‘Cinema for morons’ and ‘pompous garbage’: The first ‘Star Wars’ script that absolutely no one liked

‘Cinema for morons’ and ‘pompous garbage’: The first ‘Star Wars’ script that absolutely no one liked

Francis Ford Coppola, one of the first people to read it, considered the script to be pompous, indigestible garbage. On August 1, 1975, almost 50 years ago, George Lucas scrapped what he considered the first viable draft of what would become Star Wars. From his perspective, all that remained was to finalize the details of the production deal with Fox and begin filming in the Los Angeles area at the end of December. But to his wife, Marcia Griffi…