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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7306780" data-attributes="member: 5143">It came from a speech given to us by Pablo Hidalgo, the current canon/lore guy for Star Wars at Disney. He worked for Lucasfilm for many, many years.He was at a convention around 1997-1998. It was just before Episode 1 had come out. One of the people in the crowd asked about why they started with episode 4 and what he told us was that what George had told him was that he had a basic outline of episodes 1-3 and 4-6 and that he felt the story of 4-6 was smaller and easier to film since it would require less special effects and that 1-3 was written in a way that it could act as a background for the other movies after they were released so he made the decision to start with those first. Since episode 1 was already announced and coming out soon, Pablo also said that the reason they were making the other movies now and the reason it took 20 years was that he felt technology had finally caught up with his vision and he could finally make what he saw in his head.I asked him, since I had heard at the time that Lucas had written an outline for 9 movies, not 6, what about the other 3 movies? Pablo told us that Lucas had originally written an outline for 1-9 but that over the filming of 4-6 and due to thinking for a long time about it, he had decided that the theme of Star Wars wasn't Good vs Evil like he originally thought it was but was instead about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker. So his ideas for 7-9 no longer fit the theme he was going for and therefore didn't need to be made any longer. Though he said that George had an idea that COULD be made into a new 7-9 that fit his new theme but that he wasn't thinking about it right now since they still had 1-3 to make.</blockquote>

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