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I have asked Dark_Knight to post some more NEXT TUESDAY. It seems people need to read and absorb what has already been posted - which is a fuckload of discussionable material.
So, DK37 will retire and reappear next TUESDAY.
Ask Dark_Knight 37 about Episode 3 here.
Here is Rebel_Scumb's scriptment.
STAR WARS
EPISODE III
“In Production”
For three years the GREAT CLONE WAR has ravaged the galaxy. Starvation and misery stalk countless worlds.
Although near defeat, COUNT DOOKU and his Confederacy of Independent Systems have masterminded the capture of SUPREME CHANCELLOR PALPATINE.
With the mighty Armada of the Republic behind them, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker pursue Dooku and his sinister agents across the galaxy…]
PAN DOWN:
We see the Trade federation cruiser which hurries through space as two Jedi star fighters s well as dozens of Clone starfighters pursue it, showering the larger vessel with laser fire, as Federation fighters are deployed to stop them.
There is an epic space battle, where more then one clone pilot is killed. Anakin and Obi-wan shout orders over their communicators to each other and to the clones in their charge.
INT. REPUBLIC COMMAND SHIP - DAY
Meanwhile Bail Organa is commanding one of the Republic capital ships, engaging other Federation ships in the epic battle.
INT. FEDERATION CRUSIER BRIDGE - DAY
Dooku commands a bridge full of Nemodians pilots as they watch the battle on a large view screen.
EXT. SPACE - DAY
One of the Republic ships is damaged and hundreds of stormtroopers are sucked out a breach in the hull and scattered into space.
Sadly, R4 Obi-wan’s astrodroid is destroyed when his ship is damaged by enemy droids, which attach like spiders to his ship and use lasers to cut it apart.
Anakin, proving why he is known as the best pilot in the galaxy executes an impressive manoeuvre, in which he uses the wing of his star fighter to scrape the enemy droids off of Obi-wan’s ship. Then with a key laser blast disables the cruiser’s engine, causing it to stop.
INT. FEDERATION CRUISER BRIDGE - DAY
The Nemodian captain tells Dooku they have lost forward propulsion and are now sitting ducks.
Meanwhile, Dooku consults his separatist colleagues via hologram.
INT. MUSTAFAR CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT
The separatist leaders are gathered in a control room in their facility on the fire planet of Mustafar. Dooku informs them that he has come under attack and may not be able to deliver Palpatine to them.
INT. FEDERATION CRUISER – DAY
Dooku concludes the discussion with his co-conspirators. With him is the commander of the droid armies, General Grievous a menacing cyborg, who has killed many Jedi.
INT. HANGER - DAY
Hurrying to board the now helpless Federation cruiser, Obi-wan, Anakin R2-D2 land inside the ships hanger along with a small group of stormtroopers and hurry to find where Palpatine is being held captive. They have a tracking device, which is homed in on another Jedi: Shaak Ti, who was captured along with Palpatine.
INT. CRUISER CORRIDOR - DAY
Working their way through the dark corridors the Jedi are attacked by battle droids, and at least one stormtroopers meets an untimely end, as the swashbuckling battle begins. As the other Jedi hold of the battle droids, R2 creates a distraction. Obi-wan, Anakin and Kit fisto run up a steep ramp, but Kit Fisto falls through a trap door , as our two heroes follow Shaak Ti’s tracking signal into a new room where she is being held by General Grievous. Shaak Ti kneels on the floor in front of the deadly cyborg. Without mercy, he executes her with her own lightsaber.
Obi-wan and Anakin begin to fight Grievous’ men, who wield electrified pikes which are impervious to lightsabers. Overwhelmed by the Jedi killing droids, Anakin and Obi-wan cut a hole in the floor, and escape into the bowels of the ship.
INT. BOWELS OF THE SHIP - DAY
The lower decks are flooding with liquid fuel. Anakin and Obi-wan enter and are attacked by more battle droids as the fight in the murky liquid without the use of their lightsabers. The Jedi must hurry to get out of the room before the level of the fuel reaches electrodes near the ceiling.
INT. VENTILATION SHAFT - DAY
Barely escaping, they enter a ventilation shaft, and climb a ladder to safety. The droids still hot on their heels, Anakin seals the hatch with his lightsaber.
