Film set in a time before a previous film in a series.
1A challenging 1992 prequel film came next and then...nothing.
2And third, it's also somehow the sequel to the prequel film, X-Men: First Class, an origin story set in the 1960s.
3A second trilogy of prequel films made between 1999 and 2005 focused on Vader's origins.
4The Phantom Menace and the rest of the prequels films are very different films -by design -than their predecessors.
5The 68-year-old actor said he detested being replaced by a digital version of C-3PO for action scenes in the much-derided prequel films.
Translations for prequel film