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Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays: Star Wars—A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi

Laurent Bouzereau (annotations and introduction)

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Summary

Bouzereau traces the development of the original Star Wars trilogy’s screenplays. The volume uses interviews with George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Irvin Kershner and others to explain how the stories changed. Bouzereau supplies the annotations and introduction.

  • SourceThe Annotated Screenplays — scanned edition record and description · Opening description: history of three screenplays from interviews with Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Irvin Kershner and others; contents start at pages 1,121,229; ISBN 0345409817, Ballantine 1997.
  • SourceOriginal library MARC record — annotated · Byte range 88130354–88131202; cached annotated-original.mrc and annotated-original-marc.txt; 245 full title and responsibility: annotated and introduced by Laurent Bouzereau; 250 first edition; 260 Ballantine c1997; 300 x,320 pages; 020 ISBN 0345409817.

Why read it Our view

Use the script-development account to study revision and creative collaboration. Compare the finished story with the explanations of how it took shape.

Written about

  • George LucasFilm-creator interview subject
    Lucas is interviewed in the history of the three screenplays. Bouzereau provides the annotations and introduction. This link does not assert that Lucas wrote every screenplay or the whole book.
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