I kinda like this alternate history

[james_davis_nicoll]

Something I posted elsewhere:

POD: 1970s: A healthy Leigh Brackett pitches an interesting twist to George Lucas.


1980: Audiences are somewhat taken aback when, during the confrontation scene between Vader and Luke, Vader takes Luke's head off like an offending dandelion flower. Now the fate of the Rebel Alliance, rescuing Han and all that jazz rests on the shoulders of the last Jedi, Leia.

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[botrytis.livejournal.com]

"From what is known of the third trilogy as planned in the late '70s, the plot would've focused on finding the alternate after Luke failed against Vader."

Where would one begin if I wanted to read more about what was planned?

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

There's Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau, but being officially licensed by LucasFilm it has some heavy limitations on what it can say. Then there's The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminsky, which extensively documents both the development of the series and Lucas's BS about having it all planned from the get-go.