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Valerian is older than Star Wars

posted 9 years ago by layeye18
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Valerian first comic published in 1967 and George Lucas started writing Star Wars in 1973. Star Wars 1977 is not that original he took things from the comic Valerian and Flash Gordon.

[–] iamredemption 9 years ago

so, what's your point?
George Lucas' Star Wars was heavily influenced by Hidden Fortress (1958, which predates Valerian)

[–] layeye18 9 years ago

My point is that people are saying that J. J. Abrams film of Star Wars The Force Awakens is a remake of Star Wars from 1977. and George Lucas did the same thing.

http://kitbashed.com/blog/valerian-and-laureline

[–] Kevin_PSO 9 years ago

My point is that people are saying that J. J. Abrams film of Star Wars The Force Awakens is a remake of Star Wars from 1977. and George Lucas did the same thing.

Lucas was influenced by several different things and they all culminated in the amalgamation that is Star Wars. Same story for Indiana Jones, inspired by adventure serials. Abrams on the other hand copied and pasted the original Star Wars movie, dumbed it down, and called it a sequel.

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[–] drew_atreides 9 years ago

It always seemed like Star Wars had some DUNE worked in, too.

"Luke Skywalker has vanished."

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[–] echoechoz 9 years ago

I agree with you some aliens and ships were copied by george lucas and his workers when they were doing the first trilogy including the slave bikini of Laureline, but he didn´t stop there he also copied some things for the prequels

[–] layeye18 9 years ago

And George Lucas also copied Valerian carbonite. Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.

http://comicwiki.dk/images/f/f5/LV_Star_Wars.jpg