INT. BOWELS OF THE SHIP - DAY
The fuel hits the electrodes and the ship is rocked by a massive explosion which tears the ship in two, and causes it to spiral out of control back towards the city planet.
INT. FEDERATION CRUISER BRIDGE - DAY
The nemodian captain panics as the ship flies out of control.
INT. REPUBLIC COMMAND SHIP - DAY
Aboard their capital ship, Bail watches with worry as the giant cruiser looms back into the atmosphere, moments away from a terrible crash.
INT. CRUISER HALL WAY – DAY
Seperated from Obi-wan and Anakin, R2 partakes in a series of misadventures aboard the ship, utilizing his jet boosters and other new and familiar gadgets to elude destruction from the federation troops.
INT. CRUISER CORRIDOR - DAY
Obi-wan and Anakin discuss strategy as they make there way down a corridor to the elevator.
INT. ELEVATOR - DAY
They enter the elevator and ascend.
INT. ELEVATOR LOBBY - DAY
Entering a new corridor, which leads to the bridge, Obi-wan warns Anakin to take Dooku alive, as he has information that might be valuable to the war effort.
INT. HOLDING CHAMBER - DAY
General Grevious is guarding Palpatine. There is some indication that Grievous is aware of Palpatine’s alter ego as a Sith master, and owes some allegiance to him. Obi-wan and Anakin enter, the cyborg attacks the two Jedi, knocking Obi-wan unconscious. Then the evil cyborg sees how the ship is about to crash and punches a hole in the window, and climbs outside of the ship to make his escape. Anakin is faced with extreme wind due to the cabin depressurizing, and hurries to a control panel to seal the breach.
The ship is spinning out of control by now, as Dooku enters and ignites his dreaded red lightsaber.
Anakin and Count Dooku are locked in a vicious lightsaber battle. The scene is much in keeping with their previous duel, chaotic and very stylized. Anakin has definitely improved, and is eager to prove it to his nemesis. A “captive audience” to the proceedings, Palpatine watches from his chair, where he is still restrained, offering commentary with sinister implications, egging on the young Jedi.
The tumbling makes for an uneasy battleground, as Dooku and Anakin fight in the room, whose center of gravity keeps shifting. At the behest of Palpatine, and in an act of vengeance from their first duel, Anakin kills Dooku, chopping off both of his arms, then taking Dooku’s saber in one hand, and his own in the other, he beheads the aging Count.
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
Anakin frees Palpatine, and leads him through the uneven corridors as the ship continues to plummet. Palpatine slide down a chute. Shortly afterwards Anakin secures him in an escape pod.
As the ship continues to spiral out of control Anakin picks up the unconscious Obi-wan and carriers him through the chaotic crashing ship to the bridge.
INT. BRIDGE - DAY
Anakin meets up with R2, then attacks the bridge crew, and attempts to soft-land the massive ship on Coruscant.
Obi-wan wakes up to find Anakin at the controls, utilizing all his piloting and Jedi skills, Anakin miraculously is able to get the nose of the cruiser up for a moderately safe landing.
EXT. CRASH SITE - DAY
Once free of the vessel the two friends recover for a moment. As Anakin, and Obi-wan exit onto a landing platform, it is a sunny day, debris is scattered and smoke billows from the nearby crash. R2 must move around the debris. The coruscant fire department arrives to put out the blaze.
INT. FIRE SHIP COCKPIT - DAY
the fire ship pilot informs them that they will put out what fires they can.
EXT. CRASH SITE - DAY
Shortly there after a transport ship arrives to bring them to safety, the two Jedi and the little droid are rescued.
INT. GUNSHIP - DAY
Obi-wan relates what happened on the cruiser to Mace and Yoda while travelling in a republic gunship.
EXT. LANDING PAD - DAY
They arrive at another landing platform where Obi-wan and Anakin find a celebration, a plethora of characters have gathered, eager to greet the war heroes, and the rescued supreme chancellor. From the nearby Senate office building, Padme watches through a window, with sombre expression, holding her pregnant stomach and watching as the large group of senators and Jedi enter the building.
INT. SENATE OFFICE BUILDING - DAY
Once inside, Padme’s costume conceals her pregnancy, and the group discusses the death of Dooku and nearing end to the clone wars, with only a few key systems remaining to be liberated. Anakin and Padme share fleeting glances across the crowded room, unable to reveal their forbidden love. Obi-wan notices, but says nothing. Palpatine makes subtle but definite allusions that the Jedi’s involvement in the ordering of the clone army, coupled with Dooku’s turn to evil as troubling and suspicious.
