įoster returned to the franchise for the prequel-era novel The Approaching Storm (2003), and also wrote the novelization of the first sequel trilogy film, The Force Awakens (2015). Foster's story relied heavily on abandoned concepts that appeared in Lucas's early treatments for the first film. However, Star Wars was a blockbusting success, and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) would be developed instead. It would be akin to a contractor demanding to have his name on a Frank Lloyd Wright house." įoster also wrote the follow-up novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978), written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the film was unsuccessful. Not having my name on the cover didn't bother me in the least. When asked if it was difficult for him to see Lucas get all the credit for Star Wars, Foster said, "Not at all.
3.13.1.1 Star Trek: The Animated Seriesįoster was the ghostwriter of the original novelization of Star Wars, which was credited solely to George Lucas.So begins the formidable partnership between the Harvard-educated physician and the street-smart thief-as long as they can elude the enhanced assassins that are tracking them. All Whispr wants to do is sell the thread, and when he offers to split the profits with Ingrid, she makes an astonishing discovery. Powerful forces have been searching for Whispr since he acquired the mysterious thread, and Jiminy has vanished. But the victim is also carrying an unusual silver thread, which Whispr and Jiminy grab as well.Ĭhance later deposits a wounded Whispr at the clinic of Dr. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and his partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to steal his artificial hand. Given his name because radical surgery has reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug.
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