Fantastic Films magazine? They did a lot of wild speculating back in the day between sequels. I need to find those and see if anything was on the money.
I can’t say anything about Fantastic Films, but I did find some speculations in the letters page of some of the Marvel SW comics I recently got. Those readers did sometimes have quite on-the-nose ideas about the upcoming movies.
I think it’s especially funny to read the fan reactions to the Han-Leia-Luke love triangle prior to ROTJ. This one fan in 1980 even speculated that Yoda’s reference to “another” was a nod to a possible child of Luke and Leia. On the other hand, one fan unintentionally suggested that they were siblings while complaining about a lack of romantic tension between the two in the comic series.
I lament that those letter columns don’t make it into reprints. Maybe they’d have to track these people down to get permission?
Could be. After all they included the full names and adresses of the people who wrote the letters. Might be iffy to reprint something like that.
It really is a loss though. Too bad they never just blurred/crossed-out the personal info, or something like that, and just included them in the reprints anyway. One of my main motivations for tracking down original copies is so that I can read the letter columns.