"I did talk to George about one of the episodes," Stoppard told in 2014. "It must have been ten years ago. Actually, it was Steven. Steven Spielberg asked me to read a script and do a kind of dialogue polish. I did a bit, but I wouldn't want to usurp the writer's claim on the movie. [ Laughs] Polish is such a strange word for what one does. I interfered with George's script in a mild way."
"It was in the design of the character, as well as knowing that we were going to introduce Darth Plagueis, who has to end up with Palpatine as his apprentice," Headland says in The Art of the Acolyte. "Following the Rule of Two - a precept that limited the Sith to just two at any given time, a master and an apprentice - one way to keep it goin