![]() It’s now at the point where these people cite each other in order to back up their assertions! But it keeps happening at one site after another. ![]() It’s even harder to understand how they could go forward with this without taking a few minutes to verify that what they’ve been handed is even remotely correct. It’s hard to imagine journalists running with this freshly minted narrative not being aware of how jarring the change is here. These stories all seem to be working from the same sheet of talking points as they all go out of their way to emphasize the fact that Leigh Brackett’s script was discarded. The news stories invoking her are in fact actively diminishing Leigh Brackett’s role in the development of the movie script. The quality and success of The Empire Strikes Back is generally taken as the ultimate vindication of someone that took a lot of flack over the course of her career for her unwavering conviction that space opera was a most excellent style of science fiction.īut all of that’s in the process of being erased now. ![]() ![]() In the decades following her death, it’s uncommon to hear anything but good about her contributions to Star Wars. Fans of classic science fiction will be delighted to see Leigh Brackett’s name turning up in mainstream media outlets of late. ![]()
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