>Pegg: I honestly thought that The Phantom Menace would have been so much better if he'd given the old fans a little bit of what they wanted, in just topping and tailing the whole new trilogy. The film starts in the Falcon, and all the old guys are in there with beards and Chewie's a bit grey. And they've got a little place to go - they're flying in hyperspace and one of Han's kids goes, "What happened in the beginning, Uncle Luke?" and he goes, "Well..." And then the story unfolds. Just to see those guys again would have been fabulous.

Simon Pegg before he stopped drinking and then in a totally unrelated turn of events became completely evil.

>old fans
Have they tried growing up?

>>211401296 (OP)
Who did Pegg play again. ?

>>211401296 (OP)
>"What happened in the beginning, Uncle Luke?" and he goes, "Well..." And then the story unfolds. Just to see those guys again would have been fabulous.

If by fabulous he means gay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEV4rnu5V8

JUST watched this.

Pegg's best work?

>>211401296 (OP)
is this a joke? i honestly cant tell

>>211401642
They never will

>>211401850
the jewish guy on tattoine

>>211401642
>unlike myself of course, I post on 4chan and am adult

>>211402413
based i liked portion man

>>211402262


https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/star-wars-archive-pegg-wright-smith-nerd/

It’s real and not a joke, he said that in 2005 when people thought Episode 7 would never be made and the prequels were the last chance to see Hamill, Ford, Fisher in Star Wars again

>>211401296 (OP)
that sounds retarded

>>211401296 (OP)
Should have Anakin be same age as Padme and scrap the lil orphan slave annie back story. Just have him be an angry idealist teenager who slowly got radicalized by Palpy. Have the Clone Wars already be a long running war by then, kinda like the Vietnam war. The clones should have been slave rebels against the Republic and they use terrorist tactics because the Republic outnumber them. This will create a moral conflict for Anakin. No need for trade wars or the CIS. Scrap the weird Immaculate Conception Jesus/Mary allegory too.

>>211401296 (OP)
i thought this faggot hated slop wars

>>211402466
what was his name again?`Junker Plunk or something like that right?

>>211401296 (OP)
Thanks for your feedback

>>211401296 (OP)
>"What happened in the beginning, Uncle Luke?" and he goes, "Well..."
And then says "I dunno?"
How the fuck would Luke know about Anakin's youth

Queens dont fuck commoners. they dont even fuck aristocrats. they fuck the prince to whom they were betrothed. prequels cant possible fix the problems of the OT

Lucas refused to ever have flashbacks in Star Wars. What Pegg is asking for goes entirely against his "in the moment" faux-documentary filming style.

>>211402783
queens do dumb shit all the time
the huns invaded europe because the sister of the roman emperor, honoria, sent a hand written letter to attila thirsting for his big HUNNIC cock, so he turned around and headed west instead of continued on his plans to invade india

>>211401296 (OP)

>>211402735
Yep yapping with his dad's force ghost.

>>211401296 (OP)
a framing story that implies it's not trying to get every little detail right would have helped cover up all the little stupidities like darth vader building c3po on tattooine, the planet they hid his son from him on, and him being 20 years too young

That would have been bollocks. And real fans know that R2 is the one who is telling the story in the distant future, anyway.

Any problems the prequels have do not begin and end with "where are my action figures from the 70's tho?". We've been over this.

they picked the right time to make the sequel trilogy. They were all appropriately old, but not too old. It's just a shame the movies were shit. And that Carrie Fischer was a raging coke fiend.

>>211403472
the right time for the sequels was 1999.

>>211401296 (OP)
>Tell us about the star wars, uncle luke
>Well it all began with a little episode I like to call the phantom menace. Ah yes, I remember it like it was yesterday
>*dream wipe*
>*harp sounds*

>>211403323
>It was crazy, Luke! A constant porno. But don't just take my word for it, listen to Obi-Wan's ghost too.

>>211402567
We already had episode 7 though and plenty of continuations of the star wars story and our favorite character's stories. Literally no one back then gave a shit about seeing the old actors reprise their role over and over repeatedly pretending to be the same characters doing the same thing never-ending until they're 91 saying "I use ta be han solo member?!". That's a modern invention and manchild bullshit.

>>211403515
Mark Hamill was like 40. Too old to be a wide eye'd kid. Too young to be a learned elder. That was the bad time to make the sequels, actually.
People need to accept Lucas was right, and get over it.

