Lucas has contradicted himself so many times on this issue I don't even pay attention to him anymore... Regardless I don't believe it was ever his intention to make more than one movie. Star Wars was going to just be the fourth episode in a Saturday Matinee serial, with the beginning and end not being shown. When Star Wars was a success he got money hungry and decided to finish the Luke story. Then when that was a success he got more money hungry and decided to turn the backstory he had written for the movies into a trilogy of its own, the Anakin story. (To make money). Now, after the PT has earned his loads and loads of money, he's doing a tv series. (Which in turn will bring him more money... go figure). To make another sequel trilogy would be nonsensical because the Skywalker story is over. (No really, it's over). And we all know how much sense Lucas has these days (little to none), so another trilogy wouldn't surprise me. After all, it would bring this already money-laden man more money... which is what we all want.
You know, for all this talk of being money hungry etc. etc., there are very, VERY few human beings on earth, that when they find a successful way to rake in dough, suddenly go "Ok, thats good I have enough money now."
Therefore this whole Lucas is greedy argument is wearing mighty thin cause I've no doubt that 99.99999% of us would be exactly the same way. So unless one of us is up for canonization, might I suggest we drop this tiresome line of thinking.
I have nothing against Lucas wanting money. He has the right to. And he is to be commended for raking in as much as he has.
But I am proud to say that I am in that 0.00001%. I can honestly say that I really don't care for money. I'm not a materialistic person. I don't want more than I need. Which is probably why I have approximately $0.20 in my bank account.
The 'originally meant to be 122 episodes' comes from the idea that GL once ruminated on the idea that he would have three trilogies and then three sub-films, each one xploring the life of a character. He very quickly dropped that idea.
Just so everyone understands the situation wit 7. 8 and 9... the point is that there is no post ROTJ plot that GL once had but has now sat on and might use in future.
Instead, ROTJ would originally have been episode NINE (though presumaly with a different start, as Han would not have been in Jabba's palace). All tha t stuff with new Death Stars, Endor (originally Kashyyk) and the Emperor would still have been the end of the series.
GL instead moved that three episodes forwards to VI, and sended the series there instead; he made that deciison some time after ESB was made. Gary Kurtz, Executive Producer back then (the job Rick McCallum does now) spoek openyl about all this, and revealed that the original 'sequel' trilogy plot would have involved the search for Luke's sister, who was not Leia.
But now the sister IS Leia and the story ended in VI, whatever the sequel trilogy might once have been is totally academic because it will never exist.
It is possible, for those who think he is minded, that GL or someone else with the rights will at some future time make more films set in the Star Wars Galaxy...
... but the story of Star Wars itself is finished and done with- in the same way you couldn't write another Lord of th Rings books. The story is just done. Yes, characters live on, you could even write stories about them, but that's totally different
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The Story of "Star Wars" goes way beyond the films. Way before the TPM and ROTJ era. Ep's. 1-6 were just chapters of the massive story "Star Wars" is.
The "Star Wars" films were about Vader, really. His youth/innocence, his training, his fall, his rise and ultimate redemption. That part (ep's.1-6) of "Star Wars" was Vader's story. And that story is done. But the "Star Wars" isn't. That story will never be done. I know more films will be made, and I truly believe, that in the future, and I'm not holding my breath and maybe we won't even be here, that Ep. 7, 8 & 9 will be made. And I think fan more people would go see it than less. We do need a break, a long one, but the hunger will come back and the demand will be high, too high for Lucas not to take advantage of cause "Star Wars" is too great. And Lucas has changed his mind more than anything. Look at all he's done with "Star Wars" already. He's tinkered with it so much now it isn't even funny.
And that's on top of the fact that "Star Wars" is a cash cow.
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I did not say Lucas is greedy. I said the guy makes movies to make money. He markets Star Wars to make money. He develops editing and sound equiment to make money. The man is a business genius and has done really well for himself. That is all I am saying.
He won't make further episodes (sequels) just so he can make money.
And to answer your next question: Episodes about events after episode 6 will screw up Star Wars.
Yeah, maybe we can expect another prequel or something. Lucas said in some interview that he was thinking of a movie about the extermination of the sith with Yoda as main character..
I'm holding my breath..
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