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black_saber Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 5/6 10:25am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	I was looking of weeipida that Return of the jedi was supposed to be more of a open saga. Leia was not supposed to be the other that yoda mentioned Han solo was supposed to die in return of the jedi and it would take up to episode 9 to find Lukes other sister and thats where the Emperor Palpatine was to make his Appreance. Luca never intead do a prequel set back then in 1983. -----signature----- "Just when I thought I was out , they push me back in." I never liked micheal Jackson and he was always a looney.
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/6 10:51am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Back then, he was at the end of his rope. He was just happy to finish ROTJ. At that point, he was done for a while. Before that, he had talked about doing the prequel trilogy and even possibly a sequel trilogy, but as he was working on ESB and ROTJ, he decided to wrap the story up with episode 6, which is when he made Leia the "other" and decided to have the Emperor vanquished in Episode 6. It wasn't until he saw Jurassic Park that he decided he would do the Prequels, because he could finally make all the fantastic things he wasn't able to do in the classic trilogy. -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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Black-Tiger Registered: Nov '08	Date Posted: 5/6 11:19am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	He lost his enthusiasm for making the movies after ESB and didn’t want to be known as “Mr. Star Wars”, so he cut the story short and ended it at ROTJ.
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T-R- Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 5/6 7:24pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy - Date Edited: 5/6 7:26pm (2 edits total) Edited By: T-R-
	posted: Before that, he had talked about doing the prequel trilogy and even possibly a sequel trilogy, but as he was working on ESB and ROTJ, he decided to wrap the story up with episode 6, which is when he made Leia the "other" and decided to have the Emperor vanquished in Episode 6 posted: He lost his enthusiasm for making the movies after ESB and didn’t want to be known as “Mr. Star Wars”, so he cut the story short and ended it at ROTJ. Both of these statements are false. Lucas said in interviews AFTER Jedi was released that there would be a PT and then a ST, even going so far as to tell how E9 ended. His divorce and single parenthood caused him to put SW on hold. -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker: Chosen One Luke Skywalker: Son of the Suns Two Prophecies Two Destinies ONE SAGA
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/6 7:25pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Where did he say that? -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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T-R- Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 5/6 7:33pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Time Magazine, TV Guide, Icons: An Intimate Portait, the forward to Splinter of a Mind's Eye reprint, all 1983 and after, to name a few. I suggest going to the library and looking for magizine interviews with GL from that time. It's what I did several years ago and his stance was very consistent back then (Kurtz's outline wasn't Lucas'). -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker: Chosen One Luke Skywalker: Son of the Suns Two Prophecies Two Destinies ONE SAGA
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/6 7:41pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Interesting, thanks for letting me know. -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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T-R- Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 5/6 7:45pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy - Date Edited: 5/6 7:46pm (2 edits total) Edited By: T-R-
	You're welcome......so, do you want to know how E9 was going to end? spoiler............... if they are ever made It flashes forward in time to R2 and 3PO telling the stories to a group of children - i.e. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away is them -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker: Chosen One Luke Skywalker: Son of the Suns Two Prophecies Two Destinies ONE SAGA
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Go-Mer-Tonic Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/6 8:15pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy - Date Edited: 5/6 8:15pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Go-Mer-Tonic
	Wait, what do you mean by "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away is them"? -----signature----- "...that’s not my job, to make people like my movies. They either like them or they don’t. That’s completely out of my hands.” -Lucas "At least I will have finished what I set out to do, and at least they will have been good to me." -Lucas
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T-R- Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 5/7 2:46am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	I mean it is them telling the story -----signature----- Anakin Skywalker: Chosen One Luke Skywalker: Son of the Suns Two Prophecies Two Destinies ONE SAGA
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Blur Registered: Aug '99	Date Posted: 5/7 8:00am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy - Date Edited: 5/7 8:04am (4 edits total) Edited By: Blur
	Interesting discussion. Waaaay back in the day (circa 1988), I remember reading a short L. interview in a sci-fi magazine (I can't remember which one) in which he was asked why Luke Skywalker never had a love interest in the OT - L.'s response was something like, "You haven't seen the last three." - obviously, this implies that at this time he planned to make three post-ROTJ films. My opinion is that L. canned this idea for several reasons: - The SW post-ROTJ EU in the 1990's like the Zahn Trilogy (1991 - 1993), Dark Horse's "Dark Empire" (1992), etc. became popular amongst SW fans. Also, I think that there was an internal continuity set up for these stories by the publishers and Lflm. - this was so that these stories all flowed and were all set within the same continuity. L. was obviously aware of this, and didn't want to make three more films that may have contradicted what happened in these EU stories. - He really wanted to make the prequels first, and knew that by the time those were finished he probably wouldn't have the energy or desire to make sequels to ROTJ. As it now stands, I think L. made the right decision on making the prequels instead of sequels to the OT - I am much more interested in seeing the story of how Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader than seeing a geriatric Luke, Han, and Leia (and their kids) having adventures.
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black_saber Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 5/7 10:30am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	I wish they had made Shadows of the Empire into a movie back then but nooo they had to come up with it in 96 -----signature----- "Just when I thought I was out , they push me back in." I never liked micheal Jackson and he was always a looney.
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jedimasterbac Title: CT and Fan Design Manager Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 5/11 6:36pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	You know you guys don't need to mark dropped concepts as spoilers. -----signature----- Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One (my fan fic) http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/30225011/p1/?3
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Darth_Nub Registered: Apr '09	Date Posted: 5/11 9:27pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Zombie's book 'The Secret History Of Star Wars' has a good section on the Sequel Trilogy, not that there's a whole heap of information on it. Doesn't have that bit about the saga ending with C-3PO & R2-D2 reading to children, though, that's a new one to me - reminiscent of that vague idea of ANH being bookended by a Wookiee mother reading to her child. I have a feeling that whatever vague 'outlines' GL has/had for Eps VII-IX have been made long redundant by ROTJ & the prequel trilogy. In fact, if he had any details about characters, locations, scenes etc, I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up using them while trying to put the prequel trilogy together, just for extra content. Would still go nuts if his original notes for them were released... -----signature----- "First you must fill your head with wisdom. Then you can hit ice with it."
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black_saber Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 5/12 2:18pm Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	I just hope he would make a sequel Trilogy but chance are 25/75. Thats a bad rating. -----signature----- "Just when I thought I was out , they push me back in." I never liked micheal Jackson and he was always a looney.
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Sven_Starcrown Registered: Mar '09	Date Posted: 5/13 8:41am Subject: Lucas a long time ago did plan for a two set sequel Trilogy
	Is it true that he considered Shadows of the Empire to make a movie out of it? -----signature----- Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you.
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