An ideas on Episode III?

Hey I can always dream can't I?

Basically this is becuase Anakin is death and therefore the tale is complete. Star Wars is the story of Anakin Skywalker, Lucas stated this about 4 years ago.

I think there's probably multiple reasons...all good ones, on why he doesn't want to make the later movies.

I wonder what those reason's whould be.

That the story of Anakin Skywalker ends with his death perhaps.

I think the whole 9 movie deal was the product of a young and over enthusiasic Lucas in the aftermath of the success opf ANH.

I think the death of Amidala is the final stage of Anakin's turn. Either that or the Jedi Council's lack of interest in the situation.

I hope we don't see Padme die. We get that she died when the twins were very young from ROTJ. No need spelling it out to us.

And of course we'll see the birth of the twins. In whatever order you see the films, we'll always know Luke must be related to Anakin.

It's not like we've seen three films with Anakin SKYWALKER and then Episode 4 starts with a guy called Luke SKYWALKER. Hmmmm, could these two be related? Nah, probably not. That'd be too obvious. Come the end of ESB: WHAAAAATTTT, his father. I never thought that!

Nope. We'll see the twins get born. And we'll see Padme live out the PT. Leia says she has memories of her mother. We generally do not remember anything from before age 4. So there you go.

Maybe Leia is a superhuman?
I still think that Amidala gives birth (d'euh!!) but that you DON'T know that it is a twin, I mean there are 2 surprises: Vader is Lukes father (btw Vader is Dutch for father, so when I was young I always thought it was his father) and Leia is his sister.
If you are clever you know that Annakin is darth vader and that Luke has the same lastname. So there is only one surprise left

All this does lead me to the conclusion that Lucas never intended for people to watch these in chronological order.

surely one of the biggest shocks in modern film was vader being Lukes father, i didn't even know Vader was human until esb/rotj so surely knowing that anakin is Lukes father takes a lot of the excitement and "illusion" of star wars away from the viewer. 456,123 no argument, if Lucas had started at episode 1, i doubt episode 2 would ever have been made.

He could never have made Episode-I back then... Technologically it wasn't possible.

So would new viewers of SW need to watch them 4-6, 1-3, or 1-6?

why was it not technically possible, just because lucas has decided to rely heavily on cgi for these films does not mean to say that he wouldn't have been able to do ep1, it just means you wouldn't have seen spralling cities like coruscant and that actors would've had to have played some of the characters which on the evidience would have been no bad thing

Not seeing spirraling cities or underwater cities is a good enoughreason to wait until the technology is right. The lightsabre battle wouldn't have been done as well either.

If someone I knew hadn't seen any SW movies I would tell them to watch 4-6 then1-3, because that's the way everyone else has seen them. I don't think Lucas will make 7-9. People would lose interest(not true SW fans,but regular people), because they are about Anakin. Do you think Obi-Wan knew Luke had a twin in ANH, if not that could alter the birth of the twins. I think in Ep3 Obi-Wan will take Luke to Tatooine without seeing Leia therefore never knowing Luke had a twin.

Interesting, does OB1 know about Leia?

I suspect he knew that Luke had a twin but perhaps he didn't at first know who she was, its a shame that the scene got cut when it did when Yoda announced there was another, obviously at this point there was no reason to suggest that the other was a skywalker, but ob1 certainly seemed to know a lot about Leia's past when Luke asked him. Perhaps Yoda was referring to a force strong being, ob1 might not have met Leia at all and so he would not have been able to tell by just looking at a hologram who and how strong she was.

He knew there was a twin but he didn't know if it was boy/girl or force strong/weak. Let alone the name.

Ya think, I'm not sure.

As to the m,aking of TPM in 1975-77, just go back and look at the Vader/OB1 fight and see how bad the sabers are. They could never have made the Maul battle with that technoplogy.

The lightsaber duel in ANH was very poorly done by the actors. They were barely swinging. But what more can you expect from a man in his old age and a muscle man in a suit where he probably couldn't see very well.