Pre-production work began just a few days after the May 16, 2002, release of the last installment, the melancholy and ambitious Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones.
But they do, together, form one epic of fathers and sons.”
I do see it, tonality-wise, as two trilogies.
“Once it’s there, it’s a complete work, and I’m proud of that. Revenge of the Sith is the movie that will connect the effervescent original Star Wars trilogy of the late 1970s and early 80s to the latter, denser installments that began six years ago with Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace. As such, he suits up in the famous black armor and helmet, a revised version of which was made for Christensen out of leather and fiberglass. This is the sixth-and, he says, final- Star Wars film, the one in which Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen, completes his transformation from a wayward Jedi knight to an evil Sith named Darth Vader. With the May 19 release of Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith, he will finally be free of his grand task. So Lucas had no way of knowing that the idea he was beginning to scratch out in his cramped handwriting would eventually make him the multi-billionaire head of his own little empire, or that it would occupy him, on and off, for the next 33 years. He had just put the finishing touches on his coming-of-age comedy, American Graffiti, but the studio executives at Universal hated the picture and had yet to set a release date for it. 2 pencil and some blue- and green-lined loose-leaf notebook paper and started writing a story treatment for a science-fiction movie that had been taking shape in his mind as “a fantasy in the Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon tradition, a combination of 2001 and James Bond.” At the time, he was a director of uncertain commercial prospects. In February 1972, a skinny, little-known, 27-year-old filmmaker named George Lucas took a No.
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