Originally posted by: zombie84The fourth draft wasn't used to shot any part of the film. Its pretty wildly different from the film, containing many sequences that were changed, cut out and heavily refised, and even a look at the dialog itself reveals a pretty different incarnation of the film, close as it may be to the final version--this is no surprise considering it was written six months before production, and even before major pre-production had begun. A version of the fifth draft is available in all those "Star Wars script books", including The Annotated Screenplays itself.
Yes I know the dialogue is wildly different. That is something that I haven't discussed yet & that's why I'm saying that this and/or maybe the 4.R (which I haven't found yet & would like to compare) was used to shoot everything on Hoth. It was just like it was written in this 4th draft script aside when the director or one the actors made a change for whatever reason, however slight or very minor. All of the scenes for the Hoth part of the script were filmed & in the cut aside from the rebel soldiers conflict with the Wampa. That scene wasn’t quite like it was in this 1st. 4th draft of the script.
Here is perfect example(alternate take/more dialogue)Find:
45. INT COMMAND CENTER - REBEL BASE up to 54. SPACE - IMPERIAL FLEET
I'm going to knock on the impossible door again & say I can remember ALL of that dialogue exactly being in the cut I describe in scenes 45-54. My memory IS that good. It's a great example of the scope of the dialogue cuts made throughout the Hoth footage that were still in the cut I describe.
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This 4th draft quickly goes completely out the window after leaving Hoth. I think by this point they moved on to using a newer draft after filming Hoth & that is another reason I would like to see the scripts I'm requesting. You say the 4th draft is incorrectly labeled as the shooting script. I don't believe that at all based on the cut of the film I did see.
I am thinking that these later script drafts plus their revisions became the chopping scripts & the shooting script for the mid-end of the film as opposed to being strictly shooting scripts at some point during the filming process as George, the writer plus the editors were looking over the shot footage & trying to figure out how the rest of the movie, particularly the Bespin footage should play out. Maybe they also used the following scripts as some possible type of editing guide & revision guide to update any dialogue that may have been changed by the actors/director etc as the filming went along. Until I read the other two scripts & see about getting a copy of the Making of TESB pocketbook (looks pretty easy to get one sent/found a source on the net) it’s just my best guess at how the film was put together at this point.
I think that they used all these drafts I listed to shoot the film & the later ones to also help edit the film. It would have also certainly made it harder for spies/untrustworthy production members inside/outside the filming to leak the script & spoil the end cliffhanger for the film's future audiences. I'm sure that a stolen script for SW2 would have fetched some big cash prior to release.
Humor me for a little while longer, even if you still don't or never will buy what I'm saying.
The fourth draft wasn't used to shoot any of the film. It was written months before production began. A new draft was penned just before shooting. The fourth draft is the fourth draft, not a shooting script. And it goes out the window even on Hoth--theres different scenes of the rebel P.A announcers fighting Imperials and many different such scenes. Productions don't use one draft to shoot one section of the film and then another draft to shoot another section--if theres stuff in the fourth draft that they liked then thats carried over into the next one. But keep clutching at those straws.