{"id":131591,"date":"2016-09-21T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-star-wars-sequel-that-was-never-filmed.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:00:19","slug":"the-star-wars-sequel-that-was-never-filmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/the-star-wars-sequel-that-was-never-filmed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Star Wars sequel that was never filmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought (and still own) both Alan Dean Foster's ghost written novelization of A New Hope<\/i> (well, called just Star Wars,<\/i> then)[1] and his credited sequel novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye.<\/i> What I had never realized was that (based on this article\/video), the latter was actually a novelization for a sequel movie to be made if the original film tanked.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/star-wars-splinter-of-the-minds-eye\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It's been decades since I read it. Do I dare?[2]<\/p>\n

The very cool paperback cover, below, was actually drawn by Ralph McQuarrie, who did all the original concept art for Star Wars.<\/i><\/p>\n

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[1] The SW novelization, attributed to George Lucas, was based on earlier versions of the script, which makes for a bit of cognitive dissonance — e.g., the Emperor dissolves the Senate, leaving the warlord sector governors \/ Moffs in charge, not because he's an evil tyrant (let alone a Sith), but because he's weak and is forced into it by those same governors.<\/p>\n

SotME is full of other stuff of dubious canonical value even pre-Disney — including running with the whole "Luke and Leah are romantically involved" storyline that Lucas dropped by the next (actualized) movie.<\/p>\n

[2] Alan Dean Foster was (in)famous as a movie\/TV adaptation novelist. He wrote novelizations of all the Star Trek<\/i> animated series, among other things. He's not a bad writer, all told — not brilliant, but quite readable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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