ATMachine said:

Never hurts to ram the idea into people's heads some more. ;)

I disagree. I'm not trying to poop on anyone's cereal, this is the internet, so believe me when I'm not trying to be all shouty and mean. But by this point, it's pretty obvious that every single detail wasn't laid out in The Journal of the Whills in 1975. If anything, Rinzler's work with The Making Of books has shined a great big light on the process of making the movies, including the creation of the stories themselves.

No, he didn't write all nine movies in 1975, but he *did* lay out a *lot* of details including an overarching story that he has remained true to. When you go back into the Making of books in particular, it's noteworthy just how many of the then abandoned concepts that Lucas went back to and put into the prequels.

So Lucas mythologized his creation of the Star Wars story, so what? For how long does he have to have his nose rubbed in that? After all, wasn't that part of the magic back in the day, dreaming of all twelve, nine or six movies? Of course it was. Half of the joy of Star Wars was Lucas and Lucasfilm and the mythology of those companies and Lucas as a person.

Remember that Lucas himself signed off on these books. They're not some kind of 'exposé'; they're the official story of the making of, approved by Lucas, published by LucasBooks.

This is the official story.