Ep 1 should have started with Anakin already a Jedi. Making him a little kid was a mistake that compounded across all 3 movies.

>>211401296 (OP)

>>211403868
Pleb take. Seeing him as an innocent angelic child makes his story all the more tragic.

>>211403868
In all honestly, what they maybe should have done is have Padme and Obi-Wan be younger.
I think if anything, the core problem with the prequels is the relationship between Anakin, Padme, and Obi-wan just isn't there.
Episode 1 is all about Qui-Gon. Everyone bonds with Qui-Gon, but they barely bond with each other.
How about this. You cast a 16 year old to play Obi-Wan, and an actual 14 year old to play Padme. Immediately, they relate to each other, because they're all kids.
>well fans would hate it!
Fans are morons. Don't talk to me about fans.

>>211401296 (OP)
>Pegg: I honestly thought that The Phantom Menace would have been so much better if he'd given the old fans a little bit of what they wanted, in just topping and tailing the whole new trilogy. The film starts in the Falcon, and all the old guys are in there with beards and Chewie's a bit grey. And they've got a little place to go - they're flying in hyperspace and one of Han's kids goes, "What happened in the beginning, Uncle Luke?" and he goes, "Well..." And then the story unfolds. Just to see those guys again would have been fabulous.

>>211402649
I likes the originals but hates the prequels
He shat in the phantom menace during one episode of spaced, his character makes a kid cry for liking jarjar binks but then he starts crying when he gets fired over it.
>the phntom menance is a big pile of shit
That was a popular phrase at the time from the episode

>>211401296 (OP)
>hire fans

>>211403868
He should've started as a 19 year old non-Jedi just like Luke.
Hence Yoda's aversion to training Luke, claiming that he is too old and emotional, just like his father.

>>211404220
The episode is clearly as much about Pegg's character being a manchild who needs to get over it. It's self-deprecating.
But yes, Pegg is a gay Redditor who wished for slop world, and then got sad when it actually arrived.

>>211404343
>then got sad when it actually arrived
he was an active part of it

>>211404112
>cast more incapable actors that Lucas can't direct to save his life
great idea

>>211404112
There would also be so much more to the Padme character if she was an actual child who had been pushed into ruling a planet, because of some stupid backwards Monarchy.
There's stuff here that's good, and it's so almost a great trilogy, genuinely.
You don't have to make everyone old and haggard and badass like The Force Unleashed.

>>211402638

Just get rid of everything unique about what he was doing with it and my headcope will make it so much better.

said anon #12000342 with another bad idea.

>>211404458
Oh, like that's gonna make a difference.
The "bad acting" is literally part of SW, to begin with. Lucas wanted them to do it that way. It takes a lot to employ the guy from Trainspotting, and get that performance out of him.

>>211401296 (OP)
This would do nothing but cost Lucas millions of dollars, probably insult the legacy actor's egos and piss off fans saying why were they only in it for 2 minutes. Not to mention the dumpster fire of introducing Hans kids causing immediate episode 7 speculation and bitching of why dont you tell that story instead

>>211404220
>It still hurts Billbo. That kid wanted a JarJar doll
>Kids like JarJar. What about the Ewoks? You don't complain about them. They were rubbish
>Yeah but JarJar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft

>>211404554
harrison ford at least was able to push lucas around and not numbly perform death dialog like portman and the adult darth vader guy, and someone like alec guiness could take lucas material and make it work

Simon Pegg disliked the prequels before RLM made it cool to dislike them (see his series Spaced).

>>211404532
>>211404554
>>211404571
Anon, calm down, no one is going to take your dvds away, you can like whatever you want.

>>211404697
>somehow
all the older actors do great because they know what Lucas is going for

>>211403940
>angelic little boy
Queer pedi take. No one except faggots and George Lucas thinks that. Normal people find little kids annoying and little kids self insert as older teens or adults like Luke or Han.

>>211404736

not at all, I've seen some ideas of remixing the prequels into something even better than what they are but his idea just isn't it.

That anon is clearly an andor enjoyer by wanting an on the nose vietnam rip off. I think we've had enough notStarwars.

>>211404736
If any fag can share their retarded opinion, so can I

>>211404812

The easiest fix would have been using a young hayden at the time, he would be a teenager but still incredibly young looking. and showing anakin going through the trials of becoming a jedi as a sort of jedi apprentice story would dovetail nicely considering they already did it with obiwan, they're just showing obiwan as he becomes a knight, but slightly bumping him up on trial path that way we see his foibles, while anakin is starting to learn and quigon is the master moving on from one apprentice to the other before he is cut down in front of anakin perhaps? it binds obiwan and anakin together, and doesn't overtly change the story.

