First of all, I want to start out by saying how disappointed I am with myself and with moviegoers that I have been unable to go out and see Star Wars: The Force Awakens yet. Seriously, I have looked everywhere in my city's theaters, and these tickets for Star Wars are sold out for weeks! But I will eventually see it.

Now, on to the point I want to actually talk about. I did some surfing on the world wide web, and I have come across the original, rough draft for George Lucas' original Star Wars, and I have to say, it's very interesting.

The Jedi are called Jedi Bendu now, for starters. But they are a now endangered breed of bodyguards to the emperor of the Old Empire, and they were hunted by the Knights of the Sith, who created a New Empire.

Now, a lone Jedi Bendu, who had been living under a rock on the Fourth Moon of Utapau with his sons Deak and Annikin, finds himself hunted by a Sith Knight, who kills his son Deak. The Jedi Bendu, Kane Starkiller, takes his son Annikin to Aquilae, one of the last Independent planets left outside the New Empire. At the same time, the Emperor plots to annex Aquilae, but spies learn what he's up to and send word to Aquilae.

Meanwhile, The Starkillers reach Aquilae and run into Luke Skywalker, a grizzled old veteran Jedi Bendu who agrees to teach Annikin the ways of the Jedi Bendu. As this is going on, Aquilae's princess Leia goes off to college at Yuell, and the spy arrives to tell everyone what the Emperor wants to do. Kane Starkiller doesn't hear about this, though, because he is off meeting his Ureallian friend Han Solo.

The link to the rest of the story is right here.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TheStarWars:RoughDraft

It's really an interesting piece, and it bears a lot of similarities to The Phantom Menace. Anyone else have any thoughts?

~ Dark Brother 16