Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

                        Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith:

                   

Directed by George Lucas

Produced by Rick McCallum

Written by George Lucas

Starring :

Ewan McGregor

Hayden Christensen

Natalie Portman

Ian McDiarmid

Samuel L. Jackson

Christopher Lee

Anthony Daniels

Kenny Baker

Frank Oz

Music by John Williams

Cinematography David Tattersall

Edited by :

Roger Barton

Ben Burtt

Production

company :

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release dates :

May 15, 2005 (Cannes)

May 19, 2005 (United States)

Running time :

140 minutes

Country United States :

Language English

Budget $113 million

Box office $848.8 million

It has been three years since the events of Attack of the Clones. The Galactic Republic is in the midst of the epic war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems under the leadership of Count Dooku, who is also the Sith Lord, Darth Tyranus. The Confederacy's cyborg military leader, General Grievous of the Separatist Droid Army has infiltrated Coruscant and captured Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, leader of the Galactic Senate.

As the Separatist Droid Army attempts to escape the Galactic capital, a massive space battle erupts, into which race Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his former padawan, now Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, leading a mission to rescue the Chancellor. The Jedi fight through the Separatist armada. In the process, Obi-Wan's interceptor is damaged by buzz droids and his astromech, R4-P17, is destroyed. Anakin attempts to shoot the droids off, though succeeds only in blasting apart the wing of his former Master's vessel. Obi-Wan tells Anakin to hold his fire as he's not helping. Anakin agrees it was a bad idea. Obi-Wan tells Anakin to go on and rescue the Chancellor, but Anakin says he won't leave without Obi-Wan. Anakin uses one of his fighter wings to knock some of the buzz droids off Obi-Wan's fighter, but one manages to crawl onto Anakin's ship although it is quickly disabled by R2-D2. As they approach Grievous's flagship, Obi-Wan reminds Anakin their shields are still up and so Anakin breaks formation and attacks a shield generator, knocking out the shields on the docking bay of the ship and the two Jedi crash land.
Anakin and Obi-Wan make their way through the flagship, fighting through an army of droids. Meanwhile, R2-D2 aids them from the hangar bay while simultaneously incinerating a pair of super battle droids, using fuel and his thrusters.
Rescuing the chancellor
"I sense great fear in you, Skywalker. You have hate. You have anger. But you don't use them."
―Dooku to Anakin Skywalker
Darth Tyranus RotS
Darth Tyranus about to duel Anakin and Obi-Wan.
The Jedi reach the top, finding the captive Chancellor Palpatine. They are confronted by Count Dooku himself, and an intense lightsaber duel ensues. The Jedi throw the Count off guard, by converting from basic attacks to more skilled tactics. During the battle, Obi-Wan is rendered unconscious when Dooku uses the Force to hold him in mid-air by the throat before hurling him against a railing.


Anakin continues the battle, and is repeatedly taunted by Dooku. Using his anger, Anakin taps into the dark side of the force, and gets the better of the duel. He severs both of Dooku's hands, rendering incapable of defending himself, and then holds him at blade point with both his own lightsaber and Dooku's weapon. Palpatine encourages Anakin to kill Dooku. At first, Anakin refuses but Palpatine firmly insists: completely unaware of Palpatine's true intentions, Anakin brutally decapitates the helpless Dooku...

Episode III

REVENGE OF THE SITH

War! The Republic is crumbling

under attacks by the ruthless

Sith Lord, Count Dooku.

There are heroes on both sides.

Evil is everywhere.

In a stunning move, the

fiendish droid leader, General

Grievous, has swept into the

Republic capital and kidnapped

Chancellor Palpatine, leader of

the Galactic Senate.

As the Separatist Droid Army

attempts to flee the besieged

capital with their valuable

hostage, two Jedi Knights lead a

desperate mission to rescue the

captive Chancellor.... 

