What Could Have Been: George Lucas' SEQUEL Trilogy 

The Lucas vision is much better than what we actually got. A lot more interesting concepts instead of recycled storylines.

I think George at least would've had a much more consistent overarching story to his trilogy. It wouldn't have been entirely made up as it went along by a pair of combative filmmakers who were constantly undercutting each others' creative decisions.

The senate scenes in the prequels were well done. Palpatine's plot was devious and realistic. "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause" is an iconic line.

Marcia Lucas said it best in regards to Disney's crappy sequels..."It sucks." 100% spot on.

What’s so strange about the sequel trilogy is that it very much to me felt like episodes 10, 11 & 12. Like we missed a whole trilogy involving Luke rebuilding the Jedi and Ben Solo’s fall to the dark side. Ironically the backstory of Force Awakens was what many people were really interested in.

Maul was/is actually such a dope villain, would've loved to see more of him.

I don't see how it could have been any worse than what we got . At least this has a coherent story arc and is a logical progression of the story .

So here's the thing. George Lucas is an awesome "Big Picture" guy who can put the elements of an epic together. Then someone takes his epic, refines the dialogue, edits the world-building and politics, and walla - a masterpiece. Disney wanted a quick guaranteed return on its investment. Too bad there were too many big egos to get in the way and spoil an epic opportunity at another trilogy.

Correction: Lucas wasn't going to scrap the entire EU, just the parts that contradicted his sequels (with a few notable exceptions, these parts aren't very beloved by the community, I should note). This isn't very surprising, either. He has always refused to acknowledge the EU continuations of his story, he's very consistent about that.

What they did with Luke in Sequels was unforgivable. Mark Hammil has said as much, he should have walked away but he's too nice a guy.

It doesn't have "Somehow, Palpatine returned." and about a thousand planet-destroying starships from UNKNOWN SOURCES and staffed by WHO KNOWS WHO from WHO KNOWS WHERE. It's a massive improvement over what Disney gave us. Episodes 7 and 8 had problems, but I would have forgiven them if episode 9 made any sense whatsoever.

I think it was fine that Lucas didn't want to direct the sequals. He didn't direct episodes 5 and 6, but was in control of the story telling. I think if he was put into a similar situation, the sequals would have been great.

These ideas are infinitely better than what we got from disney. Even when Lucas’s ideas aren’t well executed (the prequels) the politics are believable and the world building is so interesting that it engrosses you into that universe.

I agree with Lucas selling the franchise to the highest bidder, pocketing the money, retiring, and spending more time with his family. He had done his part in making great movies.

The Zahn books may have some flaws, but I don't think there is an OT fan out there who wouldn't have loved to see his books adapted to the screen, that scene with Luke and the Noghri alone would have been worth it and Thrawn's interactions with Palleon, the scheming and machinations... I truly loved those books and will always be deeply disappointed in the sequels we did get

8:19 Yikes! You can almost feel the metaphorical knife sliding into George on that stage when he's asked that question 😮 Almost feels like he's talking directly to the Marvel MCU's Loki in disguise 😅

The core elements were all there - didn't take much to keep the fans engaged. Just having a coherent storyline through each film would have done wonders. Having Luke, Leah and Han be the main leads in all should have been a no-brainer. Can't believe how much Disney ruined this.

now i want these movies 😭

I will be eternally fascinated by what could have been Lucas’ Sequel Trilogy. There are things I love about Disney’s sequel trilogy and there are things I absolutely can’t stand about it (especially in The Last Jedi), but I can’t help but wish we could have seen Lucas’ vision for the rest of his story brought to life. It just feels wrong that he never got to personally wrap up the stories of Luke, Han, and Leia. I can’t help but wonder… how does someone so smart and so business-savvy such as George Lucas NOT contractually guarantee his involvement in the films and simply leaves it up to, “Gee, I hope they’ll let me be involved”??