INT. JEDI COUNCIL CHAMBER - DAY
Plans are underway to deliver the definitive blow to the separatist forces, and end the war.
Ki Adi Mundi and Plo Koon are present as holograms, they are both on the planet Utapau, where the clone forces under their command are massing to prepare final assaults against a separatist droid factory built in one of that worlds many giant sink holes. Obi-wan is assigned to go to Utapau, to help them bring down the factory and its forces which are under the command of the evil General Grievous.
Likewise Yoda is due to leave for Kashyyyk, where his battalion awaits him. Anakin is not given an assignment, which makes him angry, he feels he deserves respect for killing Dooku, but instead he is chastised for it.
INT. PALPTINE’S OFFICE – DAY
Many senators including Padme meet with Palpatine, asking him to relinquish his emergency powers now that the crisis is close to resolution, they also ask him when the clone army is to be decommissioned. The Chancellor says that he does not feel the “true” threat is quelled yet.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE - SUNSET
Inside the Jedi temple, Obi-wan stands at a computer terminal, researching the planet where General Grievous is believed to be hiding. Anakin approaches him, and the two friends talk, tension not far beneath the surface of their relationship, as they stand in a room with tall pillars. Anakin more or less spells out that his time with Jedi is ending.
Obi-wan leaves to go begin his mission, Anakin turns and sees a Jedi master, teaching two young apprentices. He glares with jealously, his own relationship with Obi-wan, not nearly as harmonious.
INT. CORUSCANT THEATRE - NIGHT
We cut to a Coruscant theatre, where Palpatine is in attendance of a strange alien performance art involving zero gravity. Anakin enters to speak with Palpatine, who continues to encourage Anakin, and plants subtle seeds of evil with in him, telling him it was wrong for the Jedi not to appreciate him. Palpatine appoints Anakin as his personal bodyguard.
INT. STORMTROOPER BARRACKS - NIGHT
In a hanger, Obi-wan acquires his new Jedi starfighter, and his new astro-droid, who is replacing R4 after the little droid was lost in the recent space battle. He gathers his clone battalion for their Utapau mission, including a clone who goes by the name Commander Cody, whom Obi-wan has fought with before, and have become buddies.
INT. PADME’S CORUSCANT APARTMENT - NIGHT
Anakin says a sad but heartfelt goodbye to Padme before he must begin his new duties, in another quiet scene in Padme‘s apartment. There is tension between them as Padme has begun to doubt the Chancellor, while Anakin remains very loyal to him. Anakin puts down his blue saber, mentioning how he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, to one day be a Jedi, but he must begin his new life now as the Chancellors bodyguard.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE - DAY
Yoda departs to Kashyyyk, to join his troops, and the local Wookies who are helping them. Kashyyyk is host to one of the key strongholds of the separatist under the command of Wat Tambor.
INT. PADME’S CORUSCANT APARTMENT - DAY
The expecting Senator has called a meeting of her liberal colleagues including Senators Bail Organa and Mon Motha. C3P0 serves drinks to the guests. The group discusses the current situation with Palpatine, and discuss their options for removing him from power.
INT. SENATE CHAMBER - DAY
Bail enters the senate chamber, joining Padme, and Jar jar. They petition for Palpatine to step down now that the conflict is so near to an end. But the chancellor refuses, and instead, removes Padme’s senatorial power.
INT. VISTA PALACE – DAY
Padme stays in her vista palace, which is a combination of both interior and exterior, and has a magnificent view of the city planet.
EXT. PLANET UTAPAU - DAY
Obi-wan and his brigade of clone soldiers, arrive on the planet Utapau, Obi-wan and Commander Cody, meet up with Ki adi Mundi and Plo Koon who are already on the planet with their own forces. Ki adi mundi is leading a tank brigade and Plo Koon some ground forces. Obi-wan makes use of a giant riding lizard to navigate the treacherous sink holes.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE TACTICAL CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
Mace is communicating with Yoda, and helping him coordinate the battle on Kashyyyk, with the one on Utapau. As well as other Jedi leading clones on other planets throughout the galaxy.
