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That's a long time for a "Star Wars" fan to wait. And it's been a while since the last "Star Wars" movie came out in 2008. So to hold you over, let's relive the last film in the prequel, "Revenge of the Sith," specifically the last 15 minutes of the film, a moment Star Wars fans waited decades to witness and producers pulled out all the stops to pull off.
(For more "Star Wars" recaps, check out the on-going series, "Star Wars" Rewind).
2005's "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" would mark the final film in the saga George Lucas would be involved in. "Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" were fine, but for the most part "Star Wars" fans were left feeling unsatisfied. "Episode III" would hopefully give fans the answers they had been wanting for decades, and some redemption for Lucas.
"Revenge of the Sith" had a mature feel compared to the previous two films and captured the horrific fall of the Jedi. In it, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) finds himself moving closer to the dark side as Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) - who we come to learn is the Emperor, Darth Sidious - convinces Skywalker that he's the greatest Jedi of them all. This leads to Skywalker leading the rise of the Empire.
But it's the final 15 minutes of the film that set it apart from the others in the prequel.
In it, Anakin loses the light saber battle against Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and is left for dead as he burns alive on the volcanic planet of Mustafar.
