»What last movie of a trilogy did you look forward to most?«

th3 p4th wrote:

Let's hope that Lucas will not film episodes 7,8 and 9 and certainly not 10,11 and 12. (Originally he thought of filming 12 movies!) The story is complete and he should not try to expand it futher.

He won't...but hes given the script to his children...


Lord Help us...

Where did you hear this? I just checked wikipedia and doesn't mention anything like this. It says that it's over.

Its on a Star War's website, which seems to be close to Lucas, along with a quick over view of Episode 7,8,9. (The Fallen Hero, The Republic in Crisis and Victory of the Force)

th3 p4th wrote:

Where did you hear this? I just checked wikipedia and doesn't mention anything like this. It says that it's over.

About how many episodes were intended originally--

George Lucas interviewed July 19th 1979:
"The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four." scifi.about.com...

On the special features for one of the new episodes, I know that he says he considers the new trilogy the (backwards) completion of the story. He's pretty widely stated that he won't make anymore Star Wars (or have anyone else make them).

But there is a television series in the works. And of course, musicians, atheletes, actors are always saying they've retired and then coming back a few years later if for no other reason than that there's still tons of money to be made. So who knows. The next time George needs to buy an island, he might just look to the Star Wars film franchise for financing

Deeindamatrix wrote:

Its on a Star War's website, which seems to be close to Lucas, along with a quick over view of Episode 7,8,9. (The Fallen Hero, The Republic in Crisis and Victory of the Force) supershadow.com...

Those plots for 7-9 sound really fanboy (to me) and not like something Lucas would have intended. They're all focussed on Han, Luke, Leia.

But no studio executive in their right mind is going to put sixty year old (and virtually forgotten) Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on the screen to star in action oriented movies.

I think supershadow is pulling our leg.

The Star Wars saga began with a 14-page treatment for a space adventure movie that Lucas drafted in 1973, inspired by multiple myths and classical narratives. According to one source, Lucas initially wrote summaries for fifteen stories that would make up the Star Wars saga. Out of these fifteen stories, Lucas originally planned to film only one of them as a feature film. Then, in 1978, following the success of the first released Star Wars film, he publicly announced that he would create a total of twelve films to chronicle the adventures of Luke Skywalker (in the original scripts, the character’s name was Luke Starkiller). In 1979, Lucas retracted his former statement, saying that he would instead make nine films. Four years later, having completed Return of the Jedi, Lucas announced that he was putting Star Wars on indefinite hold until special-effects technology had improved to his satisfaction. Finally, in 1995, (after seeing the effects results of ILM's work on Jurassic Park) Lucas decided that he would produce the trilogy of prequels (Episodes I, II, and III), for a total of six films. He also claimed at the time that he had always envisioned "the whole thing as a series of six films".

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For his part, Lucas claimed in a segment filmed for the THX-remastered VHS release of the original trilogy that the original Star Wars story was intended as a single film but was later split into three because the story was too long to be told in a single film. In the DVD commentaries for the original trilogy, Lucas claims that many story elements were changed within the production of the films — for instance, the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope was moved from the end of the trilogy in order to strengthen A New Hope on its own merits, while the character of Chewbacca established the Wookiees as a technologically advanced race, necessitating their replacement with Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Other changes, including the death of Obi-Wan in A New Hope, were made during the filming. Lucas also stated in the commentaries that the prequel stories existed only as "notes" explaining the backstories of characters such as Obi-Wan. In an interview with Wired prior to the release of The Phantom Menace, Lucas remarked that he had allowed the publication of novels written as sequels to the films (see Expanded Universe) because he would never make the sequels himself.

Lucas's history of different statements regarding his future and past plans for the Star Wars saga have caused a great deal of popular confusion, while drawing criticism from some. For example, some still believe that Lucas's original plan was for a "trilogy of trilogies," based on early statements made by Lucasfilm regarding sequels.

