# Attack of the Clones -- A Dilemma! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214 "2002-04-17T21:05:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/1 "2002-04-17T21:05:28Z")
So there it sits on my hard drive, AOTC.rtf, the script to “Attack of the Clones.” Just sitting there, right on my Mac’s desktop whispering “Read me! Read me you will! Yes!” I had to be weak willed and download it… I couldn’t wait for the print version to come out… Noooo… So here I am, about to read it… I guess, I mean, I read scripts to movies all of the time, so there’s no reason I shouldn’t read this one… Right? I suppose, instead of reading it, I could import it into my screenwriting software… I’d have to “clean up” the formatting, so I could just “skim” it as I do that… And then, of course, I’ll end up reading it tomorrow. You know, I didn’t want to read the screenplay to this film before I saw it. But here I am, about to anyway. My kingdom for a backbone… Ooh, I like the first scene… 🙂 Kirk ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/2 "2002-04-17T21:57:49Z")
WHERE WHERE WHERE DID YOU GET IT!!! You must, must tell meeeeeee… _drooling_ ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/3 "2002-04-17T22:20:07Z")
Where I got it, i cannot say. Having skimmed it, it is a mid-draft shooting script. Clearly not the final draft. However, I am not opposed to parting with a copy of it… ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/4 "2002-04-17T22:32:23Z")
You realize that a squad of guys in shiny white armor are about to knock on your door with blasters, right? You just don’t mess with Lucasfilm. ---
**Author:** ![stankow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@stankow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stankow)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/5 "2002-04-17T22:38:28Z")
There’s a script?!? I figured they were just going to make the whole damn thing up on the computer like they did with Phantom Menace. ---
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/6 "2002-04-18T00:45:39Z")
I’ve spent so much money on Star Wars stuff in the last 20 years, I should be a stockholder in LucasFilm. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/7 "2002-04-18T02:37:48Z")
The script has been available online for a few weeks. But it’s the shooting script from back in August 2000, not the final draft (there have been many additions made since then, including an entire detailed action scene). I haven’t read it. Not interested. I’ll see it when I see it. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-clones-a-dilemma/104214/8 "2002-04-18T13:05:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saltire \* > \*\*You realize that a squad of guys in shiny white armor are about to knock on your door with blasters, right? You just don’t mess with Lucasfilm. \*\* So? Not like they actually HIT anything with their blasters…