I think calling it fully developed is a bit of an overstatement.
I just disagree. If you have a script, you have a finished story.
RogueLeader said:
George definitely had an outline, but Michael Arndt left the project because he needed more time to finish the actual script, which Iger wouldn’t give him.
I had heard that he was fired.
RogueLeader said:
From what I understand, it was during this process that Arndt was trying to figure out how to fit Luke into the story without overshadowing the new characters, which was when they came up with the idea of making him the thing the heroes are actually searching for.
Well, they got rid of him, then JJ and Kasdan came up with the idea not to include him in the movie basically.
The development process was exactly that, a development. If you’re trying to go off of what we know about George’s original treatments (and treatment are basically just summaries of a story that can fit onto a few pages, if not a single page), that’s one thing. But ideas clearly changed as development continued, and I doubt anything was really fully developed for George’s original ideas.
A story treatment is still a story treatment. That’s fleshed out. And there was a script by Arndt. Big enough to inspire JJ and Kasdan and receive a writing credit. They even had story art commissioned from it, illustrating scenes we never saw. I find that to be fleshed out enough. And we should stand up for George, so let’s tell the real truth: Ideas didn’t just change in that story development, ideas were thrown out. Big difference.
I really think we need to map out what exactly we know from the development process. I might do that and post it later.
Looking forward to it!