"What made me want to make these movies is the fact that this is a really interesting story about how people go bad. In this particular case, the premise is: Nobody thinks they're bad. They just have different points of view. This is about a boy who is really wonderful. He has some weaknesses - and these weaknesses ultimately become his downfall. The core problem is ultimately greed, possessiveness - the inability to let go. Not only holding on to material things, that's greed, but also holding on to life, to the people you love - and not accepting the reality of the processes and changes in life, which means: things come, things go. Everything changes. Anakin is emotionally attached to things, to his mother, to his wife. That's why he falls - because he doesn't have the ability to let go..“
The 3 movies of the Star Wars series released between 1999 and 2005 form a self-contained story and describe what happened 32 to 19 years before the events of Star Wars Episode 4 – A New Hope.
At the center of the story is the young Anakin Skywalker, who has a bright future ahead of him due to his talent and his high midi-chlorian value. But the greed for power changes everything in young Skywalker.
It was the last trilogy to be distributed by 20th Century Fox until Lucasfilm was bought and taken over by The Walt Disney Company in 2012.