EXT. UTAPAU – DAY
The Jedi begin their attack, Ki adi Mundi and Plo Koon’s brigades engages the droid armies, creating a hole in their perimeter which allows Obi-wan and his small commando force to infiltrate the Separatist stronghold by entering through a cave.
INT. UTAPAU CAVE - DAY
Meanwhile Obi-wan and his men enter a cave where they find a vast separatist complex which they quickly begin to attack. Obi-wan enters the command chamber where from above he overhears General Grievous conversing with Darth Sidious, who appears as a hologram. Grievous has a secret contract with Sidious to kill as many Jedi as possible during the war. It is at this point that Obi-wan learns that Darth Sidious and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine are one and the same. Grievous spots Obi-wan and sets his evil henchmen against Obi-wan and his troops, who fight valiantly as General Grievous retreats, heading to his special vehicle.
Obi-wan grabs his giant bi-ped lizards and pursues the dreaded cyborg.
EXT. KASHYYYK - DAY
At the same time, with the help of the resident Wookies, Yoda, leads his troopers to victory, using boats to manoeuvre through the vast lagoons and jungles of Kashyyyk, overwhelming the separatists, and destroying them.
EXT. OTHER PLANETARY BATTLEFIELDS - DAY
Likewise the other Jedi generals on the other various worlds all find victory in battle.
EXT. UTAPAU - DAY
Back on Utapau, Obi-wan manages to crash Grievous’ ship somehow. The two foes battle once again, Grievous’ arms split in two, and he fights with four lightsabers, the ones he has taken from the Jedi he has slain. Just when Obi-wan appears to be defeated, he uses the force to summon Grievous’ blaster from his holster and shoots the droid general dead. He contacts Mace at the Jedi temple, to inform Mace of what he has just learned.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE TACTICAL CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
Given the weight of this revelation, Mace decides to go have a chat with Palpatine.
INT. PALPATINE’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Mace arrives at Palpatine’s office with four other Jedi including Kit Fisto to confront the galactic ruler. The noble Jedi enters the office of the galactic ruler and accuses him. Palpatine revealing his true nature at last, blasts Mace and the other Jedi with his evil powers, and activates his own dreaded lightsaber , utilizing a frightening technique never seen before, killing all but Windu who is left vulnerable but still able. The courageous Jedi fights vehemently against the evil sith master, blocking every blow, but steadily losing ground. He calls out to Anakin for help, telling him that he must destroy the Sith. Palpatine tells Anakin that the Jedi are corrupt, and must be stopped. Now Anakin must make a fateful choice between Mace and Palpatine.
Anakin stands with Windu, apparently taking his side, then without mercy, he stabs him the back. Though he has fought bravely to the end,Mace Windu has died, his death carrying some mystical or magical signifigance. Palpatine must now come clean to Anakin about his other identity as a Sith Master, and reveal his intentions to form an empire. He plays on Anakin’s fear and other weaknesses, exploiting the young Jedi’s ego and arrogance, painting the Jedi as corrupt and ineffective, and the cause of all of Anakin’s suffering. Anakin declares his loyalty to Palpatine, who then sends him to the Jedi temple, with a host of stormtroopers and a terrible mission to fulfill.
INT. SENATE CHAMBER - NIGHT
Palpatine addresses the senate, telling them that Mace Windu tried to assassinate him, and that the Jedi have truly betrayed the galaxy. In a startling declaration, Palpatine reforms the Republic into an empire, and instates himself as Emperor. His first order is that the Jedi order be disbanded and all the Jedi wiped out, much like with Anakin, he portrays the Jedi as the cause of the galaxies problems, and blames them for the start of the war.
Bail, Mon Motha and others are shocked by this evil declaration, but are powerless to stop Palpatine.
INT. MONTAGE ELEMENTS - NIGHT
We intercut between the slaughter of the Jedi across the galaxy. Palpatine exhibits some sort of secret control over the clones soldiers and makes them turn on their Jedi generals.
On Utapau, Commander Cody is handing Obi-wan his saber, which he had dropped while fighting Grievous, just then Cody goes rigid and tries to kill Obi-wan, who acting quickly ignites his saber, and is forced to take his friends life, along with the rest of his squad. Obi-wan runs to warn his fellow Jedi, but there is no time.
We cut to Ki Adi Mundi aboard his tank. The clone operated tank next to his turns its cannon, and fires at Ki Adi Mundi from point blank range , destroying the stately Jedi.
