there was a reason Fox only wanted the middle part of his saga, even then they realised the rest of it was weak.
Except there was no “middle part” of any saga back then. That’s just Lucasian revisionism.
That’s the most important part of this trolling. It was A film, not some sort of “I had it all planned in the 70s, family saga, 12 films, 9 films, 12 films, 6 films, 9 films, 3 films, father-brother-sister” BS.
If he had it all planned out in the 70s, he wouldn’t have hired Alan Dean Foster to write a second story.
The early drafts of Star Wars films (and the pre-ESB sequel plans) make it unambiguously clear that the idea that he had it all planned as a long saga is false. They made it up as they went, and had a lot of success doing it this way. For a while. It’s silly that some Lucas fans call JJ+Kasden’s work glorified fan fiction. It was always that.
The idea that GL started off in like 1974 or so after “American Graffiti” and had all this crap mapped out is nothing more than a specious legacy enhancement he has churned for a number of years. SW77 was self contained and he left the room for a possible 2nd film with an ambiguous ending for Darth. That’s the only thing I’ll grant the man.
SW77 is The Hero’s Journey, that hero being Luke Skywalker. I never will ever buy the whole thing that the saga is about the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. The OT is about Luke Skywalker - period. GL decided to use the PT to then retcon elements of the OT which in my mind is the biggest shame of the PT.
Rant over.