Episode DCXXVI: George Lucas's Original Ideas
Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews
Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker
4.3 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Young and Holly Frey talked about how George Lucas's original ideas spawn so much of modern Star Wars, up to and including the new show, "Maul: Shadow Lord." They talk about how no idea in the history of Lucasfilm seems to go unused and how far back that philosophy has reached.
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| 0:00.0 | The original concept really related to a father and a son and twins, I mean a son and a daughter. |
| 0:06.0 | And it was that relationship that was the core of the story. |
| 0:13.0 | And it went through a lot of mechanations before I even got to the first draft screenplay. |
| 0:25.3 | And, you know, various characters changed shapes and sizes. |
| 0:35.5 | It isn't really until it evolved into what is close to Star Wars now is that then I begin to go back and deal with the stories that |
| 0:40.9 | evolved to get us to that point and that you know it's hard to say really where the you know how it |
| 0:49.5 | evolves into a into a piece because it you know you evolve with various scenes and various moments. |
| 0:57.0 | And when you're creating something like that, it, the story itself takes over and the characters |
| 1:03.2 | take over and they begin to tell the story apart from what you're doing, you know, and |
| 1:07.8 | you kind of go with it, and you have to go with it and send you down some very funny paths. Then you have to figure out how to break that apart and put |
| 1:14.0 | the puzzle back together so it makes sense and it's cohesive. But that's the adventure |
| 1:18.4 | of writing, is the fact that you're not sure where it's going to go. And I think it took |
| 1:23.6 | a while, I mean I worked on Star Wars for a couple of years before it evolved into what it is. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, BAM! |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, BAND! Welcome to the Padawants to episode 626 of Full of Sith. |
| 1:57.3 | It's me, your host, Brian Young, and with me, as ever, the redoubtable Holly Frye. |
| 2:02.9 | Hello-ha. |
| 2:04.0 | Holly, how you doing? |
| 2:05.8 | You know, I'm okay. I know it's been a nutty and not delightful week for you, so I'm not |
| 2:12.1 | complaining about Jack. Yeah, no, it's been, it's been an interesting week. I'm, uh, I'm alive. |
| 2:19.9 | And that's, uh, that's, that's as far as that'll go. |
| 2:24.8 | Those are all the details you need to share. |
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