Släpvagnen var rusad och godkänd av George Lucas sammanställd om tre dagar (!!!) för att möta behovet av att få något att visa på filmspelare under julafton 1976.
Hyping filmen var viktigare än att vara exakt vid tiden. Heck de speciella effekterna var inte ens färdiga, så saker som att förmedla filmens riktiga ton / anda var inte en prioritet i det ögonblicket. Mer detaljer här på ett inlägg på den officiella Star Wars webbplats relevant utdrag här med djärv betoning som min:
With the production in a mad rush to finish the special effects, Charles Lippincott was busy promoting the movie at conventions and by other means like the novelization and the Marvel comic that was in development. One of the other tools in his shed was the first teaser trailer. Lippincott met with Lucas, Kurtz, assistant optical editor Bruce Green and three ad agency people in November 26, 1976, to talk about the trailer’s storyboard and everything that was needed to make a rough cut. This was finished a mere three days later and talks began about what needed to be changed and what music would be heard in the trailer.
In the next couple of weeks, Bruce Green would travel back and forth between ILM and MFE (Modern Film Effects — the company responsible for the effects of the trailer like the exploding logo) to get the teaser ready. It was fully approved by Lucas in early December and ready for review by Fox. However, tensions were high due to the troublesome production that the movie had up to this point, and the executives were far from pleased with a teaser that featured a couple of unfinished shots and was seen by Lucas and his team as a “spirit of the movie” trailer. Fox even went as far as trying to change the title of the movie, but that never happened because nobody ever gave Lucas acceptable title alternatives. The teaser was finally released in cinemas during the Christmas season, and receptions were a bit of a mixed bag with some people becoming curious for the movie while critics said it would never work.
Och det finns ännu fler detaljer via det här inlägget på hemsida Episod Ingenting: Star Wars på 1970-talet .
Så i slutet av dagen var den slutliga produkten av släpvagnen helt godkänd av George Lucas; vårtor och allt. Varför? Det var tydligare att få ut något där ute för allmänheten under filmperioden 1976, än att oroa sig för saker som ljudspåret är av, speciella effekter finns på plats eller ens om viktiga plottpunkter gjordes med subtilitet eller inte.
Förutom i 1970-talets fördidagsdagar var släpvagnar engångs och inte något folk bryr sig om andra att se i framtiden. När filmen faktiskt skulle släppas skulle bristerna i släpvagnarna aldrig bli granskade av tillfälliga fans eftersom de inte skulle ha tillgång till att se trailersna om och om igen som vi gör nuförtiden.
Den ursprungliga Marvel Comics-filmanpassningen - som skapades långt innan filmen slutfördes - visar inte alls någon indikation på att "För länge sedan i en galax långt, långt borta ..." var någonsin i manuset. Faktum är att den öppna granskningstexten som används i komiken är 100% annorlunda än vad som uppstod på skärmen som omskrivits med hjälp av Brian DePalma; oklart vilket skriptutkast den här versionen av genomsökningen härstammade från. Se bilden nedan:
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STAR WARS
“I have wrought my simple plan. If I give one hour of joy to the boy who’s half a man. Or the man who’s half a boy.” —Arthur Conan Doyle’s preface to “The Lost World”
STAR WARS, a live-action space adventure-fantasy, involves the search for a kidnapped rebel Princess, and a confrontation with the dark forces of an evil space empire.
Through thousands of light-years come to the unusual exploits of hero Luke Skywalker and his friends, flesh-and-blood space pilots and mechanical robots, as they battle numerous villains and creatures in a massive Galactic Civil War. This story has no relationship to Earth time or space. It takes place in other solar systems in another galaxy and could be in the future, the past or the present.
Young Luke Skywalker is accompanied by his robot companions R2-D2 and C-3PO; the tough starpilot Han Solo; the seven-foot, fur-covered Wookie, Chewbacca; and the venerable old warrior, Ben Kenobi.
Three different worlds become settings of the series of colorful adventures and thrills. They travel from the large arid planet of Tatooine to the huge man-made planet destroyer, Death Star, and finally arrive on the dense jungle-covered fourth moon of Yavin.
Director-writer George Lucas has created a majestic visual experience of extraordinary worlds. The Panavision Technicolor motion picture is produced by Gary Kurtz for Twentieth Century-Fox release and was made on locations in Tunisia and at EMI Elstree and Shepperton Studios, London over a 17-week schedule.
Lucas and Kurtz, the successful duo of AMERICAN GRAFFITI, have acquired an outstanding production team, including production designer John Barry of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE fame and director of photography Gil Taylor of Alfred Hitchcock’s FRENCY and Twentieth Century-Fox’s new hit, THE OMEN.