I remember reading about the first draft of the ESB screenplay in the Star Wars The Annotated Screenplays book. Really good book and as I recall, GL didn't tell Leigh Brackett about the Anakin/Luke connection.
In the TESB draft...
-We get Han Solo's backstory. Raised by Wookiees, Han flunked out of the space academy and met an Ernest Hemingingway to the stars. They had a falling out and in the script, the Rebels want Han to find him because he controls all the non-military shipping in the galaxy.
-As stated, Anakin and Vader are two different people. Anakin's ghost appears to Luke on Dagobah and Luke swears the oath of the Jedi before him.
-Lando is a clone who race was wiped out during The Clone Wars. This is why Leia doesn't trust him. Lando states that he gets lonely when he doesn't see people who look exactly like him.
-Han escapes and drops everyone off at a fariyland-type planet and goes off after his "father."
I don't see how it would have worked without the Vader revelation or with Han being left frozen in carbonite but it's definitely a very fun script that I would love to read in detail. Let me know if you're going to write any fanfic off it, lp. :)
EDIT:
Well, reading over that, it looks like it was already stated in the link. My bad. Definitely agree that audiences would have thought Luke was gay for not going after Leia. I recall people thinking the same way when Peter Parker turned down Mary Jane at the end of the first Spider-Man movie.
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Date: 2010-05-18 11:43 pm (UTC)In the TESB draft...
-We get Han Solo's backstory. Raised by Wookiees, Han flunked out of the space academy and met an Ernest Hemingingway to the stars. They had a falling out and in the script, the Rebels want Han to find him because he controls all the non-military shipping in the galaxy.
-As stated, Anakin and Vader are two different people. Anakin's ghost appears to Luke on Dagobah and Luke swears the oath of the Jedi before him.
-Lando is a clone who race was wiped out during The Clone Wars. This is why Leia doesn't trust him. Lando states that he gets lonely when he doesn't see people who look exactly like him.
-Han escapes and drops everyone off at a fariyland-type planet and goes off after his "father."
I don't see how it would have worked without the Vader revelation or with Han being left frozen in carbonite but it's definitely a very fun script that I would love to read in detail. Let me know if you're going to write any fanfic off it, lp. :)
EDIT:
Well, reading over that, it looks like it was already stated in the link. My bad. Definitely agree that audiences would have thought Luke was gay for not going after Leia. I recall people thinking the same way when Peter Parker turned down Mary Jane at the end of the first Spider-Man movie.