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones:

Directed by George Lucas

Produced by Rick McCallum

Screenplay by :

George Lucas

Jonathan Hales

Story by George Lucas

Starring 

Ewan McGregor

Natalie Portman

Hayden Christensen

Ian McDiarmid

Samuel L. Jackson

Christopher Lee

Anthony Daniels

Kenny Baker

Frank Oz

Music by John Williams

Cinematography David Tattersall

Edited by Ben Burtt

Production :

company

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release dates :

May 16, 2002

Running time :

142 minutes

Country United States :

Language English

Budget $115 million

 Box office $649.4 million

A decade after the events of The Phantom Menace, the Galactic Republic is in crisis. A Separatist movement led by former Jedi Master Count Dooku, alias the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, is threatening the peace, causing the Galactic Senate to debate a Military Creation Act to form a standing army for the Republic's protection. Senator Padmé Amidala, former Queen of Naboo, returns to Coruscant to vote against the Act, even though there are no longer enough Jedi to maintain peace and justice in the galaxy.

Attack of the clones 1

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi chase Zam Wesell through Coruscant.

Upon her arrival on Coruscant, she narrowly escapes an assassination attempt that claims the life of her decoy, Cordé. As a result, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine requests that Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, protect her.

That night, the assassin Zam Wesell makes another attempt on Amidala's life, though the Jedi are able to foil her plot. They pursue her through Galactic City, eventually disarming her in a bar. Upon being questioned by Obi-Wan and Anakin outside the bar, she is killed by a saberdart, fired by a mysterious "rocket man", before the Jedi can learn the name of her employer. Returning to the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan is given a new assignment by the High Council; to track down the assassin's killer. Meanwhile, Anakin continues his assignment of protecting the Senator, and is asked to escort her back to her home planet of Naboo. Anakin welcomes the opportunity, as he often becomes angry and frustrated by Obi-Wan's criticism, and is glad to have an opportunity to be on his own. Further, he has become infatuated with Padmé, and relishes the chance to spend time with her. Senior Representative Jar Jar Binks assumes the Senator's duties in her absence.

Attack of the clones 2

Obi-Wan engages Jango Fett on Kamino.

During the investigation, Obi-Wan is led to a mysterious planet called Kamino—missing from the Jedi Archives—where he discovers a secret clone army being developed for the Republic. He is told by Prime Minister Lama Su that the army was ordered some ten years ago by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas — although Obi-Wan was "under the impression" that Sifo-Dyas was killed before that time. A bounty hunter named Jango Fett was hired as the template for the clones. Obi-Wan meets Jango on Kamino, and believes him to be the killer he has been tracking. He tries to capture Jango, which leads to a titanic one-on-one fight between them. Jango makes use of his blasters and missile equipment, managing to defeat Obi-Wan by sending him plummeting into the raging sea below. Thinking he is dead, Jango departs Kamino with his son Boba. Unable to capture Jango, Obi-Wan places a homing beacon on his ship, Slave I, and follows him to the planet of Geonosis...

Episode II

ATTACK OF THE CLONES

There is unrest in the Galactic

Senate. Several thousand solar

systems have declared their

intentions to leave the Republic.

This separatist movement,

under the leadership of the

mysterious Count Dooku, has

made it difficult for the limited

number of Jedi Knights to maintain 

peace and order in the galaxy.

Senator Amidala, the former

Queen of Naboo, is returning

to the Galactic Senate to vote

on the critical issue of creating

an ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC

to assist the overwhelmed

Jedi....

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace about :

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace about

Directed by George Lucas

Produced by Rick McCallum

Written by George Lucas

Starring : 

Liam Neeson

Ewan McGregor

Natalie Portman

Jake Lloyd

Ian McDiarmid

Anthony Daniels

Kenny Baker

Pernilla August

 Frank Oz

                                                      Music by John Williams

                                                      Cinematography David Tattersall

                                                      Edited by : 

                                                       Paul Martin Smith

                                                       Ben Burtt

                                                       Production :

                                                       company

                                                       Lucasfilm Ltd.

