A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

"We've got to figure out a way to get into that detention block."   (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation The Luke Skywalker Initiative Cast Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Han Solo (Perry King) Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard "Bunny" Behrens) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Artoo-Detoo Chewbacca 1st Crewman 2nd Crewman 1st Trooper 2nd Trooper Officer 2nd Officer 3rd Officer Soldier Console Voice Narrator (Ken Hiller) Announcer: Opening credits. Music: Opening theme. Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire. In the Rebellion's most desperate crisis, plans vital to the defeat of the Empire were hidden in the memory banks of the astrodroid Artoo-Detoo. Artoo and his companion droid, See-Threepio, have come into the hands of young farmer Luke Skywalker and the veteran Jedi Knight Ben Kenobi. Having

"This station is now the ultimate power in the Universe..." (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation Death Star's Transit Cast Lord Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin (Keene Curtis) Imperial Star Destroyer Captain Star Destroyer Navigator Imperial Commander 2nd Officer Commander Tagge Admiral Conan Antonio Motti (David Clennon) Imperial Guard Announcer: OPENING CREDITS. Music: Opening theme. Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there came a time of revolution, when Rebels united to challenge a tyrannical Empire. The Princess Leia Organa, an Imperial Senator from the planet Alderaan, is also a leader in the secret councils of the Rebel Alliance. But her most daring mission, to deliver the plans for the Empire's most awesome weapon, the Death Star, has failed. In a last desperate bid to get the information into Rebel hands before being captured, she has placed it into the

(C) 1993 HighBridge Audio and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Before Brian Daley was hired by Lucasfilm's vice president for publications Carol Titleman to write the 13-part radio adaptation of Star Wars, he was an established science fiction who was best known for his Coramonde duology and - more relevantly - a trio of novels about Han Solo set before the events of George Lucas's 1977 space-fantasy film. In fact, Daley was given the gig because Titleman liked the way he had written Star Wars material, especially when it came to depicting everyone's favorite Corellian smuggler before he met Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tatooine. There's no doubt about it. Brian Daley really enjoyed writing the dialogue for Han and Chewbacca in the Radio Drama. Photo credit: (C) 1977 20th Century Fox Film Corporation I mention this because in "The Millennium Falcon Deal," the sixth episode of Star Wars: The Radio Drama, Daley introduc