That’s the plot of Phantom Menace, Anakin is special because of his midichlorian count. There’s so much other stupid going on in the movie, it’s easy to miss the radical redefinition of what the Force was supposed to be.
Yeah i missed that part completely :)
What happened? they decided that the force sounded too religious in the first ones?
Wasn’t fond of that either. To be fair however, Lucas and Murch made it clear that even before the Prequel Trilogy, the Force was not meant to be religious, not specifically, anyways. It was meant to be a parable for guerrilla groups, specifically the Vietcong. As Murch put it in The Conversations:
“Originally George Lucas was going to direct (‘Apocalypse Now’), so it was a project that George and John (Milius) developed for Zoetrope. That was back in 1969. Then when Warner Brothers cancelled the funding for Zoetrope, the project was abandoned for a while. After the success of ‘American Graffiti’ in 1973, George wanted to revive it, but it was still too hot a topic, the war was still on, and nobody wanted to finance something like that. So George considered his options: What did he really want to say in ‘Apocalypse Now?’ The message boiled down to the ability of a small group of people to defeat a gigantic power simply by the force of their convictions. And he decided, All right, if it’s politically too hot as a contemporary subject, I’ll put the essence of the story in outer space and make it happen in a galaxy long ago and far away. The rebel group were the North Vietnamese, and the Empire was the United States. And if you have ‘the force,’ no matter how small you are, you can defeat the overwhelmingly big power. ‘Star Wars’ is George’s transubstantiated version of ‘Apocalypse Now.’”