The Star Wars-Taking a Look at the Comic Adaptation of George Lucas's Original Script

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @FlameQwert
    @FlameQwert 2 года назад +64

    you can really see the influence of Hidden Fortress and samurai films in this. apart from the plot it's also the general concepts: Jedi are samurai warriors, with a more morally-neutral martial valour, everyone uses swords/lightsabers, emperor and the empire is just the background culture that exists etc. Very fascinating portal into an alternate star wars

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor 3 года назад +58

    Fun fact. Lucas brought in Mel Blanc to voice R2-D2 and C-3PO. He originally pictured them with thick Brooklyn accents. But when Blanc saw the footage of Anthony Daniels, he told Lucas that there was no voice that he could come up with that would better than Daniels. So he kept Daniels voice for C-3PO, and just had R2 respond with beeps.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 4 месяца назад

      Is there spoken/written English/Basic dialogue for R2-D2 that was dubbed over like there were for Peter Mayhew’s Chewbacca?

    • @heidifedor
      @heidifedor 4 месяца назад +1

      George Lucas originally wanted them to be Abbott and Costello like characters. That’s why in the Last Jedi, Luke tells R2 to watch his mouth. R2 apparently curses a lot, that was originally inspired by Lucas’s original vision for the character. So I am assuming yes.

    • @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive
      @MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 4 месяца назад +1

      @@heidifedor Fascinating. It was interesting to finally understand Chewie’s intended dialogue while viewing the unfinished footage. “That old man is crazy” gives him a lot more personality.
      I always imagined R2 shouting and arguing against C3PO’s complaints and being quite rude. They were after all also based on the two deserting peasants from _The Hidden Fortress._

  • @CptApplestrudl
    @CptApplestrudl 2 года назад +56

    You know the artist's rule:
    Never settle with your first idea.

    • @Anti-HyperLink
      @Anti-HyperLink 2 года назад +3

      Why? It's a lot better.

    • @stephenmainwaring6625
      @stephenmainwaring6625 Год назад +3

      ​@@Anti-HyperLink no lmao ur just wrong but it is good tho

    • @LaloSalamancaGaming69
      @LaloSalamancaGaming69 Год назад

      @@Anti-HyperLinkto be honest this starwars version is just forgettable
      Is the kind of story that would never get my attention to be fair

  • @Joshua0810
    @Joshua0810 2 года назад +25

    I have to make 2 corrections:
    1.) Alderaan originally and in this comic wasn't really anything like Coruscant, other than being the Imperial capital world. It wasn't a city planet but a gas planet and was basically what would become Bespin and Cloud City in "The Empire Strikes Back".
    2.) Biggs and Windy were both male and, if I remember correctly, weren't even twins. I think Biggs was 7 and Windy was 5.

    • @Lia-zw1ls7tz7o
      @Lia-zw1ls7tz7o Год назад +2

      The thing with the brothers is from a later draft, I think.

  • @Lia-uf1ir
    @Lia-uf1ir Год назад +6

    10:08 I wonder if Annikin's fight with the Wookie was inspired by Paul Atreides's fight against Jamis from Dune.

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor 3 года назад +21

    This is probably why the Holiday special turned out so bad. Lucas just gave CBS a script about the Wookies celebrating Life Day that only had them grunting with no subtitles. CBS didn’t know how to make a 2 hour movie around that. So they ended up turning it into a variety show, because at the time they were highly popular. When CBS took on the project, they thought they were going to do a TV movie as a semi-sequel. Lucas thought he was getting a thought provoking tale of the struggles of the Wookies. In the end, no one was happy with final product.

    • @heidifedor
      @heidifedor 2 года назад +3

      @Friedrich Alexander he wrote the original script, but left it to CBS to do most of it. One of the things he insisted on was no subtitles during the Wookie scenes. The original script idea was turned onto a children’s book called, ‘The Wookies Story Book”

    • @apassionatenerd.3564
      @apassionatenerd.3564 Год назад

      The fact that the Holiday Special has *numerous* scenes that consist of _nothing_ but Wookies grunting & roaring at eachother passive aggressively is genuinely priceless. I can't even believe that got made, the fact that nobody came along and said "Forget it, this sucks." & just scrapped it is crazy. It feels like it should be lost media that people spread rumors about online.

