Good stuff. As I understood it, it allowed George Lucas to basically rip the entire plot for his famous Star Wars franchise. At least the original 3 films
Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress," then read the original rough draft of "Star Wars" (should be online somewhere, I read it years ago). Lucas changed the story quite a lot by the final draft, but the rough draft is so close that he would have had to pay Kurosawa royalties.
Little known fact: when Lucas wrote the second draft, he wrote Princess Leia out of the movie. Realizing that he now had no female characters, he changed Luke to a girl. There is concept art of Girl Luke by Ralph McQuarrie in "The Making of Star Wars." That lasted for about 2 weeks, after which Lucas wrote Leia back in.
Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese film director.
Good stuff. As I understood it, it allowed George Lucas to basically rip the entire plot for his famous Star Wars franchise. At least the original 3 films
Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress," then read the original rough draft of "Star Wars" (should be online somewhere, I read it years ago). Lucas changed the story quite a lot by the final draft, but the rough draft is so close that he would have had to pay Kurosawa royalties.
Little known fact: when Lucas wrote the second draft, he wrote Princess Leia out of the movie. Realizing that he now had no female characters, he changed Luke to a girl. There is concept art of Girl Luke by Ralph McQuarrie in "The Making of Star Wars." That lasted for about 2 weeks, after which Lucas wrote Leia back in.
Interesting. I’ll check that out. Thanks