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From Rolling Stone, June 12, 1980, an interview with George Lucas (by Jean Vallely):

Jean: "... Let's get back to 'The Empire Strikes Back' for a moment.
In the movie, Ben says Luke is the last hope and Yoda says, no, there
is another."

Lucas: "Yes. [Smiling] There is another, and has been for a long time.
You have to remember, we're starting in the middle of this whole
story. There are six hours' worth of events before STAR WARS, and in
those six hours, the 'other' becomes apparent, and after the third
film, the 'other' becomes apparent quite a bit."

Jean: "What will happen to Luke?"

Lucas: "I can't say. In the next film, everything gets resolved one
way or the other. Luke won the first battle in the first film. Vader
won the second battle in the second film, and in the third film, only
one of them walks away. We have to go back to the very beginning to
find out the real problem."

I'm almost surprised he had this much sorted out even back then.
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That's an interesting read. I wonder if what he was alluding to was anything remotely similar to what it ended up being, or if it simply happens to fit. It'd be interesting to know.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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That was all he had decided by that point. He had nothing definite beyond that. Leia was not Luke's sister until Jedi.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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This is very interesting, because here is a DIRECT QUOTE of Lucas saying there are nine episodes.

He tried to blame the "rumour" on the media in the late nineties, but now we all now better...
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Where does he say that? All he says is that there are six hours worth of material before Star Wars, which would be the prequels.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Yeah, I'm not seeing anything about Episodes 7-9 in that quote.


But I'm also not seeing anything indicating he's got even the vaguest of the prequel story. He seems to know a bit about Return of the Jedi ... and frankly, even that suprises me - what with the way that movie's plot seems have been thrown together at the last minute with leftovers from old Star Wars scripts.


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Yeah, I'm not seeing anything about Episodes 7-9 in that quote


He says "we are starting in the middle of the story"

i have heard him say this on other occasions as well
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That's not any indication that there was meant to be a trilogy after that. He didn't say "we're starting in the middle trilogy," he said, "we're starting in the middle," and 4 is about halfway through 6. I'd be willing to bet that's what he's referring to.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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That's exactly what he meant.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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George lucas has brain farts right and left. One minuet he thinks something the next it's totally different. At that point in time when he was asked that question he just spontaneously thought of the prequels for that answer even though prior to that his idea was for that to be expanted to a trilogy from episodes 7-9 about Luke searching for another jedi hidding somewhere in the galaxy. At that moment lucas probably forgot about his shaky idea for a sequel trilogy and was thinking of the prequels at that point and just made up some BS that he thought was authentic in his mind. Ya know, I think lucas is dilusional. I think he often doesn't realize what he is saying is BS. Sometimes really I think he just automatically thinks he knows everything even though he don't know squat. I know of a person who has a disorder where they don't know when they fall asleep and when they wake up he has no acknowledgement that he just slept and he often gets into arguments when people tell him he was sleeping because he has no memory of it. I think GL has the same problem only when he makes up stories about SW. Either that or he just has too big of an ego to ever question himself.

I would like to know when it was exactly decided that they were not going to make episodes 7-9?
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When they made ROTJ, and threw everything leftover into that. For example, Luke wasn't supposed to meet the Emperor until the ninth episode, and Vader was to die in ROTJ (So much for the "It's Anakin's story" bullshit.)


He decided to finish it as a trilogy on it's own. There's even a quote somewhere of Lucas telling someone (Spielberg) about how trilogies make a more powerful statement or something like that. I'm too tired to look for the quote.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>