                                                       Distributed by 20th Century Fox

                                                       Release dates :

                                                       May 19, 1999

                                                       Running time :

                                                       133 minutes

                                                        Country United States :

                                                        Language English

                                                        Budget $115 million

                                                        Box office $1.027 billion

The early drafts of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are well documented. We know all of their plots, their differences, their characters, and how they changed and transformed into what ended up on silver screens in 1977, 1980 and 1983. A lot of this insight comes courtesy of The Annotated Screenplays, but even before this we had copies of virtually all the Star Wars drafts, the fifth draft ofEmpire, and the revised rough draft of Jedi . Fans--nay, scholars, for the research and thought that went into their work could carry no other label--such as Jan Helander and Bjorn and Brendon Wahlberg even wrote extensive papers on this early material, explaining how it changed, transformed and what was contained within these documents. One of the earliest examples of these types of papers was one published in Starlog in July 1987; titled "The Primordial Star Wars" authors Randy and Jean-Marc Loffcier went through the bootlegged early drafts of Star Wars to explain where the story had come from (The Jedi Bendu Script Site hosts this article, which is claimed to have actually been penned as early as 1983).

What is sorely missing, however, is anything like this regarding the prequels. Pale as they might in comparison to the original films, they nonetheless are interesting to examine in their genesis and evolution; I believe I assembled the most comprehensive collection of info in my book but it is clearly less detailed than the original trilogy section. One inhibiting and inherent factor in Episodes I to III is that the story evolved not on paper but in the art department--unlike the originals, Lucas explored story, character and environment through sketches and designs, and only put pen onto paper when he had already thoroughly distilled a fairly specific plan. Revenge of the Sith shows this quite clearly, as Rinzler covers in his Making-of--this terrific book actually gives us the most complete picture of any prequel script evolution. By contrast, Attack of the Clones' remains almost entirely unknown, except for small trivia bits. Again though, it seems as though the early drafts are not too wildly different from the shooting script, from what we can gather.

Episode I is somewhat of an exception. Unlike the two sequels, it began on paper, with ideas explored through writing, and the art department involved much later. It also was granted the freedom to take the story in any direction it pleased, and thus the early material contains elements that are in some cases wildly different.

While we have no actual first-hand copies of any of the early prequel scripts, in the case of Episode I we have a detailed summary of the revised rough draft. This comes courtesy of the 1999 CD-ROM The Episode I Insiders Guide--one of its features was a copy of the final script with annotations about how the rough draft differed. The script was not known as Phantom Menace but was titled The Beginning. Qui Gon did not enter the film until the Coruscant section and so it is mainly the story of Obi Wan Kenobi, an older, full Jedi Knight, who uncovers the invasion of Utapau (Naboo in the film), rescues the queen, lands on Tatooine and recruits a young boy named Anakin Skywalker to become a Jedi. The tone is more mature, and in fact Jar Jar is a more realistic character who speaks normally and is not so over-the-top. In many ways, it is actually superior to the final script. Look out for Darth Maul as well, who is quite vocal in this version.

Below is the collection of annotations from the CD-ROM. These were provided--many years ago now--by another fan whose name I have now forgotten, who transcribed nearly word-for-word from the CD. Enjoy reading the earliest version of Episode I: The Beginning.

Before it was known as "The Phantom Menace," the working title of Episode I was simply "The Beginning." The opening scroll also underwent changes. In the revised rough draft, the scroll reads: "It is a time of decay in the Republic. The taxation of trade routes to the tiny planet of Utapau is in dispute. Hoping to force a resolution with a blockade of deadly Star Destroyers, the greedy Federation of Galactic Traders has cut off all shipping and supplies to the small, peaceful planet. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates the alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched a young Jedi Knight to settle the conflict...."