did Lucas actually WRITE Star Wars?

[Chooco]

is Lucas the author or is he just a director?

 

[glen]

Yes.
My hunch is that his wife helped him with some of the dialog.
They are no longer married, and I believe that might account for some of the missing magic.

 

[Chooco]

i think the newer ones are better than the older ones actually, there's more action and less talking.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Chooco
i think the newer ones are better than the older ones actually, there's more action and less talking.

To each his own. I think you're on crack though. Either that or you have very consumeristic tastes with movies.

 

[Chooco]

the newer stories truly had a DEEP message to them, the story of Attack Of The Clones is so intricate and complex that it takes sever times of looking back to truly understand what is going on. the older ones were just sort of "i saw it and i get it, that's that". i was looking at Amazon.com here and some guy posted this review of A New Hope, i wonder if it's true:

A great novelization, January 25, 2001
Reviewer: Désirée Davis (see more about me) from Long Beach, CA USA
First, let's dispense with the myth that Lucas wrote this himself. It was fully written by noted sci-fi/fantasy author Alan Dean Foster (who also wrote the novelizations for Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Krull, Black Hole, Alien Nation and although credited to Gene Roddenberry, he also wrote Star Trek The Motion Picture) Lucas was busy actually making the movie while ADF was writing this novel based on Lucas's working script. This accounts for some of the differences in the story.

ADF is a great writer, with a good voice and a great use of brevity to convey details. This is a quick read and a real treat for star wars fans. When this was first released it was called "Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker" and was released before the movie even came out. ADF was already contracted to write a sequel since no one had any idea how the film would do, thus "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" makes a wonderful companion piece (the similar style between the two should be a dead giveaway that Foster wrote both).

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Is there any truth to the fact that he didn't WRITE it, he just had the idea and made it up as he went along. Several things make sense when looked at it like that. Like the kiss between Luke and Leia when they are about to swing across that gap in IV, then they are Bro and Sis in 6 :disgust:

 

[Chooco]

or in episode 5 when luke has just been saved, she frenches him lol