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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 5798053" data-attributes="member: 4348">Well, though uncredited, from what I hear, the book was actually NOT written by George Lucas, though it's Lucas's name on the cover.&nbsp; The book was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster who was also given the go ahead to write a sequel which would be cheap to make (they didn't expect Star Wars to make all that much at the time, but still wanted a sequel).When Star Wars did better then expected, they scrapped ADF's sequel write up in favor of a new one.&nbsp; However, that book also saw print and this time since it wasn't the &quot;official&quot; sequel, he even got credit for it.Another guy that apparantly had a lot to do with the original (from Bullgrit's links) seems to be Kurtz?PS: I should add, that from all I can tell the original screenplay however is ALL Lucas.&nbsp; It was a different character back then, he was someone who I think could take a lot more criticism and see more of his weaknesses than what he became later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 5798053, member: 4348"] Well, though uncredited, from what I hear, the book was actually NOT written by George Lucas, though it's Lucas's name on the cover. The book was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster who was also given the go ahead to write a sequel which would be cheap to make (they didn't expect Star Wars to make all that much at the time, but still wanted a sequel). When Star Wars did better then expected, they scrapped ADF's sequel write up in favor of a new one. However, that book also saw print and this time since it wasn't the "official" sequel, he even got credit for it. Another guy that apparantly had a lot to do with the original (from Bullgrit's links) seems to be Kurtz? PS: I should add, that from all I can tell the original screenplay however is ALL Lucas. It was a different character back then, he was someone who I think could take a lot more criticism and see more of his weaknesses than what he became later. [/QUOTE]

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