Question about Return of the Jedi

[Flynne]

The page still needs plenty of citations, but, for what it's worth, here's the Wiki page on this topic:

Star Wars sequel trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Hector]

Lucas did indeed discuss the nine movie project from the begining.

[palitoy]

"The Star Wars"

If you take the "s" off the end, that's how my grandmother refers to it.

[Flynne]

Wouldn't the first 10 seconds of "Star Wars" lead you to think he had more stories in mind than the Original Star Wars Trilogy? The first words of the opening paragraph are after all "Episode IV".

In the depth of my 80's Convention Artifacts I have a copy of the Episode One script Brian mentions. It's a blue covered screenplay photocopy titled "The Star Wars", and I remember hearing something about how Lucas preferred it with "The" but 20th Century Fox didn't. I got it out not too long ago and read again about how Obi-Wan and Anakin fought and Anakin was partially consumed by lava. Some of it was way off, but some of it was dead on - and I purchased it in the mid 80's (though it does have an original copyright of 1974, but of course that could be apocraphyl).

The real problem is that Lucas is like Bill Gates and Gene Roddenberry - Lucas knows how to locate talented people to innovate, and where he can't innovate he buys, to build the most marketable buisness in his market segment. Lucas has great ideas, but he is a terrible screenplay writer and terrible Director. Like Gates and Roddenberry, Lucas is at his best when he hands his ideas over to others to develop and direct while he produces ("Empire Strikes Back,", anyone?). Know your role.

[palitoy]

I seem to recall mention of these being in a book about Star Wars published in the late 70's. Just going on school yard memories here so Starlog might be the source.

A friend of mine in the 80's had an unbelievable SW collection, original props etc and he had a draft of "episode one" that was pretty interesting, I was surprised at how much of that was in the resulting movies years later.

[johnmiic]

Wha...? Are we back on this topic again?!?!?!

[Seeker]

Actually, thanks to my Time Lord TARDIS, I did read it in 1975 already. Hence my loft full of cases of SW 12-backs, tons of boxed megos, and much, much more. Timetravel and toy collecting go together like bread and peanutbutter...

So the real question remains: was he just boasting back in '77, or did he actually intend to do it (and have the storyline mapped out).
Somebody send Jack Bauer to extract the truth!

God if I could go back in time I'd have my house paid off, put the kids through college and............


I remember seeing a 8 foot run of star trek megos with all the aliens at Child World once. Speaking of aliens I remember seeing an entire wall of original Alien figures marked down clearance at a local dept store. Of coarse no kid would be allowed to get a toy from a rated R movie at the time.

[PCofmisfittoys]

i'll have to find my vintage magazine issues that talk about him doing 9 movies...

[Gorn Captain]

Which was after success had been realized. If you had read this in '75-'76 I'd have been impressed.

Actually, thanks to my Time Lord TARDIS, I did read it in 1975 already. Hence my loft full of cases of SW 12-backs, tons of boxed megos, and much, much more. Timetravel and toy collecting go together like bread and peanutbutter...

So the real question remains: was he just boasting back in '77, or did he actually intend to do it (and have the storyline mapped out).
Somebody send Jack Bauer to extract the truth!

[huedell]

Which was after success had been realized. If you had read this in '75-'76 I'd have been impressed.

As I've said before...on the set of A NEW HOPE Lucas jawed on and on with
Hamill about many other movies planned...unless Hamill is straight out
lying...well...we know he isn't

[Brue]

Lucas did have 9 movies in mind (I read it in many interviews in '1977-78),

Which was after success had been realized. If you had read this in '75-'76 I'd have been impressed.

[Gorn Captain]

Lucas did have 9 movies in mind (I read it in many interviews in '1977-78), but probably not the way the story turned out now. He definitely wanted to continue, or maybe he just squashed it all in 6 movies to be done with it. But he's changed his mind so many times now, who knows what to expect? He also said so many times that he wanted to do "serious movies" (aka not SW?), but instead he keeps on rehashing SW, and now the dreaded 100-200-a million episode TV series? Before we now it, Yak Face will have his own sit-com, Sy Snootles will go on American Idol, and there will be Ewoks on Lost.
I wish him all the best with the new stuff he's doing, but as far as I'm concerned, he has turned to the Dark Side. He's more machine now...

PS: OK, Lucas fans, you can start bombarding me with rocks and sticks now!
PS2: I just love my old bootleg SW DVDs and I'll probably be cremated with them. When I got those a few years back, I was over the moon...

[Brue]

Lucas did not have sequels let alone prequels in mind.

As with any movie there was stuff that needed rewritten and edited - could this stuff be used in future films? Sure. This is true with every story.

Does any of episode 1 - 3 make any sense? Not unless you have really twisted revisionist logic. Best just to pretend these films don't exist. ROTJ wasn't much better. Even Empire, though a great film in it's own right, steps on the storyline somewhat.

The one thing I will give Lucas foresight on is the prologue to the Star Wars novel which basically summarizes the prequels (mercifully in 2 or 3 pages) - of course the same novel reads "From the adventures of Luke Skywalker" on the cover - which, considering Luke wasn't in the prequels that he NEVER had any intention of writing such stories.

-Oh, by the way I skipped several pages of reading in this thread - so sorry if I repeated anything someone already addressed

[The Bat]

What really botherr Me the most about ROTJ was...when Lucas took out the Ewok song at the ending!!

[monkey tennis]

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