Gillard told Vulture, 'George has never been in a fight in his life. To achieve this, he tasked stunt coordinator Nick Gillard with charging up the epic lightsaber duels. In The Phantom Menace, fans are treated to 'a Jedi in his prime,' and Lucas knew the fighting had to be taken to a much higher level than it was in the original trilogy. Star Wars fanatics are aware that George Lucas wanted everything ' faster and more intense,' and that's exactly what he intended for all the lightsaber duels in the prequel trilogy. QUI-GON swings his laser sword with all his might and knocks Darth Maul off the ramp onto the desert floor. His heels hang over the edge of the 40-foot drop. The SITH LORD immediately jumps onto the ramp after QUI-GON, but barely makes it. There might have been more to the scene where Maul chases Qui-Gon into the ship, but whether it was filmed or even scripted is not known, according to the fansite. So I did it with a lot of swirling robes and flashing swords and kicking up a lot of dust but not actually seeing the fight. is the confrontation between these two characters, so I didn't want to give it away at this point.

The scene where we first get a confrontation between a Jedi and a Sith, I wanted it to be very abstract, you know, not deal with it. George Lucas knew giving the farm away too early would leave him with a redundant third act, so he made the best of his landscape, costumes, and special effects to give fans only a small tease of what's to come, according to Wookiepedia: When Darth Maul goes after Anakin and Qui-Gon on Tatooine in The Phantom Menace, it's meant to be a small taste of the promised finale.

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