Posted by Darth Dobbin at 208-58-250-210.s464.tnt1.nwhv.ct.dialup.rcn.com on August 27, 2000 at 10:45:35:
In Reply to: Thanks for the update... posted by Big_Head_WW on August 27, 2000 at 02:17:50:
...is something that tickles your pickle (so to speak), pick up the COMPLETE ANNOTATED STAR WARS. It it the shooting script of all 3 movies, but it also meanders and provides gloss commentary when it reaches points where the final version differed greatly from the previous drafts. You'll learn such funfacts as Han Solo was supposed to be a green, multi-eyed alien, that the 1st draft was the lame story of a "Jedi Bendu" by the name of "Mace Windy", and that "the force" was originally seen as some magic power contained within glowing crystals.
It makes the scales fall from your eyes about Lucas, and his alleged "master vision," but at once also argues the case tat Time and History conspired to make STAR WARS greater than its creators has a right to make it.