“Meanwhile, George Lucas tells The Los Angeles Times that he won’t take any future Star Wars project past the death of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. So, say yes to more Anakin Skywalker, and no to anything post-Ewok celebration. (”Coatee-cha tu goo!”)”

Lucas’ preoccupation with the pre-Vader Anakin Skywalker is fascinating (in that stare-at-a-car-accident kind of way). While most view Anakin as merely a passing backstory of his much more interesting incarnation as Vader, Lucas seems to see him in a very different light. The fact that he keeps shelling out money to go over the same pre-Episode III ground suggests he’s still enamored with his Tragic Messiah figure…much more than I think anyone else is.

I’ll be interested to see how Lucas changes his tune regarding post-Return of the Jedi films once the Anakin franchise dries up for good (which won’t be long, I suspect). Trust me, there WILL be movies set beyond Episode Six.

If they do a CGI animation Thrawn trilogy (with Hamil, Ford, Fisher, etc’s voices) and called it episodes VI-IX, i’m.

I think that if Lucas isn’t doing Episodes VII-IX. He should do at least an animated film trilogy based on the Thrawn Trilogy or Dark Empire or the Jedi Academy Trilogy or NJO or LOTF or even a live action epilogue film featuring Luke Skywalker as an Obi-Wan type character in his 70’s passing on the torch to the next generation of Jedi Knights or a spin off movie focusing on Han Solo featuring Harrison Ford as an aged Solo and his life post-ROTJ,his relationship with Leia and his Jedi padawan kids as trained by their Uncle Luke perhaps learning the history of his beloved ship the Millennium Falcon as will be told in an upcoming novel called Millennium Falcon set after Legacy of the Force and will be written by James Luceno due out Dec 30 this year. That would make an excellent Star Wars epliogue live action film reuniting the original cast post-Jedi (Mark Hamill,Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher).

I always thought there were going to be NINE STAR WARS FILMS WITH THE LAST TRILOGY TO DEAL WITH THE REBUILDING OF THE REPUBLIC. It’s main theme according to a 1983 Time magazine article “The necessity for moral choices and the wisdom needed to distinguish right from wrong” and would feature Luke Skywalker as an aged Jedi Master somewhere in his 60’s and his friends Han and Leia would reappear as well as the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 would appear in all nine films.

I want Lucas to tell what happened after Return of the Jedi and not leave it in the hands of authors not to say there not doing a good job of continuing the story but I think Lucas should at least do one post-Episode VI movie or TV show or an animated film or at least an animated series based on the old Marvel Comics series or the Thrawn Trilogy or Shadows of the Empire.