10 Lies About Star Wars You Probably Believe
5. George Lucas Had 9 To 12 Movies Mapped Out From The Start
While George Lucas most definitely deserves a great many of the flowers sent his way for being the mind that set this epic space opera in motion, the creator of Skywalkers and Solos alike has often been cited for having a whopping 9 to 12 Star Wars features bubbling over in his mind from the very beginning.
But the game-changer himself has gone on record to reveal that this wasn't actually entirely the case, regardless of Mark Hamill once noting how the creator told him "it was four trilogies" during the filming of that first cinematic trip into space.
While it would undoubtedly take on a life of its own in the decades that would follow A New Hope, Lucas once told MTV that "This was never planned as a nine-episode work." Going further, the father of Star Wars would also add:
"The media (pounced when) I made an offhand comment, ’It might be fun to come back when everyone’s 80 and do another one of these’ But I never had any intention of doing that."
Despite eventually committing to crafting some sequel trilogy treatments later down the road, though, Disney opted to go down their own route for Episode VII onwards and steered mostly clear of Lucas' intriguing Leia-led new trilogy concept.