    • @thestormbeforethecalm
      @thestormbeforethecalm Год назад

      8:01 Chopper and R2 combined

  • @organicketchup5171
    @organicketchup5171 Месяц назад +1

    I love 'The Star Wars' and it deserves to be huge, even adapted. Quite an offbeat idea executed commendably. The art is very impressive and the story both familiar enough to get comfortable with and tantalizingly different. It's great fun to have an enigma, like an early incarnation of Star Wars, become as familiar a piece of entertainment as a graphic novel, to sit on one's shelf next to other classics.

  • @Anti-HyperLink
    @Anti-HyperLink 2 года назад +4

    I've read these comics and I like them way more than normal Star Wars.

  • @themarsman5155
    @themarsman5155 2 года назад +13

    Anakin and Leia's loves story sounds awfully similar to anakin and padme's loves story in attack of the clones. They go on one date and padme says I love you and of course weird dialogue about how anakin couldn't live without padme's love or padme saying she was dying everyday before anakin came back into her life. Those lines came off at least to me as an obsession, he talks about being in agony, tormenting his soul, it's all just you have to be with me and very much him forcing her to like him back. This is not love that is a psychos obsession that they deserve love no matter what.

  • @walte9140
    @walte9140 7 месяцев назад +6

    It's obvious to me that the person who wrote this original script is the same person who wrote the prequel trilogy. Unfortunately for us, no one was around to say "no" to George when he was making Episodes 1-3. This script reads almost EXACLTY like a prequel script. Not beat for beat, but style wise. The love story between Anakin and Leia mirrors the way the love story between Anakin and Padme was executed in Episode 2, where it just kinda comes out of no where.

    • @walte9140
      @walte9140 6 месяцев назад

      @Nekron3043 An interesting take. I think the prequels are just objectively bad movies. Technically and artistically. The acting isn't strong, the writing isn't great, the dialogue is clunky, a lot of the plot points don't make sense, the effects aren't fantastic. The over use of Shot/Reverse Shot in the dialogue scenes just make it devoid of excitement.
      I'm not interested in debating if the prequels are good or bad, I've been having that argument since 1999. I'm happy that people like them, they hold a special place in people's hearts, and they are bringing more people into the fandom, but I think it's ridiculous to even try to compare the prequels with the OT and say it's only for "nostalgia reasons" that people like them. That is just flat out not true. That being said, I do think that A New Hope is probably the weakest of the OT, and hilariously, like the Prequels, it was the only one of the OT that George directed.

  • @Gustavowith
    @Gustavowith 7 месяцев назад +1

    3PO’s design is inspired by the design of the robot in the 1927 German film “Metropolis”. This is a known influence for the character. Sorry if someone has already pointed that before.

  • @abcdef27669
    @abcdef27669 3 месяца назад +1

    I've read those comics few years ago, and there is a lot of original ideas that I like about it:
    1-Luke Skywalker as an old and wise general. That would be much better than how the Sequel Trilogy treated the character.
    2-The absence of a Galactic Republic, with planets and systems being independent nations.
    3-Darth Vader as a scarred general. Seriously, just imagine if Hux was like that...
    4-R2-D2 being able to talk normally.
    5-The Aquilae Starfighters.
    6-Battle Tanks with floating locomotion.
    7-A more "Flashgordonian" feel on everything. The Emperor here was an obvious reference to Emperor Ming, the Merciless
    8-Wookies learning to pilot. This is something that I can tolerate in Star Wars, because it is a series that always worked with the suspension of disbelief.
    9-Every hero receiving a medal. Seriously, R2-D2 is so adorable with that medal around his "neck".
    Few observations:
    1-The appearance of the droids are based on Ralph McQuarrie concept arts.
    2-The forest planet of the Wookies was named Yavin, at least in the Brazilian translation of the comic I've got. I don't know if this was exclusive to our local translation.

  • @TetsuShima
    @TetsuShima 3 года назад +18

    It's pretty curious how they decided to adapt George Lucas's original 1974 script to a comic in 2014, despite the large number of plot holes and artistic deficiencies that script would surely have. By the way, I have the theory this comic actually takes place in the Legends timeline, but thousands of years (or even millions) after the original movies.

    • @penandreel6996
      @penandreel6996  3 года назад +5

      I think it’s an interesting artifact of the history of the property. I have known plenty of people who were interested in learning more about the development of Star Wars but didn’t know how to go about finding the information, so this is a good way of showcasing it.
      As for where this would be placed if incorporated into the Legends timeline, I could personally see it being thousands or millions of years earlier. The Jedi are less refined, more combative. The worlds look more pristine than later Star Wars, suggesting less decay (similar to the transition from the prequels to the original trilogy). The Anakin from this could have been the inspiration for naming Anakin Skywalker, and same for Luke (the reverse I think might not have worked as well, as Vader was more known as Vader and less as Anakin). But that’s just off the top of my head; I hadn’t considered it until you said something. I could see either working in a history repeats itself type way. It’s definitely interesting to think about!

