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Might Episodes VII - IX Still Be Made?
LE UI Guy writes "According to the HoustonChronicle.com, with all the hype surrounding the recent release of ROTS, speculation abounds that someone may still take a stab at creating episodes VII - IX. Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, gives some insight into where the storyline may, or may not, go. On a related note, Roger Ebert, is also giving a thumbs up to a continuation of the storyline as well. Where does the line start?"
peter zahn is the author of these heir to the empire dark force rising the last command
The Dark Force Rising trilogy, written by Timothy Zahn. Takes places after ep 6, talks about the creation of the New Republic, protagonist is Empirial Grand Admiral Thrawn. The N64 game, Shadows of the Empire, was based on one of the novels of the same name from that trilogy. Zahn is notable as one of the few writers allowed to use the characters from the movies extensively in novels.
www.supershadow.com has the plot scripts, and has had them for a long time, along with everything else about Star Wars. -Star Wars Episode VII: The Fallen Hero -Star Wars Episode VIII: The Republic in Crisis -Star Wars Episode IX: Victory of the Force
One only has to look at the work of the Irish folk-teller, Táin Cúailnge and his quest cycle "The Second Battle of Mag Tuired" to see the roots of Lucas' dramatic framework and where he fleshes it out like the "La Camara Prohibida" of Iberian writer, Cayetano Coll y Toste.
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This movie may burn out fast.
To the Jedi, balance to the Force can mean two things: peace or getting rid of the Sith entirely. In this case, "balance" seems to deviate from the Asian religious/philisophical ideals that the Jedi seem to be based on and rather leans toward the meaning of Greco-Roman/Western religious and philisopical ideals. Thus, "balance" means pure good. Of course, this calls into question of whether the Jedi are flawed themselves -- pure goodness?
Lastly, more on topic with the primary discussion, perhaps the Sith are not destroyed and that's how Episode VII through IX will work out. I know that in the books it actually has to do with alien life forms not connected to the Force, but somehow, I don't see that getting integrated into the Star Wars movies. I don't know where the Sith would survive though, but if it's really clever than future episodes might be decent. Of course, this is despite the fact that the whole Jedi-Sith thing is getting kinda old. Alas, I can see George taking the easy way out if there were going to be anymore episodes...
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Shadows of the Empire, while good, is NOT (NOTNOTNOTNOTNOT) written by Tim Zhan...
The Thrawn trilogy is Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command.
Not that anyone shouldn't read them, they should.
Just don't know why the parent got modded informitive, is all.
Note that compared to the all the material about how the Jedi Order under the Old Republic behaved, Luke Skywalker in RotJ is definately NOT a model jedi. He's just a little too passionate, and little too willing to bend the rules to resolve problems. At the end of RotJ, he's in no danger of falling to the Dark Side, but he's also not a jedi in the way the old Jedi Order would have accepted easily.
The balance was restored by Anakin when he ensured that the last surviving Jedi, the one that would build a new Order, would know how a good man could fall to the Dark Side and yet still be redeemed. If Luke had triumphed over the Sith without help, he would have made the same mistakes the old Order made, or alternately fallen to the Dark Side himself.
Instead, Luke was left with proof that total destruction of those that are Sith was not a good foundation to build a new Order on, and with a very good idea as to how to avoid the corruption of the Dark Side in the first place. A balanced approach.
The process that lead to the film being made is well documented. Lucas did have a larger saga in mind, but few film directors, Lucas included, believe they'll be able to persuade a studio to fund an entire series from the get-go, so Star Wars, as it was, was intended to be more-or-less self-contained.
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Almost. It wasn't a few months, but a few years; the movie was simply Star Wars from its original May 1977 release through its '78 and '79 reissues. Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released in May of 1980, and then the original movie was reissued in April of 1981; it was in this April '81 release that it first bore the onscreen title "Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope" (though the impending title change had been reported earlier, of course).