I got my hands on the much talked about first draft of The Star Wars.
George reused a lot of it, which isn't surprising.
But what surprised me was how far those things went. I expected it to be the plot of EP 4-6, but prequels got a lot in them.
I first thought it was a 4chan mockup because it had so many callbacks to prequels.
Autism incoming alert:
The script is different and tonally a bit more violent than the finished Star Wars. I'll try to recap it.
The text crawl details how the Empire has fallen, as their praetorian guards, the elite kungu praetorians, Jedi-Bendu, had been ousted by the Knights of Sith. The Empire is way more Roman than what we got.
First scene is Annikin Starkiller, 20 blonde, blue eyed muscular lad of a gigachud, his dad Kane Starkiller, his younger, cocky Weasly style little bro hiding on a sand planet called Utapau. A silver Sith ship arrives, and a masked black robed Sith ninja kills the little brother before being killed himself. Big sad for pops and son.
The Starkillers now go to Aquila with the Sith's ship, the last independent system.
Aquilla is ruled by a bronzed chad King, who has 2 sons and 1 daughter.
The planet's pope is called Tarkin, and they are likely some flavour of Christian as they call on "God" sometimes.
They also have super advanced technology compared to the rest of the galaxy. Their military is called the First Order. Aquila has two suns and is a desert, and the last refuge for the Jedi Warriors.
Alderaan, which has Jetsons style cloud mushroom city, is where the current Emperor Cosdashit (mentioned in the thread) is, and one of the generals he sends to capture Aquila is Darth Vader, as well as First Prince of the Sith, Valorum, who has his order's "black fascist uniform". These two were later rolled into Darth Vader.
There is a neutral group called the Chrome traders who trade, you won't guess it, chrome.
The Starkillers arrive at Aquila and meet the Jedi Chudgeneral, called Luke Skywalker. He is half Obiwan, half Conan. He is very boisterious and muscled and manly, just full of toxic masculinity like Annikin, Kane and Valorum, who is different only that he is grim, not all laughs and bear hugs.
Kane Starkiller reveals the constant fight with the Sith chasing him left him a cyborg with only a head and an arm left. He asks Luke to take Annikin as his Padawan Apprentice.
Annikin is meanwhile busy trying to get the pants off a, quote, cute female attendant in Skywalker's command bunker. Skywalker has to call Annikin on the loudspeakers.
The dastardly generals and emperor plan to invade Aquila quickly, and conquer their anti-aging technology that lets them live to 3 centuries. Their fighters are called Stardestroyers, but these are relatively small craft.
The king and Skywalker engage in legal debates about how war can and can't be declared against the Empire. But the empire sends a giant space station to attack Aquila.
A jedi/aquilonian saying is: May the force of others be with you.
Luke can't get the war computer startup codes, and sends Annikin to get Princess Leia, the king's oldest descendant. But the giant space station or its fighter craft launch giant nukes and decimate Aquilaen defences.
He sends up only 1 remaining base's pilots, one called Chewie, to attack the space station. The station is described as fortress in space with an underbelly. Like a flosting castle, with solar panels and lot of transformers on the outside, because they are less advanced.
The king of Aquila is dead, and 6 sleek spacefighters battle the station. 2 imperial robots called C3po and R2d2 evacuate as the station gets damaged. It has women and children and robots, and the two take an escape capsule. Threepio is pretty much his silver self, but R2 can talk and has arms and 3 stocky legs.
Since the King got nuked, the senate of Aquila surrender. Annikin has to tard wrangle Leia, who is now a blonde 14 year old. Loli Leia wants to have Annikin executed, but he decks the uppity tsundere out cold and evacuates her, before picking up the two droids on the way. The droids, or rather androids, are incapable of harming humans and lying, so them being Imperial is not a problem. But they are unable to keep secrets and obey any human who talks to them.
Aquilae has fallen. But general Luke and Starkillers made a deal with the Chrome teaders to evacuate the royal kids, one of them called Windie or something like it. They need the help of an alien friend of Luke and Kane called Han Solo. Han solo is a gilled humanoid who can also do Jedi martial arts, which are super fatal. The royal kids are important as Aquilonians are hyper loyal and would commit mass soduko rather than be ruled by someone not of this 100 thousand year old lineage.
The senate capitulates to the Empire like Naboo, and a traitor senator tries to stop the plan, but Luke cuts him down with no BS.
They leave the secret base, but not before nuking it with the Queen, troops, and all still inside, to keep their escape secret.
