Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker wrote a novel called "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", which was originally commissioned by George Lucas for the purpose of being filmed as a low-budget sequel, as a fallback plan in the event that "Star Wars" did not do well. It was published in 1978, a year after the movie's release. This made it the first full-length original novel to be published in the Star Wars expanded universe. The next official novelization of a "Star Wars" movie was "The Empire Strikes Back" by Donald F. Glut in 1980. Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker Star Wars: From the
Star Wars sequel trilogy ones that I originally wrote [on screen in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"]". Some details about Lucas's story treatments from the early-2010s were revealed in the book "The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi". In January 2013 at Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas held the first story briefing about the as-yet untitled "Episode VII". Related concept art includes: Lucas seemingly had planned for the conclusion of Luke's story to happen in "Episode VII" instead of "Episode VIII", with Luke dying at the end of the film; this element was instead incorporated into Johnson's film. Conversely, some months later, Mark Hamill