made an Episode II) with CGI Gungans.

I wouldn't have made them at all.

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[Zontar]

Braking things down it would go like this:

Episode I: Attack of the Clones

Opens with a assault on Corusant where the peaceful city planet is bombarded from orbit by a mysterious fleet from beyond charted space. The result is a state of emergency which sees a republic Star Cruiser engage in battle to act as a distraction while reinforcements from other sectors race for the capital. On said Star Cruiser the XO of the ship meets two new pilots, the skilled Anakin Skywalker and his brother-in-law Owen Lars as the ship and its fighters prepare for battle. Though losses are high the new Tactical Interception Escorter fighter craft shows that despite its small size it is leagues better then the more expensive craft currently being used by the republic in battle. With the battle won at a high cost mobilization of an army of billions of conscripts begins as ordered by the Senate after an emergency cession led by the Acting Chancellor Palpatine (the actual Chancellor having been killed in the bombardment). The Star Cruiser's XO takes Anakin aside after the battle to inform him he can feel strength in the force from him, the man identifying himself as Obi-Wan Kenobi, last knight of the order of the Jedi. Though Anakin is uncertain that such an ancient religious order could even still exist, the knights being the thing of old legend, an infiltrator on the ship taking members of the crew hostage makes the existence of the force clear as Kenobi uses a mind trick to make the man disarm himself. One of the hostages is a female crewmen named Padme, who shows an interest in Anakin due to his reputation as the ace of the fleet.

As the movie enters the final act the ship takes part in a counter offensive, hundreds of worlds along the outer rim being under siege from the unknown attackers. In battle against such a fleet the Star Cruiser is boarded, leading to a confrontation between the sinister Count Dooku, a traitor to the Jedi order fighting to establish his own empire. Anakin tries to defeat him, but fails and only survives due to Kenobi's intervention forcing Dooku to escape. As the movie comes to an end the new Chancellor is shown being introduced to a weapon which he is told could save the republic, and the movie ending on a shot of an elderly looking alien with red eyes greeting him.

Episode II: The Phantom Menace

Opening 5 years after the previous movie, the republic is in desperation as it continues to throw a generation of men at an enemy constantly attacking on all fronts. Corusant is shown to not only not have come far in repairs to the planet, but is actually worst then when the bombardment had occurred. The Chancellor is leading from behind closed doors, focusing on learning abilities that could turn the tide of battle while occasionally making speeches about making the ultimate sacrifice for the republic in its time of need.

Anakin and Owen are relieved, however, as news of Beru Lars, wide of Owen and sister of Anakin, survived an evacuation, as did their two children. Kenobi, now in command of the ship due to all pre-war officers of his rank being given their own command as a result of the mass conscription, leads them on a counter-attack against a push by the clones into the inner worlds. The world that is in the line of fire is Corellia, important as most of the crew have relatives living on that world, including Anakin's now pregnant wife Padme. The attack and counter attack lead to a space and land battle on Corellia, in which Anakin once again confronts Dooku. This time, however, he ignores what he had been taught and lets his anger take control. Managing to injure Dooku, the Count now enraged cuts off his two arms. Replaced with prosthetics, Anakin returns to duty as a wing commander. The movie ends with Palpatin, now in a dark cloak and his skin pale, stating that through his connection to the darkness he could see where the enemy hid, the price he has paid being a worthy sacrifice for allowing the war to come to an end.

Episode III: Rise of the Empire

Opening with tranquillity over Corusant, a massive fleet leaves the planet towards a world in the unknown sector of space. The world in question is the main factory of the clone army and their ships, the fleet being a desperate attempt to fight the fortress of the enemy and cripple them beyond repair.

Anakin, before the operation, says goodbye to his wife and infant daughter, the young girl not sure who he is due to his long absences and her young age. Anakin and the Star Cruiser under Kenobi's command take part in an infiltration raid, attempting to get a task force onto the planet before the main fleet to take out its main shields before the battle. The infiltration fails as Dooku once again returns, killing most of the task force and, in their final confrontation, forcing Anakin to allow the dark side to consume him to finally defeat him. The shields are destroyed, though not before the fleet arrives and begins a costly battle. The empire, which was formed over the course of the war through different acts of centralization of emergency power, declares victory over the main clone army, however many holdouts remain which pose a continued menace to the empire's existence, and will take years to destroy. After a decade of continuous warfare, the empire is seeing a new generation who knew only wartime come of age, conscription for multiple years for able bodied men becoming law due to the conflict.

