3 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

TIME Magazine 1980

Wow, Lucas really had the story all figured out. BTW, what you guys think about his plans for the ST?

On 12/9/2019 at 5:34 AM, Odanan said:

Wow, Lucas really had the story all figured out. BTW, what you guys think about his plans for the ST?

I’ve heard of or read multiple and wildly disconnected variations of George Lucas plans for the Sequels, all from ... George Lucas.

10 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

I’ve heard of or read multiple and wildly disconnected variations of George Lucas plans for the Sequels, all from ... George Lucas.

Tell us more about it.

Peter Maybew’s script notes

Think Wookiee!

14 hours ago, Odanan said:

Tell us more about it.

I mean these are from George Lucas many written and video interviews over the decades, his vision for the Sequels seem to shift dramatically with time.

Rebuilding the Republic as a story arc was most appealing to me, the later tenure of the Skywalker Saga/Jedi Order as well.

The examination of The Force micro-verse (midichlorians?) he mentions later, not so much.

As a teenager I thought Luke may well be the least interesting main character of The Saga.

Today, without any hesitation or irony, I can say I adore the beloved man behind him all these years.

Cheers to you and farmboys with dreams everywhere Mr. Mark Hamill.

🥂

10 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

Peter Maybew’s script notes

Think Wookiee!

This is some delicious lore-porn.

11 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

The examination of The Force micro-verse (midichlorians?) he mentions later, not so much.

Man, this micro-verse story looks atrocious. We are very lucky Lucas never pulled it out.

Vancouver, June 1977

By Icon Alex Ross

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On 12/12/2019 at 3:02 AM, Odanan said:

Tell us more about it.

This is currently unverified, but according to Chuck Schwa:

The center of The Skywalker Saga is roughly 1hr 13min into The Empire Strikes Back , when Yoda raises Luke's X-Wing.

Quote:

The total running time of the THEATRICAL S aga is 1,220 minutes. The SPECIAL EDITION running time (TPM, ANH, ESB, ROTJ) is 1,231 minutes.

Divided in half, this puts the center of those running times at 610 minutes and 615.5 minutes, respectively. Somewhere between the 1:14:00 mark of ESB and 1:12:30 mark of the ESB Special Edition. The Theatrical cut falls at the very end of the scene while the Special Edition lands just at the beginning of the scene. For the sake of compromise, let's say it's 1 hour 13 min.

Either way, this is one of the greatest scenes, if not the greatest scene, in the entire Saga.

Return of the Jedi is the best OT and SW movie don’t @ me

Not part of the Original Trilogy but I’ll make an exception for a True Original and Peter Cushing’s best friend.

I AM SLOWLY GETTING THERE

Carrie Fisher trying on Harrison Ford's glasses, 1983. About 6 years after they ended their real life fling.

Thanks to @TauntaunScout for posting a pic and giving me this idea.

Some trivia about this pic.

Dengar wears a modified Snow Trooper armour, is seen very briefly in Return of the Jedi and strongly alluded to in The Rise of Skywalker . In production stills for The Empire Strikes Back he is holding 4-LOM’s WW II - era German MG 34 machine gun. I edited his back story for West End Games.

Boba Fett - According to Gary Kurtz, during the early development of the Original Trilogy, when Lucas envisioned the whole story of Star Wars in four trilogies and twelve films, he conceived Fett as the main antagonist of Return of the Jedi , because the Darth Sidious character was originally planned to be introduced in Star Wars: Episode IX.

He was portrayed by four actors and voiced by two more in the Original Trilogy alone.

IG-88 , originally referred to as a "chrome war droid" in the script and also called "Phlutdroid" during production.

IG-88's cylindrical head was originally a combustion chamber in a Rolls-Royce Derwent jet engine, which was previously used as part of the distillery setup seen in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in the 1977 film A New Hope .

Artist Ralph McQuarrie's "assassin droid” was not used for IG-88 but was for the basis for Jabba’s EV-9D9.

Bossk's outfit was actually recycled from a 1966 Doctor Who, titled The Tenth Planet. It is also seen in the Cantina in A New Hope . The suit itself was actually a High-Altitude Windak Pressure Suit, used by the British Royal Air Force in the 1960s.

Bossk was in early drafts for Solo , part of the Cloud-Riders and served as Enfys Nest's second-in-command.