>>211404554
In an interview with mark hamill he says they had no idea what george was going for so they decided to act seriously, which he goes on to say was the best move.

>>211404736
>I'm an expert on Star Wars, which is why they should have just remade the original trilogy, and why they should keep doing that every ten years until my death
Okay. I understand. New stories scare you.
Child characters? I dunno about that. *I'm* not a child, so clearly a child has no place in a movie. No one has ever produced a good fairy tale or fantasy epic where children play a pivotal role. Narnia? What the fuck?

I'm not opposed to the idea of using the old cast especially since the prequels especially as they go on are setup after setup and highly referential but having the story start like that is kind of redundant with a title crawl

>>211402638
>Scrap the weird Immaculate Conception Jesus/Mary allegory too.
Don't get why you guys have such a hateboner for this. Is it reddit atheism? Typically old nerd mindset? Supernatural going ons shouldn't be out of place in a Space Fantasy series like Star Wars.

>>211405145
It is maybe a bit much. Can't Vader just be a good man who went bad? Why does he also have to be Jesus?
Does it even bring anything to the movies? The Jedi sure don't treat Anakin like he's a chosen one.

>>211405238

The biggest problem is there is an underlying problem of being special in the story and how that story revolves around a family that is special and lucas wanted a reason why.

Luke was never an everyman. Not even in the original movie.

You're thinking in terms of fantasy too much when that was simply the top layer with young knight, merc side kick and princess. I know a lot of fantasy fiction has the trio protagonists but being biased because of that doesn't mean you do not need a strong reason for why we're focusing on Vader/Luke and by Empire, it was clear Vader wasn't some normal soldier turned evil, so that chance was out the door by the sequel.

>>211401296 (OP)
That wouldn't make sense even from the perspective of a hardcore fan in the interim period across the 80s and 90s. It was obvious a prequel series would take place in an era prior to the one where Luke emerged, so he wouldn't know anything about it.

>>211405353
I'd guess I'd be happier with it, if it actually felt relevant.
There's a tonal dissonance in how the Jedi are supposed to be all hyped up about the chosen one, but then Anakin is kind of just treated like he's a problem child.
I think like all things in the prequels, there are ideas I don't necessarily hate, with very questionable execution.

>>211404973
george says anakin should be very young when separated from his mother because that would fuck him up

>>211405504

I absolutely agree with you. Infact I would have added scenes where fame and being the chosen one affect his judgment. I would have show him being given deferential treatment. I don't think the idea is to strip it out but contextualize it in the story. Why do we care? because humans tend to create messianic figures.

>>211405560

Then you show him being taken from his mother in a single, poignant scene, you don't stay with him being super young in the story.

>>211402672
Jek Portions

>>211405504
>There's a tonal dissonance in how the Jedi are supposed to be all hyped up about the chosen one, but then Anakin is kind of just treated like he's a problem child.
Because he's so different from them. They were brought in as babies and have no memories ot their parents, while Anakin was 9 and was raised by his mom. To them, he's an affront to the Jedi Code and a ticking time bomb of dark side disaster. Anakin never feeling like he belonged in the Order is the point.

>>211405759
Then there should have been more of a concerted effort to get rid of him, and that should have been a plot point.
Maybe Mace Windu is actively looking for excuses to get him expelled, while Yoda is concerned with keeping him close, so he doesn't fall to the dark side. Obi-Wan sees the best in him because of their close relationship, and allows infractions to go off-record.
There's things there you could do that weren't done, and that's kind of the problem.

Btw, what was with all the chosen one tropes in the 2000s? Harry Potter, Matrix, and many others

>>211405623
>you don't stay with him being super young in the story.
He's a kid because the movie's for kids. A self insert for the child audience.

Prequels are fine, tired of the hate

>>211402459
4chan is an adults only website

>>211405873
>Then there should have been more of a concerted effort to get rid of him
They can't. He's the Chosen One and their key to defeating the Sith. They just don't like him.

>>211401296 (OP)
Who gives a fuck what Simon Pegged thinks

>>211406327
that was just a thing in every era, until people got all cynical about it.

>>211402967
>a woman being a dumb whore hundreds of years ago resulted in pajeets shitting up this board
Somehow it always ends up being a woman's fault

>>211406396
Kids don't self insert as kids retard. Look at captain marvel Billy Batson, all kids want to do is grow up before they realize how much being an adult can suck.

