Challenge: Adapt Star Wars for a Child's Bedtime Story

[Battlehymn Republic]

George Lucas once lamented about how this generation doesn't have fairy tales of its own, and then went on to make Star Wars. It's also been described as a modern-day myth, a lot like how Tolkien did his thing.

However, I've never heard Star Wars told as an actual oral story. That kind of hurts my conception of it as a future folktale told in the burning tire fires of a post-apocalyptic society (though I think that's a scene in Reign of Fire ... which is on tonight on ABC... but I can't see it, pobre).

Write out how you would tell your children/nieces and nephews/young siblings ANH as a bedtime story. And by how I mean your actual dialogue.

[darthdavid]

Why, oh why did you have to mention that steaming pile of shit Reign of Fire and taint an otherwise good thread?

[Battlehymn Republic]

Well, for one thing I've read in a review that there's a part where the survivors gather around a fire, telling stories of a long-lost world, including their hero, Luke Skywalker.

Also, it's on TV tonight. But I haven't seen it yet.