One of my older brothers told me that someone he was talking to said something to the effect of “George Lucas already has the scripts for episodes 7 8 and 9 written.” This was back in like, 2007.
I was told the same thing back in 1999 or so.
Give Lucas a few hours and he will deliver finished scripts for 7-8-9 (even 10-11-12 if you offer him a cup of coffee). Not good, but finished. But if you want a STAR WARS quality script, he needs 4 years/10 hours of work per day. I would very much like to read the synopsis of the ST he “sold” to Disney in 2012… I’m pretty sure it’s American graffiti with x-wings and tie-fighters (like R1 is Divergent with x-wings and tie-fighters…).
Your math is wrong. Lucas hates writing, he’d never finish a script in a few hours. The PT is the result of him spending years and working hours per day (though mainly just staring at a blank page I’d imagine). To get a good script out of him you’d need a team of people constantly providing feedbacks and critiques. Otherwise it’ll be shite.
Well judging from some of the avilable transcripts of script meetings for ESB and ROTJ, he would dismiss most of the feedback when it comes to characters and scenes. However, I do think he needs someone to write dialogue for his characters and scenes (like Kasdan in ESB and ROTJ).