Episode 043 The Phantom Menace Rewrite

What changes would you make to improve The Phantom Menace? Ben, Addy and Case have their ideas in the final episode of a series fixing the prequel trilogy. What changes would you make?

• Addy – Who is the Phantom Menace?
• Case – turn Qui-Gon into a Sith Lord or Separatist Leader
• Make the trade federation’s embargo actually cause serious issues
• Anakin Starkiller – charismatic teenage pilot and smuggler on Naboo
• No Tattooine
• Qui-Gon keeps company with questionable people, but wants to fix the galaxy and Jedi
• Ben’s completely new pitch
• No Qui-Gon and pre-crawl prologue
• Galaxy is splitting, familiar political landscape
• Jedi Order is fracturing, Yoda vs Mace Windu
• End of movie – failure to prevent Clone Wars
• Palpatine pulling strings
• Case – moral ramifications of cloning instead of Clone army
• Maul is more visible and instigating war using Mandalorians
• Anakin’s path to Vader
• Dramatic tension issues with prequels
• Live action Clone Wars movie?
• The focus of the prequels