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* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** [[Word of God]] stated that Obi Wan Kenobi was originally written for [[Toshiro Mifune]], veteran of [[Akira Kurosawa]] classics like ''[[Yojimbo]]'' and ''[[The Seven Samurai]]''; this was a reverent way to directly pay tribute to the Samurai films that ''[[Star Wars]]'' was adapted from.
** Many things were considered over the years, considering the vastness of the franchise. A major thing to consider is that [[George Lucas]] originally wanted to serve as a mere supervisor as ''nine'' films were made under different directors, and looking forward to seeing how the franchise evolved with different people [[Running the Asylum]]. As things continued on (possibly due to a [[The Star Wars Holiday Special|disasterous incident]] of "leaving it in someone elses hand"), he took more direct control of [[The Verse]]. The more recent ''Star Wars'' television productions seem to be him trying to salvage what was left of that original intent.
** In the Leigh Brackett first draft script of ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Vader and Anakin were two separate people; Anakin showed up to Luke as a kindly Force Ghost. Also, Luke's twin sister was not Leia but someone else, a girl called Nellith who was mentioned but never seen, in an obvious [[Sequel Hook]].
** The basic story of the original trilogy was intended as a single movie, beginning with the hero's journey to become a Jedi and ending with the defeat of the Empire with the destruction of the Death Star. Realizing how immense that project would be, Lucas opted to not tell the defeat of the Empire in a single movie but keep the destruction of the Death Star (which is why the Death Star II came into play as well as another forest planet being involved). Lucas also coalesced the backstory notes into what became the foundation for the prequel trilogy, deciding that an entire trilogy happened before the original films. In each trilogy, the story grew far beyond the original intention.
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