Yes, just based on the fact that he had an idea of what the full story would be, these movies would have been better. That was the entire problem with the sequels: the writers/directors had no concern for an overarching story and made 3 different movies that are a trilogy in name alone.

Return of the Jedi is the grand finale, even more so with the prequels in mind. The sequel trilogy was doomed at conception to be honest. It's very difficult to continue the story without invalidating the heroes' victory. I do like the concepts of the difficulties rebuilding the republic and the fact that the Whills would be explored in more depth. I also wonder how Lucas would have framed the sequels. The original trilogy was 'The Adventures of Luke Skywalker'. However with the prequels, Lucas reframed the saga as 'The Tragedy of Darth Vader', with the prequels describing Anakin's fall and the originals portraying his redemption. Logically, the sequels would therefore show 'The Legacy of Anakin Skywalker'. This is more of a craftsman's approach, which is unfortunately lost on Disney/Hollywood, but which I would have appreciated, and would perhaps have been more resonant.

I like the idea of seeing more of the criminal underworld as maul as a crime boss. Lukes rise and fall here makes more sense. The part of the wills lol 😆 on paper and on screen is 2 different beasts. Id still watch over Disney's.

Dude this original script sounds fantastic. These are the only things I would change: I would give Luke a wife & children(to continue the Skywalker family tree), and I wouldn’t have Han & Leia separated(these divorce side stories are annoying). Anyway, I wish we got this Sequel story. Princess Leia being the true chosen one is very interesting. Also I love the original EU but I would be ok with George Lucas wanting to start from scratch. Mainly because I know he would create amazing new stories(But maybe keep Kyle Katarn lol 😂).

ive been watching your videos all week man i just found your channel. as a pop culture junkie i live for these typw of videos! cant wait to see more

As someone who was a fan of Star Wars from before even seeing the original movie (It was released in 1978 in the UK, but, heck, we knew all about it by then), I'd just like to say that however appealing from a filmmakers point of view it might be to have Luke fall from grace, be embittered and miserable, it's just not what I wanted to see. I'm sure I'm not the only one of my generation, and perhaps subsequent ones, who has gazed into a sunset and known exactly how he felt in that iconic scene. And it was iconic. It summed up with just acting and music how so many of us felt. Through all his whingeing, headstrong antics and arguing with everyone who knew better than him, Luke was always optimistic. He may be saddened at Ben's death and frustrated at Yoda's refusal to teach him all about the Force before Monday morning, but underneath, he always believed that things could be better. And that's the Luke we didn't just _want_ to see, but _needed_ to see.

This would've been so much better. Hopefully, Geroge Lucas will share his thoughts on all this one day.

I can't speak for the whole of George's vision for the sequels, but this sounds like a huge improvement of the Luke Skywalker arc. As you said, much more in line with the Luke we loved from the original trilogy.

The only problem I have with this plan is making Maul the head of evil. We already saw this character bested by Obi Wan and Palpatine which makes him not as credible a threat as people want to believe. Also, I like what we got in Rebels where his death is at the hands of a now older Obi Wan and they are both able to show understanding towards one another despite their hate.

If George let others direct, or at least was not surrounded by "yes" men, his sequel trilogy would've worked well. It would've at least been far more consistent than Disney's mess.

Lucas should have written the story outlines for the sequels but let someone else actually write the scripts and direct them like how he did for Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. At the very least this would have been better and more coherent than what we got.

Would have loved to have seen this version it sounds so good. So much better than what Disney gave us. It's a shame we'll never see this alternate version. Star wars would have been a continuing story

I've been really enjoying your videos. They're well put together and ably illustrated by footage. You do a good job of addressing the problems and differences. Good stuff.

Timothy Zahn wrote a really good trilogy. I think Disney bought those too. And they had access to the whole power vacuum that brought Thrawn to power. The Imperial Remnant. Heck Lucas could have even kept Mara Jade as evil and it would have been AWESOME!

