Anyone else remember when Labyrinth of Evil came out right before the final episodes of the Tartakovsky clone wars and we basically got to see the EU contradict itself in real time?
See this is why Doctor Who doesn’t do canon.
Do you guys think Lucas had any intention of ever making a Sequel trilogy between 1983 and 2010?
It seems to me like it was something he abandoned with RotJ and only started exploring the concept in the lead-up to the buyout thinking if they were gonna do it anyway might as well do it right. I mean, this article makes it clear he hired someone else to write, something he never did on the Prequels (besides a bit of help from Jonathan Hale on AotC, which I somehow doubt helped much). Also worth noting that his Sequels seamlessly evolved into the ones we got through a standard pre-production process.
So yeah, in summary, I don’t think there ever really was a “George Lucas Sequel Trilogy” so much as there was George Lucas as a creative consultant during the pre-production for TFA.
That article’s great, btw. Very comprehensive.
I think Lucas was thinking of the Sequel Trilogy between 1983 and 1999. Sometime between 1999 and 2005 he shelved it and only brought it out again about the time he started thinking of selling Lucasfilm. and while I do like the story setup he had in mind, his idea of Whills and Midichlorians was pretty dumb. That isn’t what Star Wars is about. It is about the people. The Force works better as a mystery. Though I do like his explanation as a quasi-science idea behind it, he created a modern sci-fi myth and you don’t explain too much in a myth.