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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1326893" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>The orignal Star Wars was a huge gamble, there was nothing else like it out there(check out some of the mid-seventies science fiction out there, things hadn't changed all that much since the mid sixties), there were no plans for a sequel or a group of sequels. Lucas wrote a outline that was way too big for one movie so he cut it up and took one part of it (he was a big fan of the old pulp serials, thus the episode 4 bit), he wasn't worrying about ever making any of the other "episodes" from his outline, he was worried about not bombing with Star Wars. He wasn't a big name then, he had no pull, and if it wasn't for American Graffitti doing decent numbers then Star Wars probably would of never been made. If he flopped he was most likely done in the industry. There are a lot of things that were glossed over or not fleshed out in Star Wars because they didn't affect that movie and lot of things were thrown in just to give it that serial feel. You got to look at Star Wars as a stand alone movie first because that's how it was made to be. I'm sure that much of his outline wasn't fleshed out till after it was obvious he'd get to do more Star Wars movies, I'd love to see his original outline just to see how far the story has come as he filled out the details. As far as revisionist thinking on Lucas part, I first started hearing the story of Anakin Skywalker stuff around the time of Empire (after it was revealed he was Luke's father), obviously they didn't talk about any type of redemption because that would give away Jedi's storyline, but he was talking about the outline he had created and how it was about Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. He's not lying, Lucas has always stated and believed it was about the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, it seems stuff has come to light recently that reveals Lucas isn't the movie god everyone once believed him to be though so just because he believed it doesn't mean he got the message out all that well.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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