It's interesting how some of these ideas did make it to the final version and future projects even if they were in different ways.

So Lucas might have planned this for years, so my criticism might be unfair, but I am a little tired of them bringing back old characters just to show that their happy ending went in misery instead. I think I should be happy with what we got of Lucas, 6 films that tight in nicely. The new trilogy have great acting, great cinematography, great effects, but the story and consistency is a mess. Thanks for sharing.

Treverrow’s Star Wars script had everyone in tears!!! was epic” and had Luke fight in one last epic lightsaber fight against an unknown?? ancient Sith saving Han Solo, with Luke himself being struck down at the end telling Han “It’s not easy for a Jedi to to have friends” before dying and then Luke’s apprentice taking up his lightsaber to fight and close the saga!! I’ve read some of it and was “shockingly” good 😨 but Kennedy closed it down. 💔

I really have always wanted them to explore the clone wars era more. There's so so so much good potential content there, a many good stories to be told and fleshed out

Give me George Lucas’ vision any day.

I honestly want to see Lucas's sequel trilogy put to screen. It would've been better than what we got, probably better than the prequels. But we'll probably never get to see them.

Where did you learn all this?? What’s the source?

In either case, a sequel was ultimately unnecessary and was always going to be weaker than the original trilogy. Tolkien also had started a sequel to Lord of the Rings and ultimately stopped because he realized it just would be inferior to the original.

Everyone keeps saying the senate scenes from the prequels were boring. Can you tell me which one? Literally just watched these movies and I don’t remember any of the senate scenes dragging or being boring, they were some of the coolest moments of the trilogy.

While George Lucus' script holds many similar ideas to the sequel trilogy, his version of the story line is far more complete (even given its outline status) and shows many of the details that were missed in the movies that we actually got. These missing details, to me at least, are the difference between a story making sense and holding the viewers imagination verses bunch of scenes with jarring gaps in the plot leading to audience dissatisfaction and disaffection. Also, I am glad to see that he wouldn't have tried to revive Palpatine. That choice was one of shear desperation caused by the production team allowing Rian Johnson to pretty much do anything he wanted on the second movie making a third installment that actually makes sense nearly impossible. He truly earned the moniker 'Ruin Johnson' on that one!

I actually read a book called “The Star Wars Archives: Episodes 1-3 1999-2005” It’s full of interviews of George Lucas about the prequels and at the end of it George talks about his plans for the sequels. Most of what you said in this video checks out, but I’m not sure Luke would’ve died. Because in the book George said he never enjoyed killing humans in his movies. Most of the humans that died in the OT were on the Death Star and he felt bad about it. Besides that, pretty much the only other human deaths we got were Stormtroopers, but they were faceless, when the OT came out they could’ve been droids for all we knew like I thought when I was a kid, think it even mentions in the book somewhere that people thought they were droids. It also says in the book that by the end of George’s sequel trilogy Luke would’ve rebuilt the Jedi Order. It never says anything about him dying. I can see Han dying since Harrison Ford wanted Han to die in RoTJ, and I can possibly see Leia having to die too because of what happened to Carrie Fisher (Rest in Peace) but I think at least Luke would’ve got a happy ending.

I think that Lucas' trilogy would have both been better than what we got, but also have gotten a negative reaction knowing star wars fans. But one of the biggest missed opportunities to me is that, knowing how much Lucas likes doing call backs ("rhyming" his movies), I can just imagine him ending 9 with a shot similar to the last shot of ep 4, but instead of them celebrating destroying the death star, they'd celebrate the rise of the New Republic.

8:43 - Why didn i hear of this before? this is probably the BEST quote ive ever seen.

Return of the Jedi is the true finale to the star wars saga.

Watching paint dry would have been better then what disney put out.

