So what did everyone think?

I loved it, honestly. It repeats itself a few times here and there, but considering the raw length and amount of material in it, that’s more than forgivable. And while I’m sure some of the more cynical among us will disagree, I found it overall very honest in dealing with ‘touchy’ subjects like Kurtz and Brackett. I even sensed some tiredness of David Prowse, even back then (he seems to me like he would get on ones nerves).

I was quite surprised that the whole wampa thing was a The Thing From Another World throwback; never thought of that. I still think it was good it never got made; it seemed like such an odd fragmented idea anyway.

And also, even though I’ve read and seen virtually everything out there, it wasn’t until this that I feel I got a proper appreciation of how grueling the whole film was to do.

I’m looking very much forward to the Jedi book; I have almost no impression of Marquand as a person, nor truly his relationship with Lucas and his role on the film. I have some fixed ideas about it, but it’ll be very interesting to see that given the same treatment.

Zombie, what did you make of the last page? Was that a distant reply to your book you think?