From: ndasmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu ()
Subject: Re: Prequel Theories
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:17:15 GMT

In article <If1ICVG00iV1I1uc5a@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Ryan E. Rasmussen"
<rr2y+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> The following is something that I wrote in April, 1991 for another BB. 
> Hopefully, it will generate some discussion.  For example, what would
> you like to see in the prequels, if they are made?  Any predicitons?
>     As for the speculation about Lucas' doing any more movies, there is
> a lot of conflicting information out there.  Lucas himself said in an
> interview last spring in USA Today, when Young Indy Jones was
> premiering, that he has no desire to do any more Star Wars or Indiana
> Jones movies (originally there were to be four Indy films).
>     At the same time, however, Lucas might be pulling another Blue
> Harvest-style hoax on the moviegoing public:  supposedly, besides
> working on the Young Indy TV series, he is producing a film called Red
> Tails, which is about a black fighter squadron in WWII.  Since the
> spring of 1991 I have heard nothing more about this film.  Hmmm.
>     Well, Star Warriors, here is my earlier message.  I myself would
> love to see battles between the Jedi Knights and the Mandalorian
> supercommandoes....
> 
> 
> 26 April, 1991
>     Regarding Boba Fett's supposed death, I have always been put off by
> the way he was "killed."  He deserved better, because he was the "most
> notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy" and possibly a better fighter
> than Han Solo.  According to The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook, as
> originally conceived, Fett was one of a group of supercommandoes from
> the Mandalore System who were wiped out during the Clone Wars by the
> Jedi Knights.  It was said that Fett was either the only survivor, or
> had acquired his battered, armoured suit during his bounty hunting. 
> Going with the Mandalorian supercommando theory, Fett probably worked
> with Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader in episode 3.  In fact, in The
> Empire
> Strikes Back, Vader says to Fett, "And no disintegrations," with regard
> to capturing Solo, so Vader knows Fett's work.
>     Lucas has said in an interview (found in The Making of The Empire
> Strikes Back) that approximately 20 years elapse between each trilogy
> and several between each episode.  In The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett
> is in his mid-forties (according to his Topps Starfile bubble gum card),
> so he could be in both the first and third trilogies.
>     I have some questions about the names of the episodes and trilogies.
>  The prologue to the novelization of Star Wars:  A New Hope is taken
> from the Journal of the Whills, from the First Saga.  Does anyone know
> if the Journal of the Whills is the name of an episode?  Also the novel
> is subtitled "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker."  I assume that
> this is the name of the middle trilogy, and that all nine episodes
> comprise what is called the Star Wars Saga.  Earlier, someone wrote that
> episode 3 is titled Fall of the Republic.  Is this correct, and are the
> others known,too?  Perhaps the first trilogy is "The Adventures of
> Obi-wan Kenobi."
> 	I would be very interested to know which characters any of you think
> would be in the first and third trilogies.  Supposedly, only
> See-Threepio and Artoo-Detoo are the only ones common to all nine
> (Threepio is something like 106 years old in Star Wars), but Obi-wan
> Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (Vader) are definitely in the first trilogy,
> as is Palpatine (the Emperor).  I would guess that Yoda would be in
> there, too, and possibly Boba Fett, and Admiral Ackbar as a long shot.  
> Even Luke and Leia as infants and Obi Wan's brother Owen Lars could be
> in episode 3.
>     As for space ships, remember that most of the Rebel's equipment is old
> and reconditioned in the middle trilogy.  Although they might have been
> developed in the 20 years before episode 4, we may see X-wing and Y-wing
> fighters, and maybe even the Z-95 Headhunter.  My guess is that the
> Empire will not have Star Destroyers or the many variations of the TIE
> fighter.
>     ILM is supposedly hiring industrial designers for the summer of
> 1992, so judging from how the first movies were made, I would say that
> episode 1 could be released as early as May 25, 1994, instead of 1997. 
> I hope that this long message will generate some discussion, debate, and
> information.
>  
> Ryan E. Rasmussen
> 
  Hi, Ryan!  Very interesting file you wrote!  Anyway, I would very much
like to find out the possible titles for the first trilogy.  Also would
like to know if Lucas has said how far he'll deviate from the Zahn novels. 
Also, where did Zahn come from; what's his history?  I'd buy the hardcover
DFR, but I'm a student too, so I gotta save those greenbacks.  You (and
anybody else, for that matter) can send replies to
ndasmith@casbah.acns.nwu.edu.  Thanks!

P.S.  Does C-M still have a computer in every room on campus?