From: gt7955e@acmex.gatech.edu (Eric Whitley)
Subject: Re: Lucas Quote about Prequels  - Sounds Wierd
Date: 15 Jan 1997 01:02:09 GMT

Jonny Mason (ACA96JMM@shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: In UK paper the Daily Mirror last week, they ran a piece on the Star Wars 
: Prequels.  Lucas was quoted as saying something like (I cannot remember 
: exactly but I know the gist WAS the same):

: "The first movie will feature Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Darth 
: Vader in the desert waiting for something important to happen."

Oh, boy.  This is going to be an exciting movie....

(open onto a desert scene with Ben and Anakin Skywalker)
(Ben, looking bored, hums to himself and sighs a lot.)
ANAKIN:  Obi-Wan.  What are you doing?
BEN: I'm waiting.
ANAKIN: What for?
BEN: I...I...I can't remember.  But I know it'll happen soon.
ANAKIN: Really? Well, can I wait with you?
BEN: Sure, why not?
(Time passes.)
(More time passes.)
ANAKIN: Are you sure something's going to happen?
BEN: Oh, most definitely.  I do get the impression that whatever it was is
going to be dreadfully important and may have repurcussions throughout the
galaxy.  I just wish I could remember what it was.
ANAKIN: Wow. I guess we should wait, then.
BEN: Yes.
(Time passes.)
(Even more time passes.)
BEN: Oh! I remember what it was!
ANAKIN: What was it?!
BEN: (pause) Um...Um... (snaps fingers) Oh yes! Of course! It was...the
credits!
(fade out)
(roll credits)

Exciting, huh?  :)
Just don't tell anyone I got a copy of the script....
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From: tony.laing@iig.com.au (Tony Laing)
Subject: Re: Lucas Quote about Prequels  - Sounds Wierd
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 06:00:43 GMT

SECOND MOVIE:

ANAKIN: I'm bored.
BEN: What's that?! (Pointing off into the desert)
ANAKIN: It's sand, Ben.
BEN: Oh, I thought it had begun.
ANAKIN: Thought WHAT had begun?!
BEN: Dunno.  Can't remember.
ANAKIN: You know, you're really beginning to piss me off!
BEN (calmly): Don't get your panties in a bunch.  Impatience paves the
path to the dark side.
ANAKIN: You sanctimonious old wanker! You're always saying, "This
leads to the dark side and that leads to the dark side".  How come
you're such an expert?  For all I know you're a lying piece of shit!
(dramatic foreshadowing)
BEN (calmly): You're turning to the darkside.  This I have foreseen.
ANAKIN punches BEN in the mouth.
ANAKIN: Then how come you didn't foresee that, smartass?!
BEN (igniting lightsabre): So it begins.....

This is how the legend of Star Wars began - a fight in the desert
between two really bored guys.