The Phantom Menace (1999) George Lucas: "When I told Fox the next film is about how Darth Vader got to be Darth Vader they got all excited. I told them, "In the first movie, he's 10 years old." Fox, and also people at Lucasfilm, said, "You're going to destroy the franchise; you're going to..."

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"...destroy everything! You can't do it, this is terrible!" Everybody was upset, and I thought, "This is why I own the films, and I own the company, because if I didn't, this film would never get made." If I went to a studio with this story, it would never have existed. I know everybody wants to..."

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"...see Darth Vader in his black suit with his lightsaber, but the whole point of it is: How does this nice little kind kid, who has good intentions, is just like us, go wrong and became Vader? And the second part of the story is: How does a democracy become a dictatorship?" (SW Archives 1999-2005)

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