Of course, that would have been a pretty grim way to end a trilogy of movies primarily aimed at children, and Lucas quickly abandoned the idea. “That’s what I think should happen,” Kasdan agreed during the story session. ‘Now I will go and kill the fleet and I will rule the universe.'” The scene in question would play out much as it did in the film: after defeating the Emperor, Luke takes Vader’s helmet off, but instead of sharing a loving moment with his father, he would instead put on Vader’s mask and declare himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith: “Luke puts it on and says, ‘Now I am Vader.’ Surprise! The ultimate twist. It’s here that we learn that Lucas and Kasdan once envisioned a much darker ending to the trilogy, one that would have completely altered the future of Star Wars.Īs revealed by Rinzler ( via Gizmodo), it was Lucas who suggested that Luke should give in to the dark side as the film’s status-quo-shattering finale twist. Rinzler shed further light on Lucas’ creative process in The Making of Return of the Jedi, digging through transcripts from story meetings between the Maker and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan. Meanwhile, Kurtz claimed that Lucas considered killing off Han in the movie, concluding with a final confrontation between Luke and Darth Vader sans Emperor. According to former Lucasfilm fan relations officer Craig Miller, Boba Fett was initially set up as the big bad of the film, which would have largely focused on Luke and Leia rescuing Han from the bounty hunter. In fact, there was a lot in flux about Revenge of the Jedi itself, as Lucas cut and reshuffled his outline and shaped a trilogy closer that would tie up all remaining plot threads. But if the Maker truly did originally plan 12 and then nine movies to tell the complete story, he’d clearly run out of gas by 1983. Lucas is something of an unreliable narrator himself when it comes to what’s true and what’s myth about the early behind-the-scenes history of Star Wars - the story changes depending on which interview you’re reading. He pushed up the final battle with the Dark Lord of the Sith to Episode VI, the initially titled Revenge of the Jedi, which would also reveal that Leia had been Luke’s long-lost sister all along (despite their famous smooch in The Empire Strikes Back). Then, in the early ’80s, Lucas decided to cut down the story further. But then he cut that outline down to nine films, with Luke’s sister (not originally Leia) joining the fray around Episode VIII, just in time for the final battle in Episode IX, according to Gary Kurtz, who produced the first two Star Wars films. As the story goes, George Lucas at one point planned to make a Skywalker family epic consisting of 12 movies across four trilogies, with Episode XII serving as the true grand finale of the saga where our heroes would finally face the dreaded Emperor.
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