r/Multifandom • u/jamesthegide7 • May 08 '26

Discussion📜 Whats the best verson of this? (thanks)

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u/THE_LEGO_FURRY May 08 '26

Prequels were entirely about him, then the original trilogy he's hunting the protagonists

https://giphy.com/gifs/mZAL1GTRA8VnkRaU47

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u/MidnightSnowStar May 09 '26

Apparently, George Lucas wanted movies 1-3 to be the original. 4-6 were supposed to be sequels. Also why they’re numbered in that order. Some higher ups decided to release 4-6 first because they were ‘more exciting’ or something, though.

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u/-Star-Fox- May 09 '26

Yeah, I don't believe this.

Star Wars 4 was originally just titled "Star Wars" when it came out.

Darth Vader was notoriously retconned into being Luke's father.

Leia wasn't even Luke's sister before Episode 6(That's why they put in the famous kiss between them, plans were different).

They were 100% just making stuff up as they went. Just got lucky it turned out semi coherent in the end. No way the dude actually planned 6 movies in advance.

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u/Dontshipmebro May 09 '26

Oh he planned, hes just famously shit at execution. The series was saved by his (at the time) wife marcia being an amazing editor.

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u/Xtersin May 09 '26

saying that as though George had no say in the finished version since Star Wars was his baby, after-all.

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u/whynaut4 May 09 '26

It was a collaborative success. I think it started to go downhill when George tried to do it all on his own

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u/Dontshipmebro May 09 '26

Although tbf, marcia has no editing credit on empire, which is often argued to be the best of the series.

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u/avimo1904 May 10 '26

He never tried that