Yeah, it's that kind of negativity that makes me not want to frequent forums. Makes me wish ot.com had a ranking system where nuisances like that could be buried by the collective.

Skyguy's idiom is unique to himself, nobody else posts like him as consistently, he has been around doing his thing for quite a while.

Heilemann said:

Yeah, it's that kind of negativity that makes me not want to frequent forums. Makes me wish ot.com had a ranking system where nuisances like that could be buried by the collective.

By the way Yojimbo is less like Red Harvest than most people make it out to be. The Glass Hand is more like it. But even there, it's more a matter of inspiration than anything else.

The Hidden Fortress is a remake of a previous Kurosawa film called They Who Tread the Tiger's Tail, which was based off a Kabuki play, which was based off a Noh play, which was based off of medieval legends which were based off a real person.

True story.

What he said. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is on Hulu+ by the way, I watched it a couple of nights ago. It's only 60 minutes long.

Well first of all Eisenstein isn't exactly from the other side of the track, so to speak. But also, Lucas had an image of Eisenstein hanging in his writing room when he was doing Star Wars IIRC (see Skywalking).

Now I'm in the mood to re-read Secret History and the Annotated Screenplays...and watch Hidden Fortress again.

I wonder if any of the other early drafts will get comic adaptations. I for one would love to see someone try to wring a coherent storyline out of the Journal of the Whills outline.

This is awesome news, the art style on that page preview looks fantastic. We should be grateful that we have a person like Rinzler aboard Lucasfilm.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I wonder if any of the other early drafts will get comic adaptations. I for one would love to see someone try to wring a coherent storyline out of the Journal of the Whills outline.

It was never completed. It goes on for a page and a half but then trails off because Lucas lost interest.

It would be more interesting to make a comic of the proper treatment though. Or Leigh Brackett's first draft of Empire. There is some amazing stuff in that one that just begs to be brought to life.

It would be fun to read a comic based on earlier versions of Revenge Of The Jedi too.

Ben and Yoda coming back from the dead, The Emperor's throne room in a lake of lava. Multiple Death Stars. A rival Moff working against Vader.

Wow, you guys are absolutely right.  There is so much interesting material in those earlier drafts that would be amazing to see in "how it could have been" comic form.  Seriously, that would be fun to read, and now I can't help but wonder if success in this current endeavor might lead to comics of other film drafts!

darth_ender said:

Wow, you guys are absolutely right.  There is so much interesting material in those earlier drafts that would be amazing to see in "how it could have been" comic form.  Seriously, that would be fun to read, and now I can't help but wonder if success in this current endeavor might lead to comics of other film drafts!

Those are basically mini-series, though (and not very good ones, at that). I'm thinking of something more along the lines of Star Wars Tales, only completely devoted to out-of-continuity storylines and reimaginings.

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

I'd like to see an entire series devoted to alternate SW Universes, myself. This could open the door to such a thing.

 

Same.  There are so many possibilities.  What I'd really like to see is something that uses SW77 as canon- and nothing else.  Ie, Vader is not Luke's father, Leia is not his sister, etc.  That's the universe I think about a lot.

I need to read Splinter of the Mind's Eye.

How come Entertainment weekly is saying this is Dark horse's swan song for star wars comics, are they just guessing Disney is going shut them down soon, or jumping the gun?