Star Wars: The Force Awakens full trailer will premiere on MNF (10/19)

Here's a bullet points version of how Anakin's fall to the dark side SHOULD have happened...

I think this is pretty much along the lines of what most fans were expecting when the prequels were announced. Unfortunately it wasn't, as Lucas put it, the story he wanted to tell, and as another poster stated, I don't think we can ever expect a reboot.

That said, I wonder how much of the prequels struggled from a bad story, and how much was simply bad direction on Lucas' part: the acting was pretty poor -- Natalie Portman, for example, is almost unwatchable, but has proven in other movies she's a very fine actress; the pacing was bad -- the original trilogy films all clocked right about 2 hours each, while the prequels run close to 2:30; and there didn't seem to be anyone involved who could tell him "no" about anything.

What I'd like to see is a reverse of the special editions they did on the original trilogy in the 90's -- that is, take the films he shot, but re-cut them and see if you can improve them not by adding stuff, but by cutting stuff out. Cut out the stiff and clunky dialogue. Cut out the whole midichlorians junk. Cut out the characters narrating action as it happens -- just show it! Cut out as much of the gungans and child actors as possible. Cut out the stupid/silly voice-overs of the trade federation, Jar-Jar, the battle droids, etc. and replace them with something more menacing. If they did all this and re-cut them down to about 1:45 each I think the final product would be a huge improvement.