Monday, April 1, 2013

Dark Horse to adapt original 'The Star Wars' script into comic series

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Disney's Star Wars films won't begin hitting theaters until 2015, but we'll get to see a new, George Lucas-written Star Wars saga even earlier than that. Dark Horse Comics is releasing an eight-issue series based on the original 1974 screenplay for Star Wars. The comic should be a much different adventure than the beloved A New Hope however, as the original The Star Wars treatment that Lucas wrote had quite a few differences: Han Solo was an alien, lightsabers were "lazer swords," and Anakin Skywalker was named "Annikin Starkiller." The comics will begin to debut this September.



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