Quote Originally Posted by Skoons
I cant understand only one thing, Why Lucas beging his movie with the 4th part
In an interview, Lucas commented on the notes and writing he had for the first three eposide. For the last movie, only like 60% was from his notes and the other 40% was filler that he added in making the movie. The first two movies were only a fraction of his original story notes.

What I took out of the answers he was giving was that Star Wars was the movie he was making and the "first three" were really his 'background notes and information for the movie.

It was also interesting that he stated that the feedback from initial screenings was that it wasn't clear why Anikin turned to the dark side. As such, they ended up reshooting and fixing a lot of that.

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For those watching records - it did break the Midnight showing record, the opening day record, and the four day record. It did not break the opening week-end record ; however, it wasn't expected to. It was known that opening on Thursday would drain off some of the week-end viewers - which it did.

Brad!