Q: Any chance Episodes 7-9 will seduce you?
A: No way. I guarantee that. After the next one (Episode III), I'll move on.
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Episode 3 is scheduled for 2005. By the time I'm finished doing Star Wars I'll be 75 and I'm not interested in doing Star Wars for the rest of my life, I have other movies I want to make. - 1999
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No, no. [After Star Wars came out] somebody asked me if I was going to do a sequel. And I said, "I'm doing the other two parts to this one." And they said, "You're doing this trilogy-do you have any more?" And I said, "I've got a backstory, which I've got laid out. I could probably do that." And they said, "But are you going to do a sequel?" And I said, "I guess maybe I could do a sequel at some point." And that got turned into doing nine films. It's six films. It's really not nine films. It's extremely unlikely that I will go on and do any more. - 1999
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Back when I was writing Star Wars in 1974, I didn't really flesh the storyline of the first three episodes. I had a rough idea of what happened and who the major character were, but I didn't include a scene-by-scene scenario of what happened in my treatment. That is what made writing the script in 1995 and 1996 more difficult because I had to go back to my sparse treatment of the prequel and greatly flesh it out. Some old ideas that really didn't work anymore were thrown out. And I added a great deal of ideas that have developed in my mind over the years to the script. Over the past 15 years since the release of Jedi, I have been jotting down neat ideas I've come up with in one of my spiral notebooks. I took all the new ideas and the old ones from my original treatment and came up with a character-driven adventure. - 1997
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Q: At one point there were going to be twelve Star Wars films.
A: I cut that number down to nine because the other three were tangential to the saga. Star Wars was the fourth story in the saga and was to have been called "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope". But I decided people wouldn't understand the numbering system so we dropped it. For Empire though we're putting back the number and will call it Episode Five: The Empire Strikes Back. After the third film in this trilogy we'll go back and make the first trilogy, which deals with the young Ben Kenobi and the young Darth Vader.
Q: What is the third trilogy about?
A: It deals with the character who survives Star Wars III and his adventures. - 1980
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That's not really part of the plan at this point. When you see it in six parts, you'll understand. It really ends at part six...I never had a story for the sequels, for the later ones.
