Recommended music: James Horner – Elora Danan
Also, on this #WhateverWednesday from the archives, let’s celebrate the Magic of Willow with this Willow film novel!
Canadian writer Wayland Drew was first hired to pen a movie novelization with 1978’s Corvette Summer. A decade later, he was chosen to write the Willow novelization based on the 7th edition of the screenplay to Willow, which was refined many times over from George Lucas’s original story ideas.
The novel is great as it contains many additional scenes that did not make it to the big screen (though some were shot and deleted). My book club edition was also supposed to contain a “Fabulous 8 page color insert”, but according to the teddy bear stamp inside the back cover declaring “This book belongs to CJ”, a previous owner must have removed the color insert 30 years before I picked up this copy. C’mon CJ! 😄
The Willow film turns 37 years old next week. I figure there’ll be a new Willow item to share here for the rest of the month. Happy 37 years to the Magic of Willow!
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