9 Films That Completely Ignored Their Source (And Sucked Because Of It)
5. The Star Wars Prequels Ignore What Previous Information There Was
Not based off a book or comic (although the saga has its fair share of both) the Star Wars prequels are primarily based off a few select lines of dialogue from Yoda and Obi-Wan in the original trilogy (or, if youre stone cold cynic, George Lucas declining bank balance). We already knew much of what was said about the old days was incredibly subjective after the awesome, if completely illogical, twist of Vaders identity, but following the prequels vast swathes of A New Hope (any edition) are needlessly confusing. Yoda training Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan wanting to train Anakin, Leia remembering her mother, Uncle Owens dislike of Ben; all plot points that make next to no sense given the account of events we got in the prequels. If you look at George Lucas creative process the building around concept art witnessed in the prequel behind-the-scenes and massive digressions from original concepts seen in The Making Of... coffee table books its likely these were at one point or another intended to form a part of the story, but fell away as time passed by. It really got pushed to extremes by the end-tying Revenge Of The Sith though. The shot of Obi-Wan picking up Anakins dropped lightsaber was added in reshoots Lucas had forgotten completely that it was meant to make it through to the next film.
