Here’s the short excerpt from The Art of Attack of the Clones: You can catch it in most of the printed publications, however. Nute Gunray is humorous enough as it is, but him yelling the word “foul” makes the scene even funnier to me. Why they would remove one word like that is beyond me, but I don’t edit the films. This is so small and insignificant, it hardly warrants a mention, but something inside me really gets a kick out of wanting to see Nute Gunray yell, “FOUL!” in the middle of the execution arena scenes. The JEDI COUNCIL are assembled as MACE WINDU makes his plea.Īll of the JEDI COUNCIL nod their approval. CORUSCANT, JEDI TEMPLE, COUNCIL CHAMBER – DAY Here’s the excerpt from the 2nd draft of Episode II:ġ37 INT. This scene was to take place after Anakin and Padmé (with our two favorite droids) depart Tatooine and set a course for Geonosis. Mace Windu makes a plea to the Jedi Council to allow him to take 200 Jedi to Geonosis to help Obi-Wan. In the 2nd draft, things are a little different. In the finished film, Mace Windu and Yoda decide what they’re going to do about the Geonosian crisis while lurking in the Senate hall listening to Jar Jar make his motion to give Palpatine emergency powers. There were many changes from script to screen, so let’s just take a look at some of the major things that were deleted or altered during the Battle of Geonosis. If the clones failed their first big military test, the war might have ended right there. This was the first big test of the clone army, created specifically to fight wars and serve as the Grand Army of the Republic.
It was technically the first big battle of what would be known as The Clone Wars. The Battle of Geonosis was quite a historic event when you think about it.