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Original Star Wars Script Discovered in University of New Brunswick Library

posted by LaminatorX on Monday June 08 2015, @06:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the Journal-of-the-Whills dept.

ticho writes:

As CBCnews.ca reports, UNB's librarian came across what appears to be an original shooting script for Star Wars.

Deep in the archives of the University of New Brunswick's library in Saint John, a famous movie script sat forgotten and collecting dust. It tells the tales of a galaxy far, far away — and no one knows how it got there.

Since February, Kristian Brown, a librarian, has been sifting through the library's extensive science fiction collection. "I was just looking actually for something else entirely and then I just found this unique looking item," Brown said.

The script is bound in blue paper, emblazoned with official Lucasfilm Industries stamps. The date of the fourth edition revised script, is March 15, 1976, which is well ahead of the film's 1977 theatrical release date.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ThG on Monday June 08 2015, @07:34PM

    by ThG (4568) on Monday June 08 2015, @07:34PM (#193778)

    Please.. It's a rip-off of Dune... Want to know what results from a "real" script from George? Well, watch Star Wars I to III..

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ghost on Monday June 08 2015, @08:25PM

    by ghost (4467) on Monday June 08 2015, @08:25PM (#193798) Journal
    Yeah... What most people (outside of the business) don't realize is that George Lucas was married to Marcia Lucas from 1969 to 1983. So what? Well, she was a film editor ... and script doctor. After 83, you get shit like Howard the Duck because Marcia's not there to tell him it sucks. In the early drafts of the Star Wars script, you can see some shit before Marcia cut it. Because it sucked. It ended up in a New Hope.

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday June 08 2015, @10:00PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday June 08 2015, @10:00PM (#193833) Homepage

      In the early drafts of the Star Wars script, you can see some shit before Marcia cut it. Because it sucked. It ended up in a New Hope.

      Did you mean in "Phantom Menace"? Or something?

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday June 08 2015, @11:12PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Monday June 08 2015, @11:12PM (#193856)

    Never heard that before. I'd always heard it was a rip off of Hidden Fortress.

    Whatever.

    Alien is supposedly a rip off of "Planet of the Vampires" and "It! The Terror from Beyond Space"... And I still like Alien just fine.