Got this from SCARRED 2112 at the Mike Portnoy forum:
I found this snippet of script on another board I surf from time to time. Apparently George Lucus wasn't 100% pleased with the 1997 re-releases of the original trilogy, and is working on adding yet more reworked and previously unknown scenes. Here is the centerpeice of the new version - an expansion of the "Cloud City" scene in which Vader reveals his secret to Luke:
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The Empire Strikes Back: Extra-Special Edition
INT: CLOUD CITY GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER:
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing
LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry.
A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning
off into the ventilation shaft.
Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to
go but straight down.
Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No... I am your father!
Luke: No, it's not true! It's impossible.
Darth Vader: Search your feelings... you know it to be true...
Luke: NO!
Darth Vader: Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?
Luke: Threepio?
Darth Vader: Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was 7 years old...
Luke: No...
Darth Vader: Seven years old? And what have you done? Look at
yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp...
Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
Luke: Well, it's not my fault...
Darth Vader: Oh, here we go... "Poor me... my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday... boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark
Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh!"
Luke: Shut up...
Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was you're age, I
had exterminated the Jedi knights!
Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon
Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor... 10 years old,
winner of the Boonta Eve Open... Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer... right here baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.
Darth Vader: I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know
whose you are, but you sure ain't mine...
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Vader looks after him.
Darth Vader: Get a haircut!
(Thanks to "Jono" on the Jemsite Forum for bring this into the open. I bet I had you at the beginning, didn't I? )
I found this snippet of script on another board I surf from time to time. Apparently George Lucus wasn't 100% pleased with the 1997 re-releases of the original trilogy, and is working on adding yet more reworked and previously unknown scenes. Here is the centerpeice of the new version - an expansion of the "Cloud City" scene in which Vader reveals his secret to Luke:
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The Empire Strikes Back: Extra-Special Edition
INT: CLOUD CITY GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER:
A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing
LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry.
A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke's hand! It goes spinning
off into the ventilation shaft.
Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there's nowhere to
go but straight down.
Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No... I am your father!
Luke: No, it's not true! It's impossible.
Darth Vader: Search your feelings... you know it to be true...
Luke: NO!
Darth Vader: Yes, it is true... and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?
Luke: Threepio?
Darth Vader: Yes... Threepio... I built him... when I was 7 years old...
Luke: No...
Darth Vader: Seven years old? And what have you done? Look at
yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn't even levitate your own ship out of the swamp...
Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
Luke: Well, it's not my fault...
Darth Vader: Oh, here we go... "Poor me... my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday... boo hoo, my daddy's the Dark
Lord of the Sith...waahhh wahhh!"
Luke: Shut up...
Darth Vader: You're a slacker! By the time I was you're age, I
had exterminated the Jedi knights!
Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar's Canyon
Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor... 10 years old,
winner of the Boonta Eve Open... Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer... right here baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.
Darth Vader: I was wrong... You're not my kid... I don't know
whose you are, but you sure ain't mine...
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.
Vader looks after him.
Darth Vader: Get a haircut!
(Thanks to "Jono" on the Jemsite Forum for bring this into the open. I bet I had you at the beginning, didn't I? )
