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Re: Ewok Holocaust
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:24:29 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, James Simpson writes:
> Lucas certainly has an eye for the visual medium - but a talented screenplay
> writer he is not.
Ooh, you got me going there.
Lucas had a story, which he shared with Leigh Brackett over several days in
late 1977. Brackett turned in a script on February 23, 1977, and succumbed
to cancer shortly thereafter. Lucas worked up a second and a third draft in
April. Then Lawrence Kasdan was brought in to take over--he claims he threw
out lots of corny stuff (he may be right.)
In Brackett's last sf novel, the lone hero brings about the downfall of a
totalitarian regime, the Wandsmen, and dooms its vast peoples to starvation
as a result.
I have to tell you, in Leigh Brackett science fiction, people don't escape
the consequences of their actions. I think she would have loved to show how
much destruction was in the cards after the Empire. But Lucas realized it
wasn't the Star Wars direction.
Lucas: "Writing has never been something I enjoyed.... no matter how much I
wanted to get out of writing, I was somehow always forced to sit down and
work on the script."
[1] Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays
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| (...) Ah! A subject near and dear to my heart: I'm afraid that I'm going to have to play the tried-but-true "Lucas Plows Through a Self-Made Plot Conundrum Like a Bull in a China Shop" card. Lucas really got himself in it thick on that one. Not sure (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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