    • @edwardkim8972
      @edwardkim8972 3 года назад +2

      Ken, it's called monetizing old stuff. Star Wars fans will buy anything. Disney shareholders don't mind.

    • @Anti-HyperLink
      @Anti-HyperLink 2 года назад

      The comic books are amazing!

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Год назад

      Terrible theory

  • @ancientburner
    @ancientburner 14 дней назад

    8:08 the droids look in these comics is based off of earlier concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. Most of what's seen here visually is.

  • @chunguschungus
    @chunguschungus 9 месяцев назад +4

    So the original script was Battlefield Earth with the primitive species being trained as pilots in days?

  • @kyberblitz
    @kyberblitz 2 года назад +7

    I see some Ralph mcquarrie original art from this comic it's interesting.

  • @stamkos33
    @stamkos33 2 года назад +17

    Looks like I'm the only one here who thought this was fantastic. Sure, some things could have been fleshed out a bit and it probably wouldn't have been as sucessfull with a wider audience because it lacks some of that star wars magic but I would like to give my opinion on a few things.
    1. I think it has a more adult feel overall. The design of the characters, the throne room and a more science fiction feel to it.
    2. The emperor is barely in it yes, but he is only mentioned once in the 77 movie, we don't even see him. He would have probably appeared in the sequel.
    3. The Death Star is called the Space Fortress (they refer to it that way several times), Valorum joins Annikin because Vader just told him that the Sith would be next after he's done with the Jedi. I was also surprised at how fast Leia and Anakin fell in love..
    4. I love the look of Han Solo and the wookies who Leia would probably not have refered as a carpet in this less kid friendly version.
    Overall I'm very happy I read this, I wish the Ophiuchi saga or whatever was planned next would be adapted or written to get sequels to this comic book. And an animated movie adapting that script would be awesome too. But I'm afraid Star Wars Fans are too much about what's canon and what isn't, which is too bad because I want more stuff like this. I'm hoping for a similar feel with Zack Snyder 's Rebel Moon.

    • @damiantirado9616
      @damiantirado9616 2 года назад +2

      Zack Snyder is a pretty bad writer and storyteller the movie will probably suck

    • @DarkAdonisVyers
      @DarkAdonisVyers Год назад +2

      Rough draft Star Wars is based more on Japan where the Emperor is usually a figurehead. I guess that Lucas or one of his assistants thought that the average American viewer was too stupid to understand the concept.

    • @vitorhq1
      @vitorhq1 Год назад

      Coming here to tell that Rebel Moon really sucks 🤷

  • @MalabarTheGreat
    @MalabarTheGreat 2 года назад +19

    I fell in love with this comic! Wish Lucasfilm would adapt it into an animated feature.

    • @penandreel6996
      @penandreel6996  2 года назад +2

      That would be really cool!

    • @michaelflores9220
      @michaelflores9220 Год назад

      Have you read the script itself? It’s available online

    • @DarkAdonisVyers
      @DarkAdonisVyers Год назад +2

      @@penandreel6996 You know how, at this point, Bloodstained is more Castlevania than actual Castlevania? We need this rough draft Star Wars made into a feature, so it can be more Star Wars than modern Star Wars.

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 2 года назад +2

    I'd love to see more comic books based on the earlier/scrapped ideas of other Star Wars movies

  • @TheCastellan
    @TheCastellan Месяц назад

    I like Ralph's artwork and designs a lot more than what the movies gave us, but that's just me.

  • @Captain_Sarcastic
    @Captain_Sarcastic 4 месяца назад

    16:30 You hit the nail on the head. While I don't have a big problem with the prequel trilogy, they didn't impress and inspire me. I feel like the people around Lucas didn't critique his prequel scripts, and I really fell that Rick McCallum acted as a "yes" man avoiding any criticism of the prequel scripts and concepts. It has seemed quite odd to me that Rick McCallum, after his big role in making the prequels, completely disappeared from Lucasfilm. Where is Gary Kurtz when we need him? (Yes, unfortunately I know where he is....)