With a few tweaks TFA could've been actually good, my take: 0. Change the title 1. Luke being a character in the movie 2. Rey being a newcomer to Luke's New Jedi Order 3. Kylo being an established best student there 4. Leia rebuilding the New Republic 5. A new evil approaches - Maul? Snoke? A completely new character? - rebuilding the Empire 6. That Villain is sending force visions to Kylo, which are wrongly interpreted by everyone as premonitions 7. The Villain beginning their conquest by destroying the New Jedi Order headquarters from orbit 8. Luke stays on site to help and heal the students that might have survived, while Rey and Kylo chase the villain, before Kylo is turned to the dark side by "the" Villain 9. Kylo easily overpowers Rey (best student vs newcomer) 10. Rey manages to escape from Kylo and "The" Villain" in an escape pod 11. Movie ends with Luke feeling bitter because he didn't realize what Kylo's visions were and blames himself for the murder of all his students, while Rey is stranded in space by herself and Leia is informed that an armada is heading towards Coruscant and she makes a hologram call - - "Han?" - "Oh, hello princess, I thought I'd never hear from you again" - Fade to black 1. The next film opens with Rey being found in deep space by The Millennium Falcon 2. They try to recruit Luke to help them, but he's in a deep meditation state and does not respond to them 3. Meanwhile Kylo Ren is leading the attack on Coruscant (or whatever the capital planet would be), Leia tries to reach out to him and stop him, but it's revealed he has his Sith eyes already That's all I thought out so far. The second film would be titled "The Force Awakens" and would end with Han being killed by Kylo, the capital planet of the New Republic being destroyed (Leia managed to escape), Rey being trapped by Kylo in a corridor/space shuttle/whatever, then cut to where Luke is meditating, He opens his eyes, Fade to black.

I love Marcia Lucas' quote. I feel the same way.

Tbh, I wouldve liked Lucas"s version compared to Disneys . If Disney hadnt scrapped all of his ideas and let him work on it without their intervention ( if he didnt retire ) the sequels wouldve been really successful .

I thought you were going to talk about Lucas' original vision for the sequel trilogy that he thought of when writing the original trilogy. Where's that idea of Luke's sister who wasn't Leia?

There's no indication from the vague ideas we hear of George Lucas' Sequels that Han Solo would be killed by his son; and the Jedi Killer wasn't originally Kylo Ren in the early Micael Arndt/JJ Abrams' versions.

Would have been interesting to merge some of his ideas with the Expanded Universe going foward. Having Kira and the Jedi Killer (Luke and Kyle's failed student), as well as bringing in Darth Plagueis as the ultimate villain for the Sequel Trilogy. The overall plot being the heroes finding a way to kill Plagueis after he cheated death and restore order to the galaxy.

Marcia Lucas is my hero. Absolutely nailed it. She also said: "Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don't have a clue about Star Wars. They don't get it. Absolutely, positively there was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, 'You don't get the Jedi story. You don't get the magic of Star Wars." 👏

The interesting thing about all this is that they are making a sequel film about Rey Skywalker rebuilding the Jedi Order after the fall of the First Order so, in a way, they could still repurpose a lot of these ideas, and even give Lucas some story credit as well.

As strange as his ideas were for diving into how The Force works, etc, I do believe he would have at least maintained a more cohesive story that didn't just wing it from one episode to the next. That's what I've always said about the prequels. Setting aside some of the glaring issues of those movies at least you can summarize the trilogy in a sentence or two that makes sense.

The sequal trilogy really feels like a fever dream or a wierd nightmare where nothing makes any sense. If only i could just wake up...

Hopefully we get to see all the back story covered including the new republic and how the Jedi fall

I think it's pretty safe to say that in the alternate reality where Lucas made his sequels, the people in this comments section saying they would've preferred these so much more would be the same exact people who would've been most vocal about fucking hating them.

