Interview with
Rick McCallum
(1996)

Specifiek Universitair Magazine: Can you tell me anything about the story of the prequels?

Rick McCallum: The problem is, if I tell you too much, it will be on TV in six months. But basically, the story goes as follows. We meet Anakin Skywalker when he's a young boy and we watch him become a Jedi- knight, then a Jedi-master. Then on the background of the Clone-Wars, he becomes a great hero, and on that moment pride, ego and selfishness take over and he chooses to go to the Dark Side. And rest of the movie is really about the consequences of what happens when you don't take responsibilities of your own action, and when you think you're better then anybody else.

SUM: Are the origins of the Force and the Dark Side explained?

RM: They are. They will be much more fully explained. It will be a set of darker and much more complicated films, just because of the very nature that it is about Anakin, and not about Luke. Luke is about innocence, the rights of passage that all kids have to make. And this is about having made that passage, what do you do when you're an adult, what happens to people around you and that you love when you do things that are wrong.

SUM: Do we get to meet the mother of Luke?

RM: Yes, of course you do.

SUM: And a young Luke?

RM: No. You'll see him be born. But there the story ends and goes to part 4,5,6.

SUM: Obi-Wan Kenobi?

RM: Yes, also much younger, because the story takes place about 45 years earlier. And he is Anakin's mentor. He teaches him the Force and how to use it and how to become a Jedi-knight.

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