An Even Longer Time Ago...

The good folks at Quirk Books have released a version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope as it might have been written by one William Shakespeare  -- meaning that yes, indeed, you can now read the work of Alan Dean Foster ghosting for George Lucas in iambic pentameter. I've no idea if they plan to continue the series (or if Disney, who now owns the Star Wars universe, will let them), but if they do, I eagerly away the new (old?) version of the prequel trilogy.

Because only a writer of Shakespeare's skill could save some of the incredibly bad dialog that George Lucas put in the mouths of his cast during those three movies. And even he might be defeated by the walking vortex of suck that is Jar-Jar Binks:

Jar-Jar:

Meesa Gungan, brave-hearted and true!

Meesa help Ani and friend Obi-Wan!

Obi-Wan:
We needeth not help from the likes of you,

Thou CGI'd varlet, get thee quick-gone!