Nevertheless, riding on the success of the film in its first year of release, the book became a bestseller. The film adaptation of Splinter of the Mind's Eye was abandoned in favor of Lucas's vision of a big-budget sequel ( The Empire Strikes Back). Īn additional sequel novel was planned, but by the time Splinter of the Mind's Eye was published, Star Wars had broken box office records.
Lucas' only request upon inspecting the manuscript was the removal of a space dogfight undertaken by Luke and Leia before crash-landing on the planet, which would have been effects-heavy and expensive to film. Han Solo and Chewbacca were also left out as Harrison Ford had not signed a contract to film any of the sequels at the time of the novel contract. Foster's decision to place his story on a misty jungle planet was also intended to reduce set and background costs for a film adaptation. Though Foster was granted a great deal of leeway in developing the story, a key requirement was that many of the props from the previous production could be reused when shooting the new film. Foster's contract also required a second novel, to be used as a basis for a low-budget sequel to Star Wars in case the film was not successful. Foster was given some drafts of the script, rough footage and production paintings for use as source material in fleshing out the novel. In 1976, Alan Dean Foster was contracted to ghostwrite a novelization of Star Wars.
The story focuses on Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, who are marooned together on the world of Mimban, where they encounter the locals and struggle against the forces of the evil Galactic Empire, including Darth Vader. Splinter of the Mind's Eye was the first Star Wars novel with an original storyline to be published after the release of the original film, and is thus considered, alongside the Star Wars newspaper comic strip and Marvel's 1977 comic series, to mark the beginning of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Originally published in 1978 by Del Rey, a division of Ballantine Books, the book was written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars in case the original film was not successful enough to spawn the franchise it would ultimately go on to produce. Splinter of the Mind's Eye is a 1978 science-fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster as a sequel to the film Star Wars (1977). Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (1976)
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