You may know Topher Grace as Eric Foreman from That 70's Show, or as Venom from Spiderman 3, but apparently he's also a pretty big film nerd. Seeing the myriad of problems with the Star Wars prequels, Grace took it upon himself to fix them. Using the footage from those three films, a couple scenes from the original trilogy, as well as some dialog from some Star Wars audiobooks and episodes of Cartoon Network's The Clone Wars, he created a single, 85 minute feature which tells the story of Anakin Skywalker's rise and fall, and according to film critic Peter Sciretta, it's actually pretty good. Titled Star Wars Episode III.5: The Editor Strikes Back leaves out almost everything we hated about the prequels. There's no talk about blockades or taxes, no scenes of debates in the galactic senate, no cloning subplot, no midichlorians, no "NOOOOOO!", none of Jake Lloyd's scenes and only one line of dialog from Jar-Jar. Sciretta calls it "probably the best possible edit of the Star Wars prequels given the footage that was available. Unfortunately, we will probably never see this because George Lucas is a mean old man bent on destroying our childhoods.A thorough description of Grace's edit can be found here.
Story via The AV Club
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