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Post by cadriel on Jul 1, 2024 11:54:15 GMT -6
This isn't strictly from 1977 Star Wars continuity but I think it's relevant. This is an hour-long video speculating on the story of a 1987 version of The Phantom Menace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQa51olDDUWhat makes it more interesting than a lot of fan fiction is that a great deal of the plot elements are adapted from the early draft scripts of the first Star Wars movie. It's pretty different from what we got in 1999 but you can see how there's still linking material in the actual prequels that Lucas nodded to in the real world version of the Phantom Menace.
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Post by asaki on Jul 2, 2024 13:07:04 GMT -6
There really was a lot of Phantom Menace in that early Star Wars draft. The character of Windy even made it into the Star Wars radio drama, so it's interesting that Lucas reused it for Mace Windu. IIRC there's a comic called The Star Wars that's based on one or more of the early drafts, but I think it's out of print, so I don't know much about it. www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258/Back in the day I used to have a script for a proposed Episode 1 or 7, but I never got around to reading it, and it probably wasn't real. I just remember the first scene had C3PO wandering some desert full of red gems.
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Post by mouser on Jul 9, 2024 13:30:30 GMT -6
There really was a lot of Phantom Menace in that early Star Wars draft. The character of Windy even made it into the Star Wars radio drama, so it's interesting that Lucas reused it for Mace Windu. IIRC there's a comic called The Star Wars that's based on one or more of the early drafts, but I think it's out of print, so I don't know much about it. www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-JW-Rinzler/dp/1616554258/Back in the day I used to have a script for a proposed Episode 1 or 7, but I never got around to reading it, and it probably wasn't real. I just remember the first scene had C3PO wandering some desert full of red gems. I so badly want to read this fake script! I looked for half an hour online. Can you give me some more details that might allow me to track it down? 1. What year did you acquire it? 2. How did you acquire it? (Was it on the internet?) 3. Is it possible you still have it somewhere?
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Post by asaki on Jul 10, 2024 9:14:11 GMT -6
I so badly want to read this fake script! I looked for half an hour online. Can you give me some more details that might allow me to track it down? 1. What year did you acquire it? 2. How did you acquire it? (Was it on the internet?) 3. Is it possible you still have it somewhere? Ummm...gosh...well if I had to guess I would say probably around 1998. That was right after Jedi Knight came out (which super ignited the Star Wars fan in me) and it was before The Phantom Menace, and we didn't get our first Windows PC + Internet (AOL) until 1997. Internet, yeah. Was kind of before PDFs took off, I remember it was just a text file (TXT or DOC or maybe RTF). There's like the slimmest of chances that it's rotting on a floppy disk somewhere, but I highly doubt it. It got lost many hard drive crashes ago. The only other detail I can remember is I want to say it was dated 1993, but I could be wrong on that one. I might even be wrong about the red gems. Could've been "red suns" or something like that, which Tatooine is known for. If you find any scripts, I can check them out and see if any of them look familiar. I've already looked through all of the 70s scripts.
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Post by asaki on Jul 10, 2024 9:48:51 GMT -6
I think I found it, I bet this is what it was: fanlore.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Republic1983, I was leaning towards that instead of 1993. Volcanic world instead of desert, but close enough. Crystals, that's the big part I really remembered. Anakin instead of C3PO though, that's a weird confusion to make, but it happens. Interesting how similar this intro scene is to the actual Ep3. Did Lucas borrow the lava idea, or was that mentioned in the novels or something? I never read any of them, but I know there are a lot more details/scenes, especially with ANH.
edit: Just finished reading the Wiki page, apparently the lava thing was something James Earl Jones had mentioned. The more I look at it, the more certain I am that this is what I had. I'll have to sit down and finally read it. edit 2: Didn't realize that that Wiki links to a copy of the script with all of the formatting removed. This site has a TXT copy that's a lot easier to read (and a FAQ!): maddogmovies.com/almost/archives/153
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Post by mouser on Jul 10, 2024 14:15:03 GMT -6
I think I found it, I bet this is what it was: fanlore.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Republic1983, I was leaning towards that instead of 1993. Volcanic world instead of desert, but close enough. Crystals, that's the big part I really remembered. Anakin instead of C3PO though, that's a weird confusion to make, but it happens. Interesting how similar this intro scene is to the actual Ep3. Did Lucas borrow the lava idea, or was that mentioned in the novels or something? I never read any of them, but I know there are a lot more details/scenes, especially with ANH. edit: Just finished reading the Wiki page, apparently the lava thing was something James Earl Jones had mentioned. The more I look at it, the more certain I am that this is what I had. I'll have to sit down and finally read it. edit 2: Didn't realize that that Wiki links to a copy of the script with all of the formatting removed. This site has a TXT copy that's a lot easier to read (and a FAQ!): maddogmovies.com/almost/archives/153I love you, bro! While you were searching this, I found something from an old Star Wars fan site called Supershadow.com--anyone remember that? Anyway, it's from 2004 or earlier based on the forum posts I found talking about it. Anyway, this Supershadow fellow posted a synopsis that hit some of the points you mentioned:
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