Issue 1 is out on September 4th in all good comic book stores and digitally through Dark Horse Digital. The Star Wars will be an 8-part mini-series from Dark Horse Comics and has been adapted by J. There are a few differences in the dialogue and the pacing is slightly different but that can be expected when adapted to another medium. Inciting Incident Princess Leia, a young political diplomat, plants a distress call on an R2-D2 droid unit, who she then sends in an escape pod to Tatooine before being captured by the villainous Darth Vader. While familiar in many ways there are some obvious differences that can be seen in the character’s costumes and ship designs.Īs to those wondering how close The Star Wars #1 is to Lucas’s rough draft I compared the freely available rough draft online and the preview below it seems to pretty close. Luke Skywalker is a farm boy on the desert planet Tatooine who hopes to one day become a star pilot and study at the Imperial Academy. The designs, rendered by Mike Mayhew, have been inspired by 1970’s science fiction such as Logan’s Run as well as later to come Battle Star Gallactica. While this sounds topsy-turvy, there are things are still familiar like the Sith are still the bad guys and from the cover it is suggested that light sabres were part of the Star Wars mythos in the early interpretations. Anniken Skywalker is the hero, Luke Skywalker is an ageing Jedi general and Han Solo is an alien. All about in the distance, snow-wraiths blow on the wind across a cruel and beautiful landscape, in the light of a.
Curving plumes of snow rise from beneath the speeding paws of the lizard. In these differences it shows how much evolution a screenplay can undergo between the rough-draft and the final product.Ī great example of this is the characters, with many of them being drastically different to what we know. A sweeping dramatic shot of LUKE SKYWALKER, mounted on a white snow-lizard, racing across a white snowy landscape. This week sees the release of the the first issue of The Star Wars, an 8-part adaptation of George Lucas’s original rough-draft screenplay.Īs this based on the original rough draft it will be interesting how the franchise was originally intended and how it differs from the Star Wars that we know and love today.
Star Wars is a franchise that needs no introduction, being a mega sensation for decades, but it could have turned out quite differently.
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