Copy of original Star Wars: New Hope script found with major differences

The archives of the University of New Brunswick's library hid a treasure that had been gathering dust for nearly forty years, a copy of the original script for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The school's librarian, Kristian Brown found the script while digitizing the university's collection of pulp magazines and novels.

"I was just looking actually for something else entirely and then I just found this unique looking item," Brown said. "No matter how many new things are made, it all basically came from this first thing. And it's just good to look back at the origins of the entire thing and not forget, you know, what came first."

Finding it is one thing, but what about the differences? They are pretty huge — this script is dated at 1976, a year before its official release.

Luke Skywalker's name was originally written as Luke Starkiller.

The script is titled Star Wars: Saga I, later it was changed to Star Wars Episode IV:  A New Hope — a title we are much more familiar with.

The script contains a number of scenes that were cut and a number of scenes that played out differently than they turned out to. Specifically, before the 1997 special edition altered a scene where Han Solo shot a bounty hunter out of "self-defence." Han was meant to be the one shooting first, not the one acting in self-defence.

[CBC]

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