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Pablo Hidalgo

17 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/kershed/status/1427364970719850497

A side effect of this reshoot is Anakin's lightsaber occasionally showing up in Palpatine's hands in this fight, which was how it played out the first time around.

https://twitter.com/kershed/status/1427364970719850497

(for example: )

(asked in the thread: what was the change?) Anakin was originally standing with Palpatine when the Jedi came to arrest the chancellor. Rather than have his own lightsaber, Palpatine called Anakin's from his belt into his hand, and killed the Jedi and fought Mace with it.

Among the reasons for the change is Anakin seeming too inert during all this. He was removed from Palpatine's office, and the scene where he tells Mace about Palpatine was added, as well as him being alone in the Council chamber thinkin of Padmé, to clarify his motivations.

These scenes were all photographed in August of 2004 at Shepperton Studios, about a year after principal photography had wrapped at Sydney.

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