Project: The Original Star Wars in WhatCouldHaveBeen/Film

This project focuses on adding examples of What Could Have Been for the early elements of Star Wars from the early scripts and drafts, and though the entry in What Could Have Been is already lengthy, there are still many details that are not mentioned. The primary source to use will be http://starwarz.com/starkiller, as Wookiepedia is more of a secondary source. From reading the early scripts, one can see many differences from the final product, and these differences can be examples to add, going over the scripts and finding any examples that would seem meaningful, such as "Star Wars was to be set in the 33rd century!" and other facts, keeping in mind the differences between early drafts, compared to the later drafts that more closely resemble the finished film, categorizing those differences by draft name and date as in The "The" Title Confusion and Working Title, or making it clear that the examples are following a chronological progression. And there's a lot of stuff, like Deak Starkiller. The Skywalker. Just a lot of stuff.

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-starkiller-timeline/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-luke-starkiller-sourcebook/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-story-synopsis/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-rough-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/rough-draft-sourcebook/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-revised-first-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/adventures-of-the-starkiller-second-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/second-draft-sourcebook/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-george-lucasedited-by-brendon-wahlberg/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/summary-of-the-original-script-of-the-star-wars/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-from-the-adventures-of-luke-starkiller-third-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/star-wars-the-adventures-of-luke-starkiller-as-taken-from-the-journal-of-the-whills/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/star-wars-public-version-of-fourth-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/draft-variations-for-the-empire-strikes-back/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-first-draft-by-leigh-brackett-transcript/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-shooting-scriptfourth-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/revenge-of-the-jedi-revised-rough-draft

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/draft-variations-for-return-of-the-jedi//

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-beginning-the-phantom-menace-revised-third-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/episodeii/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/revenge-of-the-sith-revised-fourth-draft/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-development-of-star-wars-as-seen-through-the-scripts-by-george-lucas/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-connoisseurs-guide-to-the-scripts-of-the-star-wars-saga/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-development-of-star-wars-a-new-hope/

http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-origins-of-star-wars-the-evolution-of-a-space-saga/

edited 31st Aug '16 3:12:25 PM by Pinokio

"though the entry in What Could Have Been is already lengthy, there are still many details that are not mentioned"

Just because you can, doesn't mean you need to. I know this because I wrote some of those examples, and refrained from writing more because the length of the section was already long enough as-is.

If you're intending on making this encyclopedic in nature, move the whole section to its own subpage and do it there. Frankly, the examples are already long enough as they currently stand — we don't need to know the minutiae of every single small change between script and screen.

edited 13th Oct '16 7:47:55 AM by crazyrabbits

Doesn't seem like something that needs a project thread, ~Pinokio. You can just add these things, but please consider what crazyrabbits had to say.