We cut to Plo Koon, he is desperately fighting off the brigade under his command, but is overwhelmed and destroyed.
Meanwhile on Kashyyyk Yoda displays his incredible abilities in battle once again, taking on over one hundred stormtroopers, summoning the force in incredible displays, and deflecting more laser blasts then seems physically possible. He also makes use coy behaviour to lull the clones into thinking he is a silly little creature that can do them no harm. But even he cannot fight an entire army, and is forced to retreat. Yoda is saved by Chewbacca, who is the only Wookie to survive the battle. They escape in one of the new Republic speeders.
Its possible we will see other worlds with other Jedi forced to fight the clones they once lead as generals, as they are quickly being eradicated. (but then again we might not)
Anakin enters the Jedi council, and kills those inside. The stormtroopers swarm the Jedi and kill all that they find. [i]Most tragic of all is the death of the younglings, the children whose only crime was their acute awareness of the force. Following the attack, Anakin activates the Jedi homing beacon which signals any Jedi in the galaxy to return to the temple.
EXT. UTAPAU - DAY
Obi-wan must hide from the clone brigades still present on Utapau. It is around this time that Obi-wan encountersa group of helpful aliens, whose gruesome appearance is contrary to their kind nature.They help him make contact with Yoda, then escape undetected.
Utilizing Grievous ship, Obi-wan departs Utapau and heads to Kashyyyk to pick up Yoda.
EXT. KASHYYYK BATTLEGROUNDS - DAY
Obi-wan arrives to take Yoda back to Coruscant, they are both concerned that they are unable to make contact with the temple and are unsure what is happening with the clones.
INT. PALPATINE’S OFFICE - NIGHT
Anakin enters, and tells his new master that the temple is destroyed. Palpatine instructs Anakin to go to the planet Mustafar, where Nute Gunray and the other remaining separatist are hiding, and to eliminate them once and for all.
EXT. CORUSCANT – DAY
Obi-wan and Yoda are reunited on Coruscant, answering the homing beacon, and some how undetected by imperial forces. They meet up with Bail, who warns them of what the emperor has done. They go to the Jedi temple with him to look for answers and survivors.
INT. VISTA PALACE - DAY
Anakin arrives at Padme’s vista palace. He tells her what has happened, but paints it in another light, that makes the Jedi look like the traitors, and tries to make her see his point of view. Her love for him blinds her to the truth. Before he turns to leave for Mustafar, they embrace. She is angry at the turn of events with Palpatine, and is not happy that Anakin supports dictatorial leadership. They quarrel, and much is left unsaid between them as he leaves in his speeder, but it is clear, despite that they are both hurt and confused, that they still love each other.
EXT. LANDING PAD – DAY
Bail reunites with Obi-wan and Yoda in secret. He agrees to help them find answers. Posing as a hunchbacked beggar (with Yoda as the hunch) and Obi-wan as another vagrant, the trio gains entrance to the Jedi temple undetected.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE - DAY
Once inside, Obi-wan must come to terms with Anakin’s betrayal as he is shown surveillance footage of Anakin leading the raid on the Jedi temple.
Yoda concludes that he and Obi-wan, being the only Jedi left must each find and destroy their Sith counterparts. Though this is may be a suicide mission, they both agree. Obi-wan discovers the homing beacon is a trap and reverses it, to tell any surviving Jedi to avoid Coruscant and flee for their lives, then leaves to consult Padme, whom he believes to be the key in finding Anakin.
Yoda also wants to recover an old Sith book from his room, which he believes will provide important answers. The book describes in detail an ancient technique, which allows one who is strong with the force to retain their identity after death.
INT. VISTA PALACE - DAY
Obi-wan arrives at Padme’s vista home shortly after Anakin has left. They discuss Anakin’s turn to evil. Padme does not want to believe what he tells her, but in the end she reveals to Obi-wan her secret marriage to Anakin, her pregnancy, Anakin’s family on Tatooine, and his slaughter of the Tusken raiders who killed his mother three years previous.
Weighing all the tragic events that have transpired, and with a heavy heart, Padme tells Obi-wan that Anakin is headed for Mustafar. He tells her that her baby will be targeted by the Emperor, she agrees to let him take her to Alderaan where she will hide in safety.
EXT. LANDING PAD - NIGHT
Captain Typho escorts Padme and C3P0 to yet another landing platform on Coruscant where Obi-wan is waiting. They depart for Alderaan.
