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sayares13:
penrosesun:
lethalbutterfly:
marsixm:
lunargrim:
tilthat:
TIL George Lucas originally planned to make a sci-fi film called “Space Pirates 9000” but William Friedkin urged him to change the name to “Star Wars”
via reddit.com
The more I find out about the original trilogy, the more I see its success depended entirely on the people around George Lucas telling him No.
fuck yall space pirates 9000 is a way better title
@sayares13, @penrosesun, hit us with the broom cupboard theory, you guys tell it better than me.
Ok, ok – here’s what probably definitely happened:
The true genius behind these films was some random uncredited intern who figured out how to siphon pure creative energy off of screenwriters and use it to fuel production. During the writing, filming, and editing of Star Wars, the folks at 20th Century Fox simply locked George Lucas in a nearby broom closet, and used the creative energy that they extracted from him to power the creation of the movie.
Occasionally, Lucas would break out of the broom closet and shout something incoherent like “Ewoks… I want Ewoks everywhere…!” and then they’d all go “well, shit, how did George Lucas get out of the broom closet?! I guess now we have to put that in the film too– someone lock him up again before he says anything else that stupid.”
Just a quick addendum, I cannot find any independent verification for the “Space Pirates 9000” trivia. The OP on Reddit just linked the Wikipedia article for Star Wars which didn’t even include that information at the time. The earliest verified title that I can find is “Journal of the Whills, Part I” which was a two-page outline George Lucas wrote in 1973 that would eventually become Star Wars.
Tl;dr this was a good excuse to tell our funny broom closet theory but the trivia from the OP is probably not true, as amusing a name as “Space Pirates 9000” is.
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sayares13:
penrosesun:
lethalbutterfly:
marsixm:
lunargrim:
tilthat:
TIL George Lucas originally planned to make a sci-fi film called “Space Pirates 9000” but William Friedkin urged him to change the name to “Star Wars”
via reddit.com
The more I find out about the original trilogy, the more I see its success depended entirely on the people around George Lucas telling him No.
fuck yall space pirates 9000 is a way better title
@sayares13, @penrosesun, hit us with the broom cupboard theory, you guys tell it better than me.
Ok, ok – here’s what probably definitely happened:
The true genius behind these films was some random uncredited intern who figured out how to siphon pure creative energy off of screenwriters and use it to fuel production. During the writing, filming, and editing of Star Wars, the folks at 20th Century Fox simply locked George Lucas in a nearby broom closet, and used the creative energy that they extracted from him to power the creation of the movie.
Occasionally, Lucas would break out of the broom closet and shout something incoherent like “Ewoks… I want Ewoks everywhere…!” and then they’d all go “well, shit, how did George Lucas get out of the broom closet?! I guess now we have to put that in the film too– someone lock him up again before he says anything else that stupid.”
Just a quick addendum, I cannot find any independent verification for the “Space Pirates 9000” trivia. The OP on Reddit just linked the Wikipedia article for Star Wars which didn’t even include that information at the time. The earliest verified title that I can find is “Journal of the Whills, Part I” which was a two-page outline George Lucas wrote in 1973 that would eventually become Star Wars.
Tl;dr this was a good excuse to tell our funny broom closet theory but the trivia from the OP is probably not true, as amusing a name as “Space Pirates 9000” is.
(Your picture was not posted)