  • @peacexlove
    @peacexlove 6 месяцев назад +1

    Wait, where's that guy with the pointy ears? The Spork guy?

  • @eddieblancher7557
    @eddieblancher7557 2 года назад +4

    I been trying to type some of the old ideas from the rough draft on some of the Disney and hero wiki pages of Luke Skywalker and Han solo, but some moderator keeps erasing them and believes it's false information, but it's not.

  • @DigitalLife3000
    @DigitalLife3000 4 дня назад

    Holy shit, the Wookie plot line with the primitive people using fighter jets is very similar to L Ron Hubbards Battlfield Earth

  • @Robert-ht7om
    @Robert-ht7om Год назад +1

    12:05
    That alone makes it better than the movie

  • @hatguyfan22
    @hatguyfan22 Год назад +1

    You saved me a lot of time from reading a potentially bad comic. The art is nice though.
    That outtro music is so good too

  • @markpaterson2053
    @markpaterson2053 3 месяца назад

    It's like a Star Wars knock-off, so weird. It's like he wrote this when he was a teenager, which he probably was. Amazing how much he eventually improved the story...

  • @VogtTD
    @VogtTD 2 года назад +2

    You detailed the reason the droids defected, then go on to say it wasn't explained?

  •  3 года назад +8

    I'm sorry but I'm glad those stories never came to life

    • @penandreel6996
      @penandreel6996  3 года назад +4

      Oh, I completely agree! Star Wars wouldn’t have been as successful by a long shot, and the world would be quite different now. I’m glad they changed things.

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Год назад

      @@penandreel6996Well considering this is an EARLY DRAFT…

  • @zooropa04
    @zooropa04 Год назад

    I'm still confused by the name-dropping of "Bail Antilles of Alderaan" from Phantom Menace....

  • @rafaelmoura2103
    @rafaelmoura2103 Год назад

    ive read this script once, im not sure if you can still find it on the internet, but i do have the comic, and i also have a shakespearian adaptation of ep 4 that i think not many people know to exist

    • @John-Doe-Yo
      @John-Doe-Yo 9 месяцев назад

      What's it called

    • @rafaelmoura2103
      @rafaelmoura2103 9 месяцев назад

      @@John-Doe-Yo William Shakespeare's Star Wars

    • @John-Doe-Yo
      @John-Doe-Yo 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@rafaelmoura2103 aw

  • @edwardkim8972
    @edwardkim8972 3 года назад +16

    Your theory makes total sense. This original script is so much like the prequels. This is native George Lucas, a bunch of good ideas not very well linked together.

    • @mborok
      @mborok 3 года назад +10

      The prequels were much tighter than this script. They had character arcs, larger themes, actual relationships between the characters that contributed to the story, foreshadowing, moments of drama with characters experiencing emotions (however clumsily handled). This, as somebody pointed out, was much closer to the old Flash Gordon serials. If anything, the sequels are closer in some ways, as they throw together a bunch of unrelated plot threads (Finding Luke Skywalker has nothing to do with destroying Starkiller Base, Finn and Rose’s subplot has nothing to do with Rey and Kylo Ren). In fact, I would say even this original script is slightly more coherent than the sequels.

    • @Anti-HyperLink
      @Anti-HyperLink 2 года назад +3

      Not very well linked together? It's amazing! What are you talking about? Have you actually read it?
      No, of course you haven't.

    • @damiantirado9616
      @damiantirado9616 2 года назад +3

      @@mborok the prequels where very badly written. They didn’t have tighter script at all or even character arcs

    • @mborok
      @mborok 2 года назад +5

      @@damiantirado9616 Anakin didn’t have a character arc?

    • @thehealthy-man7522
      @thehealthy-man7522 Год назад +1

      ​@@damiantirado9616L opinion

  • @notmyrealname6150
    @notmyrealname6150 7 месяцев назад

    Big Johnson says "May I force one in you."

  • @xtraflo
    @xtraflo 2 года назад +2

    The same convoluted nonsense storytelling was the same with Indiana Jones! Spielberg has talked a lot about George's original Indy stories and liked the general premise but he really needed to rewrite the actual stories for them to make sense.

  • @redaxer2908
    @redaxer2908 Год назад +2

    So the Empire weren't impractical morons with their vehicles in this script

  • @davidbonanno3607
    @davidbonanno3607 Год назад

    Can you give me the link or tell me where to see that website the youtuber was seeing pls?

