COMICS: Lucasarts & Dark Horse Announce THE STAR WARS

COMICS: Lucasarts & Dark Horse Announce THE STAR WARS

George Lucas' original 1974 screenplay for The Star Wars which would eventually morph into the movie phenomenon we all know and love is set to be adapted into an eight issue mini-series, launching in September. Check out some artwork and details after the jump..

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By MarkCassidy - Apr 01, 2013 10:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Dark Horse
Source: Via Newsarama

Lucas' unproduced screenplay for "The Star Wars" featured Luke Skywalker as an older Jedi General, Han Solo as a Reptilian alien, and another Jedi character named Anakin Starkiller. Now Dark Horse is teaming up with with J.W. Rinzler, executive editor at LucasBooks, and artist Mike Mayhew (Avengers) to adapt the rough-draft original screenplay for an eighth issue series.



Says Rinzler:

"While researching in the Lucasfilm Archives I've found many treasures — but one which truly astounded me was George's rough draft for The Star Wars. His first complete imaginings were hallucinating to read — mind blowing. While working with George on another book project, I once asked if we could adapt his rough draft. He was hesitant. Years later, with Dark Horse's invaluable help, we showed him a few drawn and colored pages of what it might look like. He gave us the okay."



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santoanderson
santoanderson - 4/1/2013, 10:43 AM
Because money.
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 4/1/2013, 10:43 AM
hmmm, could be very interesting.
Tevii
Tevii - 4/1/2013, 10:48 AM
I think this could be really cool. Ill definitely pick this up
Tevii
Tevii - 4/1/2013, 10:50 AM
oh wait... is this an April Fools joke??????????
MJPETTY7
MJPETTY7 - 4/1/2013, 10:51 AM
I'm interested.
Geektality
Geektality - 4/1/2013, 10:52 AM
Wait....
A rough draft of a script written ENTIRELY by George Lucas.

Gentlemen, prepare for bad dialogue and forced romance.
Dragonpiece
Dragonpiece - 4/1/2013, 10:55 AM
This isn't a April Fools joke, it was announced yesterday at Wonder Con I believe.
TerminalVoyd
TerminalVoyd - 4/1/2013, 10:56 AM
And if anyone is interested, this Bleeding Cool article has a link to the PDF of the '74 rough draft. Here's their write up on the new comic with the link. (It's at the bottom by the way).

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/31/the-unused-stories-and-characters-from-george-lucas-unproduced-the-star-wars-scripts/
teinen
teinen - 4/1/2013, 11:16 AM
If anybody's seen Star Wars Deleted Magic they'd know George's script was an absolute mess and the entire movie was formed during editing. I wonder what exactly this will be based off of.
Wingding
Wingding - 4/1/2013, 11:33 AM
This is actually really cool, I'm quite excited for this
ndwwrestler2
ndwwrestler2 - 4/1/2013, 11:37 AM
I am intrigued. The only problem I might have is the Han Solo as a reptile.
Newbus
Newbus - 4/1/2013, 1:34 PM
"I am intrigued. The only problem I might have is the Han Solo as a reptile."

Reminds me of one of the characters in Lensman
Pauul
Pauul - 4/1/2013, 3:34 PM
Actually, this is a sign that Dark Horse is going to retain the Star Wars license since this will continue into 2014.

This is very cool news.

I've always been fascinated my the early evolution of Star Wars.
AnakinsTwin
AnakinsTwin - 4/1/2013, 5:07 PM
The oiginal script was on the net about 15 years back and might still be out there. Luke was originally "STARKILLER" and The Force was originally called the "Bogan Force" !!!
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