You Won’t Live to See the Final Star Wars Movie. Jump back to 1. 97. Lawrence Kasdan hands George Lucas his first draft of the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark. Will Kasdan write the sequel to Star Wars? See, the original writer, Leigh Brackett, has died of cancer. They’re building sets, and they don’t have a script.“Maybe you ought to read Raiders first,” Kasdan says.“I’m going to read it tonight,” Lucas answers. Movie structures, especially in genres like sci- fi, have a certain . I’m just parroting the basic how- to texts of screenwriting here: Three acts—setup, confrontation, and resolution (with plot points at the transitions)—and act three recapitulates and resolves the tensions you carefully laid down in act one. Star Wars had all those things on its own, but now, Kasdan saw, Empire would be act two in an even bigger superstructure. Kasdan is talking to Lucas again, and Kennedy too, and they want him to write another—another!—Star Wars. It turns out Lucas has been sitting on a whole crop of ideas. Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope depicts the aftermath of the battle to steal the Death Star plans. Rogue One is set between the films Star Wars: Episode III Revenge. Get your first look at ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY in theaters this December. Visit Star Wars at http:// Subscribe to Star Wars on YouTube. Kasdan chooses something about Han Solo when he was a kid. Could he stick around and, you know, consult a little bit on Episode VII? Could he help persuade Abrams to take the directing chair? Then it was Empire all over again. I’m writing my BA paper on Star Wars!In this installment of Rebels Recon, we take a look at the Star Wars Rebels episode 'Imperial Super Commandos,' in which Sabine, Fenn Rau, Ezra, and Chopper clash. If the people at Disney have anything to say about it, the past four decades of Star Wars were merely prologue. The original writer, Michael Arndt, had fallen behind. People were already getting hired and money was being spent, so Abrams and Kasdan stepped in. In every scene, that should be the criterion we’re using. Does it delight?”Of course, Abrams and Kasdan had a whole new kind of pressure. Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment. Instantly watch Star Wars: The Force Awaken - http:// Subscribe to TRAILERS: http:// Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn. They weren’t writing a second act. They were writing a new ending and a new beginning. Hollywood’s studios have always been Fordist enterprises, but as Abrams and Kasdan discovered, making this new kind of sausage takes an entirely new set of tools. They’re not the only ones trying to figure it out. Take, as a separate example, Captain America: The First Avenger, a 2. Marvel movie about the patriotic World War II hero. Stephen Mc. Feely and Christopher Markus, writing partners who’d worked on a handful of Narnia movies, loved the idea of a superhero movie set in the 1. But that doesn’t mean they got to do whatever they wanted with the story. They were adapting and distilling an existing corpus: seven decades of Captain America comic books. So they didn’t have to invent their proper nouns. Check: Abraham Erskine, the scientist who turns little Steve Rogers into Captain America. Check: the reality- warping Cosmic Cube. Check: “First- draft choice of a villain is the Red Skull,” he says.
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