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Originally Posted by Gaybucks
If I remember correctly, the original Star Wars did *not* say 4 of 9 or anything like that.
But... when Return of the Jedi came out, it did say, in big letters, "Episode 5" at the beginning, and news articles of the time were saying at that point that Lucas had revealed that there were 9 episodes.
Then when 6 came out, story goes that people were so pissed off with the ending of 5, that Lucas rewrote the story and tied everything up all neat and tidy, thereby eliminating what he'd written as stories 7-9.
I dunno how much of any of that is true, just what I read at the time. (I'm old...  |
The reason Return of the Jedi sucked so much was because of the Ewoks. He originally wanted the battle to take place against the Wookies but you couldn't do that technically back then so he had to use midgets and dwarves instead and reversed the name from wookie to ewok.
I too recall there being mentioned 9 episodes. Three before the original trilogy and three afterwards following the adventures of Luke, Leia and Han's kids and even a story that moved into our own galaxy to our time.
Who knows. We'll see. If it's Star Wars I'll watch it.