Actually Gaffer, I went and transcribed proof (had to go home first), and you guys wouldn't listen to that.
Some of you were saying that Lucas was saying he never had any stories for sequels following ROTJ, and you took that as him saying he never planned on anything more than 6 films. When I found the full extent of what he said, it turns out he actually acknowledged that he was originally going to do more, but the only part of the quote you guys were ever presenting was the part where he said he never came up with sequels.
If you compare these two quotes out of context:George Lucas, October 1979: There are essentially nine films in a series of three trilogies. I have story treatments on all nine.
George Lucas, February 1999: I never had a story for the sequels. It seems like you guys have caught him in a bold faced lie, but when you take the full extent of the 2nd quote into consideration:The long-standing perception has been that the complete Star Wars saga is a 9 film cycle, and after Episodes I through III were finished Lucas would move on to Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, resuming where Return of the Jedi had left off. "That's really not part of the plan AT THIS POINT, " he says. "When you see it six parts, you'll understand. It really ends at part six."
Whereas the prequel plotlines have their basis in the original treatment for Star Wars that Lucas wrote in the early 1970's, "I never had a story for the sequels, for the later ones," he says."
As you can see, he is actually talking about how 9 or more films is no longer the plan "AT THIS POINT", and that because the story is now meant to end with ROTJ, he never came up with anything beyond that resolution (The Vanquishing of the Sith which would have originally happened at the end of the 9th film) and as such never came up with material suitable to follow the current incarnation of Episode 6.
You don't see me getting all bent out of shape because you guys refuse to acknowledge my proof. What's the difference?
As far as the proof presented to me not being enough, I was merely asking for the proof to be presented -in the first place-.
Only one of two quotes was presented in this thread to support the accusation that Lucas was lying, and I kept asking for the second quote to be posted. You guys kept telling me it was posted somewhere in this board, but you guys couldn't be bothered to find it. I had to wait until I got home to find my own copy of Vanity Fair 1999 to personally transcribe this quote, and when it turned out that it really supported my stance instead of some of yours, that's when someone decided to make this wonderful thread.