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Post #212635

Author
Sluggo
Parent topic
Star Wars: George's Original Vision (The Lost Cut)
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Date created
23-May-2006, 4:06 PM
this is turning into the Starkiller Ranch. And I'm dang sure the Death Star battle was originally part of George's original plan. The line gets blurred because Fox executives were pushing George to drop the battle as the film was already overbudget without it.

Anyways...

I am looking forward to this edit. I have always wanted an edit based on the book or shooting script. This edit looks to be the closest so far (excepting Deleted Magic of course). One of the scenes I've always been curious about is a small fragment from the published draft of the script.

INT. SANDCRAWLER - HOLD AREA

It is dim inside the hold area of the Sandcrawler. Artoo switches on a small floodlight on his forehead and stumbles around the scrap heap. The narrow beam swings across rusty metal rocket parts and an array of grotesquely twisted and maimed astro-robots. He lets out a pathetic electronic whimper and stumbles off toward what appears to be a door at the end of the chamber.


INT. SANDCRAWLER - PRISON AREA

Artoo enters a wide room with a four-foot ceiling. In the middle of the scrap heap sit a dozen or so robots of various shapes and sizes. Some are engaged in electronic conversation, while others simply mill about. A voice of recognition calls out from the gloom.

THREEPIO
Artoo-Detoo! It's you! It's you!

A battered Threepio scrambles up to Artoo and embraces him.



The script has 2 rooms in the sandcrawler, but the final edit has one. It would be interested to see if this footage could be seperated. I tried to get Garrett to look into this shot for Deleted Magic, but it never happened.