The Whills Newsletter
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| Title: | The Whills Newsletter |
| Publisher: | Empire Productions |
| Editor(s): | Eric Larson |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1983 |
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| Medium: | |
| Fandom: | Star Wars |
| Language: | English |
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The Whills Newsletter is a Star Wars newsletter. It was a sister zine to The Whills, published two years earlier.
There were perhaps just two issues.
Issue 1
The Whills Newsletter 1 January 1983 and contains 2 pages.
Issue 2
The Whills Newsletter 2 October 1983 and contains 2 pages.
An excerpt from the interview:
Q-How have the three completed "Star Wars films varied from your original story ideas a decade ago? Any characters left out?
A-The original treatment was much more amorphous. Characters were created and sort of evolved into other characters. Originally Luke had a brother, but the brother evolved into Han, Ben(Obi-Wan) and Luke's father originally were the same person, the whole story happened to one guy, but then he got split in half into a good father-bad father relationship. With Yoda, the concept of a Jedi master who would teach Luke was always there. At one point that was Ben. And in one of the original screenplays of "Star Wars," Ben didn't die. He just sort of hung around for the last part of the movie, so that he would fulfill Yoda's role in the next movie. But dramatically the first script didn't work with Ben hanging around with his hands in his pockets. So we put him into the spirit world instead which was going to happen in the second picture anyway. We just did it sooner.
[...]
For awhile [Yoda's] full name was Minchyoda, but we shortened it. You want these names to have certain influences, but you don't want them to remind people of a specific ethnic group. You don't want people to say that he's German or Japanese.
- Closeup (partial reprinted transcript of an interview with George Lucas, conducted by Gene Siskel for the Chicago Tribune on May 15, 1982)
- short blurb about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom