I saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977. The older sister of my best friend took the two of us, as we were too young to see it alone. For years the only thing I remembered about the movie was the guy getting his arm sliced off in the bar scene. I didn't see the other two movies in the original trilogy in the theater until the reissue a few years back.(I did see them on tape)
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I was dissapointed by the arm getting chopped off. In the novel the guy gets split in half, from head to toe.
Did anybody else read "Splinter of the Mind's Eye?"
Alan Dean Foster. I probably still have the copy around somewhere. I enjoyed that book quite a lot. Lucasfilm hadn't yet become so adept at feeding the fan hunger, so I was so pleased to find it at the time.
Alan Dean Foster? Seriously? That man has made a living off adaptations.
I saw Star Wars as a reward for teaching a summer school ESL class for one of my advisors in high school. 3 months of work seemed like an ample trade off.
At the risk of ubercheese, it literally changed my life.
Alan Dean Foster was the ghostwriter of the original Star Wars novelization.
Oh, he also did the books of the Star Trek animated series. I knew I had read something by him besides the Star Wars novel....
And the ALIEN novelization. It was definitely a gig for him.