I do think the Clive Revill delivered dialog is infinitely better than the 2004 remake scene. the Son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi. And Vader’s he will join us or die. No is that possible search your feelings lord Vader. Just as bad as alert my star destroyer to prepare for my arrival instead of bring my shuttle.
The original Palpatine dialogue is better written too.
Is it possible that at the time that reshoots and editing for ESB finished, Lucas intended for Leia to be the other hope, but didn’t intend for her to be Luke’s sister? Luke being able to speak to Leia through The Force implied that Leia is Force-sensitive.
Leia was implied to be force sensitive in a draft of Star Wars. She knew the art of Mind control. I do believe Lucas was thinking Bene Gesserit. Third Draft.
Hi all, I thought you’d all find this interesting:
Gary Kurtz:
“When we made Star Wars, Vader and Anakin were two separate people. The idea that Vader was Luke’s father didn’t exist. I remember Lucas talked about Anakin having killed Vader and then taking his identity, but that was dropped early on. The whole twist in Empire was new and unexpected.”
Star Wars Insider #138, 2011
So @Barfolomew and @Channel72 were basically right. The paradigm of the Brackett draft of ESB was factually correct as it goes, but also wasn’t telling the whole story: Lucas indeed had an earlier version of the twist when they were making the first film, no less, but it was ultimately dropped. Lucas then came up with the ‘Vader killed Luke’s father’ story for the final script (the Revised fourth draft), and this is what went into film. This notion was still in place
when they started work on Empire. When it came to the second draft (by Lucas alone), Lucas re-worked his earlier dropped idea, and merged the Vader and Annikin(Anakin)Luke’s father characters, and the rest is history.