Fantastic YouTube channel! I love his explanation of why the Golden Age of Disney produced so many classic hits (spoiler: they hired a musical theater expert).
They did have it. Michael Arndt, who I know from personal experience is a Star Wars savant at like a scientific level, had his script and outlines scrapped. JJ and Kennedy redid the whole thing after Disney got cold feet. So TFA script itself was a rush rewrite after Arndt had been writing for 1-2 years.
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Fantastic YouTube channel! I love his explanation of why the Golden Age of Disney produced so many classic hits (spoiler: they hired a musical theater expert).
They did have it. Michael Arndt, who I know from personal experience is a Star Wars savant at like a scientific level, had his script and outlines scrapped. JJ and Kennedy redid the whole thing after Disney got cold feet. So TFA script itself was a rush rewrite after Arndt had been writing for 1-2 years.
EDIT: best I could find for any public document of this which is a summary of the art book - https://www.scribd.com/document/312786415/Star-Wars-Episode-VII-The-Force-Awakens-Early-Script-Details
Could the music have been intentionally vague to give hope to the audience?