• George Lucas wanted a 10 year old Han Solo to appear in Revenge of the Sith with Chewbacca as his gu
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/olmg.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars/38617/star-wars-the-han-solo-episode-iii-cameo-that-never-was[/url] [quote]In those smaller plot strands, many of them thrown in to foreshadow events in the Original Trilogy, Lucas wanted to show how Boba Fett attempted to avenge the unceremonious death of his father in Attack Of The Clones. He wanted to show how Padme laid the foundations for the Rebel Alliance. Then there was the cameo from a young Han Solo: just 10 years old, wandering around on Chewbacca’s home planet, Kashyyyk. Solo’s appearance in Revenge Of The Sith would have been fleeting - perhaps amounting to a few seconds. In an early draft of the script, Lucas gave him just one, rather pedestrian line: “I found part of a transmitter droid near the east bay. I think it’s still sending and receiving signals.” Nevertheless, this brief appearance would have revealed something new about Solo’s past: he was been raised from boyhood by his future co-pilot, Chewbacca. “It’s not in the script anymore,” explained concept artist Iain McCaig in the Revenge Of The Sith art-of book, “but we were told that Han Solo was on Kashyyyk and that he was being raised by Chewbacca. He’s such a persnickety guy later on – he always has to have the best of everything – so I thought it’d be great if when he was a kid, he was an absolute slob.” The scene would also have been significant for another reason: it would have marked the first and only time Solo met Yoda. In fact, that line Solo was to utter about finding a scrap bit of droid would have been directed at the pointy-eared Jedi master, who was to have been hunting around on Kashyyyk for clues as to General Grievous’ whereabouts. “Good, good,” Yoda would have replied. “Track this we can back to the source. Find General Grievous, we might…” The scene got as far as the concept art stage before it was scrapped as Lucas raced to get his story into shape; casting for the young Han hadn’t even begun, so we’ll never know who Lucas might have picked to play him. Certainly, McCaig’s painting of a scruffy lad with long hair looks right for the Star Wars universe - there are even echoes of Rey’s Jakku outfit in those pieces of cloth bound around his legs. But Star Wars fans might have collectively sighed with relief that the scene was ultimately dropped as Lucas refocused his script on Anakin’s fall, and the various sub-plots he’d originally wanted to put in gradually fell away.[/quote]
Mr Plinket joked about this happening. So close George.
How do you make Chewbacca's inclusion in the prequels make even more sense? How does he keep fucking everything up this badly? At least someone stopped him
So when did he refocus away from anikins fall because he goes from super loyal Jedi to sithlord in like 2 scenes...
That would be like portraying Darth Vader, the original Trilogy's most popular and mysterious character as an annoying 10 year old kid who makes friends with a cartoon rabbit. Oh
[QUOTE=Sableye;49618399]So when did he refocus away from anikins fall because he goes from super loyal Jedi to sithlord in like 2 scenes...[/QUOTE] The problem really lies with The Phantom Menace taking place 10 years before the second movie, and the Clone Wars starting at the end of the second movie. The trilogy should have stsrted with the start of the Clone Wars. Leaves no time for any real development where its needed.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;49618453][t]http://i.imgur.com/kzut5in.png[/t][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=smurfy;49618310][img]http://imgkk.com/i/olmg.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] this is just uneasy amounts of awareness I'm still mad they hamfistedly planted greedo and called him by name. at least we didn't get too much of that though [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5defnEQ8A[/media]
Lucas is the fucking worst thing ever
fucking plinkett called it
[QUOTE=dai;49618471]this is just uneasy amounts of awareness I'm still mad they hamfistedly planted greedo and called him by name. at least we didn't get too much of that though [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5defnEQ8A[/media][/QUOTE] That's a deleted scene though.
not exactly new news here [url]http://www.slashfilm.com/see-lucasfilms-concept-art-of-young-han-solo/[/url] and the art and concept was in Making of and Art of RotS (2005, p41 and 90 respectively) too
lol I had no idea about that Greedo thing, did baby Jek Porkins show up somewhere too?
