Revenge of the Sith Recreation Author Seems to be Again on Alternate Ending

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith turns 20 years outdated later in Might, and for a lot of, the movie will call to mind its tie-in sport. One cause it holds a particular place in followers’ hearts is its two endings: the canonical one the place Obi-Wan defeats Anakin to start the Unique Trilogy, and an alternate one the place Anakin kills his former grasp, then Palpatine, and turns into the brand new Emperor.

Speaking to Inverse, sport author Jeremy Barlow revealed the ending partially got here from an concept pitched by LucasArts. When developer The Collective scaled again its ambitions for separate Anakin and Obi-Wan campaigns right into a single one with alternating views, it opted to stay with that totally different take, and Barlow obtained to deal with the specifics. To him, Anakin killing Obi-Wan was a “no-brainer,” because it’d show he was the strongest Drive person within the galaxy and provides him the arrogance to betray his childhood confidant.

“It completely slot in with the entire Sith ideally suited of the apprentice rising and killing the grasp, and all of us went nuts for it,” stated Barlow of the thought. The Revenge of the Sith sport had a shaky growth—The Collective changed a completely totally different studio and restarted growth lower than a yr earlier than its scheduled launch—and Barlow stated they needed to “get the purpose as quick and seamlessly as potential. We solely had like a [90-second] cutscene.” Regardless of the transient ending, he known as it “rewarding [to see] it’s nonetheless in individuals’s minds and hearts. It’s not a mirrored image on me, however a mirrored image on simply how highly effective that concept was and what Star Wars means to individuals.”

If Barlow had his means, he’d discover the fallout of the Emperor Anakin ending. Below Anakin’s rule, he thinks the galaxy could be a lot worse off, since Palpatine at the least “adopted the foundations in a bizarre means.” However the brand new paradigm shift would result in some attention-grabbing household drama: how does Padme elevate the twins whereas married to probably the most highly effective man within the galaxy (who she’s already admitted to being fearful of), and the way do Luke and Leia survive “being raised by these dad and mom who’ve a public face collectively, however behind closed doorways are clearly opposed?”

Lucasfilm could not present the solutions, however that’s what fanfiction’s for.

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