INT. JEDI TEMPLE – NIGHT
Yoda is searching through his old books and tapestries when Palpatine enters. The two aging masters have it out, first verbally then physically. They manifest the force, both light and dark in a dazzling display. Sadly, Yoda is bested, having underestimated the powers of the emperor and is forced to retreat.
EXT. LANDING PAD - DAY
Bail is waiting outside the temple by his speeder, he is still dressed incognito to hide his involvement with helping the Jedi. Yoda emerges, and pursued by stormtroopers. Bail fires at them, allowing Yoda to get into his slick red speeder. The troopers fire at Bail as he jumps in and zooms away to his private hanger.
EXT. CORUSCANT – NIGHT
The speeder is pursued by Imperial agents, but the senator and the Jedi manage to evade them.
INT. HANGER - DAY
Yoda and Bail enter an enclosed hanger where he secures his Tantiv IV blockade runner ship from his aides, one of whom is a sexy lady and departs the capital.
INT. PADME’S SHIP - DAY
Meanwhile as they approach Alderaan, Padme speaks to C3P0 aboard her ship.
EXT. ALDERAAN LANDING PLATFORM - DAY
Obi-wan, the droids and Padme land on Alderaan where they are greeted by Bail [/b] and Yoda.
INT. ALDERAAN CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
Once inside, the recent events are explained to Padme and Obi-wan by Bail and Yoda in a conference room with many blinking lights.
INT. ALDERAAN HALLWAY - DAY
After the meeting, Yoda tells Obi-wan about the ancient technique of preserving your identity after death.
INT. MUSTAFAR CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT
On the molten world of Mustafar, Nute Gunray and the other seperatist leaders are contacted by Emperor Palpatine via hologram, he calls for their surrender. They agree, and promise to deactivate all their remaining droid armies. Palpatine informs them, that he is sending his emissary, Anakin Skywalker, to receive their offical notice of surrender. The cowardly upstarts agree, unaware that Anakin is coming to kill them.
EXT. SPACE – NIGHT
Anakin zooms towards Mustafar, ready to seal the fates of Nute and his cohorts.
EXT. ALDERAAN LANDING PLATFORM - NIGHT
Padme and Obi-wan sneak off in Obi-wan’s ship to Mustafar, believing they can still turn Anakin back to good. As soon as they learn of this, Bail and Yoda and the droids get in Bail’s ship and head after them
INT. MUSTAFAR CONFERENCE ROOM - NIGHT
In a conference room on Mustafar, Anakin makes short work of Nute Gunray and the other seperatist leaders.
EXT. MUSTAFAR - NIGHT
Obi-wan and Padme land on Mustafar.
INT. MUSTAFAR CONFERENCE ROOM – NIGHT
Padme enters, finding Anakin. The two have a very serious talk about everything that has happened. It seems for a moment that Anakin might be reasoned with. He follows her back out to the landing platform.
EXT. MUSTAFAR LANDING PAD - NIGHT
Obi-wan emerges on the landing platform just outside the conference room. The three characters engage in a dramatic scene. Anakin grows angry at Padme when he learns she has helped Obi-wan find him.
He lashes out at her, choking her with the force, unable to govern his terrible passion, then throws her against a wall, where she hits her head badly. Obi-wan draws his lightsaber and the two begin to duel.[/i]
INT. MUSTAFAR FACILITY - NIGHT
Anakin engages Obi-wan in part of the epic duel between master and apprentice while in the conference room, where [b]Po Nudo’s body and others strewn about.
Anakin and Obi-wan are locked in a mortal battle with each other. Anakin deflects some falling debris with his saber.
The two foes exchange harsh words during the fateful duel.
A dark room filled with control panels and flashing lights, and a large blast door. The duel enters this room, moves outside then re-enters this room. Obi-wan is thrown against a computer. The exit the room again, through another door, still engaged in mortal combat. Arriving at a ravine over the lava.
EXT. MUSTAFAR FACILITY - NIGHT
Anakin grabs a cable and swings across, Obi-wan follows, they clash while suspended, then arrive at the other side and continue to duel.
Obi-wan attacks Anakin who backs up a ramp over the lava, his height making him vulnerable on a slope, using this advantage Obi-wan slices one of Anakin’s legs out from under him
Anakin does not give up. He swipes at Obi-wan, who blocks the attack and severs Anakin’s other arm.
