Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
Actually, according to the quote, he said he had story treatments, not a "small outline". Maybe it wasn't a "grand plan", but then maybe he shouldn't go around saying "it was always meant to be that way". Things change, people change, just admit he wanted to change it and be done.
There's another guy that changed some things in one of his movies and said it was always suppose to be a kids movie and not contain anything to violent (something like that). He released the changed version along with the original (and the original wasn't considered "bonus material"). What was that guys name? Having trouble recalling it. Oh yes, Steven Spielberg. And the movie was ET
Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
In the forward to the Splinter of the Minds Eye book George is quoted in editions of the book as saying "That his story was too big to fit into one movie, and that he broke it up into three parts, The Original Trilogy, the further adventures, and the back story making a total of nine films"
I can well believe that there was more than 6 films planned back then, I just think he changed his mind, ran out of story or got fed up with SW at that point....
Originally posted by: lordjedi
If we all just keep posting Lucas quotes, we can probably get Go-mer to leave. That's really all we have to do to point out that there was never any "grand plan" to begin with, despite what Lucas and Go-mer say today. I don't think there was a "grand plan", and Lucas said all he had was a small outline.
If we all just keep posting Lucas quotes, we can probably get Go-mer to leave. That's really all we have to do to point out that there was never any "grand plan" to begin with, despite what Lucas and Go-mer say today. I don't think there was a "grand plan", and Lucas said all he had was a small outline.
Actually, according to the quote, he said he had story treatments, not a "small outline". Maybe it wasn't a "grand plan", but then maybe he shouldn't go around saying "it was always meant to be that way". Things change, people change, just admit he wanted to change it and be done.
There's another guy that changed some things in one of his movies and said it was always suppose to be a kids movie and not contain anything to violent (something like that). He released the changed version along with the original (and the original wasn't considered "bonus material"). What was that guys name? Having trouble recalling it. Oh yes, Steven Spielberg. And the movie was ET
Originally posted by: Mr Bungle
In the forward to the Splinter of the Minds Eye book George is quoted in editions of the book as saying "That his story was too big to fit into one movie, and that he broke it up into three parts, The Original Trilogy, the further adventures, and the back story making a total of nine films"
I can well believe that there was more than 6 films planned back then, I just think he changed his mind, ran out of story or got fed up with SW at that point....
I think this pretty much nails it. I think there could easily have been 3 more movies after ROTJ, but he probably got tired of continuing the story. Luke and Leia could've not been siblings. Luke could easily have trained a new generation of Jedi over the course of 3 movies, which might've been necessary if he'd decided to leave the Emperor out of ROTJ and put him in IX.
GL himself pretty much said before ROTS came out that he was done with SW. He said something to the effect of being done and wanting to move on. He's done with doing these big budget films that everyone wants to see. He wants to go back to doing small, independent titles that do well enough but wouldn't necessarily be called blockbusters. Of course, now he wants to switch over and do TV, which I personally think is going to be even more difficult for him unless it's the currently planned SW tv shows.