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YODA WAS BLUE? WHO DID LANDO CON? DISCOVER ALL THE VARIATIONS BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY AND ITS BOOK AND COMIC COUNTERPARTS.

Adaptations play a big part in Star Wars history. They didn’t just retell the stories of the films. They featured deleted scenes. Named background characters. Had new dialogue. This article series explores some of these novelizations and comic adaptations, and how they deepened Star Wars.

A New Hope

Novel – Alan Dean Foster

Released six months before the movie arrived in cinemas, there are many interesting things to note from this novel. But the most is probably the opening prologue, which basically tells us the entire story of the prequel trilogy way before those movies were even made. In hindsight, this prologue is very accurate to those movies, showing that George Lucas always did have the general ideas in place. While this prologue is also the first, and for a long time the only, mention of the Whills within the Star Wars universe, they recently were mentioned again in the prologue of The Force Awakens novelization which was a clear homage, due to both being written by the same author.

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