>>211401296 (OP)
It's cool to know that Pegg's always been retarded.
That image is absolutely crushing though. Disney had 3 (THREE) chances to give fans what we wanted. Especially after TLJ where the internet was very explicit on everything wrong with that film and where they struggled to damage control and soft retconned almost everything in TROS, they STILL wouldn't just give us a shot of the original cast together reunited.
Like they can reanimate Fisher's coke-ridden corpse to do shit all, but they couldn't just cgi a shot of her hugging Han and Luke together.

>>211401296 (OP)
>"What happened in the beginning, Uncle Luke?" and he goes, "Well..."
>"I was just about to head down to Tosche station to pick up some power converters..." the original trilogy starts again

>>211401296 (OP)
But it's Episode 1, not Episode 6.5. Why would the story be told "in the present"? Why would Luke and co. be in hyperspace *with their families* in the Falcon, instead of holding the positions of government and Supreme Jedi Master they'd realistically hold? Goddamn does he sound like a fanboy retard.

>>211402638
>Scrap the weird Immaculate Conception Jesus/Mary allegory too.

If only there was a dialogue where it is mentioned that someone was able to control life...

>>211401296 (OP)
Every year that goes by, George is proven more and more right.

>>211405145
>Don't get why you guys have such a hateboner for this.
Because it retroactively makes the OT and the way Vader was framed in it silly. it takes you out of those movies
>the evil cyborg being a dick to nazis was actually Space Jesus all along
it's so profoundly retarded, and in no way comes up within the story

>>211402638
>scrap the entire reason Anakin turns against the Jedi and replace it with a more generic one
How about no

>>211404112
The irony of saying
>well fans would hate it!
In a post where you're hating what we got

>>211404220
the best part of that sequence is when Peter Serafinowicz hears about it he says "I dunno, I quite liked the Phantom Menace" as he of course provided the voice of Darth Maul.

>>211405238
Because it makes the Jedi's folly that much more tragic when their hubris manages to alienate not only a good warrior and pilot but the literal Chosen One of their own religion. It's the ultimate fuck-up, courtesy of their antiquated rules.

>>211405623
>you show him being taken from his mother in a single, poignant scene, you don't stay with him being super young
See >>211402848. Star Wars doesn't have flashbacks and it doesn't have timeskips other than between movies (and an assumed passage of time that never goes beyond a few days at most, like the Falcon reaching Cloud City without hyperdrive).

>George in 76
Hmm I have all this cool narrative but I think I need to move the films to start In Medias Res so we hit the ground running, it'll be like catching Flash Gordon 20 or so episodes in it'll be non-stop action!
>George in 97
International shipping lanes, kids love international shipping lanes

>>211401296 (OP)
>le flashback
fucking retarded bong

>>211401296 (OP)
George Lucas would have been retarded to pander to fans like this, especially if this fucking garbage idea is what they wanted.

>>211401296 (OP)
>this is what people who think George doesn't understand Star Wars think belongs in a Star Wars movie
You can tell Edgar Wright is the brains behind all his work

>>211401296 (OP)
>asking Luke about things that happened before he was born
Pegg is Big Bang Theory levels of fake nerd.

>>211413356
Kids loved Jar Jar, podracing and Maul. Why do people overstate the amount of talking in TPM? Five minutes in you see a ship exploding and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan slicing droids, then visiting a fantastical underwater city, then slicing some more droids up in Taboo, stealing a ship, the R2 sequence with the other droids getting blown up...

>>211401296 (OP)
What he should have done is make it not shit

*Record scratch*

FREEZE FRAME

Yep. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up how in this situation. Well it all started with some trade negotiations...

Teenage Wasteland starts playing

>The prequels would have been good if they were made for 40 year old men

>>211403638
No one counts the faggotty EU books. There was no Episode 7 in 2005, dimbulb.

>>211415264
That's never happened in any movie though.

>>211413356
Kids loved the prequels tho, they sold a shit ton of toys for a reason

>>211415557
Kids know dick. I see 'em pumping quarters into the machines in my arcades.

come bust a move where the games are played

>>211402061
I don't "get" it.

>>211401296 (OP)
Gen X will die buttblasted that Lucas didn't pander to them with the prequels.
I don't even think they're good movies but Lucas is based as fuck for causing so much ass pain for 26 years just by making a glorified toy commercial.