[QUOTE=Kljunas;49618502]That's a deleted scene though.[/QUOTE] he still appears in the movie, but it was just like, a pack of kids running off when anakin has to leave and you hear "c'mon greedo!" or something to that effect
I like the idea of Han being raised by Chewie, but he downright says that he doesn't believe in the Force in the original movie. The only way for this to have made sense is for him to not see any Jedi in action, which would have been hard since the Force was heavily overused in the prequels.
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;49618907]I like the idea of Han being raised by Chewie, but he downright says that he doesn't believe in the Force in the original movie. The only way for this to have made sense is for him to not see any Jedi in action, which would have been hard since the Force was heavily overused in the prequels.[/QUOTE] It would be just as stupid as Leia remembering her mother (who died right after childbirth).
I liked the old EU version have Han meeting chewie honestly
[QUOTE=dai;49618471]I'm still mad they hamfistedly planted greedo and called him by name. at least we didn't get too much of that though[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Srillo;49618518]lol I had no idea about that Greedo thing, did baby Jek Porkins show up somewhere too?[/QUOTE]Sure it's a bit clumsy but there's nothing really wrong about it considering that it is on Tatooine full of spacer freaks that likely dump their kids off (or, you know, sell them) so they can fly around having more sex in space without some little brat holding them down. These kids aren't likely to grow up to be upstanding citizens either, especially with shitheads like Watto the Totally-Not-Space-Jew providing the only form of parental guidance. About that, sometimes I wonder if George Lucas was hanging out with Mel Gibson because almost all the bad guys in Star Wars have sinister British accents, there's Watto the Jew and Jar-Jar the Blackface frog bunny and the Niemodians are basically a Chinaman caricature. I'm not even fucking trying by the way and I usually think people finding inherent racism is superficial bullshit but [B]come on[/B] George what the fuck.
He let the money get to his head with the prequels.
[QUOTE=ChronoBlade;49620050]He let the money get to his head with the prequels.[/QUOTE] Well there was a lot of room in there.
[QUOTE=Kyle902;49619655]I liked the old EU version have Han meeting chewie honestly[/QUOTE] Yeah Han being a Imperial pilot that saves chewie from imprisonment/execution was neat.
[QUOTE=dai;49618471]this is just uneasy amounts of awareness I'm still mad they hamfistedly planted greedo and called him by name. at least we didn't get too much of that though [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5defnEQ8A[/media][/QUOTE] i refuse to believe thats the same greedo. i shall always believe that its a common name for green alien people [editline]28th January 2016[/editline] wth is george lucas's problem with having to litterally show us an adolescent version of everybody anyways, isn't it good enough to show us an already formed character and then work from there?
[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;49618907]I like the idea of Han being raised by Chewie, but he downright says that he doesn't believe in the Force in the original movie. The only way for this to have made sense is for him to not see any Jedi in action, which would have been hard since the Force was heavily overused in the prequels.[/QUOTE] Except a young kid Han Solo might find it hard to acrue a life debt from a wookie. A young adult imperial pilot/ex smuggler who really hates seeing slaves and frees ones from abuse fits the bill much better. Sure the EU had Han be raised by what was essentially a wookie, which is where his fondness for them and his understanding of the language came from. But that the type of relationship that similar to Han and Chewie.
[QUOTE=bdd458;49618423]The problem really lies with The Phantom Menace taking place 10 years before the second movie, and the Clone Wars starting at the end of the second movie. The trilogy should have stsrted with the start of the Clone Wars. Leaves no time for any real development where its needed.[/QUOTE] Maybe the Clone Wars could have started by the end of Episode 1, but 2 and 3 definitely would focus on the war.
Disney should make a new prequel trilogy (and make the old prequel trilogy non-canon) after they finish with Episode 9.
Shit like this makes you wonder how fucking awful the original trilogy could've been.
[QUOTE=Destroyox;49623480]Shit like this makes you wonder how fucking awful the original trilogy could've been.[/QUOTE] Has it not been awful?
[QUOTE=royaldanney;49623516]Has it not been awful?[/QUOTE] Episodes 3,4, and 5 were pretty damn good.
Regardless of the merit of this idea, the Young Han concept has been known about since Episode 3's concept art collections were published over 10 years ago. Must be a slow news day with whoever published this article.
I knew about Han Solo originally appearing in RotS ever since I owned the artbook for the movie since like 2006. I'm actually surprised more people didn't already know about this.
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