Bingowings wrote:

It's evidence that Star Wars was at one point after the first film was going to be a nine part saga.

And according to a 77-78 Kenner promotional video and Bantha Tracks (Issue 02 pg 4) the old fan magazine the saga was 12 films... at one point. Awhile ago Empire Magazine (think it was them) did a fold out where they tracked all the quotes of how long the saga was to be. For me it's just 7.5 half movies. They had something different.

(Bantha Track pdfs: http://www.artoosnews.com/banthatracks/" target="_blank" title="web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.artoosnews.com/banthatracks/">http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.artoosnews.com/banthatracks/ )

(most from an active site: http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/specialreports/banthatracks/ )