Obi-wan makes one final plea for Anakin to abandon the dark side and to come back to the light side, but he is too far gone and lashes out at Obi-wan, drawing his second lightsaber, his red sith saber, and tries with one last effort to destroy Obi-wan. But Obi-wan again evades the blow, and Anakin is knocked off balance and falls into the molten pit below, where he is horribly scarred and burned to a crisp.
EXT. MUSTAFAR LANDING PAD - NIGHT
Obi-wan recovers Anakin’s blue saber, then runs from stormtroopers who have landed in an imperial stardestroyer. Bail and Yoda arrive on Mustafar aboard the Tantiv just in time. Obi-wan is under fire while holding Padme, who is critical condition. He carries her onboard as the desperate group escapes the planet.
INT. IMPERIAL MEDICAL FACILITY - NIGHT
Barely alive, Anakin is rescued by Palpatine’s henchmen, and brought to an evil medical facility. There he is kept alive, submerged in healing liquid, limbless and horrifically deformed.
INT. BLOCKADE RUNNER - DAY
Unable to make it back to Alderaan in time, Obi-wan and the others land on yet another new planet where short grey aliens with big eyes tend to the injured Padme who needs to give birth before it is too late.
INT. ALIEN HOSPITAL - DAY
These aliens are masters of an advanced medical technology.
Leia is born, Padme holds her for a moment, looking into her eyes, mother and daughter share a momentary connection that will linger in Leia’s mind the rest of her life. Suddenly Padme convulses, it seems Leia has a twin brother, Luke.
Obi-wan, Yoda and Bail discuss where each of them will go from here and what the next stage of their plan should be. It is agreed that C3P0 must have his memory erased, but it is reasoned that R2 can keep a secret and his memories are spared.
Suddenly, the three men are called back in by the doctor. Padme is dying. The trauma of the choking added with the abrupt childbirth has proven too much for her. She shares a few choice words with Obi-wan, then passes away.
INT. IMPERIAL MEDICAL FACILITY - NIGHT
Anakin, burned within an inch of his life is resuscitated by imperial medical droids, who heal him by building him into to the armour terror of the stars we all know as Darth Vader. Now more machine then man, the new Sith lord emerges in a room with an intricate mechanical floor.
When he comes to he is lying on a slab. He asks where Padme is. Palpatine tells Anakin that he (Anakin) killed her. Anakin screams, setting the force into a furious storm, throwing medical droids to and fro. Palpatine must shield himself from the onslaught, the walls buckle from the assault.
EXT. NABOO FUNERAL CHAMBER - NIGHT
Anakin’s scream echoes into the next sequence where Padme’s body, after being delivered by Bail, is laid to rest on Naboo, as her family stands solemnly with the new queen of Naboo, Jar jar, Sio Bibble and other Naboo delegates watch with dismay.
INT. SITH CHAMBER – NIGHT
[i]Anakin is officially knighted as a Sith lord, and is given the name DARTH VADER
EXT. ORBIT OF PLANET DAGOBAH - DAY
Back aboard the Tantiv,Obi-wan is entrusted with Luke, and decides to take him to Tatooine, The one place he is certain Anakin will never willingly return to. Bail is entrusted with Leia. Whether Obi-wan is aware of this remains to be seen. Yoda tells Obi-wan about the ancient technique of preserving your identity after death. Yoda is delivered to Dagobah via escape pod by Bail, where he will go into hiding.
EXT. ALDERAAN BALCONY - DAY
Bail stands on Alderaan with his wife, baby Leia, and [i]the droids who are beginning their new jobs programming binary load lifters.
EXT. LARS HOMESTEAD - SUNSET
Obi-wan arrives at the homestead on Tatooine where he delivers baby Luke to Owen and Beru, before heading out into the desert.
INT. IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER - NIGHT
Vader exit’s the medical facility and walks through the bridge of the star destroyer, joining his new master Darth Sidious, the emperor of the galaxy, and an imperial officer named Tarkin. They watch through the window as the deathstar, their ultimate weapon has begun construction.
Vader looks out as the stars, breathing through his mask.
Iris out
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: In Episode II, Anakin had that very Vader-like pose on the Naboo balcony. Are there any similar instances in the new film? More specifically, any dialogue that reminds us of his future self?
