Without being able to read them and I don’t think Paul Duncan has read them. All we rely on is George’s telling of what they were to Paul and to James Cameron.
They are under lock and key at Disney and you would likely have to sign an NDA even if they would let you read them.
If I could read his story treatments would I go that is a cool idea. or wow this is so stupid even Disney did better.
Aye, plus Paul Duncan isn’t the most reliable historian out there (he’s made a number of gaffes and outlandish claims which even Lucasfilm employees have corrected / debunked - and also doubleofive! Not to mention his baffling merging of modern interview quotes with those of 40 years ago in those expensive ‘Archive’ books of his a few years back). And then there is George - the definition of an unreliable narrator (where even his mundane claims need to be verified / crosschecked for accuracy… due to the volume of disingenuous statements and history of re-writing erm… history). 😉
I’m a little surprised George hasn’t released them via the 2013/14 ‘The Star Wars’ comic format, as an option / example - apparently he does still like comics. The guy has stated recently he is done with Star Wars - so I guess there is nothing holding him back from seeing those ST ideas he’d worked on expanded and released?
Darth Maul being the big bad and midichlorians are baffling to me as being serious decisions.
‘Bring back your dead!’ 😉 Reducing the stakes again - retconning past events - opting for the lazy option… instead of crafting a new fresh menacing villain to the story. Still, it’d likely kept a number of PT and animated series fans happy, I guess. Maybe he’d even have got more dialogue in the main feature than in the trailer for that? [sarcasm mode].
The less said about midichlorians the better; as George also seemingly thought after the vague and ham-fisted attempt in TPM. Though the prospect of Lucas engaging in more time-ravelling to alter his own quotes from decades ago to include a mention - or maybe even an explanation - of midichrlorians… wouldn’t be that surprising. Ugh.