Episode 24: Star Wars — The Original Trilogy

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this first of three episodes on the Star Wars Saga, the LFTS team discusses the amazing storytelling found in the original films, how the filmmaking evolved with each new entry, and why the force is so strong with these movies.

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LFTS video on Rogue One vs. The Force Awakens: https://youtu.be/gsIQa7sH5_Y

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.0	Today we are talking about the original trilogy of Star Wars.
0:13.0	So the three original films, A New Hope, released in 1977, written and directed by George Lucas.
0:18.0	The Empire Strikes Back, screenplay by Lee Brackett and Lawrence Kasden.
0:22.8	And Story by George Lucas, directed by Irvin Kushner.
0:25.5	And, of course, Episode 6, Return on the Jedi, released in 1983.
0:29.6	Screenplay by Lawrence Kasden and George Lucas.
0:32.0	He came back to writing there.
0:33.2	We'll talk about that.
0:34.4	Story by George Lucas, directed by Richard Mark Wan.
0:38.2	I'm joined by the Lessons from the Screenplay Team, writer Trisha Arand.
0:41.5	Hello, everyone.
0:42.5	Writer Brian Bittner.
0:43.5	Hello there.
0:44.1	And editor Alex Cayetos.
0:45.6	Hi.
0:46.3	So this is going to be the first in a trilogy of episodes that we're doing on Star Wars
0:51.2	leading up to the release of episode nine.
0:53.3	So this first episode is going to be about the original trilogy.
0:56.2	And then we're going to talk about the prequels.
0:58.3	And then we're going to talk about the new trilogy.
1:00.8	So yeah.
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