Mace (Windu)


Was Mace Windu named after Mace from this film? They even look a like, only Mace Windu is of course black.

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Lucas most likely got the name Mace from this but i don't think it is because they look alike. I think George also got the word Naboo from the ewoks vocabulary in Return of the Jedi. Has anyone else noticed anything that also?

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I read somewhere that George Lucas originally intended to call Luke Skywalker Mace Windu, even before he named him Luke Starkiller, which eventually became Luke. I'm not sure though if he used the name Mace in Ewoks because of that, but he did so in EP I trough III.

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I believe the first name he decided with was Annikin StarKiller

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I wish I could remember where I had seen/read this, but apparently the name mace windu was in the first draft for Star Wars... in the first sentance actually. I'm thinking it must have been in Empire of Dreams, but I'm not too sure.

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The name Mace Windu first appeared in SW screenplay drafts from the 70s.

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Yes, you are correct the first draft of the original Star Wars began with: "This is the story of Mace Windu, a revered Jedi-bendu of Opuchi who was related to Usby C.J. Thape, a padawan learner of the famed Jedi." Lucas has often recycled names from earlier drafts of his scripts of both people and places.

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I think good old George was a bit on the reever then.

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Wasn't Mace Windu in like the ooooooooooolllllllldddddddd comics? or at least mentioned and was white??

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"This is the story of Mace Windu, a revered Jedi-bendu of Opuchi who was related to Usby C.J. Thape, a padawan learner of the famed Jedi."
Ooooh man thats deep! Just like an audacious episode of "Friends".

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*beep* you guys are even hating on pre-'77 lucas now? i thought rotj was as far as haters could go while still claiming fandom but i guess i was wrong.
do you even like star wars?

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*beep* you guys are even hating on pre-'77 lucas now? i thought rotj was as far as haters could go while still claiming fandom but i guess i was wrong.
do you even like star wars?


It's more like people hate Lucas on his own. If you read the earliest outlines, drafts, and scripts for Star Wars, it's basically Dune. The Emperor is just a figure head for the Sith, Princess Leia is captured while smuggling a Spice which Jedi and Sith consume to gain the Power of the Force.

Lucas created Star Wars but he had a lot of help along the way and left to his own devices, his judgement is... questionable. He's a great idea man but he needs someone there to bounce ideas off of and force him to edit what doesn't work.

It rubs the butter on it's skin, y'all.

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I used to watch this show when I was a kid in the 80's and I always thought the kid who plays Mace looks a bit like Mark Hamill. I always thought they were going for a young Luke Skywalker look for him by putting him in orange (like an x-wing pilots outfit) and picking a kid who kind of resembles a young Mark Hamill. I haven't watched this for years and put it in last night and I still think the same thing lol. He looks a lot like Hamill.

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I always kind of thought that too.

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