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Re: next year
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:56:30 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Hodges writes:
> _Splinter of the Mind's Eye_ was concieved and written under contract by the
> same guy who ghost-wrote the novelization of the original movie for George
> Lucas. The reason for it was that in the event that Star Wars flopped and
> Lucas couldn't afford to do The Empire Strikes Back, Fox wanted a sequel
> that could be done cheaply using the same actors, some of the same sets and
> costumes, and very few special effects. Since Star Wars was such a roaring
> success however, Lucas was able to do Empire and thusly _Splinter of the
> Mind's Eye_ wasn't neccesary. It wasn't "ignored" by Lucas exactly, it just
> wasn't his story. I got this information from last month's issue (I think)
> of Star Wars Insider.
Interesting. I read _Splinter_ in something like the 4th or 5th grade for the
first time, and I hadn't ever heard any of the above. I like the novel a lot,
for what it is... and if memory serves, there are things that are directly
contradicted in movies after than book. Which, to me, says Lucas ignored it,
and rightly so. I'm not sugesting it's a defect of Lucas' that these books get
ignored or changed; rather, I see it as a defect of the readers that they take
everything in these books (which I've mostly stopped reading) to be any sort of
canon.
eric
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Splinter is one of the few books I haven't read. I've read everything that was published since the Zahn trilogy kind of jump-started the Star Wars craze (well, except for the two new Agents of Chaos series books that are waiting on my (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Right, the storyline of _Splinter of the Minds Eye_ is actually quite good. I suppose Lucas did ignore it in a matter of speaking. What I meant by he didn't exactly "ignore" it is that in my mind there was never anything for him to ignore... (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) What were they? I read _Splinter_ not too long ago, and don't remember any thing that was directly contradicted. Adrick (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes: <SNIPPED> (...) _Splinter of the Mind's Eye_ was concieved and written under contract by the same guy who ghost-wrote the novelization of the original movie for George Lucas. The reason for it was that in the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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