SWIII

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

starwars.com is pleased to announce that Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith is the full title of the next Star Wars film, scheduled for release on May 19, 2005.

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/bts/production/news20040724.html

hey, it's better than Episode 2.21 Send in the Clones.

Still, it's a far cry from the plan 20 years ago to do Ep III: The Fall of the Republic. But the character ideas were very different then. Anyway, rock on. I will be seeing this one opening day, of course. I know the last two were unpopular, but I guess Fandom is enough to carry the day for me and I'll still go.

[Spriggan]

The article I read about the title is pretty intresting.  Apperently the original title of Return of the Jedi was Revenge of the Jedi, and then changed for varios reasons.

Lucas wanted EP3 to resemble EP6 so he's useing a title that's similar, also the graphics/logo are going to be very similar.

[EUOL]

I actually like this one.  The other two titles didn't strike me (though I like 2 better than 1.)  This one, however, seems pretty decent.

[Slant]

So what do you all think will happen in episode III?  I have a few predictions:

Darth Sideous and Palpatine will be revealed to be two entirely different people.

Mace Windu will turn traitor and kill many Jedi.

Anakin will think that Obi-Wan is somehow responsible for Padme turning against him, and that will trigger the big fight between them.

Jar Jar will die a very shocking death.

Boba Fett will have his revenge on Mace Windu

Anakin will build the Vader armor by referencing the design of cyborg General Grevious.

Chewbacca will make an appearance.

R2 and 3PO will be mind-wiped.

Any other ideas?

[Fellfrosch]

Do you think they'll actually show the mind wipe? I always assumed it would just happen off stage between movies, but I suppose it could be pretty funny to have an amnesiac 3PO stumbling around. I suspect that R2 won't get mind-wiped at all, but that's just me.

[EUOL]

I agree with Fell about R2.

The Sideous/Palpatine connection is a curious one.  I've wondered.  Lucas is obviously making it very straightforward that they're the same person, and we know that 'Palpatine' (or someone using his name) ends up as emperor.

My vote is that they remain the same person.  Pulling off a twist that makes them different could be amazingly cool, but I don't think that Lucas could pull it off.

[42]

Palpatine is really Mace Windu.

[Slant]

Palpatine does indeed become emporer, but the guy hiding under the robes of Darth Sidious is not Palpatine, but perhaps a tool used by the soon-to-be emporer.

Remember, we never actually see Darth Sidious doing any force-related stuff.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

It was my understanding, through the books and other likes, that Sidious first trained Darth Maul, but when Maul dies Sidious looks for a new padawan to take his place, and finds Palpatine.  Palpatine then gets an emergency dictatorship which he promises to return and takes over the sith, training Vader (Skywalker) to replace him when he dies.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I thought it was obvious Sidious and Palpatine were the same person from the beginning.  

http://www.jediknight.net/jkmag/bfp2/0compare1.gif

http://www.theforce.net/episode1/newspics/balcony.jpg

[EUOL]

Well, the same actor does play all three...  (Emperor, Sidious, and Palpatine.)

Again, it would take some SERIOUSLY convoluted writing to pull off a twist here.  We're talking twin brother/clone type plotting.  Could happen.  Probably won't.  And if it did, it probably wouldn't work very well.

Oh, and:  

Anakin will think that Obi-Wan is somehow responsible for Padme turning against him, and that will trigger the big fight between them.

 

Actually, doesn't she have to bite it in this movie?

[Spriggan]

Well you're almost right, in Empire Palpintine was a woman with a males voice dubb.  

But ya, the same guy has been in 4 of the 6 movies as the Emperor.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

about the only two on tha tlist I think will happen are 3 (maybe, perhaps holding him responsible for her death) and 7 (they've already said the wookie homeworld -- which I can't spell -- will appear, so it seems natural).

I agree with Fell and EUOL. R2 doesnt' get mindwiped. as cool as Boba is. He's NOT as cool as Mace, and better not win any confrontation. Plus it's only three years later, so he's like, 12 now. Mace will NOT kill Jedi, you sick, sick man. I don't think there's anything to indicate they're different people, and that nothing so inconsistant will appear, as nothing has. Even looking at how Obi-Wan tells Luke news about his father's "death" in ep 4 is consistant with the father being alive later. He hesitates.

ANyway, my take.

[Entsuropi]

Eh. It seems pretty obvious that the whole politics of ep 1 and 2 are aimed at getting Palpatine supreme control of the senate. Then he just gradually removes the power of everyone but himself, while putting in a 'strictly defensive' army after the clones are removed. It seems rather pointless to have yet another character in there - too many sith running around spoils the ambiance of them.

[Spriggan]

I beleave it's been said that Chewbacca will make an apperance in it.

Or at least Peter Mayhew is under the impression he'll be in it.

http://www.killermovies.com/s/starwarsepisodeiii/articles/3238.html