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After the initial success of Star Wars, a sequel was inevitable, but over time, conflicting reports spread as to how many sequels were planned. In 1978, a Time magazine article reported that the newly formed Star Wars Corp. would be producing "Star Wars II, and then, count them, ten other planned sequels."

In 1979, director George Lucas said in an interview on the set of The Empire Strikes Back, "The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four." Lucas backed this up with a 1980 interview with the L.A. Reader, stating "Star Wars is really three trilogies, nine films... it won't be finished for probably another 20 years."

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In a 2004 interview, Mark Hamill said that Lucas told him that he planned to produce this trilogy around 2011, and asked him to return for cameo appearances as an Obi-Wan type character who passes on the torch to the next generation in Episode IX then, and that the sequels would feature new characters. Lucas dismissed the comment as "off-hand".

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Currently, there are no firm plans to produce these films. Lucasfilm's stance is that the six Star Wars films comprise the entire story Lucas intended to tell, despite mentions to the contrary in the press and official publications over time.

In a 1997 issue of the Star Wars Insider, Lucas said "[The whole story has] six episodes....If I ever went beyond that, it would be something that was made up. I really don't have any notion other than 'Gee, it would be interesting to do Luke Skywalker later on.' It wouldn't be part of the main story, but a sequel to this thing."

In a 1999 interview with Vanity Fair, Lucas denied ever having any plans to make nine Star Wars movies. "When you see it in six parts, you'll understand," Lucas said at the time. "It really ends at part six." When asked about the possibility of someone else taking over the film franchise, Lucas said "Probably not, it's my thing."

After finishing Revenge of the Sith, Lucas restated on several occasions that he had no plans of making another Star Wars film trilogy. However, Lucas has been known to say one thing and do another in the past, so, many fans still hope that he may pass the project to someone else while controlling it behind the scenes, or that he may reconsider and produce another set of films after more time has passed, probably relying on further leaps in computer technology. Given the popularity and financial success of the films and the overall franchise, it is possible that Lucas, his heirs, or his businesses may find the possibilities of further movies too lucrative to resist.

Wow, that's a ton of info th3 p4th! Thanks

I've often questioned whether Lucas really had it as mapped out as he sometimes claims. The wiki article seems to confirm that he didn't.

CaptPostMod wrote:

Deeindamatrix wrote: Its on a Star War's website, which seems to be close to Lucas, along with a quick over view of Episode 7,8,9. (The Fallen Hero, The Republic in Crisis and Victory of the Force) supershadow.com... Those plots for 7-9 sound really fanboy (to me) and not like something Lucas would have intended. They're all focussed on Han, Luke, Leia. But no studio executive in their right mind is going to put sixty year old (and virtually forgotten) Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on the screen to star in action oriented movies. I think supershadow is pulling our leg.

Heh Mark Hamill hasn't been forgotten. He's a pretty diverse voice actor if you look into it, he's even in Metalocalypse. I'd go as far as saying Mark Hamill went on to do the coolest things after Star Wars then any other of the cast, even if no one realises its him.

And Supershadows been debunked a lot of times. It's just a big scam of a website.

I thought so. Thanx for the info

EDIT

That guy is worse than Sophia Stewart! Read here --> supershadow.com...

EDIT 2

Sophia Stewart = SS = SuperShadow LOL!

They are both crazy liars.

hungarian kid wrote:

Heh Mark Hamill hasn't been forgotten. He's a pretty diverse voice actor if you look into it, he's even in Metalocalypse. I'd go as far as saying Mark Hamill went on to do the coolest things after Star Wars then any other of the cast, even if no one realises its him.

That's why I said "virtually" forgotten. Plenty of people love the Joker from the 90s Batman cartoon, but not that many know it's Hamill, ya' know?

I decided to share with you the intros for the Special Editions / Director's Cut of the Alien films as I did in the past with the written introduction of the Brothers (matrix-explained.com...)


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