Originalmente - Inspiração da Duna
Pode-se argumentar que George Lucas teve um pouco de inspiração da série Dune de Frank Herbert.
Durante as filmagens de Duna de David Lynch Frank Herbert observou o seguinte
"David [Lynch] had trouble with the fact that Star Wars used up so much of Dune. We found sixteen points of identity between my novel and Star Wars. That is not to say this was other than coincidence, even though we figured the odds against coincidence and produced a number larger than the number of stars in the universe."
Frank Herbert não lista essas 16 semelhanças, no entanto, há muitas que são fáceis de identificar
- Tatooine um planeta deserto / Arrakis (Duna), um planeta deserto
- Ambos têm rastreadores de areia
- Ambos mencionam tempero
- Espadas / facas / sabres de luz ainda são armas importantes, apesar da configuração de ficção científica
- Jabba o Hutt / Deus Imperador Leto II
- Fremen / pessoas de areia
- Sarlacc / Sandworm
- Poderes místicos - A força / a voz
Os dois planetas desertos são as semelhanças mais óbvias entre os dois.
Várias outras pessoas mencionaram as semelhanças entre Dune e Star Wars:
"I guess I would think that George Lucas would acknowledge Herbert's contribution to the epic quality of the genre. And while Star Wars has had more commercial success and more broad-based exposure than Dune, I believe anyone who would study both Star Wars and Dune would have to acknowledge the small debt that Star Wars owes to Dune."
John Harrison, director of Frank Herbert's Dune
"Of course, complicating the question, can there be any doubt that the FIRST movie version of DUNE was actually STAR WARS?..."These are not the droids you want" He uses The Voice on them! And there's a sandworm skeleton in the background! To say nothing of "The Sand People.""
Gardner Dozois, editor of Asimov's science fiction
"It really was, because Lucas realized you couldn't really make a movie of Dune"
Rick Austin, Vice-President of on-air for the Sci-Fi Channel
"Star Wars was heavily influenced by Dune."
Kevin J. Anderson, author of both Dune and Star Wars novels
Havia rumores de que eu ainda estou tentando comprovar que o roteiro original de A New Hope foi rejeitado por ser muito parecido com Dune. Então, se este foi o caso, as semelhanças que estão presentes foram aquelas que foram mantidas ou reduzidas.
Uma vez que Tatooine foi usado em Uma Nova Esperança , ele será revisitado por ser o lar de nosso herói e como um lugar familiar, ligando os prequels aos originais.
Diretores subsequentes dos novos filmes usam planetas do deserto para dar essa familiaridade sem revisitar totalmente os mesmos lugares.
The story of history repeating itself was, I believe, an obvious and intentional thing, and the structure of meeting a character who comes from a nowhere desert and discovers that she has a power within her, where the bad guys have a weapon that is destructive but that ends up being destroyed
Embora Gareth Edwards pareça ter colocado Jedha em um planeta deserto como ele estava tentando evocar uma sensação de Jerusalém ou Meca sobre o local .
"If A New Hope is kind of like the story of Jesus, there must be a whole religion beyond that," he said. "We felt like, for 1,000 generations, the Jedi were kind of these leaders of the spiritual belief system. It's got to be like a Mecca or a Jerusalem, but in the Star Wars world.
Gareth Edwards - Director of Rogue One