Comment by djmips
5 hours ago
While I generally subscribe to the idea that the editors of A New Hope helped a lot with the final product, it's massively unfair to say that Lucas wasn't a good storyteller, Campbell didn't help directly with a New Hope and it was scripted by Lucas - ie it's his story.
A New Hope was innovative visually, but it was also the weakest story wise in the initial trilogy. Lucas’s strength is primarily with visuals.
When I took my son to see Dune, he said it was a major Star Wars rip-off.
Dune (the novel) was published in 1965.
Wait till you read "Voyage of the Space Beagle"!
https://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Space-Beagle-van-Vogt/dp/07653...