They probably would've got the same negative reaction as the prequels but, hell yea, they would've been better than what we got

"So, do you think Lucas' version of the sequels would've been better than what we got?" - YES

Nothing can be worse than the sequals

Disney actually believed they knew better than the creator himself 🤣🤣🤦🏻🤦🏻 The girl who was the Jedi apprentice was Han and Leia's daughter Keira.. her and Skyler were supposed to be twins. Also the whole thing about Luke secluding himself on an island being a George Lucas idea is total fake news and has been debunked many many times already! Also, where are you getting this "info" that Han would have died by his son's hands in George Lucas's trilogy?

Even if there would have been some issues (like in the prequels) it would have at least been more coherent and still been apart of George’s vision.

I really would've enjoying see this version of the trilogy!

Having Lucas show the entire fall would have been the closure we all wanted.

The concept of relating the force in midi-chlorians into a probiotic bacteria in your gut, giving a rhetorical relation to that intuition feeling in your gut, it’s pretty genius storytelling in my opinion

I think that the Sequel Trilogy would have been a lot better if George Lucas had made them.

I think the midichlorian/whills thing is solid. It may not have been important in the scene when Quigon Jinn said it, but it builds the world up. It also shows that the Jedi were also keen on scientific expansions of the force, just as palpatine was. Works for me.

Who said the senate scenes were boring? I enjoyed them and if anything would have liked more details about taxation of trade routes.

The sequels helped me finally appreciate the prequels more.

What are your sources for this? I haven't heard anyone else say that Lucas planned on killing han solo or breaking him and leia up before

Literally any of that is infinitely better than “somehow palaptine returned”

I think they would have been so much better than what we got, as well as the prequels, so long as George got the same directorial and screenwriting help he had for the original trilogy. Though, I don't know if the Whill concept would have worked.

Watching this makes me realize that the ANH really was lightning in a bottle. Exactly the right people came together at exactly the right time to make something iconic and timeless. ESB was a straight-up miracle that nearly went off the rails a few times. The last 40 years have been everybody, Lucas included, trying to recapture that magic and usually failing. It's a shame too because it really is a rich universe with a lot of potential. I would have loved to have seen some sort of anthology series where a variety of authors and directors had an hour to come up with their own stories. Maybe someday.

It looks like a much more cohesive story, but there is a lot of ground to cover in 3 movies that would each run for around 2.5 hours. Much like the prequels, there is a good story in there, but not enough time for all of the plot threads to feel natural. It’s why the Mandalorian has been so successful, they have enough time to explore the dynamics of people’s growth and change and the changing galaxy on screen, where for so much of the big screen treatment that really important stuff happens off screen. I maintain that Timothy Zahn’s “Heir to the Empire” is the best version of a sequel trilogy, and I am really looking forward to seeing how much of that comes into the Mandalorian Saga.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side of the hill but when you see nothing but scorched earth it is a pretty safe bet to say the grass would be greener on the other side.

