George Lucas reveals he had plans for 3 more ‘Star Wars’ movies before retiring
Back in 2005, when George Lucas was directing Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, he planned at least three more Star Wars movies.
However, he hit the pause button and retired from the franchise for a variety of reasons.
The first of them was his age. He believed he was getting older. Another was his dream of building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
Referring to his museum, Lucas told CBS Sunday Morning, “Well, I’m 82, so there is a limit to—when I did this, I decided to retire from making movies, which was a big deal because I had three more ‘Star Wars’ to make.
He added, “But I realized that I was running out of time, and I did want to make this museum, and I’d spent a lot of time developing digital technology for the movie business.”
Later, Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4 billion, which went on to produce a sequel trilogy that included The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Elsewhere in the interview, Mellody Hobson, Lucas’s wife, reflected on the groundbreaking museum the pair built.
“What made this more challenging and why George was uber involved in every detail is that, like his first depiction and explanation of ‘Star Wars,’ where he had to draw it to show people what it was, we kept trying to explain things that people didn’t quite get.”
“So they would sit there and look at us like, ‘What are you talking about? ’”
She continued, “And so that happened so many times with the outside of the building, the inside of the building, and the art on the walls that he increasingly took over the minutiae because he had an idea of what he wanted it to be.”
“Then the job was less about convincing and more about asking people to execute. Now he won’t work at this level of detail forever because this nearly killed him,” Hobson concluded.
