Star Wars Film
why did george lucas make the star wars film from 4 to 6 and then from 1 to 3?
I’m always amazed, not in a good way either, at the answers people give when they try to answer this question.
When Lucas first came up with the idea for “Star Wars” he envisioned it as a 12 part story that would be told in a similar fashion as the old Flash Gordon series. It didn’t take him long to realize it wouldn’t work that way so it got cut down to a 9 part story. The first trilogy was to be about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker. The second trilogy was to be about the rise of Luke Skywalker and the redemption of Anakin Skywalker. The third trilogy was to be about the “other” Skywalker that Yoda mentions in The Empire Strikes Back. There have been many insane rumors floating around saying that Lucas is going to make ep 7 – 9 … he’s not because the don’t exist anymore. They were all basically condensed into what became ep 6, Return Of The Jedi. A little known fact is that up until the point where Lucas was almost done writing the script for ROTJ Leia was NOT the other Skywalker. When Lucas was writing the duel between Luke and Vader he was stumped on something that would make Luke attack his father in a dark side fueled rage. He solved this problem by making Leia Luke’s twin sister and having Vader threaten her. That one change eliminated the third trilogy in its original form.
As for why he did 4 – 6 first. It has been said it was because the technology was not there to make it right. That’s almost true except for the fact that the technology wasn’t there to make 4 – 6 either. People have said that Lucas is a genius … I don’t know if I’d go that far but what really is the true genius of Lucas is that he surrounded himself with the very best people in Sci-fi movie making … for the most part everything that we saw in ep 4 were things that they made up as they went along. Basically a “how are we going to do this”, “I don’t know, figure it out” kind of thing. Lucas had the vision but it was the people he surrounded himself with who made it work. If you really watch ep 4 you see that it could have been a stand-alone movie. By that I mean that if it was a flop then we would never need to know that there were 8 more parts. Of all the Star Wars movies ep 4 is the only one that can be said of. Good had defeated Evil … end of story.
May The Force Be With You …
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