I think George at least would've had a much more consistent overarching story to his trilogy. It wouldn't have been entirely made up as it went along by a pair of combative filmmakers constantly undercutting each others' creative decisions. The senate scenes in the prequels were well done. Palpatine's plot was devious and realistic. "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause" is an iconic line. The Lucas vision is much better than what we actually have. There are a lot more interesting concepts than recycled storylines. What’s so strange about the sequel trilogy is that it very much felt like episodes 10, 11 & 12. Like we missed a whole trilogy involving Luke rebuilding the Jedi and Ben Solo’s fall to the dark side. Ironically the backstory of Force Awakens was what many people were really interested in. I don't see how it could have been any worse than what we got. At least this has a coherent story arc and is a logical progression of the story. Marcia Lucas said it best in regards to Disney's crappy sequels..."It sucks." 100% spot on. These ideas are infinitely better than what we got from Disney. Even when Lucas’s ideas aren’t well executed (the prequels) the politics are believable and the world-building is so interesting that it engrosses you into that universe. Maul was/is actually such a dope villain, would've loved to see more of him. What they did with Luke in Sequels was unforgivable. Mark Hammil has said as much, he should have walked away but he's too nice a guy. As someone who was a fan of Star Wars before even seeing the original movie (It was released in 1978 in the UK, but, heck, we knew all about it by then), I'd just like to say that however appealing from a filmmakers point of view it might be to have Luke fall from grace, be embittered and miserable, it's just not what I wanted to see. I'm sure I'm not the only one of my generation, and perhaps subsequent ones, who have gazed into a sunset and known exactly how he felt in that iconic scene. And it was ironic. It summed up with just acting and music how so many of us felt. Through all his whingeing, headstrong antics, and arguing with everyone who knew better than him, Luke was always optimistic. He may be saddened at Ben's death and frustrated at Yoda's refusal to teach him all about the Force before Monday morning, but underneath, he always believed that things could be better. And that's the Luke we didn't just want to see but needed to see. Correction: Lucas wasn't going to scrap the entire EU, just the parts that contradicted his sequels (with a few notable exceptions, these parts aren't very beloved by the community, I should note). This isn't very surprising, either. He has always refused to acknowledge the EU continuations of his story, he's very consistent about that. I agree with Lucas selling the franchise to the highest bidder, pocketing the money, retiring, and spending more time with his family. He had done his part in making great movies. I like that idea.

This was not the original idea for the sequels. This only developed after 2008 when George contradicted his own Clone Wars Timeline Multimedia Project by making the 3D CGI The Clone Wars movie/series, where the fans "saved" Darth Maul and George appeased them by having Dave Filoni resurrect the character. After this came the idea that Maul led the Black Sun crime syndicate and would take Talon from the comics to be the main antagonists for his sequels going forward, post-2008. He has had the sequels in his head for 40 years, going back and forth in the media and interviews on if he would actually make them. The original treatment was mostly scrapped, and this idea developed later.

Lucas’s version probably would have appealed to hardcore fans more but Disney wanted the average audience member back. Sad how in the end no one was particularly happy.

Here’s a list of things the Disney canon did right. If Lucas’ sequels get made, these should be kept: 1. Resurgent-class star destroyers - Not only are these things awesome, they improve on all the design flaws of the Imperial-class. These deserve to be up there with the Nebula-class from the EU. 2. BB-8 - Little dude had personality. Nowhere near R2’s level, but he’s definitely earned a place in the old canon. 3. Rogue One - Absolutely fantastic entry. It might conflict with the old canon, but this can easily be fixed with a retcon. Let’s be honest here, Kyle Katarn is remembered more for being a Jedi than anything else. We can give this one to Jyn and Kyle still keeps the majority of his character arc. 4. Red lightsabers must be “bled” - This is actually really clever, because it gives actual weight to having a red lightsaber. It always bothered me in the old canon that any Jedi/Sith could simply swap kyber crystals. But bleeding a lightsaber with enough anger and hatred to turn it red is something a Jedi could never do. 5. Fallen Order/Jedi Survivor - Cal is a promising Jedi and his story fits nicely into the old canon. Is he anywhere near as powerful other big name Jedi? No, but he’s still earned his right to be canon.

Darth maul would of been cool to have as the leader

I really love his ideas for his sequel trilogy but i think there are a few things that need some changes 1. Kira (taryn) and sam(skyler) should be the jacen and jaina solo of this trilogy and be the twin children of han and leia 2. Luke will still be in exile, but would raise his own family on tython with mara jade, luke is doing this because of something that he noticed within the force: everytime the sith and the jedi try to fight for over many many years, both factions can't find balance over the other, so luke would feel that if he stays out then the force might find balance,but he would be reinvegorated by kira and mara jade to return and do the right thing which leads me to: 3. We would get some world building about the force spirituality, and we would explore the gray area of the force ( i know george lucas stated that grey jedi don't exist but i felt like it would add somthing new to the universe of star wars). 4. Kylo ren becomes the main antagonist of the trilogy (i am choosing to remove maul because i really love how Clone wars and Rebels handled his character amd how his charcter ended). Also talon will be the secondary antagonist to kylo. And 5. Leia is not the chosen one, because the felt that when audience know of the chosen one, there minds would always go to anakin which is why i think leia shouldn't be the chosen one.

