05.22.2008

Secret History of Star Wars

Star Wars has always been a big thing for me.  I saw all six films in the theater and can honestly say that I enjoyed most of them.

For true Star Wars geeks, The Secret History of Star Wars deserves at least a casual glance.  It’s long but interesting reading.  Several of the central ideas of this e-book are fascinating to me, namely:

1. Star Wars started as the telling of the tale of Luke Skywalker but ended up being about the life and times of Darth Vader.

2. George Lucas’ personal problems led to the abandonment of the originally proposed episodes XII-IX.

3. George Lucas’ propensity to rewrite history isn’t limited to his re-editing of his motion pictures.

I can’t vouch for the accuracy of either the facts or the conslusions of this work, but the author has made a large effort to properly annotate and credit his sources so I suspect there is at least some truth to it.