Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was released in 1999 to both new and old audiences. Upon release, the film was met with scorn from the original fans. However, its younger audience fell in love with this new perspective on an old universe. The Phantom Menace introduced new mysteries and villains that harbored immense power and posed great threats. But unlike Darth Vader in the original trilogy, these threats were hidden in the shadows, and pulling strings that took more than a decade to come to light.
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