Kenobi, realizing that Anakin has turned to the dark side, attempts to confront him, however Anakin leaves for Corellia before he can do so. Kenobi sends a message about what has happened to Owen, stationed on Corellia, who takes his wife, children, and the newly born Luke on a transport to the furthest planet he can on such short notice: Tatooine, with Padme taking her daughter to Alderaan, not informing anyone of an illness she has which will kill her within the next few years.

Anakin, furious of his family's disappearance and abandonment, unleashes his rage blindly, injuring himself and braking his legs and burning mush of his own body. As he recovers, the Emperor, who could feel his anger, takes him under his wing as his fist, the man who will keep order while a battle station capable of destroying a fortress world such as that which the clone army used is designed and constructed.

The movie ends with Kenobi resigning his commission and moving to Tatooine to watch over Anakin, disillusioned and disgusted by what the empire he was loyal to had become.

 

[K12]

I think I agree with all the major points that the OP made except for Obi Wan failing Anakin and having darkness within him. I think it would be better if he was just dismissive and patronising to Anakin when he has questions or doubts about what they're doing. I think that Obi Wan's failure should be from neglect rather than passion.

I like the idea of having the Jedi divided with a more stoic impartial Yoda vs. a more interventionist Obi Wan is good. I don't think you have to go much further here for Anakin to start thinking "why shouldn't the jedi just take charge, then we'd protect people even better.

Edit: Another idea I'd like to have seen (inspired somehwat by the first Mass Effect) is if human jedi are relatively rare (perhaps because the Jedi religion is less widely believed amongst human). The Jedi, in general, are unwilling to intervene in a conflict where there is a lot of human casualities and there's a suspicion (by Anakin) that Yoda's faction don't care about humans as much as other galactic races. An extra layer to Anakin's eventual hatred of the Jedi and his defection to a "humans first" empire.

 

[Lunar Templar]

I'd have stuck to that plan. It would piss people off to no end, but at the same time, the reveal would be glorious. The collective, slack jawed '... WHAT?! ...' would have been worth it.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Well, firstly, I'd have had Hayden Christensen shot on sight, and any and all design materials on Jar-Jar Binks burned, and then the ashes burned again. And then I'd have looked to keep Darth Maul around for more than two lines of dialogue and one bad fight sequence- and without a doubt he'd have gone up against Mace Windu.

 

[Vahir]

I found the prequels to be better than the original trilogy. Maybe it's just because I watched those first. *shrug*

If I had to name ways to improve them, though:

1. Take Jar Jar into the woods and shoot him
2. Throw the romantic Anakin-Padme script into a fire

 

[Erttheking]

I would've started it in the middle of the Clone Wars. Seriously the way Obi-Wan talked about them in A New Hope, it sounded like they would've had a much bigger impact than they actually did. Make it a bit more serious and maybe have Anakin be a war orphan, and that's where his hatred stems from. Less Jar-Jar and Gungens, more Darth Maul. That's all I can think of off of the top of my head.

 

[FPLOON]

Nothing... because just like Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks are here to stay... With that said:More Jar Jar Binks: That nigga be hiding his dark shit...
More Grievous: He was badass in the non-canon Clone Wars animated shit...
More Purple Lightsabers: Aka more Mace Windo in the form of clones and shit...
More Mace Windo battles: He can be a live-action Samurai Jack because he's played by a black guy and shit...
Use the humor from the LEGO Star Wars series: That's the shit...
Make George Lucus make a cameo: Don't care how as long as it's blatantly obvious/somehow relevant to the plot of the trilogy...
Every main character is a Bounty Hunter: That includes Liam Neeson and his famous line "I don't sense anything..."
The reoccurring joke is someone "having a bad feeling about this": Followed with the line "I don't sense anything..."
Yoda is more of a badass... and looks like he came from the Creature Shop: So practical you wish that was sped-up badassery...
No shit jokes: Seriously... Those jokes are shit...Other than that, keep the music from all of the movies... because John Williams can do no wrong...