This sounds really really good. As you would expect. Its truely sad. Disneys buy and decision made them and Lucas a lot of Money but it also ruined the favorite franchise of Millions and I would even go as far as to say that it broke at least a few thousand super fans heart who have waited for this their entire lifes. This was a pretty sad event overall.

Lucas's vision of the Sequel Trilogy is much better than Disney's. And as a fan of James Cameron, I agreed on his criticism on the 'resentment to the things we have seen before' decision. Exploring the galactic criminal underworld led by Darth Maul's apprentice Darth Talon while the New Republic try and assert control across the galaxy would've been a great way to go.

It's pretty fair to say that Mr. Lucas' strengths lay in the story treatment side of things. So if he could stick to that, production, and helping out with the script writing; while getting out of his own way and letting other people direct, do the VFX editing, etc. we'd have ended up with a much better trilogy or more. Based off of the story I heard in this, I'd say there was at least 4 movies worth. But even if Mr. Lucas pulled the same controlling crap that made the prequels not as good as the originals, at least we would have gotten a cohesive story to criticize rather than the mess that we did get.

As someone who enjoys more of the sequel trilogy than they don't, it's so incredibly funny to me that some of the most reviled narrative decisions came straight from Lucas. The hyperbole around things like Luke's arc and Rey's general character are already horrendous and I can't help but think Lucas fans would've eaten it up had they known it came from him. Not to mention the change of the chosen one's identity! Can you imagine the backlash if disney had explicitly named Leia the chosen one? The creative process is a funny thing.

I don’t think they ruined Luke in the sequels. After this video, I realized that the problem is we didn’t see his change in screen.

This points to the value of the person who developed the idea being th one to see it through each step of the way. It's not just continuity of story, it's continuity of theme, character, and ethic.

Are the scripts for the proposed trilogy online anywhere?

Like the prequels, people probably would have had a hard time with Lucas’ sequel trilogy but with time would have warmed to them. I think it’s true that people want more of what they remember as good rather something new and good.

We would have gotten exponentially more CGI, and I’m sure some solid wooden acting from his amazing screenplay writing.

Interesting video. My only issue is that, when mentioning Marcia Lucas, you repeat the propaganda of “How Star Wars Was Saved In The Edit.” For appropriate information on the topic, might I suggest: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olqVGz6mOVE.html

he probably would not have decanonized the full expanded universe and writers would have just changed some things and pushed certain books to be set further forward in time or further in the past as Lucas had shown he did care about the star wars EU and wanted it to be as easy for fans to understand as possible and EU writing probably would have continued from there

George's story, unsurprisingly, sounds sooo much more soulful and better

Mark Hamill said George told him in the mid-1980s the sequel trilogy would have Luke turn to the Dark Side and become Darth Skywalker and Hamill loved that idea it would have been great to see Luke as the new Emperor that is what I wanted to see.

yeah but the whills shit woudlve been boring af. george needs someone to edit down his scripts like he did in the OG trilogy

After the prequels, I was so excited for a new trilogy that would resemble the Zhan books. Then came our reality shift.

Uhmmm, Gary Kurtz and co that wrote the first two SW films had 9 epsiodes planned but the time they were working on ESB. George Lucas was the one to say "NO" to that. He said "One more SW and then it's over"! He changed his mind, mainly due to manage to make more merchendise. And after ep 3, he litterally said "The4 SW saga is over, no more films". So this whole thing with Lucas' sequel trilogy.. I mean, it doesn't exist. And if it does, then George changes his mind constantly