435 Scenes THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK SHOOTING SCRIPT FOURTH DRAFT BY LAWRENCE KASDAN October 24, 1978 Lucasfilm Ltd. 1. As published in The Art of Star Wars, Ballantine 1979 Labeled: “Revised Fourth Draft, January 15, 1976.”… Continue Reading → A small speck, orbiting the planet, glints in the light of a near by star.Download: Adventures of the Starkiller The Star Wars – Episode One – “The Star Wars” – Second Draft 115 pages 138 scenes Jan 28, 1975 ADVENTURES OF THE STARKILLER (episode one) “The Star Wars” by George Lucas SECOND DRAFT January… Download: The Star Wars – Rough Draft 132 Pages, 191 Scenes May 1974 THE STAR WARS BY GEORGE LUCAS ROUGH DRAFT LUCASFILM LTD. 5/74 1. EXT. Box 2009 Pink Revisions, June 28, 2000 San Rafael,… Download: The Beginning (The Phantom Menace) – Revised Third Draft Third Draft May 13, 1997 Revised June 6, 1997 104 pages “THE BEGINNING” 1. Most of these are guesswork. His first attempt was a very short treatment he called the “Journal of the Whills.” Nobody could understand it, so he scrapped it and started over with a 13-page treatment. The idea of a primitive society taking on the Empire came from early drafts of the first movie.In the 70s and 80s, while developing the original Star Wars trilogy, George jotted down notes on what happened before, such as how Darth Vader fell to the dark side and how the Emperor came to power. In October, he reached a deal to sell the company to Disney who committed to having Lucasfilm make Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. A note about that last part: small script revisions that are made during filming are routinely color-coded with the color of the paper they are printed on so cast and crew can easily spot changes. Download: The Star Wars – From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller – Third Draft 110 pages 229 scenes Aug 1, 1975 “THE STAR WARS” From The Adventures of Luke Starkiller By George Lucas “… and in the time of greatest… The eerie blue-green planet of Aquilae slowly drifts into view. Also like Episode II, George would not finish the shooting script (in this case the fourth draft), until just before principal photography began.Similar to the notes he wrote down about a prequel trilogy, George also kept notes on ideas for a sequel trilogy while making the original three films.
But if a draft is said to be “revised,” that usually means a more substantial change. Only significant versions of scripts are included.
Treatments will be included but outlines will not. Like this from a leaked draft of George Lucas began working on his space opera idea in early 1973 after completing his final cut of American Graffiti in December 1972 and failing to secure the rights to Flash Gordon. Abrams took over writing duties with Lawrence Kasdan, who had helped write In May 2014, Rian Johnson was hired to write and direct Episode VIII. In January 2013, J.J. Abrams was hired as director. Lucas was writing it just after 9/11 and during the buildup to the Iraq War, and he weaves his concerns about the fraying of democratic institutions through specific references in the script. After the release of Attack of the Clones, when George Lucas was already working on the script for Revenge of the Sith, he promised Star Wars fans that the third prequel movie would answer the mystery of Kamino’s removal from the Jedi Archives.. Treatments will be included but outlines will not. If small changes were made while shooting, those are not tracked. They were released from 1999 to 2005. At the same time, he wrote a treatment for her to work off of. They can appear on the script like this, from a leaked draft of These types of revisions will not be tracked here. This is a compilation of all known scripts for the films of the Star Wars Skywalker Saga. SPACE 1 A… Download: Star Wars Episode II – Jar Jar’s Great Adventure STAR WARS EPISODE II JAR JAR’S GREAT ADVENTURE Written by GEORGE LUCAS and JONATHAN HALES Lucasfilm Ltd. Second Draft, June 24, 2000 P.O. In May 2012, he hired writer Michael Arndt to work with him on this. It primarily focuses on a young Darth Vader, then Jedi Anakin Skywalker, and an accompanying Obi-Wan Kenobi and the story of how they went from being friends to en… As published in The Art of Star Wars, Ballantine 1979 Labeled: “Revised Fourth Draft, January 15, 1976.”… Download: The Star Wars – Revised First Draft 146 pages 191 scenes July, 1974 THE STAR WARS BY GEORGE LUCAS FIRST DRAFT JULY 1974 LUCASFILM LIMITED FADE IN: 1. In late 2011 or early 2012, he began putting together a treatment for this sequel trilogy in advance of selling his company Lucasfilm. He hired novelist and screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write the script and had a story conference with her over several days in November and December. Box 2009 San Rafael, CA, USA 94912 1 EXT.