Discussion

Jenny Brown George lucas originally wanted to make a movie of flash gorden but wasn't able to secure the rights from producer dino de Laurentiis who would later make the 1980 flash gorden movie

Jenny Brown Lucas who still wanted to do a science fantasy space opera looked to the Japanese 1958 film the hidden fortress he considered buying the rights to that so he could make a version of that movie but in space but decided to develop his own idea first

Jenny Brown The earliest story idea for the film wasn't even titled star wars but the journal of whills which would have served as a storytelling device in the form of a journal

Jenny Brown At some point the whole series was supposed to have a framing story with r2 d2 the last surviving member of the main cast telling an advanced future race the whills about the fall of the republic and the rise and defeat of the empire this may have been inspired by Alejandro jodorowsky who was trying to adapt the novel dune at the time which also inspired lucas

Jenny Brown Luke and leia were going to be the official couple with han as the false lead love interest and Luke's sister was going to be a totally different character named nellith

Jenny Brown Vader and Bobba fett would have been brothers

Jenny Brown Palpatine was originally conceived as an anti climactic boss figure a power hungry dullard manipulated into the galaxy top spot by Vader and tarkin who ran things behind his back

Jenny Brown Lucas concept of the force was not as black and white as it turned out in the movies originally jedi and sith used both light and dark sides of the force telekinesis is a dark side power and jedi who use it to much will become imbalanced if a jedi constantly imposes there will on the force and never allows themselves to be controlled buy it massive imbalance will result

Jenny Brown The sith and the jedi would have been rival clans who saw the force in different ways and the sith were not really evil in the story and the evil would have come from the inhumanity of the empire and its bureaucratics

Jenny Brown The script had a multitude of rewrites during the days that it was still called the journal of whills those changes were the plot would center around a jedi-bendu by the name of mace windy and his apprentice c.2. "Chuiee" Thorpe windy would have been a warlord for a alliance of independent systems but was kicked out because his peers believed he was too powerful after which he and Thorpe found themselves involved in a mysterious mission