George Lucas sucks. Royal Monkey Dick.

Anyway, I am first in line if that's the case. If it's more lightsaber bollocks, I don't care.

P.S. I hear that moral high ground is a great place to stand if you want to cut off your mate's legs and then watch him catch fire.

because so far, as a fan, I’m disappointed about the “celebration” I’ve seen so far. I’m one of those idiots who’d like to buy yet another set of Star Wars DVD set, and the announcements of TV shows, new video games… well, they’re just not doing anything for me. Couldn’t care less.

If this celebration is going to be a big deal, can there at least be a big deal? A new movie would do it for me. Especially if Lawrence Kasdan was going to write it. I’m dreaming, I know… Can’t wait to wake up later and find out if the announcement was made, and if it was about what we’re talking about here.

Eps 7,8,9 with old cast NOT directed by GL? GREAT!

Eps 0, -1, -2 directed by GL? BOMB!

A thousand years before the Star Wars Saga, the galaxy is in chaos. The Dark Lords of the Sith, descendants of a group of Jedi who left the Order hundreds of years before, rule the galaxy with an iron fist. Trillions of people from different worlds are enslaved under the Sith regime and the Jedi, who are peaceful, remain isolated, refusing to ask.

But with the taint of the Dark Side consuming the galaxy, the Jedi realise that things have to change - they declare war against the Sith. After a long ad fierece campaign, the Sith turn on each other, and with the Jedi winning the war, their numbers decrease until there is only one Sith Lord left, Darth Bane. Realising that the only way for the Sith to survive is to exist in the shadows, Bane creates the "Rule of Two" - one master, one apprentice. The Sith would bide their time and wait for revenge.

After the winning the war, the Jedi would hand power over to a newly formed Galactic Republic, with the Jedi as its guardians and protectors.

Remember when the prequels were announced and everyone thought that there would be armies of Jedi verses armies of Sith? Well the "Birth of the Republic" story has that...it could be a cool movie.

Now I'm one of those who would defend the prequels until my face turns blue, but even I think that Lucas should hand directing duty over to someone else. As for who it should be...not sure.

The words "Star Wars" wouldn't even appear since Star Wars is everything that happens between 1-6. The film would also feature a completely different opening...

It starts off with teh familiar "A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away..." but instead of going into an opening crawl, the movie opens with a prologue, telling the history of the Jedi, detailing how a small faction within the Order began exploring the Dark Side and when the practice of the Dark Arts was banned by the Council, the faction split from the Jedi Order and returned hundreds of years later as a massive army under the title of Dark Lords of the Sith.

There would then be a montage of the Sith taking over the galaxy before finally, the title of the film appears on the screen

The Army of Light

And the film truly begins with a Jedi Ambassador sent to Coruscant to negotiate with the Sith, only to be struck down and killed.

It then cuts back to the Jedi homeworld, (possibly Ossus) where he Council has to vote on whether to go to war or not...by a vote of 7 to 5...the motion carries and that's the last piece of politics you see until the declaration of the Republic at the end of the film. Everything else is Jedi vs Sith carnage.

I've read the Secret History of Star Wars and if anything, the e-book only reaffirms my belief in Lucas' ability to craft a story. What bugs me though as that he feels the need to lie about it, constantly contradicting himself on the origins of Vader and the prequels. I actually hink people would appreciate him more if he was just honest about how and when he came up with his various ideas, because it shows how creative he is. But the fact that he thinks he needs to cover up a lot of Star Wars history actually does more harm than good.

At least sometimes...

And highly overrated.

Always...(get the pun?)

The treatment of Jar Jar post TPM has been atrocious. Hands down, the best character in the film, and then all he gets in AOTC is a bit part? Worse still, only a derisory cameo in ROTS?

Shame on you, George Lucas and team of flunkies. You loved him when you created him, but you cast him aside like an old pair of parachute trousers you were embarrassed about owning. Jar Jar deserves better than that.

Just as long as someone else directed it. Lucas' prequels came across as watered down, stageshow version of the original star wars.

Further Episode 4 was a huge success because Carter was president and anything that created a distraction from the cloud of misery he cast over the country would instantly cash in.

Alright folks, let's hear it--were the movies successful BECAUSE of Lucas' "style" or IN SPITE OF?

Anyway, my movie wouldn't necessarily be set before or after the last films. I had an idea that they would be self-contained and there wouldn't be any cameos or anything to link them to Lucas' films except for the vehicles which would be similar in look but very different than those in past films. There would still be Coruscant and other planets we've seen but otherwise these are all new in terms of characters.

Now the question is, who would be the main character? Well I thought three main characters would be cool. But the main player I think would be a female this time and the two other main characters would be male. All Jedi in training, about to complete their ascension into knighthood when the shit starts to go down.

Storywise, important people are being killed. A prominent Senator, a powerful Jedi Master, and a few other people are being picked off (haven't gone into a lot of detail as of who). The only clue is that the master was killed in a lightsaber duel. Naturally, the Jedi think the Sith are behind it but I think that should only be revealed in the last film as to whom, with no discenable clues which would be great as you'd be surprised as who it is.

The films would have epic battles (obviously), a love triangle (a good one), and of course, ground-breaking lightsaber duels and jedi + sith kicking ass. Also, who doesn't want to see a hot female jedi kicking ass? I don't think we got to see any of that from the original or prequel trilogy.

I might do it as a comic book or something, if not a film. But one can dream right?