Leigh Brackett’s Star Wars Sequel

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Film Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Caitlin and Charlotte discuss Leigh Brackett, the first writer of the sequel to 1977’s Star Wars. Known as “The Queen of Space Opera,” Leigh Brackett worked with George Lucas to write a Star Wars sequel before it was called The Empire Strikes Back. Sadly, Brackett tragically died of cancer before completing the project and Lawrence Kasden was brought on — but several of her ideas and concepts made it to the screen. Caitlin and Charlotte discuss Brackett’s life, her involvement with Star Wars, her 2nd draft, what they liked about it and what they didn’t, and so much more. Leigh Bracket’s ESB Draft: https://starwarz.com/tbone/wp-content/uploads/Star-Wars-Sequel-Brackett.pdf Gizmodo Article: https://gizmodo.com/they-mocked-her-science-fantasy-then-she-wrote-empir-489586578 Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more!: https://www.patreon.com/skytalkers http://skytalkers.com http://www.twitter.com/skytalkerspod https://www.tiktok.com/@skytalkers http://facebook.com/skytalkerspod https://www.instagram.com/skytalkerspodcast http://www.twitter.com/crerrity http://www.twitter.com/caitlinplesher hello@skytalkers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know that there was a time when the sequel to 1977 Star Wars was going to be written by a woman, the Queen of Space Opera herself, Lee Brackett?
0:11.5	On this episode, we dive into how this came about, her Star Wars sequel draft, The Differences, and What We Think. Welcome to Sky Talkers.
0:30.5	Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:34.7	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers.
0:36.5	I'm your host Charlotte.
0:37.5	Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to you this Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte. Hey, everyone.
0:37.9	I'm your other host, Caitlin, and welcome to this episode where we're talking all about
0:41.6	Lee Brackett's Star Wars sequel, which I'm very excited to talk about.
0:45.5	I feel like this episode has been a long time coming, and we actually just talked about
0:49.0	doing this episode on our anniversary.
0:52.0	Yes.
0:53.4	And here we are doing it.
0:56.5	Rarely do we immediately follow up.
0:58.6	So it's very nice.
1:01.8	And I'm really excited because like you said, it has been a long time coming.
1:04.8	I can't say that without thinking of Taylor Swift anymore, honestly.
1:08.1	But anyway, the lee bracket of it all, I think, is something that we've
1:12.5	referenced a lot on the podcast as like, oh, isn't that so crazy? And then we never really
1:19.5	dove in. So here's our episode diving in. And I'm really excited what we found reading the script
1:24.8	or her second draft. It's the only thing that has been released
1:28.0	is her second draft of the Star Wars sequel. It wasn't yet called Empire Strikes Back.
1:33.3	That was Lawrence Kasden and George Lucas, I think, who came up with that. So Star Wars sequel,
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