Some of you might have seen this thing floating around...so I read through it and I am seriously doubting its authenticity. Now I know that Harry Knowles didn't actually deny that this was the one I'm still not sure.Reasons:
1) Yes, the flow of the story mirrors all the hubbub and the trailers. Strangely though, all of the scenes that have been well documented or scene in the trailers seem to be vividly depicted, while others are strangely bland or vague. The climactic ending seems like a mish mash of crap on paper--probably because none of the true details or dialogue have been spilled in the trailers, only quick glimpes.
2)Yes, all of the dialogue from the trailers makes it into the screenplay in one form or another, but everything in between feels like it was written by a 12-year old. References to "he's my boyfriend" or "she's my girlfriend" pop up a couple times...that would be a stretch even for the murderer of dialogue Lucas himself.
There are two possibilities...(1) this is an extremely early draft, where Lucas was simply concerned with getting the film's basic structure down on paper. Even then it feels like a stretch. (2) Some demented fanboy has gathered up every possible piece of info that has been published and pieced together a screenplay.
Either way the final product will view better than the script reads...but if even half of this dialogue is real and ends up in the film it will be a painful two hours.
Anyone else read it? Thoughts.