george lucas films spiilnter of the minds eye star wars sequel

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 he does it in place of the Holiday Special, well, that'd be one less thing in the world for people to joke about.
 
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.
 
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.
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.

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.

Who would direct? Perhaps it would still be Kirshner?
 
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.
 
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.

That was kind of my thought as well. In fact in this TL, Vader being Luke's Father may not be in it.
 
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.

In such a scenario, Leia would not have been Luke's sister. She was never intended to be. It was only "revealed" in Return of the Jedi that Leia was Luke's sister because 1) it was mentioned in Empire that "there is another", 2) the "another" was meant to be Luke's sister, and 3) because Lucas decided the series would end at ROTJ he had to answer who this "another" was. Leia was retroactively fitted into that role.

The original idea of Lucas was the Luke's sister was somewhere off into the far reaches of the galaxy being kept hidden from the Emperor. This would be developed in the next set of trilogies, episodes 7-9 which were never made.

It actually makes no sense that Leia was Luke's sister. In both Star Wars (I refuse to call it A New Hope) and Empire, Leia was obviously a love interest in a triangle between Luke and Han. If Leia was meant to be Luke's sister, there is no way anything would have been portrayed like that.

Furthermore, if Obi-Wan's ghost and Yoda are concerned about Luke being corrupted/killed in fighting Vader at Cloud City why would Yoda claim that not all is lost because there is "another" when the reason Luke is going to Cloud City is to save Leia. If you think Luke is going to fail, then likely both people are going to be in the hands of the Empire! There won't be another at all! That statement only makes sense if the person Yoda is thinking of is safely off-screen entirely.

Lucas did this all the time though. He had lots of drafts of the screenplay, plus whatever his ideas were at the time. Vader, after all, wasn't intended to be Luke's father at all when the first movie came out.

Most of the Star Wars mythology was made up on the fly. There was no real secret plan except for a few motifs/scenes that Lucas made sure were going to be done in someway. All the other details were developed just at the time of the movies.
 
Okay what? Im confused, you know the books came after the movies right?

Splinter of the Mind's Eye was a book released after the first movie as the Star Wars saga first "sequel". It was originally intended as a screenplay for the next movie if the first one was not a huge success. In order to cut down on the costs, or in recognition that while Mark Hammil and Carrie Fisher had signed multi-picture deals but Harrison Ford did not, Han Solo (and thus Chewbacca) were not included in the story.

Because the first movie was a huge success, the next movie would become the far more ambitious (and bigger budgeted) Empire Strike Backs. Splinter in the Mind's Eye was instead released as a book.
 
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