{"id":153,"date":"2008-10-30T06:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T06:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/?p=153"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:23:48","slug":"star-wars-episode-iii-fall-of-the-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/archives\/153","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Episode III: Fall of the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>treatment by John L. Flynn<\/strong><br \/>\nThis goes back to the mid-eighties. There were so many misunderstandings about this treatment that Usenet&#8217;s Star Wars newsgroup even had a <a href=\"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/archives\/153#more-153\">FAQ<\/a> to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/scripts\/starwarsfotr_flynn9-83.txt\">Download treatment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>&#8220;Fall of the Republic mini-FAQ&#8221; version 1.2, March 1995. <\/strong><br \/>\nby David Hines, dzhines@midway.uchicago.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions answered in this FAQ:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Hey, everybody! I&#8217;ve got this thing called &#8220;Fall of the Republic -&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Why are you guys screaming like that?&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;What&#8217;s a FAQ, and why does FotR need one?&#8221;<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Okay, so what&#8217;s the deal with FotR?&#8221;<br \/>\n5. &#8220;What do you mean, it&#8217;s not real?&#8221;<br \/>\n6. &#8220;Yeah, what&#8217;s this about the third episode? Wasn&#8217;t that Return of the Jedi?&#8221;<br \/>\n7. &#8220;Okay. FotR is a fake, but where did it come from?&#8221;8. &#8220;Who is this John L. Flynn guy?&#8221;9. &#8220;Where is FotR available on the Internet?&#8221;<br \/>\n10. &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;ve got FotR. How do I convert it into something I can read?&#8221;<br \/>\n11. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have ftp access. What do I do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. &#8220;Hey, everybody! I&#8217;ve got this thing called &#8220;Fall of the Republic -&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. &#8220;Why are you guys screaming like that?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, you see, some topics get rehashed quite a bit on thisnewsgroup. That&#8217;s understandable, since more people come on tousenet every day. Even if, as is recommended, you lurk in a newnewsgroup [lurk: read without posting] for a whole week beforeyou make your first post, you&#8217;ll miss some of the discussion that&#8217;s gone before.<\/p>\n<p>Some topics get endlessly rehashed. Topics like bloopers andMark Hamill&#8217;s car accident have been brought up over and over, untilmost people are heartily sick of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fall of the Republic&#8221; [hereafter FotR] is one of those topics. People keep bringing it up when they join the newsgroup. Recently, there has been a huge surge of folks pointing out the existence of FotR. Asa result, this mini-FAQ was composed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. &#8220;What&#8217;s a FAQ, and why does FotR need one?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. It gives thequestions and their answers.<\/p>\n<p>FotR needs a FAQ because so many people have questions about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. &#8220;Okay, so what&#8217;s the deal with FotR?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not real.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. &#8220;What do you mean, it&#8217;s not real?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, it is real, if by &#8220;real&#8221; you mean that it really exists,and has been written by somebody. \tHowever, FotR is not &#8220;real&#8221; in the sense that it is nota real story treatment for the third episode of the Star Wars saga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. &#8220;Yeah, what&#8217;s this about the third episode? Wasn&#8217;t that Return of the Jedi?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, that was the sixth episode. RotJ was, however, thethird film to be released. Basically, the Trilogy we know iscomposed of episodes four through six.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas is now working on the scripts for episodes onethrough three. The films are due out in 1998; for more information,see the New Movies FAQ, kept by Aditya Sood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. &#8220;Okay. FotR is a fake, but where did it come from?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good question. &#8220;John L. Flynn&#8221; is listed as the author, butno one really knows who wrote it, except perhaps the author himself.(More about John L. Flynn follows in question 8.)<\/p>\n<p>Before it was made available on the Internet, most peoplepicked it up at conventions. Dealers sold it at their tables; asfar as we know, the story treatment (it&#8217;s too brief to be a script)made its debut around 1983 or so. It may have been around earlier.\tThe earliest possible date for it is 1979, which is when&#8221;Star Wars&#8221; was rereleased with the subtitle &#8220;Episode IV: A New Hope.&#8221;Before then, &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; was just &#8220;Star Wars;&#8221; no one could haveknown about Episode III being a prequel. Most reports, however (I&#8217;m using hearsay, admittedly, from reports of people on thegroup who remember FotR from *way* back) place it at about 1983.\t(FotR itself has a 1983 date on it, but there&#8217;s no way toknow whether or not that date is correct.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. &#8220;Who is this John L. Flynn guy anyway?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beats the heck out of me. The only thing I&#8217;ve heard from him other than FotR is a magazine article on the prequel Trilogy in March&#8217;s Cinescape. Lots of stuff in the article is drawn from FotR;perhaps Flynn really did write the article. I suppose it&#8217;s possible that someone at Cinescape used Flynn&#8217;s name as an obscure joke. However,considering the amount of confusion perpetrated in Flynn&#8217;s name overthe years, I would find the joke in exceedingly poor taste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. &#8220;Where is FotR available on the Internet?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at wpi.wpi.edu, in the directory starwars\/stories.Log in with &#8220;anonymous&#8221; as your username and your email address as your password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;ve got FotR. How do I convert it into something I can read?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To quote the wpi server itself:250- All ascii text files are compressed (.Z suffix) to save on room. On250-  Unix systems just type &#8211;  uncompress file.Z  &#8211; to uncompress it.250- MAC user can use the program maccompress-32.hqx &#8211; It can be found on250-  the FTP site: sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the directory \/info-mac\/util\/250- VMS users can use the program lzdcmp.exe to uncompress the .Z files.250-  It can be found on the FTP site: wuarchive.wustl.edu in the250-  directory \/packages\/compression\/vax-vms250- PC user can use one of many porgrams on: ftp.uu.net  in the 250-  directory \/systems\/ibmpc\/simtel\/compress250- Remember to download ALL files with the .Z, .gif, .jpg suffix250-  in BINARY mode. To do this simply type &#8211;  bin  &#8211; at the ftp&gt; prompt.250-  If not the files may not work after the transfer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have ftp access. What do I do?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trust me: if you haven&#8217;t read it, you&#8217;re not missing much.But if you *really* want to read it, email me and I&#8217;ll send you theuncompressed text file.David Hinesdzhines@midway.uchicago.edu<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nHosted by &#8220;Almost A Movie&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uQbnrw9dka\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/\">About<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;About&#8221; &#8212; Almost~A~Movie\" src=\"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/embed#?secret=M0zbAuEULi#?secret=uQbnrw9dka\" data-secret=\"uQbnrw9dka\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>treatment by John L. 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