brash_stryker said:

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

ROTJ:R Question: Has Ady considered putting Jabba's palace on a different planet?

The following post gave me this idea: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/something-I-always-wondered-about-the-PT/post/686800/#TopicPost686800

You took the words out of my hands.

Although there is the problem of Lando's line at the end of ESB about the rendevouz point on....Tatooine.

The name alone wouldn't matter as the name "Tatooine" is never said in ANH (as far as I know). The only reason anyone would know the name of the planet, pre ROTJ at least, would've been reading it somewhere (like how everyone knows the word ewok despite it never being said by anyone).

Making "Tatooine" an entirely new planet is a great idea. I hate how the canonical Tatooine became so overemphasised come the prequels as some sort of central location for everything of galactic and spiritual importance to occur on. Just like how Anakin was overemphasised as the chosen one - and why did he have to be from Tatooine too? As someone said, George wanted to reuse existing ideas and familar stuff, so as a result he shrunk the universe. Part of the charm of ANH was that this backwater dust planet was so insignificant in current events that we never even learnt its name. Maybe it didn't even HAVE a name.

In terms of executing this idea, the only clear acknowledgement that the desert planet in ROTJ is the same desert planet as in ANH is Luke saying to Han he used to live there, and Han replying that he's going to die there. This could be edited out somehow.

I would be interested in seeing how that could play out.

However, I actually like that line in ROTJ. =) But sacrifices must be made for the greater good.