They make a trek through the desert, and fool stormtroopers with fake ID CDs. But later get into fighting the Imperials, who are cruel and skin families alive. Laserswords are used by standard Imp troops and they ride giant birds. Luke easily kills them, he is far more spry than Obiwan later will be.
They get to Solo and plan to escape, disguising the royal sons by freezing them in crates, as well as carrying the extracted brains of the top scientists of Aquila as payment to the Chrome traders. Aquilae science can transfer brains and grow them into clone bodies from a vial. The cantina scene with the cut off arm is there, but Luke plays both Obiwan and Luke's later roles.
Kane Starkiller sacrifices his life support battery to power the royal kids later to be carbonite freezer boxes. Annikin is mighty sad. First his little brother now his dad. Leia also lost her dad so she hates him less now.
They plan to go on a spaceship and escape.
It all goes well, but the blonde and handsome Valorum ambushes them, and uses knock out gas.
They are all taken prisoner, but Luke and Han break out with Jedi martial art kicks, and kill all troops guarding them with the kick.
Both Annikin and Luke are very great and unbeatable in combat.
They escape and go to the asteroid field, being chased by Hunter destroyers. Annikin gets blasted to space while manning the Ack Ack Lazers (41%st hit rate? Yes Lucas did call them that.) , but with R2s help he is hauled back by the umbilical of his space suit. The asteroids damage the ship greatly.
Leia realises she loves Annikin and confesses to him. Annikin turns her down because he has more important business than love.
Annikin and the rest flee the disintegrating ship in escape pods to Yavin, which has giant trees and is a forbidden world due to deadly animals.
Annikin with R2 and Leia are separated from the rest.
General Luke rethaws the kids, and hides them with the antropologist Owen and his wife Beru.
Slavers capture Leia, before Annikin can rescue him, the slavers flee. He does frees some Wookees, large hairy bigfoots, before passing out.
The wookees capture him. They dislike him, but he wins their approval by duelling one of their warriors with his Jedi Martial Arts. Wookees name him as a god, and a friendly wookee son of the chief, Chewbacca (not to be confused with the pilot Chewie) tracks along with him.
He reunites with Luke. Han speaks Wookee and becomes instant friends with Chewbacca. Leia is taken by slavers to the Imperial Outpost of Massa or Massi.
The wookees and Jedi team up and cleverly lure the imps out. This scene is much better than the ewok one.
They clip the antennas on airtanks, and Chewbacca captures one. They aslo capture guns, as the wookees only have swords and shields.
With clever tactics they disguise the tank as an Imperial, and are let into the base, and gun down the Imperials and their troops.
Luke and Han train the Wookees to be able to pilot imperial spacefighters. Chewbacca is a natural pilot!
Annikin realises he loves Leia too and rushes to infiltrate the now named Death Star to rescue Leia, but is captured. The generals and the governor want him executed.
But his chud valour and sheer ballsy brutal handsome martial arts manliness melt Valorum's heart, and the Sith turns tables against the Empire! Annikon Starkiller is just that heroic and brave, Valorum can't see such a manly hero get executed!
Valorum breaks them out of prison, the garbage compactor scene is there. They manage to escape just as the Wookee pilots manage to blow up the chief transformer, and the station explodes.
Epilogue is that on Aquila, now Queen Leia hands out medals to Luke and Annikin. Han, Valorum, Chewbacca all congratulate them.
The end of my very condensed an autistic recap.
There are a lot of striking similarities, but the overall script is way less kid friendly. There are dead bodies everywhere.
Obiwan is a mix of Gen. Luke and Kane Starkiller, but much more infirm.
Darth Vader is a mix of General Darth Vader and the Sith First Prince Valorum, but the original Vader is just the invasions general and does not do much besides talking. Valorum is the only competent imperial, and switches sides like Vader does in Ep6, and unlike film Vader kills no main character.
The Force's magic isn't really there, it less magic and more just Jedi reflex aid. Laserrifles and lazerrifles are spelled like that, and are notably way more powerful against stuff like walls. Laser words aren't used to parry them, but they appear to be more like muskets than rapid fire weapons.
Imperial troops also don't have their white armor yet. The whole setting is more roman themed, with the Jedi being very much praetorians and not guardians of peace. They and the Knights of Sith appear more martial and less philosophical/religious than later.
Annikin Starkiller is much more macho than Luke Skywalker or Anakin. Leia is even more spoiled and initially wants to feed Annikin piece by piece to animals. Annikin takes no lip from women, lol.
General Luke does comment that Jedi aren't supposed to have families, and how discipline is important.
Lastly, alien Han does not try to romance loli Leia. Leia isn't a fighter.
