doubleofive wrote: Right now I'm making a timeline of when they started things, when things were announced, what ILM and Lucas were working on besides the SE (dates of Lucas writing TPM seems to overlap with work on the SE). I'm using the Google archive to find articles giving general dates as to when things were announced. I can't find an official timeframe of the prequels being announced, just rumors, then it being fact.

A video disc release, and the IMAX are things i've noticed going through the newspapers. The SE and PT all seem part of the same conversation. Here we go:

A Variety article from 1993 October 3rd or 2nd is the announcement of the Prequels:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F36085ED70AE57B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

OK, ``Star Wars'' fans. You can stop holding your breath. George Lucas has made it official.The lead story on the front page of Variety this week, under the headline ``The Force Is With Him,'' says Lucas is back on track with the next ``Star Wars'' trilogy.In case you've forgotten, Lucas made ``Star Wars,'' ``The Empire Strikes Back'' and...

I like that a lot of the information on Wikipedia is people quoting "Secret History". Nice.

Would be better if it went to the original source material. With everyone quoting one book/person, it only takes a little slip up to convince many people that the rest of the book is nonsense, even if it is truthful everywhere else.