The Revenge of the Sith Game Writer Still Thinks About Its Wild Alternate Ending

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith turns 20 years aged aboriginal successful May, and for many, the movie volition bring to caput its tie-in game. One crushed it holds a peculiar spot successful fans’ hearts is its 2 endings: the canonical 1 wherever Obi-Wan defeats Anakin to statesman the Original Trilogy, and an alternate 1 wherever Anakin kills his erstwhile master, past Palpatine, and becomes the caller Emperor.

Talking to Inverse, crippled writer Jeremy Barlow revealed the ending partially came from an thought pitched by LucasArts. When developer The Collective scaled backmost its ambitions for abstracted Anakin and Obi-Wan campaigns into a azygous 1 with alternating perspectives, it opted to instrumentality with that antithetic take, and Barlow got to grip the specifics. To him, Anakin sidesplitting Obi-Wan was a “no-brainer,” since it’d beryllium helium was the strongest Force idiosyncratic successful the postulation and springiness him the assurance to betray his puerility confidant.

“It wholly acceptable successful with the full Sith perfect of the apprentice increasing and sidesplitting the master, and we each went nuts for it,” said Barlow of the idea. The Revenge of the Sith game had a shaky development—The Collective replaced an wholly antithetic workplace and restarted improvement little than a twelvemonth earlier its scheduled release—and Barlow said they had to “get the constituent arsenic accelerated and seamlessly arsenic possible. We lone had similar a [90-second] cutscene.” Despite the little ending, helium called it “rewarding [to see] it’s inactive successful people’s minds and hearts. It’s not a reflection connected me, but a reflection connected conscionable however almighty that thought was and what Star Wars means to people.”

If Barlow had his way, he’d research the fallout of the Emperor Anakin ending. Under Anakin’s rule, helium thinks the postulation would beryllium overmuch worse off, since Palpatine astatine slightest “followed the rules successful a weird way.” But the caller paradigm displacement would pb to immoderate absorbing household drama: however does Padme rise the twins portion joined to the astir almighty antheral successful the postulation (who she’s already admitted to being terrified of), and however bash Luke and Leia past “being raised by these parents who person a nationalist look together, but down closed doors are evidently opposed?”

Lucasfilm whitethorn not supply the answers, but that’s what fanfiction’s for.

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