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   "Rabid Hoojib"  wrote in message   
   news:431d600f-f323-4dd8-8d3f-1761f9219c97@l14g2000pro.googlegroups.com...   
   On Apr 1, 12:03 am, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   >> I found a copy of the gold covered "Trilogy" novelisation (containing   
   >> Episodes IV - VI) published around the time George Lucas was working on   
   >> Episode III. In the front is an introduction by George Lucas and the very   
   >> first paragraph says:   
   >>   
   >> "From the outset I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films."   
   >>   
   >> Not nine, not twelve ... only six ... or at least only six now! ;-)   
   >   
   > When the 1st boxed set came out, before he SE's came out, he told   
   > Leonard Maltin there were supposed to be nine episodes, that's one of   
   > the reasons we call GL the ultimate revisionist...  I still have that   
   > set.   
      
   It's always been simply a vague idea as to how many movie would be required   
   and there has never been a fully set-in-stone storyline. As George Lucas has   
   written the movies one-by-one, that vague storyline has been changed. I   
   don't know about that boxed set, but the original idea for the third trilogy   
   involved Luke going to the other side of the Galaxy to find his sister, and   
   together they defeat the Emperor ... obviously once Leia became Luke's   
   sister, that storyline couldn't happen.   
      
   Added to this is the usual inaccuracy of the "journalism" profession.   
   Depending on what you read you can find supposed quotes from George Lucas as   
   "proof" that Star Wars is anything from one movie through to as series of 12   
   movies.  :-\   
      
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