Star Wars the novel (before it was a movie)

[Sigma-LS]

Picked this up for $0.50 at a book store over the Thanksgiving weekend. I was ho humming through the old Star Trek paperbacks and found this guy mixed in. I just had to chuckle at the old "Soon to be a spectacular motion picture" on the back.:lol

I'm digging the old concept Vader.

 

[hankey01]

I have the same one (got as a kid at a flea market).

 

[joker-scar]

Picked this up for $0.50 at a book store over the Thanksgiving weekend. I was ho humming through the old Star Trek paperbacks and found this guy mixed in. I just had to chuckle at the old "Soon to be a spectacular motion picture" on the back.:lol

I'm digging the old concept Vader.

it's a great piece for the Star Wars for the SW collection, too bads its in crap condition.

 

[micdavis]

"A Novel" is being generous.

A "novelization" at best. Ghost written by Alan Dean Foster, if rumors are accurate.

But cool find.

 

[dcarty]

"A Novel" is being generous.

A "novelization" at best. Ghost written by Alan Dean Foster, if rumors are accurate.

But cool find.

You are correct! IIRC later printings actually credit both Foster and Lucas.

 

[phase pistol]

Be sure to note all the minute differences!

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel) - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki

 

[division 6]

Last time i saw a copy it was $40 in a shop in Berkeley about 15 years ago.
I have a copy of Buckaroo Banzai that usually runs $40 to $60 at the Cons.

 

[ob1al]

Wow, I haven't seen that in years. I had a copy myself as a young lad.

I also seem to remember the graphic novel (or comic book as they were called back then) version which featured a few extra scenes, too.

 

[Clutch]

Gonna have to dig my copy out now.

 

[wooten]

"A Novel" is being generous.

A "novelization" at best. Ghost written by Alan Dean Foster, if rumors are accurate.

But cool find.

exactly.

SW was never just a book. It was always intended to be a movie. This novel is simply a novelization of the script.

It's definitely a neat item...it's just that people always think SW was based on this early novelization the way other movies are based on books like Jaws or whatever and that really isn't the case.


-John

 

[darth_myeek]

Sweet find.

I cherish my copy.

 

[TheRealFennShysa]

SW was never just a book. It was always intended to be a movie. This novel is simply a novelization of the script.

It's definitely a neat item...it's just that people always think SW was based on this early novelization the way other movies are based on books like Jaws or whatever and that really isn't the case.

Exactly - I remember back in 7th grade, right after Empire came out in theaters, some yutz in our class claimed he had a copy of (out-of-print, of course) Journal of the Whills... never could produce the thing for us, obviously...

 

[DarkHelmet]

I still have my copy too.

I love the McQuarrie Vader.

 

[n0regret5]

that is a cool vader. would be neat to see the helmet done up.

 

[micdavis]

It funny when I first saw the book. I thought the Vader head was a spaceship that the four characters in the image were exiting.

 

[CTF]

that is a cool vader. would be neat to see the helmet done up.

Obviously, you're very new to the RPF!

 

[DarkHelmet]

that is a cool vader. would be neat to see the helmet done up.

Fan Made McQuarrie Concept Darth Vader

Check out the Ballantine Book version in the middle of the page.

It's exactly what the ROTS Vader should have looked like. It doesn't look as waspy as the others.

 

[OldKen]

Fan Made McQuarrie Concept Darth Vader

Check out the Ballantine Book version in the middle of the page.

It's exactly what the ROTS Vader should have looked like. .

I don't know if truer words have EVER been spoken? thumbsup

 

[Clutch]

I thought Luke's landspeeder had a wheel-shape sticking out the front of it based on the pic in the book. Turns out, it was one of the engines. :lol There's also a pic of Vader everywhere where it looks like he has a huge chin if you look at it a certain way. I got the hardcover, but it was later on, so a different pic on the cover.

 

[Sigma-LS]

It funny when I first saw the book. I thought the Vader head was a spaceship that the four characters in the image were exiting.

I will never look at the end of Spaceballs quite the same.

Thanks for the extra info guys. I had seen the KropSerkle's Vader before but never the one from the book. What brilliant execution.

Much agreed that it would have been a wonderful re-imagining and a cool homage in the prequels. But hell, just tossing in a few Victory Star Destroyers, Z-95 Headhunters, Y-wings, or Dreadnoughts would have greatly improved my opinion of RotS