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Originally posted by: ricarleite
What? He didn't have a CLUE about the other episodes until SW proved to be a hit! If he knew there would be all those episodes all along, why isn't there a title claiming star wars was episode 4? It has been confirmed in a number of ocasions that the whole "4th episode" thing only came up when ESB was on its way...
True, but that doesn't mean he didn't have the next films in mind. He had some idea what he was doing.
Don't you think that it would have been a little confusing going to watch this big new film, only for it to start with Episode 4.
Lucas knew what he was doing.
Because SW was so big, because it made him money, it just gave him the freedom to make the films he wanted to make.
Just because some of you think Lucas is fucking the films up now, doesn't mean he was back then. Back then he knew exactly what to do, and done it well. If he didn't, we all wouldn't be here now!