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han solo and chewbacca added into the film but were not originaly in the book. would it be possible to add the chrectiors without cha
naging the plot? how well will it do in the box office.
If it had failed there wouldn't have been a sequel at all. For Splinter of the Mind's Eye to be made, Star Wars would have to be a reasonable success but not a massive hit. Say, if it made back two or three times its budget -- $25 million to $30 million.Originally, "Splinter of the Minds Eye" was planned as the sequel to "Star Wars" if "Star Wars" failed at the box office. Set on a foggy planet with limited characters, it would be a cheap film to shoot.
However, it would require "Star Wars" to fail at the box office.
I've given some thought to this myself -- Lucas's original "grand plan" (incredibly vague though it was) was to have TWELVE movies set in the Star Wars universe (like the cinema serials from the 1940s had 12 episodes), and that he himself would take a step back and let other people take charge of most of the sequels while he'd become executive producer. I have a feeling that if the sequels remain profitable and their budget stays reasonably low, he could be able to pull it off -- or at least do more than three before giving up. They might even be able to crank out one every two years rather than every three, so Splinter of the Mind's Eye would be released in 1979.
Well, for one thing, the revelation that Leia was Luke's sister either would not have happened, or would have been much squickier, as it appears that they had sex at one point in the novel, IIRC.
Alternatively, the implication of sex may have been dropped.
Okay what? Im confused, you know the books came after the movies right?
Almost definitely not. Especially considering that Luke's father's ghost appeared in the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back.That was kind of my thought as well. In fact in this TL, Vader being Luke's Father may not be in it.