Like any work of art, Star Wars was like when it was first born in George Lucas’s imagination, you’re in luck. 4x2k3y
The Star Wars is a graphic novel interpretation of Lucas’s rough draft vision of what would be A New Hope (it was originally published as eight Dark Horse comics). You’ll see a lot of the characters you’re familiar with—Luke, Han, Leia, 3PO, R2, Darth Vader—but in drastically different versions. Luke is in his 60s. Han is an alien. R2 can talk.
The story itself is quite different, as well. Although some parts of the plot remained unchanged into the final form of the movie, there are some that were cut completely, and a few that were significantly changed.
One of the things that I found most interesting was how a lot of the names, both of people and planets, didn’t make it into A New Hope, but showed up later (Utapau, for example, is influenced the later stories.
I also greatly enjoyed the section that contains notes on how the authors and illustrators took what was in the draft script and turned it into the read The Star Wars? What did you think? Which parts really stood out at you? Share your thoughts below!
