An early storyboard shows her luring a Jedi monk out of a bar, sleeping with him, and then apparently leaving him for dead. Lucas’s writer, Michael Arndt, described him as “pure charisma,” and the art shows him looking almost exactly like a young Han Solo, with the same jacket, blaster, and everything.ĭarth Talon was going to be a seductress. He was going to start the movie as, basically, another Han Solo.

In Lucas’s script, Solo’s son-who he called “Sam”-wasn’t going to start on the dark side. She was a red-skinned alien named Darth Talon, and she was going to corrupt Han Solo’s son. The villain in Lucas’s movies, according to Lucasfilm executive Pablo Hidalgo, was going to be pulled out of the pages of a Star Wars comic book. Abrams a question, an irate-looking George Lucas asked: “What happened to Darth Vader’s grandchildren?” When Vanity Fair magazine gave him the chance to ask new Star Wars director J.J. Lucas seems to hold a bit of a grudge about it.

He told them: “They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing.”

Clearly, Lucas wasn’t happy with what had hit the screen. “People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems-it’s not about spaceships,” Lucas told CBS when Disney’s movie came out. Time and time again, he’s said that his trilogy was supposed to focus on Darth Vader’s grandchildren-which Lucas made clear didn’t just mean Leia’s children but Luke’s, too. Photo credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Lucasfilmīack in 1983, Mark Hamill let a little hint about Lucas’s dream for a new trilogy slip: Luke Skywalker was to be a father.Īt the time, Hamill expected to start filming in the year 2000, and while it took a lot longer than that for Star Wars: Episode VII to hit theaters, Lucas never seems to have given up on that part of his dream.

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