  • @heidifedor
    @heidifedor 3 года назад +6

    So basically the prequels were the garbage that got thrown out of the fist movie. If you have ever seen the Holiday Special, the character played by the late great Art Carnie eventually evolves into Lando.

  • @jrloulanza6534
    @jrloulanza6534 Год назад

    Where is yoda?

  • @michaeldesmondwoods3193
    @michaeldesmondwoods3193 5 месяцев назад

    I must be the only person who likes the prequels

  • @captainr3x68
    @captainr3x68 3 года назад +2

    But was this actually a finished draft by george or just ideas thrown together...bc he must have seen these unlogical things?

    • @penandreel6996
      @penandreel6996  3 года назад +9

      My understanding is that it was a finished draft. My understanding of Lucas is that he has a lot of good ideas, but he doesn’t always know how to implement them well. His best work (such as the original Star Wars trilogy) is always when he works with others and allows them to help refine the story. Basically, he needs a good editor. This is a draft before he had people look at it and help him Refine it.
      It’s also worth noting that a movie and a comic are vastly different.

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Год назад

      ⁠@@penandreel6996onsense. American Graffiti is all Lucas as is THX 1138. This revisionist idea that “derp, he din do nuffin” is not backed up by any factual research into the first SW film. Was it helped along in the edit? Sure. Who was also in the editing bay? Lucas. I mean, not for nothing this is a children’s fantasy film; the ideas aren’t that hard to “link together” it’s not fucking “Apocalypse Now.” Oh but he was first choice to direct that too so this idea of his “filmic incompetence”that is pushed by the faction of disgruntled “Star Wars story” fans is ridiculous to anyone interested in the production of film that has studied the history of the New Hollywood era. EDIT: BTW, SW isn’t his best work; it’s just his most commercial and profitable. Graffiti is his best film.

  • @DarkAdonisVyers
    @DarkAdonisVyers Год назад +1

    I actually prefer rough draft Star Wars over what we got. Sure, ripe fruit tastes better, but ripening is still a (lesser) form of decay.

    • @bullrun2772
      @bullrun2772 Год назад

      Kinda of dumb

    • @bullrun2772
      @bullrun2772 6 месяцев назад

      @Nekron3043 okay if your so assured then back up your point/show evidence

    • @bullrun2772
      @bullrun2772 6 месяцев назад

      @Nekron3043 okay then show it lol don’t just be trust me bro evidence

  • @Anti-HyperLink
    @Anti-HyperLink 2 года назад +4

    Is this just some OT obsessed fanboy who probably doesn't know a thing about good storytelling shitting on this because it's different?
    It's fucking amazing and way cooler than actual star wars.
    That's what the comments make it seem like. I'm not watching this.

    • @KahlessTheUnforgettable
      @KahlessTheUnforgettable Год назад

      YES!

    • @DarkAdonisVyers
      @DarkAdonisVyers Год назад +1

      Yep, the Star Wars that we got may have been the "full ripened" version, but ripening is still a form of decay. Obviously, the sequels are rotten all the way through.

  • @michaelflores9220
    @michaelflores9220 Год назад

    Still shocked the rough draft has an akin sex a cute aide in a closet. I’m sure that’s not in the comic version though

  • @tan9187
    @tan9187 2 года назад +2

    Teaching the wokieis like a bantha

  • @VerneditheSnail
    @VerneditheSnail 2 года назад +6

    I prefer this version over the one we got in the final film, specially after seeing how badly the Disney sequels got. I liked Kane Starkiller and much preferred Han Solo being a green alien, due to my strong dislike of Harrison Ford. Also Luke originally being the mentor to Anakin was cool.

    • @bullrun2772
      @bullrun2772 Год назад

      Oh god not another stupid sequel hater

  • @tahnadana5435
    @tahnadana5435 9 дней назад

    what a waste of a good artist, i would rather have him working on a metabaron comic

  • @emoxvx
    @emoxvx Год назад +3

    Lucas didn't do everything himself, lol. Making a film is always a collaborative effort, you're super uninformed throughout the video. Alderaan was originally what became Cloud City, Lucas WAS the main creative source for the OT and PT and the stories were all his ideas, although he would have help in polishing the stories in various capacities, they were still very much his stories. On the OT and PT he hired script supervisors and script writers to help, not in all the films though. He also had assitant directors, producers, editors, concept artists, costume designers, set designers, makeup artists, etc. Plus, "The Star Wars" isn't based on a finished script. It's based on the ROUGH DRAFT. It was NOT supposed to be the final script.